Rate My Professor Louise Curham

Prior to her academic career, Curham held positions at the National Archives of Australia for nearly two decades, including Assistant Director in Commonwealth Information Policy (2016–2019), Digital Strategy and Solutions (2014–2016), and Government Information Management project officer (2009–2014), as well as Audiovisual Preservation project officer (2002–2007). She lectured in collections, archives, records, and digital preservation at Charles Sturt University from 2020 to 2023 and joined Curtin University in February 2023. Her research focuses on media art preservation, re-enactment of 1970s expanded cinema through the Teaching and Learning Cinema collaboration with Lucas Ihlein, participatory archiving, and strategies for ephemeral live art that resists digital preservation. Key publications include 'Re-enactment, Users Manuals and DNA Storage: Methods for Media Art Preservation' (2024, with L. Ihlein and R. Appuswamy), 'Reaching Through to the Object: Reenacting Malcolm Le Grice’s Horror Film 1' (2015, with L. Ihlein), and 'Caring for Live Art That Eludes Digital Preservation' (2016). Awards include the Margaret Jennings Award from the Australian Society of Archivists (2013), Australia Day Award from the National Archives of Australia (2015), and Australian Postgraduate Award (2015–2017). As a media artist, she performs with hand-processed 16mm and Super 8 film, and has conducted significance assessments for dLux Media Arts (2014) and Performance Space (2010).