Dirk de Bruyn is Associate Professor of Screen and Design at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia where he teaches Animation and Documentary Animation modules. He has made numerous animations, performance and installation works over the last 40 years. He is a founding member and former president of MIMA (Experimenta). His book The Performance of Trauma in Moving Image Art was published in 2014. His experimental animations have screened internationally. Retrospective programs of his animations have been presented at the Melbourne International Animation Festival (2016), Alternative Film/Video Belgrade, Serbia (2015) and Punto y Raya Festival in Karlsruhe, Germany (2016).