Dist. Professor Larissa Hjorth
Details
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College: School of Media & Communication
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Department: School - Media & Communication
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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larissa.hjorth@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-4793-3233
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth is a digital ethnographer, socially-engaged artist and Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow in the School of Media & Communication at RMIT University. Hjorth has two decades experience leading mobile media projects to explore innovative methods around intergenerational connection, intimacy, games, play, ageing, loss and death in the Asia-Pacific region (Japan, South Korea, China and Australia). Hjorth’s Future Fellowship explores mobile media mourning rituals. She is an advisory board member for the international death online research network, DORS, and CI on the SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada) international network, Aging in Data (hosted by Concordia).
Hjorth has a strong track record in research leadership and has received over $8 million in grants in Australia and internationally. She has worked with many industry partners including Intel and Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI), and has successfully been CI on seven Australian Research Council (ARC) grants (3DPs, 1FT and 3LP), Young and Well CRC, CoE Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI), as well as numerous arts funding and fellowships including Australian Council for the Arts New Media fellowship, Japan Foundation, Brain Korea fellowship, Asialink arts residency and Australia Council Tokyo studio.
Hjorth has extensive experience in research leadership positions. From 2017-2022, Hjorth was the director of the university-wide Design & Creative Practice ECP Platform. From 2013-2015 she was Deputy Dean of Research & Innovation in the School of Media & Communication, RMIT University. With Prof Heather Horst she established the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) in 2011.
Supervisor projects
- Subverting Sensors: Interrogating the Sensor Society through Critical Mixed Reality Practice
- 27 Jun 2023
- Animating Elderhood: Datascapes of Ageing in Place
- 19 Jun 2023
- The Role of Museum Interactives in Developing Digital Literacies
- 2 May 2023
- Ecological Grief, Mobile Media and the situation of Social Change
- 1 May 2023
- Grief and social media: Understanding Migrant Womens Grieving Practices on Facebook and Instagram
- 27 Mar 2023
- Mobile League: Understanding mobile game e-sports in Indonesian popular culture
- 29 Jun 2022
- Revisioning the social and gendered body in performance art: Enac8ng mul8ple readings of embodiment and future potential representatons
- 26 May 2020
- Designing for Social Engagement in Later Life: Drifting with Uncertainty in Co-creation with Older Australians
- 7 Apr 2020
- Xeno AI: How can Creative Arts Practice Express Disalienation of an AI system?
- 10 Dec 2019
- Adventures in Vaporwave: A Participant-led Creative Practice Exploration of Everyday Life in a Weird Internet Community
- 7 Mar 2019
- Everyday Mobile Feminisms: Women’s Everyday Smartphone Practices in Victoria (Australia)
- 16 Jul 2018
- Caring In and Through Our Practices Towards Shared and Reflexive Communities of Curatorial Care
- 1 Mar 2018
- Network Gestures Critical and Creative Responses to the Networked Body
- 1 Feb 2018
- Calm Place. Understanding Generative Ambient Screens in Public Space as Encounters with Calm Technology
- 20 Jul 2016
- Zhibo An Ethnography of Ordinary, Boring, and Vulgar Livestreams
- 4 Aug 2015
- Playing With Steam: An ethnographic enquiry into Melbourne household gaming
- 2 Mar 2015
- Away From Home: A photographic research project exploring experiences of presence and absence in relation to home through the transnational lives of families from Burma.
- 3 Mar 2014
- The Bruiteur: Noise and Listening in Performance
- 3 Mar 2014
- Aspirational Well-Being and Digital Media: Southeast Asian International Students¿ use of Digital Media and their Pursuit of the Good Life in Melbourne, Australia
- 22 Jul 2013
- Everyday anxieties: Young women, mental illness and social media practices of visibility and connection
- 4 Mar 2013
- Crisis or Opportunity? An Exploration of Art Museum Educators' Practice in Australia and the United States
- 15 May 2012
Teaching interests
Hjorth has vast experience supervising postgraduate students with over 20 PhD completions across various disciplines and topics. She has twenty years experience teaching across Design, Fine Art, Cultural Studies and Media & Communication.
Research interests
Hjorth has two decades experience leading mobile media projects to explore innovative methods around intergenerational connection, intimacy, games, play, ageing, loss and death in the Asia-Pacific region (Japan, South Korea, China and Australia). She is experienced in creative practice methods for community engagement and science communication.
Current research projects include:
Hjorth is currently an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow (2023-2027) exploring "The Mourning After: Mourning in and through mobile media". The project considers various forms of loss—death of a loved one (human and more-than-human), death of an anticipatory future, loss of habitant and climate anxiety (ecogrief). Framing grief as a cultural practice (rather than just psychological) this project seeks to give voice to emerging forms of grief and how ethnographic and creative practice might enhance "grief literacy" (Breen et al. 2023). This project builds on cross-cultural work with Prof Katie Cumiskey (CUNY) Haunting Hands (Oxford Uni Press, 2017).
Hjorth is also lead CI on one ARC Discovery, Ageing in and through data (2023-2026), as part of a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) network Aging in Data (AiD) (2022-2027) lead by Prof Kim Sawchuk and Constance La Fontaine (Concordia Uni). This Discovery with Dr Caitlin McGrane explores perceptions and practices of older adults (65 years +) of data in their lives — through ethnography and Playshops (creative workshops) we consider the opportunities and risks from a lived experienced point of view. https://www.ageinganddata.net/
Hjorth is also lead CI on the ARC Linkage, Museum Digital-Social Futures (MDSF), with ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), AMaGA (Australia Museums and Galleries Association), CI Prof Ingrid Richardson, Dr Caitlin McGrane, Jasmine Aslan, Seb Chan and Katie Russell. MDSF investigates the possibilities (and limitations) for situated media and audience engagement across museum sites and inside the home. https://www.museumdigitalsocialfutures.net/
Communication and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Film, Television and Digital Media, Information Systems, Design Practice and Management, Curriculum and Pedagogy
