Andrew Stiff

Andrew Stiff

SCD Andrew Stiff
School: School of Communication & Design
Department: Design
Position: Senior Lecturer
Location: RMIT Saigon South
Email: andrew.stiff@rmit.edu.vn
Phone: (+84) 961407647

Andrew has been teaching at RMIT Vietnam since 2016. Prior to arriving in Vietnam he taught in Malaysia and at the University of Arts London, UK. Andrew focuses on developing first year students through creative thinking and third year students in capstone 1 and 2.

His research interests focus on developing moving image representations of the Saigon, that reflect the impact culture has on the built environment, and our experience of it. This research has contributed to extra curricula student projects, and course development.

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  • PGCert Teaching and Learning
  • SEDA Supervisor for Research Degrees for Professionals in Art & Design
  • FHEA [Fellow of the Higher Education Academy]
  • BA Hons Fine Art Painting
  • MSc Information Systems and Technology
  • PhD in Architecture and Urban Studies

 

Design Studies, Moving image and Experimental design practices

Andrew Stiff’s practice focuses on experimental filmmaking processes that explore the space between urban inhabitance and the built environment. Through his studies of urban spaces, he shines a spotlight on the impact of Vietnamese culture on the development of the dense and tight urban spaces of Saigon. The films capture the creation of space through the values of family and community and offer an insight into how cities can develop resilience through the pressures urban migration and modernisation.

