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Dr El Putnam
B.A., M.A., PhD
Contact Details
Lecturer Below The Bar
E: EL.PUTNAM@nuigalway.ie
E: EL.PUTNAM@nuigalway.ie
Biography
Research Interests
Peer Reviewed Journals
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| (2021) | 'Editorial Introduction: Affiliated issue with 2020 College Art Association Annual Conference, ‘flesh and circuit: rethinking performance and technology’ (Chicago, IL, USA)'
Putnam, E; McGarrigle, C (2021) 'Editorial Introduction: Affiliated issue with 2020 College Art Association Annual Conference, ‘flesh and circuit: rethinking performance and technology’ (Chicago, IL, USA)'. International Journal of Performance Art and Digital Media, 17 (2):189-195 [DOI] [Details] |
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| (2021) | 'Entangled Gestures and Technical Objects: Illuminating embodiment and digital e xperience through diffraction in performance'
Putnam, E (2021) 'Entangled Gestures and Technical Objects: Illuminating embodiment and digital e xperience through diffraction in performance'. Performance Research, 25 (5):49-55 [DOI] [Details] |
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| (2018) | 'Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War'
Putnam, E (2018) 'Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War'. Visual Resources, :178-180 [DOI] [Details] |
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| (2017) | 'Not Just 'A Life Within the Home' Maternal labour, art work and performance action in the Irish intimate public sphere'
Putnam, E (2017) 'Not Just 'A Life Within the Home' Maternal labour, art work and performance action in the Irish intimate public sphere'. Performance Research, 22 :61-70 [DOI] [Details] |
Books
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2022) | The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Interruption.
Putnam, E (2022) The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Interruption. New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic. [Details] |
Book Chapters
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2021) | 'Pregnant Pause: Technological Disruption and the Neganthropic Aesthetics of Landscape in Ireland's Borderland'
Putnam, E (2021) 'Pregnant Pause: Technological Disruption and the Neganthropic Aesthetics of Landscape in Ireland's Borderland' In: Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler. London and New York: Bloomsbury. [Details] |
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| (2021) | 'Locative Reverb: Artistic Practice, Sound Technology, and the Grammatization of the Listener in the City'
Putnam, E (2021) 'Locative Reverb: Artistic Practice, Sound Technology, and the Grammatization of the Listener in the City' In: Technology and the City Towards a Philosophy of Urban Technologies. :57-74 London and New York: Springer International Publishing. [ARAN Link] [Details] |
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| (2021) | 'Context Collapse'
Putnam, E (2021) 'Context Collapse' In: Mothers, Mothering, and COVID-19: Dispatches from a Pandemic. :421-427 Bradford, Ontario, Canada: Demeter Press. [ARAN Link] [Details] |
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| (2021) | 'Strange Mothers: The Maternal and Contemporary Media Art in Ireland'
Putnam. E (2021) 'Strange Mothers: The Maternal and Contemporary Media Art in Ireland' In: Digital Art in Ireland: New Media and Irish Artistic Practice. London and New York: Anthem Press. [Details] |
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| (2020) | 'Impossible Totalities: Political Performance as Palimpsest'
Putnam, E (2020) 'Impossible Totalities: Political Performance as Palimpsest' In: Responding to Site: The Performance Work of Marilyn Arsem. London: Intellect. [ARAN Link] [Details] |
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| (2019) | 'Discipline, Resistance, Resilence'
Putnam, E (2019) 'Discipline, Resistance, Resilence' In: The Live Art Almanac Volume 5. London, UK: Live Art Development Agency. [Details] |
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| (2015) | 'Polyphonic Resonance: Sound Art in Ireland'
Putnam, E (2015) 'Polyphonic Resonance: Sound Art in Ireland' In: Performance Art in Ireland: A History. London: Live Art Development Agency and Intellect Books. [Details] |
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| (2017) | 'Performances of Situated Knowledge in the Ageing Female Body'
Putnam, E (2017) 'Performances of Situated Knowledge in the Ageing Female Body' In: Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [ARAN Link] [Details] |
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| (2018) | 'Performing Pregnant: An Aesthetic Investigation of Pregnancy'
