Dr El Putnam
Biography
I am Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Department of Media Studies at Maynooth University, where I teach digital media practice and theory classes on the BA Media Studies and BA Media and Cultural Studies programmes. Prior to coming to Maynooth in 2022, I worked at University of Galway for four years as programme director of the MA in Digital Media and TU Dublin. I hold a PhD from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visuals Arts in Visual Arts: Aesthetics, Art Theory, and Philosophy. In addition, I am a practicing artist who regularly exhibits nationally and internationally.
I also supervise PhD projects, with a focus on practice-based research in Digital Art and Media. I welcome correspondence on potential projects in relevant areas of my research, which can be found on my research profile.
Research Interests
Dr. Putnam's research interests include digital studies, philosophy of technology,
and aesthetics with a focus on performed engagements with technologies
and embodied experience. She focuses on digital media from a visual arts
and performance studies perspective, intersecting with maternal
philosophy, gender studies, and critical race theory. In terms of
practice, she engages with creative coding and generative media, digital
performance, wearables and physical computing, video, and sound.
Book
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Putnam, E (2024) Livestreaming: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. | |
| 2022 | Putnam, E (2022) The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Interruption. New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic. [Link] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Putnam, E.L. (2024) 'MotherHack: Creative coding as an artist-mother'. Gender, Work and Organization, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Putnam, E.L. (2024) 'On (not) becoming machine: countering algorithmic thinking through digital performance art'. Frontiers In Communication, 9 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Deliv, C; Devane, D; Putnam, E; Healy, P; Hall, A; Rosenbaum, S; Toomey, E (2023) 'Development of a video-based evidence synthesis knowledge translation resource: Drawing on a user-centred design approach'. Digital Health, 9 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Putnam, E (2023) 'The Question Concerning Technology in Ireland?: Art, Decoloniality and Speculations of an Irish Cosmotechnics'. Arts, 12 (3). [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Putnam, E.L. (2023) 'Pseudorandom: generative animation as performance in Emergent (2020–2022)'. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 19 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | McGarrigle C.; Putnam E.L. (2021) 'Affiliated issue with 2020 College Art Association Annual Conference, ‘flesh and circuit: rethinking performance and technology’ (Chicago, IL, USA)'. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 17 (2):189-195. [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Putnam E.L. (2020) 'Entangled Gestures and Technical Objects: Illuminating embodiment and digital experience through diffraction in performance'. Performance Research, 25 (5):49-55. [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Putnam E.L. (2017) 'Not Just ‘A Life Within the Home’: Maternal labour, art work and performance action in the Irish intimate public sphere'. Performance Research, 22 (4):61-70. [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Putnam, EL (2015) '’Bring a Camera with You:’ The Posthumous Collaboration of Ahmed Basiony and Shady El Noshokaty'. 7 . [Link] |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Putnam, E (2023) 'Leaking Milk and Beating Hearts: Technological Immanence and the Maternal Body' In: Feminist Philosophy and Emerging Technologies. New York : Routledge. | |
| 2021 | Putnam, EL (2021) 'Pregnant Pause: Technological Disruption and the Neganthropic Aesthetics of Landscape in Ireland’s Borderland' In: Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler. New York and London : Bloomsbury. [Link] | |
| 2021 | Putnam, EL (2021) 'Context Collapse' In: Mothers, Mothering, and COVID-19: Dispatches from a Pandemic. Bradford, Ontario : Demeter Press. | |
| 2021 | 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. Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing. [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Putnam, EL (2021) 'Strange Mothers: The Maternal and Contemporary Media Art in Ireland' In: Digital Art in Ireland. New York and London : Anthem Press. | |
| 2020 | Putnam, EL (2020) 'Impossible Totalities: Political Performance as Palimpsest' In: Responding to Site: The Performance Work of Marilyn Arsem. Bristol, UK : Intellect. | |
| 2017 | Putnam E. (2017) 'Performances of situated knowledge in the ageing female body' In: Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture. London : Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] | |
| 2014 | Putnam, EL (2014) 'Polyphonic Resonance: Sound Art in Ireland' In: Performance Art in Ireland: A History. Bristol, UK : Live Art Development Agency and Intellect Books. |
Exhibition
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Putnam, E (2023) PseudoRandom. Boston, MA, USA: [Exhibition] [Link] |
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