Last week the Australian Anthropological Society held their annual conference, Moral Horizons, at Melbourne University. My paper “The Ambience of Automation: Big Data, A.I. and Drone Culture” discussed the moral ambiguities […]
At the AAANZ Conference, Image Space Body, at GOMA last week I chaired a panel, The Violent Body: A History of Forgetting, with artist Daniel McKewen and author Sally Breen. […]
Presentation files and some reactions from the Twitter-verse for my talk, Tin Can Blues: Moonage, Earthrise & Bowie, at the Stardom and Celebrity of David Bowie at ACMI in Melbourne. My […]
Download links for the slides and full text of the two presentations I recently delivered in the United States during the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas and at the […]
Mineral Machine Music has become a successful global touring artwork since its debut in Townsville in January 2014. Most significantly, it was shortlisted for the prestigious Lumen Digital Arts Prize […]
Examines the origins of the light on dark aesthetic in science fiction cinema, primarily liquid electricity as code for knowledge transfer, the convergence of human and machine intelligence and most […]
Explores network virtuality, mediated memory, the rise of A.I. and notions of autonomous machine surveillance. This 60 minute visual presentation demonstrates how Big Data has a distinct liquid-like property and […]
The opening launch and announcement for the AU$10,000 6th Screengrab International Media Arts Award took place at Pinnacles Gallery in Townsville on September 20. José da Silva, Senior Curator, Australian […]
I was recently a guest of Umbrella Studio to talk about my research into a particularly dark aspect of contemporary visual culture. The presentation was a distillation of the findings […]
“Bring the drones home…” The township of Einasleigh sits virtually on top of the Copperfield River Gorge and is the site of one of the first mineral deposits discovered in […]
