Dr Mark Kasumovic

Mark Kasumovic is a Canadian born artist currently based in Leicester, UK and is currently Programme Leader of BA Photography and BA Photography and Video at DMU. His work and research revolves around the inherent truth-value of the photograph and the many limitations within the medium. His most recent ongoing body of work, A Human Laboratory, investigates the relationships between technology and knowledge production within the context of scientific instruments. Other projects include: Picture/Perfect, which uses the tourist as a backdrop to explore the explosion of digital images as data in the information age, An American Landscape, which explores the multiplicity of meaning possible through the process of picture making with a camera while exploring the southern US religious landscape, and Ideal Landscapes, which challenges the value of traditional landscape photography by turning the natural landscape into an artificially lit stage.

Institute of Art and Design

Photographic History and Research Centre

Creative and Heritage Industries Research Theme

Public Commisions

Recent Research Outputs: 

Kasumovic, M. (2023) Radical Documentary and the GardenShip Project. In: Skinner, R. (ed.) GardenShip and State. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, pp. 106-113

Kasumovic, M. (2022) A Human Laboratory: Imagining the invisible worlds of science. [Exhibition]. Leicester Gallery, Leicester. September 2022 - October 2022

Kasumovic, M. (2021) GardenShip and State. [Exhibition]. Museum London, Ontario. October 2021 - January 2022.

• Photography and the representation of contemporary technology
• Collaborations between art practitioners and scientists
• Photography and its relation to scientific instrumentation
• Photographic representation as Interface
• Visual arts-based research

• Fine Art Photography
• Documentary Photography
• Photography and Video
• Photography and Installation
• Practice-based Dissertations

• PhD Western University - Fine Art and Visual Communication (2018)
• MFA NSCAD University - Fine and Media Arts (2012)
• BFA Ryerson University - Image Arts (Photography) (2009)

BA Photography and Video

BA Photography

2022          

Future Research Leader, De Montfort University, UK

2018          

Junior Visiting Research Fellow, University of New South Wales, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science)

2016          

Electronic Digital Art Award, Equity Bank, Shortlist

Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement, Social Sciences and   Humanities Research Council

Mary Routledge Fellowship, Western University Northern Science Training Fellowship, Canada

2017      

CGS Doctoral Award, SSHRC ($105,000)

Member, Assosciation of Photographic Education

Fellowship FHEA (Fellow of Higher Education)

Symposium Paper: “A Human Laboratory and the Radical Image”, DOCUMENTARY FUTURES [Speculative Blind Spots], 01/06/2023, University of South Wales, 10:00 - 16:45

Conference Paper: “Ad-hoc Artist Residencies and Artist as Researcher”, LONDON CONFERENCE IN CRITICAL THOUGHT 2023 [Gentle Gestures], 30/06/2023, London Metropolitan University

Exhibition: Photo Book Winner, “A Human Laboratory”, Belfast Photo Festival, June 1-30, 2023

Corey Keller, 2022-2025

Graham Pullen, 2022-2025

Michael Wiltshire, 2022-2025

The material culture of contemporary international research: reflections on an increasing complexity, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Ottawa), 2016-2018

Enhancing Research Culture, Research and Scholarship Support Fund, 2022-23, Principle Investigator, in collaboration with Dr. James Bendle (Birminham University) 

0000-0002-2166-7942

www.markkasumovic.com