Dr Azadeh Emadi

  • Senior Lecturer (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)

telephone: 0141 330 3857
email: Azadeh.Emadi@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011

Research interests

As a researcher and a video maker, Azadeh Emadi is deeply invested in interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches that cross over diverse cultural forms of knowledge and digital media arts. She applies these approaches to address socio-cultural matters related to media production and to the ways in which digital moving images convey and construct meaning. She does so through integrating theoretical investigation with media production (e.g., experimental video and film, video installation). The underlying focus of her research is to investigate new ways of seeing by applying historical Persian concepts and arts within contemporary Western schools of thought and moving image. Notions such as virtual reality, time and motion, perception and representation, digital im/materiality in the post digital era, as well as digital media and its latent potentialities in relation to real life events and current socio-cultural issues, are the current foci of her research and video practice.

She is also interested to develop new pedagogies by integrating different cultural knowledge forms, and to develop curricula that bring together academic, creative practice and community engagement. In the same way that she has been supported to explore her own cultural background as a basis for developing innovative research, she anticipates encouraging research and creative students to realise their own potential through investigating global, local and personal perspectives and cultures.

 

Research areas

  • Cross-cultural approaches to new media studies
  • Practice-based research methods
  • Transnational and intercultural film, media and art
  • Ideologies and politics of perception and representation
  • Eastern and Western philosophies and media arts
  • Persian-Islamic History, arts and philosophies
  • Material investigation of digital media
  • Media arts practice and experimental film making

 

Biography

  • 2016-2017: Lecturer in Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand)
  • 2008-2015: Teaching fellow, School of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand)
  • 2010-2014: PhD, Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand)
  • 2012: Research Visit, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
  • 2008- 2009: Master of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand)
  • 2008: Research Exchange, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach (Germany)
  • 2005-2007: Bachelor of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand)

Publications

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Number of items: 24.

2024

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2024) Deafblindness, touch and COVID-19. In: Cooper, Frederick and Fitzgerald, Des (eds.) Knowing COVID- 19 The Pandemic and Beyond. Manchester University Press, pp. 41-59. ISBN 9781526178657 (doi: 10.7765/9781526178657)

2022

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011, Miller, Mitchell, Faccio, Daniele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8397-334X, Caramazza, Piergiorgio and Kassem, Khaled (2022) Documentation of Life during COVID-19: Understanding (Lack of) Touch from a Deafblind Perspective. Documentation. The Pandemic and Beyond.

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2022) The magic of touch: how deafblind people taught us to ‘see’ the world differently during COVID. Conversation, 10 Oct.

Kassem, Khaled, Caramazza, Piergiorgio, Mitchell, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3433-7167, Miller, Mitch, Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 and Faccio, Daniele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8397-334X (2022) Real-time scene monitoring for deaf-blind people. Sensors, 22(19), 7136. (doi: 10.3390/s22197136) (PMID:36236236) (PMCID:PMC9571695)

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2022) Altering Perception. [Artefact]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2022) Touch Screen: Rethinking Perception through Sight and Skin. [Exhibitions]

2020

Dignan, Anne and Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2020) Interactive Harmony. [Exhibitions]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2020) In Touch Exhibition. [Exhibitions]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 and McGrath, Issy (2020) Notes on the Inner Eye. [Exhibitions]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2020) Entangled Orb. [Artefact]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2020) "Halg” (Throat) video from the series Sokout (Silence), in the Ko rātou, ko tātou | On other-ness, on us-ness exhibition. [Exhibitions]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2020) Reconsidering the substance of digital video from a Sadrian perspective. Leonardo: Art Science and Technology, 53(1), pp. 75-80. (doi: 10.1162/LEON_a_01602)

2019

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2019) Motion Within Motion. [Website]

2018

Rahman, Khairiah A. and Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2018) Representations of Islam and Muslims in New Zealand media. Pacific Journalism Review, 24(2), pp. 166-188. (doi: 10.24135/pjr.v24i2.419)

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 and Marks, Laura U. (2018) Substantial Motion Research Network. [Website]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2018) Floating Tiles. [Exhibitions]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2018) Motion Within Motion. [Exhibitions]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2018) Flowing Like a River. [Exhibitions]

2016

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2016) 16th century Persian tiles in dialogue with 21st century digital tiles in the Sadrian universe. Kimiya-ye-Honar, 4(17), pp. 16-31.

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2016) Life of a Tree. [Exhibitions]

2014

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2014) Motion Within Motion. [Exhibitions]

2013

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011, Afoa, Louisa, Tosh, Ahkit, Cathy, Carter, Ziggy, Lever and Charlotte, Drayton (2013) Transforming Topographies. In The 5th Auckland Triennial: If You Were to Live Here. [Exhibitions]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2013) Pixelated View: Investigating the Pixel in Light of Substantial Motion. In: 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2013, Sydney, Australia, 11-13 Jun 2013, ISBN 9780646913131

2011

Engels-Schwarzpaul, Anna-Christina and Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2011) Thresholds as spaces of potentiality: non-traditional PhD candidatures in art and design. ACCESS: Critical Perspectives on Communication, Cultural & Policy Studies, 30(2), pp. 1-14.

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Number of items: 25.

Articles

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2022) The magic of touch: how deafblind people taught us to ‘see’ the world differently during COVID. Conversation, 10 Oct.

