Faculty Member, Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
Course Director - Music and Media Technologies
About
Fionnuala Conway is a musician and multimedia artist, and completed her PhD at Trinity College, Dublin in 2008. Fionnuala’s work broadly focuses on the artistic, social, political, and cultural possibilities of new media, new materials and technology. This focus is shown in a variety of presentations, from traditional materials to digital media, wearable technology to interactive digital media, immersive physical environments and theatre presentations.
With a background in music and music technology, Fionnuala has worked as musical director, sound designer and performer on a number of theatre productions with the group, HiHo Productions. Works include the Doomsday Cabaret, that enjoyed a considerable and regular run at the Sugar club and Vicar Street, Dublin), and the more alternative musical shows such as Hansel and Gretel, Hebags and Geebags.
An interest in the application of new media and technology to art and performance saw her return to academia and she has produced work in a wide variety of areas, from installation art to theatre to wearable technology. Work in wearable technology includes Urban Chameleon, in collaboration with Katherine Moriwaki, and the Reactive Performance Dress designed especially for the musician Miriam Ingram. Her PhD thesis, Exploring Citizenship through Art and Technology, focuses on the creative use of technology to generate awareness of citizenship (and other social issues), with a particular focus on interactive immersive physical environments. The Art of Decision project shown in May 2005 is a practical manifestation of the theories in Fionnuala's thesis and can be seen in the Art of Decision documentary, produced in 2006. She has since produced if() then() else(), a multimedia production exploring the application of technology to performance and its influence on narrative structure.
Fionnuala completed a Bachelor of Music at University College, Dublin in 1994 and an M.Phil. in Music and Media Technologies from Trinity College, Dublin in 1999. She has been lecturing on the M.Phil. in Music and Media Technologies course since 2002 and was appointed Course Director of the M.Phil. in Music and Media Technologies course in 2006.
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