  • 2022. ExScreen 020. ‘Kampung Hakka’, 2014.
  • 2022. ExScreen 019. ‘KL Dreaming’, 2014.
  • 2022. SUPERTIGHT. Chapter of creative works and an interview. Actar.
  • 2021. Venice Architecture Film Festival - Quater Finalist - ‘Hem 243 Series: The Oc Seller’
  • 2021. Co-Applicant, successful bid, for a development grant from University of Montreal - Hanoi Ad Hoc project
  • 2021. Co-applicant, successful bid, for British Council funding for Nine Earths COP26 project
  • 2019. International Conference: ‘Solutions for housing development to meet the population growth of 1 million people every 5 years in the period 2021-2035 in Ho Chi Minh City’. Paper & Conference presentation. Peoples Committee Ho Chi Minh City, Tower 81, HCMC, Vietnam. August 23rd 2019.
  • 2019. ‘Hem City’. Digital Video. Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and Video Festival. Festival: November 2019.
  • 2019. ‘Tan Pho An [Hidden Cities]’ Hanoi. Exhibition of research and practice on the hems of district 4. AGO Hub, Hanoi, Vietnam. 11th - 22nd November 2019.
  • 2019. International Conference: ‘Solutions for housing development to meet the population growth of 1 million people every 5 years in the period 2021-2035 in Ho Chi Minh City’. Paper & Conference presentation. Peoples Committee Ho Chi Minh City, Tower 81, HCMC, Vietnam. August 23rd 2019.
  • 2019. ‘SUPERTIGHT’. multiple Digital video screening. Design Hub, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Exhibition: July-September 2019.
  • 2019. ‘District 4: The hem archive’. Video screening and public talk. Old Compass Cafe, HCMC, Vietnam. July 11th 2019.
  • 2019. ‘South East Asian Neighborhood Network’. Workshop and research lecture. Vietnam-German University, HCMC, Vietnam. June 20th - 22nd 2019.
  • 2019. ‘Documenting Smart Hems.’ HO CHI MINH CITY IN THE NETWORK OF SMART CITIES IN ASEAN: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES. Paper & Conference presentation. HCMUSSH University, HCMC, Vietnam. May 23rd - 24th 2019.
  • 2019. ‘Cine-Concert: Hem City’. Live Audio Visual Performance. Saigon Salon, HCMC, Vietnam. April 23rd 2019.
  • 2019. ‘Tacit Cultural Contexts: Branding Smart Cities.’ Paper & Conference presentation. Van Lang University, HCMC, Vietnam. March 5th 2019.
  • 2019. ‘Dau An Thoi Gian [Sign of The Times]’. Exhibition of research and practice on the hems of district 4. Lygon Gallery, RMIT University Vietnam, HCMC, Vietnam. March - May 2019.
  • 2018 ‘Hem Walk 004’. Digital Video. Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and Video Festival. Festival: November 2018.
  • 2018. ‘Augmented Smartness: Harnessing Tacit Urban Intelligence.’. Conference panel. Smartness? between discourse and practice. 15th Architectural Humanities Research Association International Conference. 15th - 17th November 2018.
  • 2018. ‘Hem Walk 004’. Digital Video. Facade Video Festival. Festival, Plodiv, Bulgaria: 28th - 30th September 2018.
  • 2018. ‘Interdisciplinary archival practices: An archive of creative observation.’. Conference paper. International conference: AN ASPIRATION FOR A SMART BUT SOCIAL CITY IN VIETNAM 27th-28th September 2018.
  • 2018. ‘Alor Setar Pulse - 2015’. Digital Video. KLEX: Khaosuing Film Festival. 19th - 27thOctober 2018.
  • 2018. ‘Interdisciplinary archival practices: An archive of creative observation.’. Conference paper. Art, Materiality and Representation, RAI, British Museum, SOAS. Conference: June 2018.
  • 2017. ‘Hem84’. Digital Video. Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and Video Festival. Festival: November 2017.
  • 2017. ‘Alor Setar Pulse - 2015’. Digital Video. Nimman Festival. Asian Culture Station, Changmai:  17th-19th February 2017.
  • 2016. ‘Collision’. Digital Video. Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and Video Festival. Festival: November 2016.
  • 2016. ‘Alor Setar Pulse’ Kinoflow Kísérleti Film Fesztivál. Örökmozgó Filmmúzeum, Budapest, Hungary. 'Pulse' 2015. April 2016.
  • 2016. ‘Alor Setar Pulse - 2015’. Digital Video. MAPKL - Johor.  2016.
  • 2015. ‘Alor Setar Pulse’. Digital Video. Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and Video Festival. Festival: November 2015.
  • 2015. 'Experimental Videos from Malaysia & Beyond’. The National Film Archive, Seoul, Korea. 'Kampung Hakka' 2014,  ‘KL Dreaming’ 2014. 20th August 2015.
  • 2014. ‘Sun Shower - Asian Experimental Video Festival Hong Kong’ Future Cinema Studio, 6F Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong,  'Kampung Hakka' 2014. 3rd April.
  • 2013. 'Season's Greetings' Seoul Media Canvas, curated by KOSMA. 'Picea Abies' – 2013. December.
  • 2013. 'VGAFest'. Publika: White Box Gallery. Kuala Lumpur. Selection of 5 Digital Video Artworks, selected for public show. Conference talk on the portfolio of D-Fuse. 29th-31st March.
  • 2010. 'Luminous' Group gallery show. Showing 4 Digital Prints, Faraday_01, Faraday_02, Malam, Early Bird. Oakfield Gallery, Highgate, London. Nov. 12th 2009 – Jan. 7th 2010.
  • 2009. Stiff, Andy and Antoniu, Manuela and Kelly, David (2009) SCIRIA Openmind seminar series, architecture/pure data/graphical programming. In: architecture/pure data/graphical programming, 17th June.
  • 2009. 'The Faraday Grid'. Conference presentation, 'Digital Noise' Greenwich University. 12th May.
  • 2009. ‘Ten Key Digital Issues' a published chapter in 'Philosophy in Art' by Richard Osbourne. Published May 1st 2009 by Zidane Press.
  • 2008. ‘Rain’ 1' 3 min. video piece. Included in group show called 'Transcentric' . November - December.
  • 2007. ‘Second Life and Online Learning Experience’. Conference paper, UAL, ‘Designs on e-learning’, London.http://www.designsonelearning.net/archive/2007/ 12th-14th September.
  • 2007.’Digital and Physical Surfaces’. Symposium and Video Installation, University of the Arts London, Chelsea school of Art.   21st-23rd February.
  • 2006. ‘Landscape’. ‘Twelve Views’ video Installation, University of Northampton, University of the Arts London, Camberwell college of Arts. October - November.
  • 2006. ‘Temporal Facades’. Video Installation, London Architecture Biennale, London. 16th-25th June.
  • 2006. ‘Enhanced Blended Presentations’. Conference paper, ‘Designs on e-learning’ London/online. Available from: http://www.designsonelearning.net/archive/2005/ 27th-31st March 2006.
  • 2005. ‘The City and the moving image’. Talk given to students at the Architectural Association. 7th November.
  • 2005. ‘Corners’. Exhibition in Art Space M-Post. Seoul, Korea. 6th-24th September.
  • 2005. ‘Developing a Community of Practice’. Internal UAL Conference paper, Camberwell College of Arts, London. 15th June.
  • 2005. ‘Digital Narratives’. Lecture given to the Bartlett school of Architecture. 28th Jan.
  • 2004. ‘The City Quartered’ - A film shown in the exhibition ‘Digital Surfaces’ held in Seoul, Korea. 13th-23rd Oct.
  • 2004. Presentation about the online conference held at Camberwell college of arts. The presentation was given at the internal conference 'E-Learning at the University of the Arts London'. 
  • 2003. 'Sonicity festival' in Rome. Performance date 26th October.
  • 2003. Invited jury member for ‘Cinevj’ tournament Budapest, Hungary.
  • 2003. Lecture 'From://Analogue To://Digital'. Architecture School, Portsmouth University. February.
  • 2003. Talk and presentation of the D-Fuse portfolio of work and the invited project concept  for the ‘Sonicity’ digital festival in Rome, to students of Architecture, Rome University.
  • 2002. Live video performance. Image|architettura in movimento, Florence, Italy. 6th International Festival for Architecture in Video 2002 February 7th - 10th.

