Publications

Here’s an incomplete list of papers, chapters, and conference presentations by Teaching and Learning Cinema (Louise Curham and Lucas Ihlein):


“Re-enactment, Users Manuals and DNA Storage: methods for media art preservation” – conference paper at ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic Art), Brisbane, 2024. This was presented within the 4th Summit of Media Art Archiving. Co-authored with data scientist A/Prof Raja Appuswamy of Eurecom, France.

An article we wrote on the process of working towards a re-enactment of Malcolm Le Grice’s Horror Film 1 in Performance Matters journal. It’s entitled “Reaching Through to the Object: Reenacting Malcolm Le Grice’s Horror Film 1” (2015).

“Attending to Anthony McCall’s Long Film for Ambient Light”, in the book Perform Repeat Record: Live Art in History (2012), edited by Amelia Jones and Adrian Heathfield. This chapter is about our 2007 re-enactment of Anthony McCall’s expanded cinema work Long Film for Ambient Light in Sydney.

“(Wo)man with Mirror – A Users Manual” (first published in 2009, then updated in 2013). Beware, the link takes you to a 120MB PDF file.

“Re-Enacting Expanded Cinema: Three Case Studies” (2009) – a paper at the Re-Live Media Art Histories conference in Melbourne.

“Re-enacting Expanded Cinema ‘Wo(Man) With Mirror’”, presentation at Museum Futures conference, Institute of Education, University College London, May 2013.

“History Made Flesh – Re-enacting Expanded Cinema”, authors Louise Curham and Lucas Ihlein, poster at the Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference, USA, 2004.


See also Louise Curham’s research within the archives field:

Curham, L, (2021) “Tending the archive: How re-use of ephemeral artworks contributes new knowledge to the archive that preserves them, strengthening the artworks and aiding their survival” (PhD thesis), University of Canberra.

Curham, L, (2024) “Manual making for ephemeral art – Archivist LOUISE CURHAM reflects on ROCHELLE HALEY’S manual making for A Sun Dance.” Essay published by National Gallery of Australia.

Curham, L & Gamble, R. (2008). ‘Moving Image’ and ‘Sound’. Keeping Archives (3rd ed.), Bettington et al (eds.) Australia: Australian Society of Archivists.

Curham, L. (2017). Performing Digital Multiple Perspectives on a Living Archive. Archives and Manuscripts, 45(2), 167-169.

Curham, L. (2016). Caring for live art that eludes digital preservation. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Preservation (pp. 266–267). Bern, Switzerland: Swiss National Library

Louise Curham presented “The Wisdom Travels With the Object” at the Archives in the Digital Age symposium for the launch of the Kaldor Digital Archives, Art Gallery of NSW, Nov 2019.

“Having Opinions in Digital Preservation”. Australasia Preserves digital preservation community of practice on-line meeting, May 2019.

Tending the archive: ritual as preservation; enfolding preservation into use; and preservation as a community enabler through the case study of ‘(Wo)Man With Mirror’, a re-enactment of a 1970s artwork. Shock of the New, Australasian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials joint SIG symposium, Melbourne. Feb, 2017.

“When the record performs”. Australian Society of Archivists’ annual conference, Melbourne. Sep, 2017.

“Observing the re-enactment”. Scenes of the Real symposium, Department of Performance Studies, University of Sydney. July, 2016.

“Tending the Archive”. Australasian Association for the Digital Humanities conference, Hobart. June, 2016.