Lienors Torre

Lienors Torre is a senior lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. She specialises in animation and material design exploring how objects might be manifest through animation in their various forms of existence and the identity/persona they might convey. Her research also explores how objects exist and are experienced in new forms of media and how they can inform and impel the language of these media. These ideas extend into larger questions investigating the human condition and how it exists within the digital realm and in artefacts.  

Lienors has also collaboratively pioneered research into the history of Australian Animation, interviewing key directors, producers and animators, as well as conducting archival research. She has co-written two monographs on this subject: Australian Animation: An International History (London: Palgrave, 2018), the first comprehensive history on this subject, and Grendel Grendel Grendel – Animating Beowulf (Bloomsbury 2021).