Putnam, E (2018) 'Performing Pregnant: An Aesthetic Investigation of Pregnancy' In: New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [ARAN Link] [Details] |
Conference Publications
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2022) | Digital Art in Ireland
Putnam, E (2022) Pixelated Presence: the Virtual as Performance Space Digital Art in Ireland [Details] |
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| (2022) | CAA Annual Conference
Putnam, E (2022) Interlooping: Livestreaming as Aesthetic Encounter CAA Annual Conference [Details] |
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| (2021) | Techne logos and the (Neg) Anthropocene
Putnam, E (2021) Emergent: A Critical Approach to Performance and Biometric Data Techne logos and the (Neg) Anthropocene [Details] |
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| (2021) | CAA Annual Conference
Putnam, E (2021) Context Collapse: Livestreaming as a Feminist Art Medium CAA Annual Conference [Details] |
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| (2020) | Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations Conference
Putnam, E (2020) Locative Reverb: Artistic Practice, Sound Technology, and the Grammatization of the Listener in the City Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations Conference [Details] |
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| (2019) | Futures Thinking
Putnam, E (2019) My Body is Awesome:” Social Media, Transgender Pregnancy, and Spilling Over Quantification Futures Thinking [Details] |
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| (2019) | EUGEO Annual Conference
Putnam, E (2019) Networks of Debt and Consumption: the Maternal in the Capitalocene EUGEO Annual Conference [Details] |
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| (2019) | Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland Annual Conference
Putnam, E (2019) Milk Drunk: From Mother as Metaphor to a Feminist Aesthetics of the Maternal Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland Annual Conference [Details] |
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| (2019) | CAA Annual Conference
Putnam, E (2019) Strange Mothers: Towards a Digital Aesthetics of Interruption CAA Annual Conference New York, New York, , 12-FEB-19 - 16-FEB-19 [Details] |
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| (2018) | Thinking Gender Justice, First Annual Conference of the Centre for Gender, Feminisms and Sexualities
Putnam, E (2018) Strange Mothers: Towards a Digital Aesthetics of Interruption Thinking Gender Justice, First Annual Conference of the Centre for Gender, Feminisms and Sexualities University College Dublin, Ireland, , 22-MAY-18 - 24-MAY-18 [Details] |
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| (2018) | Bodies of Data: Intersecting Medical and Digital Humanities
Putnam, E (2018) Leaking Milk and Beating Hearts: Technological Immanence and the Maternal Body Bodies of Data: Intersecting Medical and Digital Humanities University College Dublin, , 22-NOV-18 - 23-NOV-18 [Details] |
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| (2018) | Transient Topographies: Space and Interface in Digital Literature and Art, Second Galway Digital Cultures Initiative Conference
Putnam, E (2018) Quickening Transient Topographies: Space and Interface in Digital Literature and Art, Second Galway Digital Cultures Initiative Conference Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, , 20-APR-18 - 21-APR-18 [Details] |
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| (2017) | Perforum Graduate Conference
Putnam, E (2017) The Aesthetics of Interruption: Navigating the Maternal through Performance Practice Perforum Graduate Conference University College Cork, Ireland, , 19-JUN-17 - 20-JUN-17 [Details] |
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| (2017) | Porous Boundaries, Prague Quadrennial Symposium
Putnam, E (2017) Between the Troubles and Brexit: The Minor Gestures of Bbeyond as Aesthetic Ruptures Porous Boundaries, Prague Quadrennial Symposium National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, , 12-OCT-17 - 14-OCT-17 [Details] |
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| (2017) | Society for Philosophy and Technology Biennial Conference
Putnam, E (2017) Locative Reverb: Artistic Practice, Digital Technology, and the Grammatization of the City Society for Philosophy and Technology Biennial Conference Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, , 14-JUN-17 - 17-JUN-17 [Details] |
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| (2016) | Conference of Irish Geographers
Putnam, E (2016) Silent Echoes: Multisensory Tracings of Grangegorman’s Institutional Spectres Conference of Irish Geographers Dublin City University, Ireland, , 05-MAY-16 - 07-MAY-16 [Details] |
