Debra Livingston
DipVisComm Qld.Coll.Art, BA(Illust) Qld.Coll.Art, MAVA(Photog) Griff. Qld.Coll.Art, MVA(Photog) Griff.
Position: Lecturer, Digital Design
Office: D1.26
Tel: +61 7 5430 1252
Email: dlivings@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Studies in Art and Design
- Graphic Design
- Digital Imaging
Research areas
- Graphic design
- Visual communication in environmental interpretation
- Photography and the moving image
- Digital illustration and photo imaging
- Technology and society
Profile
Debra Livingston began her career in the non-commercial television industry, studied commercial advertising and digital media and ran her own freelance graphic design business until 1995. She lectured in photography and graphic design at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology until joining USC in 1998 as a lecturer in Computer-Based Art and Design.
Debra has exhibited her work both locally, nationally and internationally, and has won awards for her graphic design, photography and new media imaging. Debra has often represented the University to the community via themed student and industry exhibitions and has actively developed links between the University of the Sunshine Coast and the advertising, communications and associated industries, in metropolitan and regional areas.
Debra’s current research for her Doctorate of Creative Arts focuses specifically on artificial modes of viewing nature and the natural used in the visual arts, particularly how we see the effects of industrial developments on nature-scapes. Her creative research explores various past and present imaging methods, in particular photography and photographic stereo-visual techniques, as new strategies to show the transformation of nature from actuality to simulated apparitions in virtual reality.
Publications
Electronic copies of academic papers from Debra Livingston are available on the USC Coast Research Database website.
Exhibitions
- Solo exhibition: ‘Organic Simulcast’ - University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery, January 2006.
- Solo exhibition: ‘Dis/Placed Realms’ - Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra 18 June - 27 July, 2003.
Grants
- Solo exhibition: ‘Organic Simulcast’, The transformation of nature through our human impact. The project aims were to research strategies in which to communicate to the audience the importance of taking care of nature, where it may eventuate that the only way to experience plants and animals in the future might be through forms of electronic virtual experiences. The project outcomes displayed photographic images and the moving image as a means to communicate to the community the need for a positive and sustainable relationship with our environment. University of the Sunshine Coast Seed Grant 2005-6.
- Solo exhibition, ‘Dis/Placed Realms’, Technology and Society. The project aims were to challenge viewers to recognise that major historical shifts in our perception of the world have occurred through the increased use of computing technology across a diverse range of areas including cloning, communications and the creation of virtual spaces. The project examined the blurring of boundaries between synthetic and organic life and between actual and virtual environments that occurs in the digital realm. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Internal Research Grant 2003-4.
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