Kassem, Khaled, Caramazza, Piergiorgio, Mitchell, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3433-7167, Miller, Mitch, Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 and Faccio, Daniele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8397-334X (2022) Real-time scene monitoring for deaf-blind people. Sensors, 22(19), 7136. (doi: 10.3390/s22197136) (PMID:36236236) (PMCID:PMC9571695)

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2020) Reconsidering the substance of digital video from a Sadrian perspective. Leonardo: Art Science and Technology, 53(1), pp. 75-80. (doi: 10.1162/LEON_a_01602)

Rahman, Khairiah A. and Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2018) Representations of Islam and Muslims in New Zealand media. Pacific Journalism Review, 24(2), pp. 166-188. (doi: 10.24135/pjr.v24i2.419)

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2016) 16th century Persian tiles in dialogue with 21st century digital tiles in the Sadrian universe. Kimiya-ye-Honar, 4(17), pp. 16-31.

Engels-Schwarzpaul, Anna-Christina and Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2011) Thresholds as spaces of potentiality: non-traditional PhD candidatures in art and design. ACCESS: Critical Perspectives on Communication, Cultural & Policy Studies, 30(2), pp. 1-14.

Book Sections

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2024) Deafblindness, touch and COVID-19. In: Cooper, Frederick and Fitzgerald, Des (eds.) Knowing COVID- 19 The Pandemic and Beyond. Manchester University Press, pp. 41-59. ISBN 9781526178657 (doi: 10.7765/9781526178657)

Research Reports or Papers

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011, Miller, Mitchell, Faccio, Daniele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8397-334X, Caramazza, Piergiorgio and Kassem, Khaled (2022) Documentation of Life during COVID-19: Understanding (Lack of) Touch from a Deafblind Perspective. Documentation. The Pandemic and Beyond.

Conference Proceedings

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2013) Pixelated View: Investigating the Pixel in Light of Substantial Motion. In: 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2013, Sydney, Australia, 11-13 Jun 2013, ISBN 9780646913131

Artefact

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2022) Altering Perception. [Artefact]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2020) Entangled Orb. [Artefact]

Exhibitions

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2022) Touch Screen: Rethinking Perception through Sight and Skin. [Exhibitions]

Dignan, Anne and Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2020) Interactive Harmony. [Exhibitions]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2020) In Touch Exhibition. [Exhibitions]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 and McGrath, Issy (2020) Notes on the Inner Eye. [Exhibitions]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2020) "Halg” (Throat) video from the series Sokout (Silence), in the Ko rātou, ko tātou | On other-ness, on us-ness exhibition. [Exhibitions]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2018) Floating Tiles. [Exhibitions]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2018) Motion Within Motion. [Exhibitions]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2018) Flowing Like a River. [Exhibitions]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2016) Life of a Tree. [Exhibitions]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2014) Motion Within Motion. [Exhibitions]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011, Afoa, Louisa, Tosh, Ahkit, Cathy, Carter, Ziggy, Lever and Charlotte, Drayton (2013) Transforming Topographies. In The 5th Auckland Triennial: If You Were to Live Here. [Exhibitions]

Key Findings

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 and Miller, Mitchell Policy Brief: Touch Post-Covid19: Navigating through deafblindness in the UK via haptic-audiovisual technologies of perception. [Key Findings]

Website

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 (2019) Motion Within Motion. [Website]

Emadi, Azadeh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-5011 and Marks, Laura U. (2018) Substantial Motion Research Network. [Website]

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Supervision

  • Han, Jiatong
    Exploring the Future of Ecofeminism through Cross-species Co-creation of Multimedia Art
  • Song, Ningning
    Creative Practice as Research: Exploring Storytelling With Virtual Reality In 360-Degrees Documentary
  • Yalcin, Gonca
    ‘Practicing Alternative Historiographies: Contemporary Material Performance Practices in Turkey, Lebanon and Iran’
  • Yekti, Bharoto
    Non-Visual Animation: Incorporating Touch in Expanded Animation

Teaching

  • Convenor: MSc in Filmmaking and Media Arts
  • Filmmaking and Media Arts Core course (1)
  • Filmmaking and Media Arts Core course (2)

Research datasets

Jump to: 2022
Number of items: 2.

2022

Caramazza, P., Kassem, K. and Emadi, A. (2022) Real-time Scene Monitoring with Haptic Feedback. [Data Collection]

ROSS, K. , Keith, N. , Abbott, L., Adams, C., Aitken, E., Aslett, O., Basra, S., Bell, I., Bradley, J., Brown, T., Brown, W., Chen, R., Cheskin, L., Corrie, R., de Vries, E., Defty, E., Drake, H., Dunlop, H., Emadi, A. , Evans, J. , Everett, S., Feng, Z., Fraser, A., Gallacher, K. , Gaynor-Kirk, E., Halsey, C. , Harris, F., Hu, J., Hush, G., Jamieson, N. , Jameison, V., Jones, R. , Just, L., Lembo, T. , Lloyd, B., Ma, C.-L., Macdonald, S. , Mathias, M. , McAra, M., McCaffrey, B., Mccluskey, L.-A., Mchattie, L.-S., Mcneill, E., Milliken, A., Mogford, D., Morris, G., Nicoll, M., O'Brien, T., Onwuka, T., Papanastasatou, M., Perry, M. , Prosser, Z., Proudfoot, B., Raman Komnedath, S., Robinson, J. , Sleight, R., Smith, P., Stricevic, M., Tharp, B., Thoresson, V., Thorne, J., Vansteenhouse, H., Welisch, G. and Wu, O. (2022) Symbiotic Futures: Health, Well-being and Care in the Post-Covid World. [Data Collection]

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Dr Azadeh Emadi