Emma Duester
Research Field: Technology and Culture, Digital Culture, Culture Sector, Digitization of Cultural Heritage, Digital Technologies, Museum and Digital Environments, Transnational Communication, Migration and Mobilities
Dr. Emma Duester is Associate Professor at ICCI. Previously, Emma was a Faculty Member in the School of Communication and Design at RMIT University (Vietnam). She held this position from 2019 until 2022. Emma is principal investigator of a funded research project entitled Digitization of Art and Culture in Vietnam, carried out from 2020 until 2023. Emma was part of a DFAT Grant project entitled Investing In Women across Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand. Emma has worked with government and national media to lobby for cultural development in Vietnam. She is the author of The Politics of Migration and Mobility in the Art World: Transnational Baltic Artistic Practices Across Europe, published by Intellect in 2021, and the author of Digitization and Culture in Vietnam, published by Routledge in 2023. Emma received a PhD in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2017, after undertaking an ESRC-funded doctoral research project on transnational artistic practices across Europe. She has expertise in both research and practice in cultural sector development and transnational communication in Europe and Vietnam. Her areas of research interest include technology and culture, digital culture, the culture sector, digitization of cultural heritage, digital technologies, museum and digital environments, transnational communication, migration and mobilities.