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| (2016) | Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland Annual Conference
Putnam, E (2016) “Neglect of Their Duties:” Feminist Maternal Ethics and the Irish Intimate Public Sphere Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland Annual Conference National University of Ireland Galway, , 02-DEC-16 - 04-DEC-16 [Details] |
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| (2015) | Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland Annual Conference
Putnam, E (2015) Vertical Rolls: Performing a Gendered Reading of Bernard Stiegler Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland Annual Conference University College Dublin, Ireland, , 27-NOV-15 - 28-NOV-15 [Details] |
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| (2015) | European Society for Aesthetics Annual Conference
Putnam, E (2015) ’Bring a Camera with You’: The Posthumous Collaboration of Ahmed Basiony and Shady El Noshokaty . In: Dorsch, F; Ratiu, D eds. European Society for Aesthetics Annual Conference [ARAN Link] [Details] |
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| (2014) | Performing Identities: Embodying Knowledge Conference
Putnam, E (2014) Dismantling No Place: the Neoliberal Performative in Tomás Saraceno’s Utopian Impulse Performing Identities: Embodying Knowledge Conference Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland, , 19-JUN-14 - 20-JUN-14 [Details] |
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| (2014) | Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland Annual Conference
Putnam, E (2014) Reflective Trans-subjectivity: An Aesthetic Investigation of Pregnancy Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland Annual Conference University College Dublin, Ireland, , 21-NOV-14 - 22-NOV-14 [Details] |
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| (2012) | American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division Annual Conference
Putnam, E (2012) The Ugly Americans: Gestures and Social Practice in the Work of Allora & Calzadilla American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division Annual Conference Santa Fe, NM, USA, , 12-JUL-12 - 16-JUL-12 [Details] |
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| (2006) | Women’s Caucus for Art Conference
Putnam, E; Bachman, S; Buszak, M; Reilly, M (2006) Third Wave Feminists in Conversation Women’s Caucus for Art Conference Boston, MA, USA, , 16-FEB-06 - 18-FEB-06 [Details] |
Other Journals
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2021) | 'Development of a Video-based Evidence Synthesis Knowledge Translation Resource: Applying a User-Centred Approach'
Deliv, C; Putnam, E; Devane, D; Healy, P; Hall, A; Rosenbaum, S; Toomey, E (2021) 'Development of a Video-based Evidence Synthesis Knowledge Translation Resource: Applying a User-Centred Approach' MedRxiv, . [Details] |
Conference Contributions
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2020) | CAA Annual Conference,
Putnam, E; McGarrigle, C (2020) Flesh and Circuit: Rethinking Performance and Technology. [Co-chaired Session], CAA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, USA , 15-FEB-20. [Details] |
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| (2018) | Art Action: 1998 to 2018, Rencontre Internationale d’Art Performance de Quebec,
Putnam, E (2018) Performance Art in Northern Ireland: 1998 to 2018. [Invited Oral Presentation], Art Action: 1998 to 2018, Rencontre Internationale d’Art Performance de Quebec, Le Lieu, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada , 14-NOV-18 - 18-NOV-18. [Details] |
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| (2016) | Bodies Politic Symposium,
Putnam, E (2016) Flesh from the Bone. [Invited Oral Presentation], Bodies Politic Symposium, Maynooth University, Ireland , 25-FEB-16 - 25-FEB-16. [Details] |
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| (2015) | Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland, Aesthetics and the Feminine Conference,
Putnam, E (2015) Art at the Threshold of Life and Theory. [Keynote Address], Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland, Aesthetics and the Feminine Conference, University College Cork, Ireland , 17-JUL-15 - 18-JUL-15. [Details] |
Book Review
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2018) | Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination.
Putnam, E (2018) Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination. Book Review [Details] |
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| (2013) | Reviewed Work: Horror After 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror by Aviva Briefel, Sam J. Miller.
