DR JULIETTE PEERS

contact: juliette.peers@rmit.edu.au
website: http://www.geocities.com/jumeau_overflow/jppubs.htm

Dr Juliette Peers is a Lecturer at the Frances Burke Textile Resource Centre at RMIT and works at SIAL as a secondary supervisor for a number of the postgraduate students. She taught an interdisciplinary design studio with Alison Fairley in Semester 1 2007 and recently worked on Homo Faber, contributing essays and text panels to the catalogue and exhibitions.

Juliette is a cultural historian actively interested in and engaged with a wide range of both high and popular artforms, including the pre-histories, back stories and precursors of new media, technologies and artforms, as well as the social histories of the reception and uptake of new technologies. The role of gender, mythologies and symbolism in shaping and brokering knowledge systems and the often unacknowledged life of the past within present and incipient practices and technologies is a particular fascination.