overGround-underStory : WEBSITE

overGround-underStory : WEBSITE

A central repository for aspects and elements of the ongoing project

overground-understory.net Gathering fragments from the overGround and the underGround together. More-than-human storytelling in multiple aspects, coming together in a new story–traversed through exploration. …

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Paper: overGround:underStory — more-than-human storytelling with silicon and carbon kin

Paper: overGround:underStory — more-than-human storytelling with silicon and carbon kin

ISEA 2024, more-than-human panel

Presented at ISEA 2024 in Brisbane. This paper investigates how creative practice can facilitate multispecies storytelling by positioning the practitioner as a medium or demiurge—an intermediary in a vast, unknowable …

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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)

My recent paper, “Towards a Photographic Representation of the Experience of Seeing: Synthetic views via Neural Radiance Fields”, investigates the emergent aesthetic born from the digital materiality of Neural Radiance …

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Queer approaches to designing virtual experiences

Queer approaches to designing virtual experiences

Recently published paper co-authored with Ali Chalmers Braithwaite

Fractured and fragmented selves: Queer approaches to designing virtual experiences Virtual Creativity, Volume 13, Issue 1, Apr 2023, p. 7 - 28 This article presents an overview of three queer virtual reality projects, …

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Qtopia Memorial: Early Unrealised Proposal

Qtopia Memorial: Early Unrealised Proposal

An early proposal for the Qtopia, HIV/AIDS memorial.

There are strong through-lines to the final memorial from this easly proposal and much of what I love about this early vision remains in the memorial as it stands in Darlinghust today.

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[ARCHIVE] standing at the threshold (2018)

[ARCHIVE] standing at the threshold (2018)

A machine-interpreted full watch-through of Stalker (1979).

Silent version (2018). A screen recording of a live watch-through of Stalker (1979) as interpreted by MobileNet (using the ml5.js library). A contemplative viewing reveals some of the extents and limitations of the …

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Reanbar is here...

Reanbar is here...

Thinking about remembering & forgetting in machine mediated conversations

Creating conversations between me (with insight into the protagonist's world model within the written text) and characters in "Twice, again", has brought up questions of how aspects of the ongoing conversation are …

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New Paper: Towards Accessible, Open, and Ethical Design-Led Digital Humanities Visualization Projects on the Web

New Paper: Towards Accessible, Open, and Ethical Design-Led Digital Humanities Visualization Projects on the Web

published in Digital Studies/Le champ numérique

doi.org/10.16995/dscn.9597 Abstract This paper explores the design and material considerations for creating design-led digital humanities information visualisations using open and accessible web-based tools. It examines …

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What Raven Saw - an overGround:underStory

What Raven Saw - an overGround:underStory

A spoken work slide performance exploring imagined and forgotten network fragments.

The overGround:underStory project provides a platform for knowing through doing. A large part of this doing takes the form of the invitation we made to "slow down, observe, record, ask questions and share" as part of …

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NeRF aesthetics

NeRF aesthetics

Static image material experiments with NeRF "hallucinations"

I have seen the noise created in the Neural Radiance Field generation process as "hallucinations", language that is both poetic and problematic at the same time. Rather than attempting to reduce this visual phenomenon, …

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