School of Creative Arts, Film and Media (SCAFM)

As an Associate Senior Lecturer I joined SCAFM in 2003 from the School of Art, Design and Media where I taught Moving-Image Production. At this time I also maintained my own practice as a Media Arts consultant and practitioner. My clients included Arts Council England, the University of Sussex, Arts Council England South East, Lighthouse Arts and Training Ltd. and the science-art forum BLIP. I was also co-director of SixtySecondFilm, an Arts Council funded initiative promoting experimental practices in curation and filmmaking. Prior to this I have worked in media production as both an editor and a director. During the 1980s I was a director of East Anglian Film-Makers Ltd., which was co funded by Chanel 4 and the BFI.

My research initially focused on the emergence of new entertainment technologies and film-making in Victorian Brighton. I continue this interest in emerging technologies, working with generative artists and online developers, and am currently researching the place of alternative media within the democratic process. In 2010 I took up a full-time post with SCAFM in order to develop new strands focusing on writing for different media forms.

Current Research

At this time I am writing an experimental fiction, which draws on the history of filmmaking in Brighton.

Publications

Publications since 2008 [IR]

Articles^{[Back to top]}

Monaghan, G. (2005) ‘Mindscape’. In Viewfinder 59 (5), 8–9.

Book Chapters^{[Back to top]}

Webster, A., Bird, J. and Monaghan, G. (2005). Experiments in open-ended curation. In J. Gibbons & K. Winwood (Eds.), Hothaus papers: perspectives and paradigms in media arts (pp. 201-208). Birmingham: VIVID/Article Press.

Monaghan, G. (2000). Performing the passions: comic themes in the films of George Albert Smith. In Burton, A. & Porter, L. (Eds.), Pimple, pranks and pratfalls: British silent comedy before 1930 (pp. 24-32). Trowbridge: Flicks Books.

Monaghan, G. (1994). Autobiography unit: a case study’. In M. Hoar, et al. (Eds.), Life histories and learning: language, the self and education. Papers from an interdisciplinary residential conference at the University of Sussex (Brighton, September 19-21, 1994) (pp. 110-114). Brighton: University of Sussex. Online at Education Resources Information Centre, reference no ED377356.

Book Reviews^{[Back to top]}

Monaghan, G. (2004). Review of Paul Frosh, The image factory: consumer culture, photography and the visual content industry. Social Semiotics, 14(3), 349-51.