Seth Keen

Dr. Seth Keen

Lecturer
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Details

  • College: School of Media & Communication
  • Department: School - Media & Communication
  • Campus: City Campus Australia
  • seth.keen@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Collaborative projects
  • Industry Projects
  • Technical support
  • Career advice

About

Seth Keen is an academic and media professional with decades of experience in film, video screen production, and digital media. As a Lecturer and Internship Coordinator in the RMIT Media Program, he connects students with industry opportunities and helps organisations use media technologies to tell visual stories. Seth's professional work includes documentaries, short films, experimental videos, interactive media, and software development. His projects consistently aim to share knowledge and create connections between research, communities, and audiences.

 

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Degrees

  • Doctorate Research, Communication and Media Studies
  • RMIT University
  • Australia
  • 2014

Supervisor projects

  • Intimate Sensing in Climate Research
  • 29 Jun 2016
  • Memoryscoping the Bunurong Coast: Speculating on the Intimate and Complex Histories of a Personally Significant Place
  • 11 Nov 2015
  • Listening In: Approaching Difference, Multiplicity and Collectivity through a Practice of Listening in Documentary
  • 2 Mar 2015

Teaching interests

In teaching, Seth brings his industry experience to documentary and social video media studios and media-making courses. His approach emphasises career development and prepares students for professional challenges through practical, industry-connected pedagogy. His work in technological innovation and learning design has been recognised with school and faculty teaching awards.

 

Research interests

His research focuses on documentary practice, digital innovation, and knowledge translation. Since 2012, he has collaborated on ARC Discovery projects with Human Geographers at the University of Melbourne to translate Indigenous knowledge systems and environmental sustainability research through documentary storytelling.

 

From 2017 to 2023, he extended his expanded documentary research into web and app software development. He led a project with Forest Fire Management Victoria, developing rapid response image-sharing software that improved planned burning safety and wildfire management. This interdisciplinary project combined research expertise with leading design companies to create practical emergency management solutions. 

 

His co-design approach to media production has earned him recognition, including a national Good Design Award in Social Impact (2017) for an Indigenous Sovereignty project featuring a customised interactive video archive. Previous work includes collaborating with World Vision Australia to visualise development aid programs and increase transparency for donors through interactive online video content.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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