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The Sound of Water: sensing a wetland intervention through interactive environmental audio
Documenting and reflecting on The Sound of Water, with Skye Wassens and Adrian Mackenzie, in Cultural Geographies
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Beyond the Book
A digital exhibition for State Library Victoria, created with Julia Rodwell and researchers from the ARC Linkage Project Transforming the Early Modern Archive: The Emmerson Collection at State Library Victoria
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Making with Climate Data: Materiality, Metaphor and Engagement
Reflections on the Climate Coaster project, with Geoff Hinchcliffe, in Ian Gwilt (ed), Making Data: Materializing Digital Information (Bloomsbury, 2022).
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The Sound of Water
An audiovisual data-story exploring Nap Nap Swamp, on the Murrumbidgee River. Created for the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office's Flow-MER program, in collaboration with ecologist Skye Wassens.
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The Early Modern Women's Complaint Poetry Index
A generous interface for an index of early modern womens complaint poetry - with Ros Smith, Sarah Ross, Michelle O'Callaghan and Jake Arthur.
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Design Collaboration and Exaptation in a Habitat Restoration Project
with Joyce Hwang and Darren Le Roux, in She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation
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Biodiversity data as public environmental media
with Belinda Smaill, in the Journal of Environmental Media 2(1). An ecocritical analysis of the visual languages of digital biodiversity.
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Molonglo Life
A platform for digital encounters with wildlife in the Molonglo River Reserve, on the fringes of urban Canberra.
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My Climate 2050
Visualising climate change projections for over 4700 locations around Australia. With Geoff Hinchcliffe; commissioned by the Australian Conservation Foundation.
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Corley Explorer
An explorer for the State Library of Queensland's Corley Collection; 61,000 photographs of Queensland houses from the 1960s and 70s. Commissioned by SLQ; made with Geoff Hinchcliffe and our friends at Icelab.
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Climate Coasters
Tangible visualisations of Australian climate change, developed with Geoff Hinchcliffe and the ANU Climate Change Institute.
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Mashups and Matters of Concern: Generative Approaches to Digital Collections
Reflecting on generative techniques for remaking digital heritage, through the projects Drifter and Succession. Published in the Open Library of Humanities special issue Remaking Collections.
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Visualising Raynal
Visualising changes through three editions of Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes. With Geoff Hinchcliffe and Glenn Roe.
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Australasian data practices: Mining, scraping, mapping, hacking
in Artlink 37:1, Data Visual. A look at data practice in Australia and New Zealand through the work of four prominent creators spanning visualisation, cartography and digital heritage.
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Marking Time
A catalogue essay on time, attention and climate change for Jo Law's Illustrated Almanac of the Illawarra and Beyond.
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Pings: Matter, Environment and Technology in the work of HC Gilje
A text commissioned by Norwegian artist HC Gilje for his monograph Conversations with Spaces.
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Asia Art Archive Bibliography Interfaces
Generous interfaces for the Asia Art Archive's online bibliography of Indian art
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Macaulay Library Remix
An experimental "unsolicited" interface to the wildlife audio collection of the Macaulay Library
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Accretor: Generative materiality in the work of Driessens and Verstappen
in Artificial Life 21 (3): 307–312 (Summer 2015)
Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections
in Digital Humanities Quarterly 9(1) (2015). This paper updates and expands my previous writing on generous interfaces
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Representing Digital Collections
in Performing Digital: Multiple Perspectives on a Living Archive, ed. David Carlin and Laurene Vaughan (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2015)
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Epistemological Machines and Protocomputing
With Ralf Baecker, in Experiencing the Unconventional: Science in Art ed. Theresa Schubert and Andrew Adamatzky. World Scientific, 2015.
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Succession
Digital fossils from the history of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. An experiment in generative heritage
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Discover the Queenslander
A generous interface to 1,000 covers and pages from The Queenslander, 1890-1939. Developed with Geoff Hinchliffe.
