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. …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …