Prompt Authors / Imagineers
Sarah-Mace dennis
Artist, Film Maker, Producer
London, UK
Interested in who ‘speaks’ and for whom, Sarah is an artist/ filmmaker whose practice uses collaborative approaches to bring untold stories into the perceptual field. Working at the intersections of performance, the built environment and moving image, she invite diverse participants to contribute their ideas to projections and installations that spatially reimagine dominant cultural narratives.
In 2021 Sarah was commissioned to create with #Facet: San Francisco content aware editing software powered by Machine Learning. Working in collaboration with the software and its engineers, she is currently making a new series of video portraits shot entirely through zoom.
Her recent works, Hematoma (commissioned for Ridley Road Market Bar) and The Forbidden Heads, explore how her non-neurotypical body interacts, loves, sinks and swims inside streams of audio-visual sensory overload. Her ficto-critical writing about brain injury has been published in The Sonic World of Dance Film (Equinox) and The Routledge Companion to Medicine and Performance (forthcoming 2023).
Lev manovich
Presidential Professor of Computer Science
Graduate Center, City University of New York
Lev is a world-renown theorist of digital culture, an artist and a writer. He is a Presidential Professor at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and a Director of the Cultural Analytics Lab. Manovich was included in the list of “25 People Shaping the Future of Design” and the list of “50 Most Interesting People Building the Future.” He is an author of 180 articles and 15 books that include Cultural Analytics, Instagram and Contemporary Image, and The Language of New Media described as “the most suggestive and broad-ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan.” His digital art projects were shown in 120 international exhibitions in Centre Pompidou, ICA London, ZKM, KIASMA, and other leading venues.
sean redmond
Professor of Film and Television
Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
Sean is a Professor in Film and Television at Deakin University, Australia. He has research interests are in film and television aesthetics, film and television genre, film authorship, film sound, and stardom and celebrity. He has published eighteen books, including Liquid Space: Science Fiction Film and Television in the Digital Age (2017), A Companion to Celebrity (2015), The AFI Film Reader: Endangering Science Fiction Film (2015), Celebrity and the Media (2014), and The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood (2013). With Su Holmes, he is the founding editor of the journal Celebrity Studies, short-listed for best new academic journal in 2011.
https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/sean-redmond https://sredmond4.wixsite.com/seanredmond
Jack Latimore
Birpai-Thungutti writer and journalist
Jack is a Goori (Birpai-Thungutti) writer and journalist based in Melbourne. He is the Indigenous Affairs Journalist for The Age newspaper. Jack has formerly held the positions of: Managing Editor – Digital at NITV (National Indigenous Television); a Guardian Australia columnist; daily editor for IndigenousX; and a correspondent for the Aboriginal fortnightly newspaper, Koori Mail. He continues to produce and a regularly host the NITV, Take It Blak podcast. He is currently involved in several projects aimed at improving the quality of Indigenous representation and participation in the mainstream news media. Jack is a member of the Monash University Journalism Advisory Board, the Advisory Board of the UTS Centre for Media Transition and the Pro Bono News Editorial Advisory Board.
Jen Webb
Distinguished Professor, Centre for Creative & Cultural Research, University of Canberra
Jen is Distinguished Professor of Creative Practice at the University of Canberra, and Dean of Graduate Research. Recent publications include Art and Human Rights: Contemporary Asian Contexts (with Caroline Turner; Manchester UP, 2016), Gender and the Creative Labour Market (with S. Brook, Palgrave, 2022); and poetry volumes Watching the World (with Paul Hetherington; Blemish Books, 2015), Sentences from the Archive and Moving Targets (Recent Work Press, 2016 & 2018) and, with Shé Hawke, Flight Mode (2020). She writes prose poetry, and researches the relationship between art and society, creativity and collaboration, and creative practice and its contexts.
https://researchprofiles.canberra.edu.au/en/persons/jen-webb
Carly Sheil
Artist
Townsville
Carly (they/them) is a Townsville-based artist, graphic designer, and web tinkerer. They are known to explore themes of otherness with muted or no colours across various mediums such as ink, watercolour, virtual reality photography, sculpture, collage, vector illustrations, art mods for 90s video games, and augmented reality animations. They studied design and illustration at James Cook University and the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt.
Wendy haslem
Associate Professor in Screen Studies
Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne
Wendy teaches and researches the intersections of film history and new media.
She is the author of From Melies to New Media: Spectral Projections (Intellect, 2019) and A Charade of Innocence and Vice: The Gothic Films of the 1940s (2009), the co-author of Experimenta: Playground (2007) and a co-editor of the anthologies Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation (Routledge, 2019) and Super/Heroes: From Hercules to Superman (2007).
https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/16271-wendy-haslem
sally breen
Senior Lecturer Creative Writing
School of Humanities, Languages & Social Science, Griffith University
Sally has been writing and publishing creative non-fiction and stories since the early-nineties. Her work has appeared widely in national and international journals and anthologies with features in Asia Literary Review, Meanjin, Open Road Review, The Age, Best Australian Stories, Review of Australian Fiction, The Guardian London, Veranda, Overland, The Australian, Hemingway Shorts and Griffith Review. She is a regular contributor to The Conversation.
