Professor Nicole Anderson
Nicole Anderson is a Professor at Macquarie Univesity, adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra and affiliate Professor at Arizona State University, USA.
She was previously Head of the Department of Media, Media, Communications, and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney from 2014-2021, and Director of the Humanities Insitute at Arizona State University from 2021-2023. Nicole is the founder and chief editor of the Derrida Today journal (Edinburgh University Press), and the founding Director of the Derrida Today International Conferences. She is the author of Derrida: Ethics Under Erasure (Continuum 2012 (hardcover); Bloomsbury 2013 (paperback)). She is co-editor of Cultural Theory in Everyday Practice (Oxford University Press 2008), and sole author of a forthcoming book on Animals and Democracy. Her research interests include Visual Culture (including film and art theory), Continental Philosophy, Deconstruction and Derrida Studies, Ethics, Biopolitics, Biocultures, Animal Studies, and Posthumanism. She has published various book chapters, as well as journal articles including: Film Quarterly, Social Semiotics, The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Journal of Southern Philosophy, Parallax, Oxford Literary Review, and Mosaic.
Professor Julian Knowles
Julian Knowles is a Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra.
An expert in creativity and new technologies, his work demonstrates a long-standing, high-level engagement with technologically-mediated music and sound practices and the relationships between audio-visual media. This has resulted in the creation of more than 50 innovative works that have been disseminated by high profile record labels, broadcasters, and art institutions internationally. Julian’s work has been presented at events and venues such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Experimental Intermedia NYC, What is Music?, Australian Perspecta, Liquid Architecture, the Melbourne International Film Festival, VIVID Sydney, and the Sydney Opera House.