Staff Directory
Connolly, Dr. Maeve
Department:
Film and Media / Art and Design
School / Functional Area:
School of Creative Arts
Job Title:
Lecturer in Film and Animation
Contact Telephone Number:
+353 (0) 1 2394927
Email Address:
Maeve (dot) connolly (at) iadt (dot) ie
Academic Qualifications:
PhD, (DCU, 2004)
MA Film and Television Studies (DCU,1998)
BFA (NCAD, 1992)
Member, Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art/International Association of Art Critics (AICA)
Member, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
Area of Expertise:
Artists’ film and video
Currently Teaching:
MA in Visual Arts Practices (www.mavis.ie)
BA in Visual Arts Practices
BA in Visual Arts Practices (ACCS)
Research Interests/Activities:
Avant-garde film culture; site-specific art practice; aesthetics of animation and science fiction cinema
Publications:
Books
(author) The Place of Artists’ Cinema: Space, Site and Screen, Bristol: Intellect (forthcoming, 2009).
(co-editor) The Glass Eye: Artists and Television, eds. Maeve Connolly and Orla Ryan, (Dublin: Project Press, 2000)
Selected Journal Articles
‘Of Other Worlds: Nature and the Supernatural in the Moving Image Installations of Jaki Irvine’, Screen 49. 2 (Summer 2008): 203-208.
‘Emporium of the Senses: Spectatorship and Aesthetics at the 26th São Paulo Bienal’, Third Text 19.4 (July 2005): 399-409.
‘The Doubled Space of Willie Doherty’s Re-Run’, Filmwaves 23 (Winter 2004): 8-10.
‘Sighting an Irish Avant-garde in the intersection of Local and International Film Cultures’, boundary 2: International Journal of Literature and Culture 31,1 (Spring 2004): 244-265.
‘A Cause for Celebration? Festivals of Irish Film At Home and Abroad’, Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings 3.1 (2003): 18-32.
‘Excluded by the Nature of Things? Irish Cinema and Artists’ Film’, CIRCA 106, (Winter 2003): 33-39.
‘Re-imagined Communities? Ireland, Europe and the Web as Shifting Sites of Television Discourse,’ Irish Communications Review 9 (2003): 1-7.
‘Siting Belfast: Context, Audience and the Symbolic Economy of the City’, Variant 2.7 (1999): 1-2.
Book Chapters
‘A bit of a traveller in everybody: Traveller Identities in Irish and American Culture’, The Irish In Us: Irishness, Performativity and Popular Culture, ed. Diane Negra (Duke University Press, 2006) 282 – 317.
‘Theorising Irish Animation: Heritage, Enterprise and Critical Practice’ Film History and National Cinema, eds. John Hill and Kevin Rockett (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005) 79-89.
‘From No Wave to National Cinema: The Cultural Landscape of Vivienne Dick’s Early Films (1978-1985)’ National Cinema and Beyond, eds. Kevin Rockett and John Hill (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004) 61-76. Selected Catalogue Essays
‘Inside the Lighthouse’, House Projects: Artworks, Documents, Analysis, ed. Gavin Murphy (Dublin: House Projects and Atelier Projects, 2008): 61-66.
‘Imaginary Spaces, Activist Practices’ in Liz Burns, Jesse Jones et al, 12 Angry Films, (Dublin: Fire Station Artists’ Studios, 2007) 17-23.
‘Parallel Worlds: Contemporary Irish Film Cultures’, Alabama Chrome, ed. John Hutchinson (Dublin: Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2006)
Selected Conference Papers
‘Imaginary Cinemas: The Architecture of the Movie Theatre in Artists’ Film and Video’, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia, March 6-9, 2008.
‘Interrogating the Archive: Artists’ Cinema in Ireland’, Future Histories of the Moving Image, University of Sunderland, November 16-18, 2007.
‘Of Other Worlds: Nature and the Supernatural in the Moving Image Installations of Jaki Irvine’, Screen Studies 2007, University of Glasgow, July 6-8, 2007.
‘Biennials and Blockbusters: The Peripheral Spaces of Artist’s Film and Video’, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, March 2-5, 2006.
‘Art Practice, Peer Review and the Audience for Academic Research’ Research Questions: Symposium for Research in-and-through Art and Design Practice, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, April 22, 2005.
‘Feminist Film Practice and the Formation of Irish National Cinema’, Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2005, Institute of Education, London, April 1, 2005.
‘Towards A Critical Context for Irish Avant-garde Film, Past and Present’, Experimental Film Today, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, July 4-6, 2003.
‘Film History Out of Sync: Narrative Disruption in Joe Comerford’s Traveller (1981)’, Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2003, Minneapolis, March 6-9, 2003.
