Dr. Maeve Connolly

Maeve Connolly studied Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. She completed a Masters in Film Studies at Dublin City University (DCU), followed by a PhD focusing on experimental film cultures in Ireland, completed in 2004. Since then, she has been a Lecturer in Film and Animation Studies at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) in Dublin. In 2006-2007 she was (acting) Head of the Department of Film and Media at IADT, and oversaw the development of new programmes such as a Masters in Broadcast Production. Her recent responsibilities include lecturing on the Masters in Visual Arts Practice, which encompasses pathways in art practice, criticism and curating. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM), a collaborative initiative linking IADT with the Dublin Institute of Technology, the National College of Art and Design and the University of Ulster.

Her publications include a book entitled 'The Place of Artists' Cinema: Space, Site and Screen (Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 2009) exploring the significance of site and place in artists’ film and video. She has also contributed articles and reviews to Afterimage, Artforum, Art Monthly, Boundary 2, Frieze, Mousse, Screen, Third Text and Variant, and co-edited a collection of texts and artists' projects on television, entitled The Glass Eye (Dublin: Project Press, 2000). In 2011-2012 she will be a research fellow at the IKKM, where she will work on a new book entitled TV Museum: Contemporary Art and the Age of Television, which examines the changing relationship between art museums, broadcasting and concepts of public space in Europe and North America.