  • 2021. Co-Applicant, development grant from University of Montreal - Hanoi Ad Hoc project.
  • 2021. Co-applicant, for British Council funding for Nine Earths COP26 project.
  • 2017 – USD $8,000.00. Primary Investigator: Internal funding for a research project titled ‘Developing an archive of the hems in District 4 HCMC’. Complete.
  • 2016 – USD $9,981.85. Primary Investigator: Internal funding for a research project titled ‘Transitional Changes. Investigating the ephemera of the Saigon Hem’. Complete.

  • Thierry Bernard - Noise Fields: An exploration of atmosphere and sonic experience through gallery based experimentation. ONGOING
  • Sheila Pontis – Design method for mapping complex information. Case study: Underground Diagrammatic Maps. Second Supervisor. UAL London College of Communication. COMPLETED
  • Supervised 3 PhD students until leaving UAL
  • Supervised masters dissertations, MA Digital Arts

  • External Advisor for revalidation of MA Fine Art: Digital, CSM, University of the Arts London
  • External Examiner for MA Web Design & Content Planning. Greenwich University, London.
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

  • D-Fuse.com -  A multidosciplinary digital cooperative, specialising in experimental video and live video performances.
  • Freelance creative: painting, digital printmaking, video and web.

 

  • 2019 – Appointed Research Coordinator for School of Communication & Design, RMIT University Vietnam.
  • 2017 – Appointed as a member of the ‘Creative Works Panel’, RMIT University Vietnam.
  • 2017 – 2018. Ethics committee, RMIT University Vietnam.
  • 2016 – 2017. Appointed Research Coordinator for SCD, RMIT University Vietnam.
  • 2016 – Current. Appointed Associate Lecturer in SCD, RMIT University Vietnam.
  • 2012 – 2015. Appointed head of the Research Centre for Creative Practice. School of Media Art and Design, Academy of Architecture and the Visual Arts, Linton University College. 
  • 2012 – 2015. Deputy Dean,  School of Media Art and Design, Academy of Architecture and the Visual Arts, Linton University College.
  • 2011 – 2012. Senior Lecturer,  School of Media Art and Design, Academy of Architecture and the Visual Arts, Linton University College. 
  • 2010 – 2011. Senior Academic, MA International Contemporary Art and Design Practice, Post Graduate Center,  Limkokwing University of Creative Technology. 
  • 2009 - 2010. Appointed Post Graduate Coordinator for Camberwell College of Arts [Graduate School, University of the Arts London] Sept. 
  • 2004 - 2010. Course Leader for MA Digital Arts Online. Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. Sept. 
  • 2004 - 2010. Course Leader for MA Digital Arts. Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. July 
  • 2003 - 2004. Acting course leader for the MA Digital Arts course. Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. 
  • 2003 - 2003. ITRDU [IT Research and Development Unit] Online information delivery. VLE Development [Blackboard]