​THE TEAM
​Shweta Kishore
Primary Investigator
Shweta Kishore lectures in Film and Media at RMIT University in Ho Chi Minh City, and leads creative research collaborations with contemporary Vietnamese women artists. She gained a PhD from Monash university and is also a documentary practitioner. Her interests include how film studies, gender and social theory intersect in writing, and making and curating independent documentary film as a mode of critical and political practice.
Andrew Stiff
Associate Investigator
Andrew Stiff is a Lecturer at RMIT University Viet Nam, teaching within the School of Communication & Design. He specializes in experimental design and experimental moving image. He studied painting at Chelsea School of Art [now part of the University of the Arts London], and ‘Information Systems and technology’ for his masters degree at University of Liverpool. After working with the experimental digital design collective D-Fuse, he started his academic career running a masters degree in Digital Art, at Camberwell college of Arts, University of the Arts London. He is currently undertaking a practice based PhD at RMIT University, in the School of Graduate Research: Architecture and Design. The research is titled: ‘Intimate Spaces: An archive of creative observation’.Andrew Stiff’s design practice investigates the process of collecting, archiving and (re)producing physical and ephemeral data from the urban realm. Using and exploring the possibilities of digital tools, his practice employs moving image media, in experimental forms. His work has been shown internationally from the US, Hong Kong, Japan and in South East Asia, as well as a number of venues in Europe.
Nguyen Phuoc Bao Chau
Associate Investigator
Bao Chau is an Art manager based in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam. She currently manages the biennial Dogma Prize – a contemporary art prize for emerging artists; as well as the Dogma Collection – the largest private Vietnamese propaganda art archived in the nation. Bao Chau’s approach to artistic and cultural subject matters is pragmatic and unromaticized, an honest attempt to investigate and reflect upon the concerns of her fellow citizens amidst the dizzying pace of the country in the rat race to morph into the global scene. Such endeavor also feeds into her constant pondering on how Vietnamese history and tradition are being challenged.
​Nguyen Thuy Quynh Anh
Research Assistant
Quynh Anh graduated from Professional Communication, RMIT university in Ho Chi Minh city. She is a feminist, a child lover and a creativity seeker. As an active player in social charities, she desires to lend a helping hand to those people who are suffering from difficulties, especially women and children in Viet Nam. Her interests include gender studies, women’s & children’s rights and Vietnamese arts & cultures.
