Ms Chrystal Cherniwchan
School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies
New Adelphi Building
University of Salford
Manchester
M5 4BR
Current positions
Teaching Fellow in Photography
Biography
My practice-based research explores expanded and speculative documentary practice(s), including photography, film and video, audio field recordings, and memoir/creative non-fiction, by investigating more than human and more than algorithmic knowledge systems, focusing on affect and sensuality, asking questions around the production of recorded experience, and how these methods and outcomes influence knowledge production. I am also interested in critical debates around hyper-tools used in digital generative methods of creation, to critique artifice within creative contemporary mechanical reproductions, and questions surrounding ontological understanding within machine learning realities, and their effects on documentary practice.
Areas of Research
1. Affect, Embodiment, Feelings, Emotions, Atmosphere, Sensations, Enchantments.
2. Feminist New Materiality.
3. Systems of Care, Ethics and Social Justice.
4. Aural Diversity.
Some of the Photography modules I lead on are Creative Communities (L4), Street & Studio (L4), Photography and the Book (L4), Creative Challenge (L5), Towards Resolution (L6), and Resolution (L6).
I am an Academic Progress Reviewer for levels 4 and 6.
Fellowship in AdvanceHE, Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP), University of Salford, 2025.
Qualifications
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Master of Arts
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Bachelor of Fine Arts