James is Professor of Film Animation and Executive Dean of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. He also chairs the university’s Non-Traditional Research Outputs (NTRO) committee and is an investigator within Swinburne’s Research Centre for Transformative Media Technologies (CTMT).
James previously served as President of the Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association (ASPERA) and continues to serve on ASPERA’s research committee. His creative research practice spans moving image for theatre and museums, broadcast television, and experimental film and James’ current research examines the nexus between ideas of the real and screen-based representations of reality, particularly focussing on technological mediation.
