Dr Daniel Palmer
e@danielpalmer.com
www.danielpalmer.com

Mailing Address:
Art Theory Program, Fine Art Departmnet
Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture
Monash University
PO Box 197, Caulfield East, VIC 3145, Australia

Tertiary Education

Doctor of Philosophy
Thesis: 'Participatory Media: Visual Culture in Real Time'
Cultural Studies
University of Melbourne
1997–2004

Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours)
Thesis: 'Narration/Desire: Memory, Proust and Photography'
(Gladys Wade Prize – Best English Honours Student, 1996; Katherine Moss Prize for Literature – Best Honours Thesis, 1996)
University of Western Australia
1991–96

Graduate Diploma of Media Studies (Part Time)
Major: Photography
Edith Cowan University
1993

Employment History

Senior Lecturer, Art Theory Program, Department of Fine Art
(including Acting Director of Art Theory Program, July-December 2011)
Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture
Monash University
2008–Current

Lecturer, Department of Theory of Art & Design
Faculty of Art & Design
Monash University
2005–2008

Curator of Projects (Part Time)
Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
Melbourne
1998–2004

Lecturer (Fractional)
Courses: 'History and Theory of Photography'; 'Contemporary Australian Art', 'New Media Art', 'Media Futures'
School of Culture and Communication
University of Melbourne
2003–2004

Lecturer/Tutor (Sessional)
'Participatory Art: From Dada to Digital'; 'The Artist in the World'
Centre for Ideas
VCA, University of Melbourne
2001–2003

Lecturer/Tutor (Sessional)
'Visual Communication''
Photography Studies College, Melbourne
2002

Lecturer/Tutor (Sessional)
'Camera Culture: From Analogue to Digital Representation'
Department of Visual Culture, School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies
Monash University
2001–2002

Tutor (Sessional)
'Australia Now: Environments, Cultures, Institutions'
The Australian Centre
University of Melbourne
1998

Tutor (Sessional)
'Contemporary Culture and Media'; Contemporary Culture and Everyday Life'
Department of English with Cultural Studies
University of Melbourne
1998

Gallery Assistant (Casual)
Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
Melbourne
1997

Tutor (Sessional)
English as a Second Language Centre
University of Western Australia
1995–1996

Usher (Casual)
Lumiere Cinema (FTI)
Perth, WA
1995–1996

Gallery Assistant (Casual)
The Photography Gallery of Western Australia
1993–1995

Other Appointments

Board Member, Centre for Contemporary Photography, 2005–Current
(includes role as Chair of Exhibition Advisory Committee)

Committee Member, Monash University Museum of Art, 2010–Current

Secretary, International Association of Art Critics (Association des Internationale des Critiques d'Art [AICA]), Australian Section, 2008–Current

Editorial Advisory Board Member, Photographies Journal, 2008–Current

National Advisory Board Member, re:live – Media Art History Conference, 2009

Director of the Board of the Melbourne International Arts Festival, 2005–2008

Coordinator of Melbourne Art Fair Forum Program (National Gallery of Victoria – International), in 2004, 2006, 2008 & 2010

Member of Arts Victoria, Arts Development Program Creation Panel, 2007

Contributing Editor, Real Time, 2001–2007

Mentor, Emerging Writers Program, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, 2006.

Member of the Editorial board of Australia and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2005

Peer, Policy Meeting of Visual Arts & Craft Board, Australia Council, 2004

Honorary Research Fellow, Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 2004

Conference Organiser: Digital Light Symposium, University of Melbourne, 2011; Reinventing the Medium (Annual AAANZ conference), Monash University, 2006; Witness A Photography Symposium, School of Art History, University of Melbourne, 2003

External Examiner: PhD, RMIT University 2006, 2009 & 2011; MA, Media Arts, RMIT University, 2003; Media Arts (Video Art) Final Year, RMIT University, 2002; MA, Victorian College of the Arts, 2002; Photography Studies College, 2001; MA (Communications) , RMIT University, 2000

Member of Experimental Film Selection Panel, Melbourne International Film Festival, 2002 & 2003

Youth Advisory Panel Member, Australia Council for the Arts 1999-2000

Secretary, Board of Management, The Photography Gallery of Western Australia, 1994

Grants, Fellowships and Awards

'Photography as a Crime', ARC Linkage Grant, with Professor Anne Marsh, Professor Mark Davison and Melissa Miles (Partner: CCP), 2009–2013

'Photography as a Crime', Development and Engagement Grant, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, Monash University, 2011

'Is Photography Global', Australian Academy of the Social Sciences and the British Academy, with Professor David Bate (University of Westminster), 2010

'What do artists know?', Stone Summer Theory Institute Fellowship, Art Institute of Chicago, 2009

'Genealogies of Digital Light', ARC Discovery Project, with Professor Sean Cubitt (University of Melbourne) and Dr Les Walkling (RMIT), 2008–2010

'Australian Art Criticism', New Work, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council, 2007

Monash Near Miss ARC Funding for Discovery Project application 'The Glass Eye: Art Criticism Today', 2007

Monash University Early Career Researcher Award, Faculty of Art & Design, 2007

Creative Fellow, State Library of Victoria (3 month fellowship with stipend to research ‘The Birth of Australian Fashion Photography’), 2004–5

Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) 1997-2000

Professional Affiliations

Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
Art Assocation of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ)
International Association of Art Critics (AICA)