Putnam, E (2013) Reviewed Work: Horror After 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror by Aviva Briefel, Sam J. Miller. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Book Review [Details] |
Electronic Article
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2021) | In Conversation with Digital Artist, Dr. EL Putnam.
Putnam, E (2021) In Conversation with Digital Artist, Dr. EL Putnam. NUI Galway: Cois Coiribe Electronic Article [Details] |
Magazine Article
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2022) | Indeterminate System: A Sketch of the Pandemic.
Putnam, E (2022) Indeterminate System: A Sketch of the Pandemic. Ireland: Circa Art Magazine Magazine Article [Details] |
Presentation
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2021) | Climate Change and the Arts: A Post-Cop26 Roundtable Discussion.
O'Mahony, D; McDonald, S; O'Mahony, N; Kinsella, A; Ní Néill, R; O'Donoghue, H; Putnam, E; Joly, C; Gladwin, D; Kearney, R; Newman, C; Carey, D; Cronin, N; Torney, D; Lonergan, P (2021) Climate Change and the Arts: A Post-Cop26 Roundtable Discussion. Presentation [Details] |
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| (2021) | Art, Community and Resistance, W.J.T. Mitchell in Galway.
Mitchell, W; Putnam, E; Stott, T (2021) Art, Community and Resistance, W.J.T. Mitchell in Galway. Presentation [Details] |
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| (2019) | Packet Switching Grief.
Putnam, E (2019) Packet Switching Grief. Presentation [Details] |
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| (2019) | Haptic Gaze: Inviting Touch.
Putnam, E (2019) Haptic Gaze: Inviting Touch. Presentation [Details] |
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| (2021) | Digital Art in Ireland: Panel Discussion.
Putnam, E; McGarrigle, C; Nolan, K; Clarke, C (2021) Digital Art in Ireland: Panel Discussion. Presentation [Details] |
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| (2020) | Art and Digital Technology in a Time of Crisis.
Putnam, E; Bradbury, L; Fitzpatrick, N; McGarrigle, C; Ni Chroinin, M (2020) Art and Digital Technology in a Time of Crisis. Presentation [Details] |
Current Postgraduate Students (Taught)
| Name | Degree | Primary Supervisor | |
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| Kerry Kelly | PhD in Film Studies |
Modules Taught
| Term/Year | Module Title | Module Code | Subject / Desc | |
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| 2021 Semester 3 | Digital Media: Final Project | DM6105 | ||
| 2021 Semester 3 | Dissertation | DT6100 | ||
| 2021 Semester 2 | Digital Play and Practice | FM6102 | ||
| 2021 Semester 2 | Creative Media Design and Production | FM2103 | ||
| 2021 Semester 1 | Digital Design | FMSK1100 | ||
| 2021 Semester 1 | Online Media Production | FM3104 | ||
| 2021 Semester 1 | Creative Practice for Digital Makers | DM6104 | ||
| 2021 Semester 1 | Publishing: Perspectives and Professionalisation | EN6128 | ||
| 1920 Semester 3 | Digital Media: Dissertation | DM112 | ||
| 1920 Semester 2 | Digital Storytelling | FS304 | ||
| 1920 Semester 2 | Media, Culture, Society | EN2133 | ||
| 1920 Semester 2 | Digital Play and Practice | FM6102 | ||
| 1920 Semester 2 | Research Methods | DM111 | ||
| 1920 Semester 1 | Digital Design | FMSK1100 | ||
| 1920 Semester 1 | Creative Practice: Digital Media Perspectives | FM6111 | ||
| 1920 Semester 1 | Creative Media Design and Development | FM2103 | ||
| 1819 Semester 3 | Digital Media: Dissertation | DM112 | ||
| 1819 Semester 3 | Film and Theatre Dissertation | DT6118 | ||
| 1819 Semester 3 | Video Essay | FM562 | ||
| 1819 Semester 2 | Digital Play and Practice | FM6102 | ||
| 1819 Semester 2 | Digital Film and Culture | FM6105 | ||
| 1819 Semester 2 | Research Methods | DM111 |
