Social archive of material experiments and install process of UNTITLED (Interventions for 2025)
A collaborative practice based research project with Biljana Jančić. Exploring digital ecologies as they intersect with the physical.
Virentis at Hacking Visual Culture
Social post archive of Twice, again: Virentis at UTS Black Box Gallery
Social media post archive of twice, again: Virentis during its install at the Hacking Visual Cultures symposium, 2024
Khepri after Khepri: process
Social post archive of Khepri after Khepri.
Social post archive of Khepri after Khepri - process and research, finding a path to a more-than-human narrative and finding a Queer network across the millennia.
ISEA 2024
Presenting "overGround:underStory— more-than-human storytelling with silicon and carbon kin" (paper) and "can't buy me love" (VR work) @ ISEA 2024
"overGround:underStory— more-than-human storytelling with silicon and carbon kin" was presented in the "more-than-human" panel on Monday, June 24, as a peer-reviewed full paper. "can't buy me love" - Amala Groom X …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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, …
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.
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 …
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
Abstract: This article explores a way of thinking about virtual environments and how they might be used to create new spaces, not as an alternate reality, but as an integrated part of reality—regardless of this reality …