PhD (UTS), Bachelor of Creative Arts (Hons) (Wollongong)

My research spans practice and theory in the fields of digital design and culture; I work with data and computation as core materials in a creative research practice. I work with partners and collaborators on applied, practice-led research with public outcomes. My theoretical work draws on and contextualises this practice, as well as investigating emerging concepts and forms in digital art and design. Current themes in my research are:

Redesigning Biodiversity Data

The living world is increasingly recorded and represented as data. Citizen science, smartphone apps and web platforms mean that broad publics are increasingly creating and exploring biodiversity data, and using it as a way to engage with the living environment. I am interested in how biodiversity data is visualised and represented, and how our interactions with it are designed. Through collaborations with partners such as the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office, I am exploring richer forms of visualisation, exploration, engagement and storytelling with biodiversity data.

Design for Digital Heritage and Humanities

The digitisation of cultural heritage is creating vast masses of valuable content, but traditional search-based interfaces do a poor job of representing this richness. Working with institutional partners, academic collaborators and students, I develop “generous interfaces”, working with cultural data to create inviting, explorable websites for cultural collections. I also develop speculative and poetic applications for digital heritage, reimagining and reanimating these archives for a contemporary context. Since 2010 this work has been funded by partners including the Asia Art Archive, Canberra Museum and Gallery, the State Library of Queensland, the State Library of New South Wales, the State Library of Victoria, the National Archives of Australia, and the National Gallery of Australia.