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Nolan Explorer
An exploratory interface for the Canberra Museum and Gallery's Nolan Collection
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The Institutional Harvest
Visualising the history of women's services and agencies in Australia, 1970-2011
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Sheer Hardware: Material Computing in the Work of Martin Howse and Ralf Baecker
In Scan 10(2) (2013), "The In/Visibilities of Code"
Towards Generous Interfaces for Archival Collections
This paper makes the case for the limitations of search, and proposes instead the concept of “generous interfaces” for digital collections
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Figuring Data
A catalog essay commissioned for Datascape, an exhibition at QUT's Cube Gallery, April 2013.
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Explore Australian Prints + Printmaking
Three experimental, "generous" interfaces for the National Gallery of Australia's Australian Prints + Printmaking site
Ten Questions Concerning Generative Computer Art
with Jon McCormack, Ollie Bown, Alan Dorin and Jonathan McCabe; in Leonardo 47(2) (2014)
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Transmateriality: Presence Aesthetics and the Media Arts
in Throughout, ed Ulrik Ekman, MIT Press 2012
A Framework for Understanding Generative Art
with Alan Dorin, Jonathan McCabe, Jon McCormack and Gordon Monro; in Digital Creativity 23 (2012).
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Weather Bracelet and Measuring Cup: Case studies in data sculpture
Practice-led research in data sculpture and tangible visualisation.
Playing with Complexity: An Approach to Exploratory Data Visualisation
with Ben Ennis Butler and Sam Hinton, presented at ACUADS 2011
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Local Colour and Networked Specificity
Investigating digital materiality using generative fabrication and cardboard vegetable boxes. A paper presented at ISEA 2011
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Memory of a Nation Multitouch Interactive
A multi-touch interactive for the National Archives, in collaboration with Lightwell.
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Local Colour
A generative fabrication project in recycled laser-cut cardboard.
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After the Screen: Array Aesthetics and Transmateriality
Presented at the Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference, Artspace, November 2010
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Networked Production: On Making with Bits and Atoms
A short essay on craft, making and digital fabrication for Craft Australia's eNews 54
Exploring the Digital Commons: An Approach to the Visualisation of Large Heritage Datasets
with Sam Hinton; presented at EVA 2010
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Measuring Cup
Representing long time-series of climate data in small, tangible forms.
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Right Here, Right Now: On HC Gilje’s Networks of Specificity
A catalogue essay on the work of HC Gilje, commissioned for his 2009 solo exhibition Blink at the Hordaland Art Centre
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Limits to Growth (Exurbs)
Self-constraining growth forms robot-plotted onto paper islands.
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Weather Bracelet
A wearable dataform made from 365 days of Canberra weather
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The Visible Archive
A research project on the visualisation of archival collections, supported by the National Archives of Australia.
Landscape, Slow Data and Self-Revelation
An invited contribution to Kerb 17: Is Landscape Architecture Dead?
Strange Ontologies in Digital Culture
With Mark Guglielmetti and Troy Innocent, in ACM Computers in Entertainment 7
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Watching the Street
Slit-scanning the streetscape, revealing patterns of change and stasis in human and environmental activity.
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Limits to Growth
Generative experiments with self-limiting growth.
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Watching the Sky
Visualising change in the environment, using long image time-series.
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System stories and model worlds: a critical approach to generative art
Presented at Readme 100, Dortmund (2005) and published in Readme 100: temporary software art factory
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Hearing Pure Data: Aesthetics and Ideals of Data-Sound
An essay on data-bending, microsound and sonification commissioned by Sonic Acts X
Playing Games with Reality: Only Fish Shall Visit and Interactive Documentary
Catalog essay for Brogan Bunt's Halfeti: Only Fish Shall Visit (2002)
1968/1998: Rethinking a Systems Aesthetic
A short essay on the legacy of Jack Burnham's 'systems aesthetic', marking the 30th anniversary of the Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition. Published in the ANAT Newsletter #33, May 1998.