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 early proposal and much of what I love about this early vision remains in the memorial as it stands in Darlinghurst today.

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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 word 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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What Raven Saw @Visualising the Invisible

What Raven Saw @Visualising the Invisible

Trailer for spoken word performance.

Trailer for the spoken word / slide performance of "What Raven Saw [an] overGround:underStory". Performed under the 48:9 screen at UTS Central (Broadway, Sydney) for the School of Design's Visual Knowledges research …

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overGround:underStory @ Read to Me

overGround:underStory @ Read to Me

A short excerpt from a performance reading of (an) overGround:underStory

A short excerpt from a performance reading of (an) overGround:underStory

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In Conversation, can't buy me love

In Conversation, can't buy me love

Artist talk: Amala Groom, Andrew Burrell and Madeleine Collie in conversation

Our "in conversation" at the UTS Gallery has some interesting insights into the nature of collaborative practice and how the work came to be.

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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

Exhibition catalogue Download the catalogue can’t buy me love is extended by a publication with production images, an introduction by curator Stella Rosa McDonald, a conversation between artists Amala Groom and Andrew …

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