Rate My Professor Christina Chau

Dr Christina Chau serves as a Senior Lecturer in Communications within the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry in the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. She holds a PhD in Art History and Media Studies from the University of Western Australia, completed in 2014. Prior to her appointment at Curtin University, Chau was a Lecturer in Communication Studies and a Lecturer in Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts at the University of Western Australia. Her career trajectory demonstrates an interdisciplinary engagement with art history, media studies, and cultural theory.

Chau's academic interests center on kinetic art, contemporary art, robots, Gilles Deleuze, and temporality. She authored the monograph Movement, Time, Technology, and Art (Springer, 2017), which explores how artists leverage technology to manipulate time perceptions in art, reflecting on contemporary human-technology interactions and repositioning kinetic art as integral to modern installation and digital practices. Notable publications include 'Kinetic Systems: Jack Burnham and Hans Haacke' (Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, 2014), 'Movement and Time in the Nexus between Technological Modes with Jean Tinguely’s Kineticism' (Arts, 2014), 'Systems aesthetics: a key polemic in contemporary kinetic art history' (in her 2017 book), and 'Weaving in the Threads' (M/C Journal, 2023). She has produced peer-reviewed articles addressing robots, kinetic sculpture, time-based art, and contemporary visual culture. Additionally, Chau acted as editorial assistant for Deleuze Studies and hosted the ABC television series Shock Art, focusing on controversial art pieces for Australian audiences.