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/ * # is my online space. The space and its content are always and deliberately unfinished and in progress. It is a place to store notes, unfiltered writing, invent and develop concepts, and experiment. You'll also find a teaching 'portfolio'.

I'm a Lecturer, Researcher and Practitioner specialising in Communications and Media and Media Arts and Technology. I have worked at the University of Wollongong and the University of New South Wales teaching for 20 odd years across media and communnications, art, theory and production.

My research is concerned with ecologies of thought, affect and technology and their interaction with ecologies more widely concieved. I served for 10 years as the manager and editor at The Fibreculture Journal one of the first online independent open-source journals serving the humanities. I also developed a custom open journal publishing system for this journal based on a highly customised wordpress framework

I live and dream on the unceded lands of the Wodi Wodi people of the Dharawal nation and am forever grateful for their care and custodianship of this place. I seek to live, think, learn and teach, ecologically, according to their example.

In other and past lives I have been a sound designer, hacker, and founder. I think of myself as a media and technology experimentalist, a musician and a trail runner. I also work as a creative technologist through Eidoscape , developing interactive, immersive, computational media of all kinds.

I endlessly and incessantly complicate things and am coming to the realisation that this might be my ecological function. The question of the relation between entropy and ecology dominates my thought. I have long been a reader and student of widely divergent vectors of continental philosophy, one loosely concerned with affect, the other concerned with technics. My research would suggest that bridging the gap and developing an understanding of the relation between affect and technology is key to 'staying with the trouble' in which humanity quite literally 'finds itself.'

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Collaborative Production Workshop (BCM303)
Screen Production · with Dr Aaron Burton
An interdisciplinary production workshop with a focus an ecological thought. The most recent editions use UOW's soundstage and 'television' studio to explore live streaming multi-cam production with an emphasis on production of an experimental media and communicative event
Immersive Media (BCM116)
Screen Production · with Dr Aaron Burton
This subject introduces students to a range of screen media technologies and how to emply them to create an immersive experience for the audience. The approach is archeological and experimental. We look at projection, interaction, VR, generative media, creative code and move beyond the hype to look at immersive media in the history of media arts and practice.
Multiple Modernisms (CAVA204)
Creative Arts: Theory · with Dr Boni Cairncross
Taking a global perspective on the relation between modernity and modernism, this subject investigates how visual arts and design both responded to and shaped new modes of perception, attention, and depiction.