Dr Leon Gurevitch
Director of Programme
Senior Lecturer
Culture and Context
Senior Lecturer
Culture and Context
School of Design
Victoria University of Wellington
139 Vivian Street
Room 4.04 Wigan
Wellington
Aotearoa/New Zealand
Phone: +64 4 463 6207
Phone: +64 4 463 6207
Email: leon.gurevitch@vuw.ac.nz
Research and Supervision Interests:
Energy, Sustainable Design, New Media, Advertising
and Consumer Culture, Digital Imaging, Photographics, Film, Cinema,
Cinematography, Television, Audiovisual Culture, Animation, Software Studies, Computer Culture.
Leon’s
research and practice:
Leon is the Director of the Culture and Context Programme, Marsden
Research Scholar and Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of
Wellington’s School of Design. Leon’s research ranges from digital image
production and consumption cultures to new media advertising practices,
ecomedia, energy and audiovisual culture. His current Marsden work is a
major three year project, funded by the New Zealand Royal Society to
study digital image industry work cultures. Prior to taking up his
current post Leon lectured in New Media Theory, Film and Television,
Cultural Studies and Sociology at Lancaster University whilst completing
a PhD. When working in the UK Leon also operated in an industrial
context as the Film and Digital Arts Programme Manager of one of North
West England’s premiere Independent Cinema and Theatres. Prior to this
Leon worked as a projectionist in Glasgow’s Center for Contemporary
Arts. As an active academic and photographer Leon publishes both his
images and writing. Most recently Leon has published his work in
Animation Journal, The Journal of Television and New Media, Senses of
Cinema, The New Zealand Journal of Media Studies and The Journal of
Popular Narrative Media. Leon currently lectures graduate and
postgraduate courses in photography, visual culture and computer
generated imaging.
