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Dr Cassandra Tytler

Forrest Creative and Performance Fellow

Staff Member Details
Email: c.tytler@ecu.edu.au

Cassandra is a Forrest Creative and Performance Research Fellow at the School of Education.

Background

Cassandra is a video artist and researcher with a particular focus on performance practices. She works across single channel video, performance, and installation. Her research interests lie in the performance of video and its encounter within place, to create a relational and aware politics of resistance to normalising narratives of exclusion. In making site-based creative research, Cassandra aims to pull people, other beings, and places together to foster an intwining of relations so that participants experience the work beyond their individual selves. She hopes that through these speculative art actions that people feel a part of larger ecosystems and therefore realise their responsibility to them. Originally from Naarm (Melbourne), Cassandra has lectured across art, film, and production practices at RMIT and Monash Universities. She has screened, exhibited, and performed nationally and internationally.

Professional associations

  • Creative Agencies, RMIT University (Member) - 2022
  • Screen and Sound Cultures research group, Media & Communication, RMIT (Member) - 2022
  • Contemporary Art and Social Transformation (CAST) Research Group, RMIT University (Member) - 2021

Awards and recognitions

  • 2021 - Honorable Mention, Mexico Independent Film Fest
  • 2021 - Shortlisted for the Footscray Art Prize (37 selected out of over 700)
  • 2019 - The Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award ($3,000 prize)
  • 2015 - FACT and Channels Video Art Shortlist – Fiona71
  • 2012 - 4th International Screengrab New Media Arts Prize, Townsville, Australia, Finalist
  • 2005 - Special mention, The Cannes Film Festival, France – Clara (editor)
  • 2005 - Best Animation, The Chicago Film Festival, USA  – Clara (editor)
  • 2003 - Finalist, B(if)Tek W.I.N.K. Awards, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2001 - Finalist, B(if)Tek W.I.N.K. Awards, Melbourne, Australia

Research areas and interests

  • Feminist and queer theory
  • Post-humanism
  • Creative practice outcomes in environmental education
  • Video art practices
  • Site-specific art practices
  • Film

University and national teaching awards

  • 2021 - Highly Commended – The Dean’s Award for Exemplary Sessional Staff Member, Media and Communication, RMIT

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Theatre Performance), Monash University, 2021.
  • Bachelor of Arts (Visual Communication) Honours 1st Class, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 2000.

Research Outputs

2024

Journal Articles

  • Tytler, C. (2024). IT HASN’T FINISHED A collaboration with Ron Stone Park across a year-long divide. Axon: Creative Explorations, 14(1), 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.54375/001/25eyibw4i7.
  • Tytler, C. (2024). Queering Apocalyptic Methodologies: Enacting the Utopian Performative through Extended Reality Artwork. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 40(Special Issue 3), 515-524. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2024.52.
  • Rousell, D., Harrison, A., Ryan, E., Chapple, V., Beale, R., Zhang, F., Tytler, C., Aleksić, J. (2024). Impersonal forms of togetherness: Finding ways to (not) belong through reading groups. Knowledge Cultures, 12(2), 112-129. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.22381/kc12220247.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Tytler, C. (2024). Soiled. [An exhibition featuring video works, installations and assemblages]. Gallery 25, ECU, Mount Lawley.
  • Tytler, C., Millar, E. (2024). Think Like a Worm. [An audio-visual site-specific artwork]. Inglewood and Mt Lawley Community Garden.

2023

Book Chapters

  • Tytler, C. (2023). The Partisanship and Performativity of Creative Practice Research for Environmental Education: Questions around editing interviews and knowledge production. Methodological Approaches to STEM Education Research Volume 4 (233-248). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Conference Publications

  • Zhang, B., Tomasetti, S., McCracken, C., Hillary, F., Hesterman, H., Harrison, A., Chapple, V., Corompt, M., Tytler, C. (2023). A Posthuman Lecture Theatre Hack. ACUADS Conference 2023: Thriving Futures (23 pages). The Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS).

2022

Book Chapters

  • Tytler, C. (2022). A Movement, a System, a Mountain, a Chorus: Art Practice within Environmental Education as a Transdisciplinary Mode of Post-qualitative Inquiry. Methodological approaches to STEM education research volume 3 (55-74). Cambridge Scholars.

Journal Articles

  • Tytler, C. (2022). We Found a Body: The Intra-Body of Human, Technology, Narrative and Environment. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 38(3-4), 242-250. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2021.32.

Research Projects

  • SHE Speaks: Intergenerational Wellbeing Through Self-Care , Department of Communities (WA), Grants for Women Program, 2025 ‑ 2026, $50,000.
  • Contemporary Ecofeminist Education: a critical and creative response to ecofeminists legacy of human-environment relations in crisis, Academic Staff Association of Edith Cowan University, Solidarity Research Fund (SRF), 2024, $14,833.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Yarning: Exploring the materiality and embodiment of sandalwood in Western Australia

Completed Supervisions

No data available
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