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Emile Zile is an artist, filmmaker and performer. Building on a background of live and single-channel video his work utilises site-specific performance, portraiture and filmmaking to capture the traces of humanity within an accelerating digital culture. Emile received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from RMIT Media Arts before relocating to Amsterdam in 2007 to commence an MFA degree at the Sandberg Institute. In 2012 he began a two year residency at the Rijksakademie vanbeeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. In 2018 he commenced full-time practice-based doctoral research at Digital Ethnography Research Centre, Department of Media RMIT Melbourne.