SEAN PURCELL
Ph. D. Candidate | Indiana University: The Media School
Digital Methods Specialist | The Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
spurcel@iu.edu | seanpurcell.net
EDUCATION
Ph. D in Media Arts and Sciences (In Progress)
Indiana University, Bloomington | 2017 – Present
Advising Chair: Stephanie De Boer | Advising Committee: Rachel Plotnick, Joan Hawkins, Bret Rothstein
M. F. A. in Film and Television Production | 2013 — 2016
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
Thesis Chair: Arthur Dong | Thesis Committee: Lisa Leeman, Glenn Gebhard, Dmitry Kmelnitsky
B.A. in English Literature | 2009 — 2013
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
TEACHING
Digital Methods Specialist | Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities. Fall 2021 – Present.
Instructor of Record | Indiana University. Spring 2020 – Spring 2021.
P352—Editing for Motion Pictures (Fall 2020)
P360—Motion Picture Production: 16mm Film (Spring 2020)
Associate instructor | Indiana University. 2017-2019.
C226—Visual Communication (Fall 2017, Spring 2019)
C101—Introduction to Media (Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019)
Visiting Lecturer | University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Spring 2017.
Teacher’s Assistant | Loyola Marymount University. Fall 2015 – Spring 2016.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
Kushman Memorial Scholarship, The Media School | $1,500. Spring 2022.
Kushman Memorial Scholarship, The Media School | $1,250. Spring 2021.
CAHI Graduate Award in Support of Research and Creative Activity | $1,500. Fall 2020.
Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance Collaboratory and Scholarship | $700. 2020 - 2021.
Louise (Hess) Miller Scholarship. The Media School | $2,000. Spring 2020.
Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant. IU Global | 2,200. Summer 2019.
Frances M Williams Research Fellowship. The Strong Museum of Play | $600. Summer 2018.
School of Film and Television Scholarship. Loyola Marymount University | $12,000. 2013 – 2016.
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Sean Purcell. “Dermographic Opacities”. Epoiesen_. (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.22215/epoiesen/2022.1
Sean Purcell. “Rendering in Analogue Games: Dissected Puzzles and Georgian Death Culture”. Under Peer Review at Game Studies.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Terminal Imaginaries: Remediating Medicine's Visual Culture”. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. March 31-April 3, 2022.
“Toward an Opaque Museum: Reconsidering Spectacle in Biomedical Museums”. Indiana University Media School. Media Arts and Science Colloquium. September 27, 2021.
“Remediating Medicine: Creative Historiographic Praxis and its Violence”. Indiana University Media School. Common Ground Graduate Conference. Online. April 10, 2021.
“Dissecting Empire: A Materialist History of the Jigsaw Puzzle.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Annual Meeting Denver, CO, Spring 2021.
“Jigsaw Undone: Retelling the History of an Enlightenment Plaything.” Indiana University Media School. Common Ground Graduate Conference. Online, March 2020.
Winner: Best Paper Award.
“Necro-Materialism: Dissected Puzzles and Colonial Empire.” Conversations around Materials for Interaction Symposium. Bloomington, IN, March 2020.
“Haptics, Skin and the Trouble of the Essentializing Touch.” Big 10 Graduate Conference. Champaign-Urbana, March 2019.
“Haptics, Skin and the Trouble of the Essentializing Touch.” Indiana University Media School. Common Ground Graduate Conference. Bloomington, IN, 2019.
“Arbitrary Deaths: Tragedy in the Films of Jean-Luc Godard.” The Colorado Springs Undergraduate Research Forum. Colorado Springs, CO, April 2013.
INSTALLATION ART
Sean Purcell. “Terminal Imaginaries.” Media Art Installation. 6 min. 3 projectors. Spring 2021.
Displayed at: Common Ground Graduate Conference. April 9th, 2021; The Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH) Spring Symposium. April 29th, 2021
Winner: Best Media Object at Common Ground Graduate Conference, 2021.
FILM WORK
Sean Purcell. “The Modern Orpheus.” 7 Minutes. 2016
Quarter Finalist: Los Angeles Cinefest—Fall 2016; Nominated: Best Experimental Short—Bucharest Short Cut Film Festival. Fall 2016; Nominated: Move Me Productions Belgium—Winter 2016; Nominated: Best Experimental Short—Woodengate Film Festival—Spring 2017.
Sean Purcell. “The Vivisected Earth.” 15 Minutes. 2016
Winner: Merit Award of Awareness, Awareness Festival—Fall 2016
Sean Purcell. “Future Present Past.” 10 Minutes. 2013.
Winner: Best Experimental Short Film, UCCS Short Film Festival—Spring 2013.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES (NON-PEER REVIEWED)
Sean Purcell. “Terminal Imaginaries: Reflections on the Tactics of Practice”. Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities Spring Symposium. Web.
Sean Purcell. “Pandemic Revenants: Seeing the Dead in the Long First Wave”, in Short Attention Span Criticism. (The Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2020), we
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Indiana University Bloomington
“Graduate Filmmaker Workshop with Tati and Anthony Vogt” Workshop Organizer. Spring 2020.
“Graduate Filmmaker Showcase” Regular Series. Event Organizer. Spring 2020. Spring 2019.
“Social Guidance Sunday” Event Curator with Saul Kutnicki. Developed in association with Indiana University’s Moving Image Archive. February 2020.
Nomination Committee. Montage Student Film Showcase. Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018.
Communications Chair. The Media School Graduate Association. Fall 2019 – Spring 2020.
Media School Representative. The Graduate and Professional Student Government. Fall 2019 – Spring 2020.
Organization Chair. The Media School Graduate Association. Fall 2018 – Spring 2020.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
“Go out and Film Already” Two Part Series. Event Organizer 2017.
ADDITIONAL SERVICE
Transportation Liaison. Sundance Film Festival: 2012; 2014.
President. UCCS Film Club: Fall 2012 – Spring 2013.
Treasurer. UCCS Literary Society : Fall 2012 – Spring 2013.
Officer. UCCS Film Club: Fall 2009 – Spring 2011.
Volunteer. Denver Stars Film Festival: Fall 2010.
Volunteer. Intersections Film Festival: Fall 2009.