Dr Jillian Hamilton is a senior lecturer in the field of interactive and visual design in the Art and Design discipline cluster, Creative Industries Faculty, QUT. She teaches visual communication and theory in digital media and professional practice. She has also taught in the field of visual art in several universities.
She has received a number of teaching awards including a Deans Award for Excellence in Teaching, a Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, a QUT Award for Institutional Advancement in Learning and Teaching and an Award for Excellence in Teaching Using Multimedia (UQ) and has been nominated for national (Carrick) teaching awards. In 2008 she was a QUT Teaching Fellow.
Her qualifications span art, media and design and she has published in the fields of practice-led research in art and design, interaction design, visual art, embodied media and media arts. She was editor of ‘Intimate Transactions: Art, Exhibition and Interaction Within Distributed Network Environments’, which maps the dynamics of an extensive, interdisciplinary practice-led research project. She is currently conducting practice-led research on the convergence of mobile technologies; geo-positioning and 3D mapping to support located online social collaboration.
She supervises higher research degree students in inter-media art, media arts, experimental and interactive film, digital story-telling, visual communication, interface and interaction design.
