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Andrew Burrell | Speculative Design over Virtual & Physical Ecologies

I make work about more-than-human ecologies that span the digital and physical. I am interested in the memories they hold, and how they hold them, as well as the forms and technologies through which we imagine them: world-building, storytelling, virtual environments, machine-written texts, and archives. My current practice is speculative design as practice-based research, informed by new media art. I write about the work while making it.

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Trajectories

Trajectories are the ongoing lines of enquiry that hold my practice based research together. Each one gathers projects, writing, and experiments that share a question or concern, and follows it as it shifts over time.

Current Trajectories

Twice, again

Twice, again

More-than-human world building exploring distributed authorship, generative text in contstrained environments and close and distant storytelling.

5 pieces

Xenotone

Xenotone

An overlapping zone of tension between physical and digital ecologies. Exploring the possibilities of multi-site explorations in real-time, across the membrane of the screen.

3 pieces

Other Trajectories

Selected Projects

Miner's Journey

Miner's Journey

Video installation and archive

HIV/AIDS Memorial [Qtopia]

HIV/AIDS Memorial [Qtopia]

Community story-telling, and generative design come together to create a space for remembrance and celebration at the Qtopia Museum, Sydney.

Khepri after Khepri

Khepri after Khepri

Spoken word performance and VR experience

overGround:underStory

overGround:underStory

A series of more-than-human narrative collaborations

Imaginable Worlds from Imagined Worlds: Latent film stills (1979/2020)

Imaginable Worlds from Imagined Worlds: Latent film stills (1979/2020)

Part of the "Cinematic Time and Space" creative research series.

can't buy me love

can't buy me love

A virtual environment from Amala Groom X Andrew Burrell

Writing & Publications

Twice, again: Virentis: Bounded (Un)Supervision

Twice, again: Virentis: Bounded (Un)Supervision

ELO 2026: conference paper

paper: Towards a Photographic Representation of the Experience of Seeing

paper: Towards a Photographic Representation of the Experience of Seeing

Synthetic views via Neural Radiance Fields. (Philosophy of Photography)

Queer approaches to designing virtual experiences

Queer approaches to designing virtual experiences

Recently published paper co-authored with Ali Chalmers Braithwaite

can't buy me love: Catalogue

can't buy me love: Catalogue

The Catalogue for "can't buy me love" available as a digital download

New Chapter: Uncanny Landscapes

New Chapter: Uncanny Landscapes

A new chapter in the recently published "Making Data" by Zoë Sadokierski, Monica Monin and Andrew Burrell

New paper: Between the physical and the virtual: The present tense of virtual space

New paper: Between the physical and the virtual: The present tense of virtual space

Between the physical and the virtual: The present tense of virtual space

Blog

Attending to the xenotone

Attending to the xenotone

notes towards early ventures into the emerging xenotone.

The George Archive

The George Archive

Telling stories of more than human entanglement through an incompletable archive.

Into the Xenotone

Into the Xenotone

Xenotone: an initial defininition

Multispecies Salon event and photos

Multispecies Salon event and photos

Multispecies Salon - Knox Steet Bar

Multispecies Salon

Multispecies Salon

More-then-human storytelling for Climate Action Week

UNTITLED (Interventions for 2025): process

projected light and human shadows

Social archive of material experiments and install process of UNTITLED (Interventions for 2025)

Miner's Journey: Install & launch week

Miner's Journey: Install & launch week

Miner's Journey at the Samstag Museum of Art, Tarntanya/Adelaide.

Review, North Terrace: worlds in relief

Review, North Terrace: worlds in relief

The Conversation, Sasha Grbich, August 2025

Contact

andrew.burrell@uts.edu.au