Biography

Marcelo Schellini is an artist and Assistant Professor of photography and screen studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. His research and visual practice explore relationships between identity, photography, political imagination, and other aspects of photographic ubiquity in everyday life.

He holds a PhD in Visual Poetics from the University of Sao Paulo, and a Master’s Degree in Visual Culture Studies from the University of Barcelona. He is an associate fellow at the Center of Conservation for Sustainable Ethnic Heritage, Museum of Malacca, Malaysia.

Teaching

• AX-2309 Digital Photography and Videography
• AX-3306 Modern and Postmodern Art and Design

Research Interests

• Photography and Media History
• Visual Methodologies
• Post-photography and New Technologies
• Visual Culture Studies

Research Grants

• 2024 ELF (Endangered Language Fund - USA) - Ethnographic Kayan Online Dictionary. Roselind Wan, Marcelo Schellini and Foad Motalebi
• 2024 CMTIP (Curtin Malaysia Teaching Innovation Project - Malaysia) - Unpacking AI-assisted feedback: Exploring students’ perceptions and Interpretations. Ngu Ik Ying, Marcelo Schellini, and John Lau Sie Yon
• 2024 iSoLT (Innovation and Scholarship of Learning and Teaching - Malaysia) - Developing Joyful Learning Pedagogy to Cultivate Students’ Leadership Skills. Samuel Adeyinka-Ojo, Ngu Ik Ying, and Marcelo Schellini
• 2013 - 2017 CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brazil) – Doctoral Research Grant. Marcelo Schellini
• 2014 - 2015 CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brazil) Split-site doctoral program. Marcelo Schellini

Publications

Journal Papers

Schellini, M. (2025). (Un)Touchable: The caged statues of the Chennai–Bangalore expressway and the landscapes of resilience. Society and Culture in South Asia, 11(1), 155-163. https://doi.org/10.1177/23938617241292872

BenGhida, D., & Schellini, M. (2024). Shadows amidst: Cultural identity in the spectrum of visibility and invisibility. Photography and Culture, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/17514517.2024.2414685

Schellini, M. (2024). Sonâmbulo (Sleepwalker): Notes on a gesture in the shadows and the photographs of André Leite Coelho. GIS-Gesto, Imagem e Som-Revista de Antropologia, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.209366

Schellini, M. (2024). The photographic social experience of Rohingya youngsters of Cox’s Bazar: An interview with Ro Yassin Abdumonab. Visual Ethnography, 12(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.12835/ve2023.2-131

Schellni, M., & Eskinazi, L. V. (2024). The world as image and the image of the world: Photographing Google Street View. ARS (São Paulo), 22(50). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2024.221298

Schellini, M., BenGhida, S., Ghida, D. B., & Assumpção, F. R. (2023). Academic Philistinism? The challenges of contemporary artistic research inside academia: Semi-structured interviews with visual art students in Brazil. Arte, Individuo y Sociedad, 35(3), 1081-1099. https://doi.org/10.5209/aris.86280

Schellini, M. (2022). Ensaio visual. Almanaque de Filosofia e Arte, 110. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9772.i16p110-125

Schellini, M., & Rahimi, A. (2022). Color application in vernacular architecture in Southern India: An intangible cultural phenomenon. Global Journal of Design Art and Education, 12(1), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.18844/gjae.v12i1.6837

Schellini, M. (2021). The peacock junction. GIS-Gesto, Imagem e Som-Revista em Antropologia, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2021.178043

Schellini, M. (2020). Lockdown - Photo essay. Revista Têmpera, 8, 156-162.

Schellini, M. (2017). UMM al-DUNYA Mãe do Mundo. GIS-Gesto, Imagem e Som Revista em Antropologia, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2017.128973

Schellini, M. (2015). Ars Gráfica. ARS (São Paulo), 13, 153-168. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2015.105529

Book

Schellini, M. (2019). Presto. IMS.

Book Chapters

Schellini, M. (2023). Indian quarantine tales. In N. D. S. Silva, F. V. Machado, H. Joseph, & V. Grunvald (Eds.), Imaginação político-viral: os primeiros meses da pandemia (Vol. 1) (pp. 77-96). Rede Unida.

Schellini, M. A., & Albé, A. P. (2019). Paisagem. In A. P. Albé, & M. A. Portela (Eds.), Paisagem (pp. 30). Piscina Pública.

Film

Schellini, M. A. (Director) (2017). Masalik (Roads) [Film]. LISA (Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology), University of Sao Paulo.

Thesis

Schellini, M. A. (2017). 17 janela 18 corredor [Doctoral dissertation, Universidade de São Paulo].

Conferences

2024. Screen Creativity and Digital Storytelling (Presentation). Pustaka Negeri Sarawak, Miri, Malaysia.

2024. Visual Methodologies (Online Guest Lecture). Vellore Institute of Technology, India.

2023. Photographic Ontology: Notes on the Origin of Photography and Its Educational Milieu for L&T Department (Presentation). Curtin University Malaysia, Malaysia.

2022. Digital Curation: Emerging Opportunities of Collaboration for Computational Intelligence Researchers (Online Guest Lecture). IEEE Malabar Subsection, India.

2022. Digital Curation: Emerging Opportunities of Collaboration for Computational Intelligence Researchers (Online Guest Lecture). Vimal Jyothi Engineering College, India.

2022. Entre Telas Imagem-Miragem Discussion of PhD Thesis for the Postgraduation Program (Online Guest Lecture). University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2022. Prosa de Tripe (Online Talk). Museum of Image and Sound of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2022. Visual Anthropology and Photography (Online Guest Lecture). Universita degli Studi di Perugia, Italy.

2020. Writing with Light: Research on Photography (Guest Lecture). Vellore Institute of Technology, India.

Workshops

2019. Workshop of Graphic Design and Adobe Programs. University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan.

2016. Workshop of Photography. LISA (Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology), University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2014. Workshop of Photography. University of Aswan, Egypt.

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