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
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
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).
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.
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.
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
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.
Molonglo Life
A platform for digital encounters with wildlife in the Molonglo River Reserve, on the fringes of urban Canberra.
My Climate 2050
Visualising climate change projections for over 4700 locations around Australia. With Geoff Hinchcliffe; commissioned by the Australian Conservation Foundation.
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.
Climate Coasters
Tangible visualisations of Australian climate change, developed with Geoff Hinchcliffe and the ANU Climate Change Institute.
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.
Visualising Raynal
Visualising changes through three editions of Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes. With Geoff Hinchcliffe and Glenn Roe.
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.
Marking Time
A catalogue essay on time, attention and climate change for Jo Law's Illustrated Almanac of the Illawarra and Beyond.
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.
Asia Art Archive Bibliography Interfaces
Generous interfaces for the Asia Art Archive's online bibliography of Indian art
Macaulay Library Remix
An experimental "unsolicited" interface to the wildlife audio collection of the Macaulay Library
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
Representing Digital Collections
in Performing Digital: Multiple Perspectives on a Living Archive, ed. David Carlin and Laurene Vaughan (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2015)
Epistemological Machines and Protocomputing
With Ralf Baecker, in Experiencing the Unconventional: Science in Art ed. Theresa Schubert and Andrew Adamatzky. World Scientific, 2015.
Succession
Digital fossils from the history of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. An experiment in generative heritage
Discover the Queenslander
A generous interface to 1,000 covers and pages from The Queenslander, 1890-1939. Developed with Geoff Hinchliffe.
Nolan Explorer
An exploratory interface for the Canberra Museum and Gallery's Nolan Collection
The Institutional Harvest
Visualising the history of women's services and agencies in Australia, 1970-2011
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
Figuring Data
A catalog essay commissioned for Datascape, an exhibition at QUT's Cube Gallery, April 2013.
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)
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).
Manly Images
An experimental web interface to the Manly Local Studies Image collection
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
Local Colour and Networked Specificity
Investigating digital materiality using generative fabrication and cardboard vegetable boxes. A paper presented at ISEA 2011
Memory of a Nation Multitouch Interactive
A multi-touch interactive for the National Archives, in collaboration with Lightwell.
Local Colour
A generative fabrication project in recycled laser-cut cardboard.
After the Screen: Array Aesthetics and Transmateriality
Presented at the Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference, Artspace, November 2010
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
Measuring Cup
Representing long time-series of climate data in small, tangible forms.
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
Limits to Growth (Exurbs)
Self-constraining growth forms robot-plotted onto paper islands.
Weather Bracelet
A wearable dataform made from 365 days of Canberra weather
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
Watching the Street
Slit-scanning the streetscape, revealing patterns of change and stasis in human and environmental activity.
Limits to Growth
Generative experiments with self-limiting growth.
Watching the Sky
Visualising change in the environment, using long image time-series.
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
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.