In 2009 Sally won the Varuna Harper Collins manuscript prize for her memoir The Casuals. She went on to sign a two book deal with Harper Collins which saw the release of the Casuals in 2011 and her debut novel Atomic City in 2013 – shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards Book of the Year People’s Choice in 2014.
https://experts.griffith.edu.au/9365-sally-breen
https://www.sallybreen.com.au/
Geert Lovink
Professor Network Cultures
Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries
Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA)
Geert is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and author of Uncanny Networks (2002), Dark Fiber (2002), My First Recession (2003), Zero Comments (2007), Networks Without a Cause (2012), Social Media Abyss (2016), Organisation after Social Media (with Ned Rossiter, 2018), Sad by Design (2019) and Stuck on the Platform (2022). Almost all these books have been translated into German, Italian and Spanish. In 2019 an anthology of his work appeared in Russian with other translations in Turkish and Chinese.
In 2004 he was appointed research professor (lector) at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science (HvA) where he founded the Institute of Network Cultures. From 2007-2017 he was Professor of Media Theory at the European Graduate School where he supervised five PhD theses. From 2004-2012 he was an associate professor in the digital cultures program of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam where he supervised numerous MA theses.
https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/sean-redmond https://sredmond4.wixsite.com/seanredmond
Adam Brown
Senior Lecturer in Photography
London South Bank University
Adam Brown is Course Director of the BA(Hons) Photography and Imaging at LSBU. He formerly the led BA(Hons) Photography and Media Arts at UCA Maidstone, and was photography lead for the Bachelor of New Media Arts James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia. At London South Bank University, he is a member of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image. His current artistic and performance practice focusses on spatial photography, performance and experimental pedagogy. In 2018 was part of a team that won the Post-Photography Prototyping Prize organised by Fotomuseum Winterthur and the Photographers’ Gallery, London.
Adam Brown’s publications and conference presentations expand on a long-standing interest in the politics of the photographic representation of the built environment. Recently he has explored the nature of digital renderings of new architecture, applying concepts from photographic critique to images of buildings not yet constructed, and exploring how attempts to image a future ‘real’ are linked to cultural, ideological, and economic constructions of past and future.
https://peoplefinder.lsbu.ac.uk/researcher/80487/mr-adam-brown
Wajeehah Aayeshah
Lecturer, Faculty of Arts
University of Melbourne
Wajeehah is a Lecturer in Curriculum Design at the Arts Teaching Innovation (ATI). She designs, teaches, and evaluates curriculum, and creates meaningful and innovative educational experiences.
She works closely with students to develop their voice and agency and co-create their Arts learning journey. Her research explores designing safe pedagogical spaces that are inclusive, interesting, and kind. Her current project ‘kindness in pedagogy’ explores kind academic practices. Her interdisciplinary publications range from research articles, book chapters, to short stories and games.
In addition to higher education, she researches representations of Muslims in media, particularly, in comics. She is also investigating the impact of COVID-19 Life on Early Career Academics. Wajeehah is passionate about identifying and grooming diverse forms of leadership capabilities through creative narratives.
https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/782806-wajeehah-aayeshah
Henri van Noordenburg
Artist
Brisbane, Australia
Henri had his first international group show in 1997 followed by his first solo exhibition in 2005. Henri was an Artist in Residence at the Eesti Instituut, Tallinn, Estonia in 2004, resulting in his first publication and an international touring exhibition, both entitled “home / Kodu” 2006 – 2008.
His work is part of several collections, including the Wallis Annenberg at Los Angeles County Museum of Arts (LACMA), NERAM Art Gallery, Queensland Centre for Photography collection and the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery. His work was exhibited in several international art fairs, including Scope Basel and Kolner Liste and was showcased at Photo LA (2011 to 2015).
For the last decade he has developed a new technique of hand carving inkjet prints a technique similar to the sgraffito process. This unique technique in combination with photography marked a significant change in his art practice.
Sean lowry
Artist, curator, writer, musician
Head of Critical and Theoretical Studies + Associate Director (Research)
Sean is a visual artist, writer, curator and musician. He holds a PhD in Visual Arts from the University of Sydney and is currently Head of Critical and Theoretical Studies and Associate Director (Research), Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne.
Lowry has exhibited, performed and published extensively both nationally and internationally. He is also Founder and Executive Director of Project Anywhere, one half (with Ilmar Taimre) of The Ghosts of Nothing and one half (with Kim Donaldson) of Cūrā8 (project8.gallery).
https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/793250-sean-lowry
James Carey
Interior Design
School of Architecture and Urban Design
RMIT University
James Carey is an artist and Senior Lecturer in Interior Design, School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University. James’ creative practice research is concerned with notions of duration, labour, maintenance, and value. Through this, works made respond to environmental, cultural, and political systems within the built environment. These works result in numerous outcomes that include, public art, installation, sculpture, and publications.
Recent projects include ¡ MAINTENANCE ! [a proposition for future architectures], Oslo Architecture Triennale, Norway 2019, ! 金 !, curated by Dr Kent Wilson and La Trobe Art Institute, as part of the Castlemaine State Festival, Australia 2019, some alchemies [heavy breathing] with Bridie Lunney, RMIT Project Space / Spare Room 2022, transformations [something poetic] with Bridie Lunney, Lilac City 2022, and in collaboration with Taylor Knights architects, their project pond[er] was awarded the NGV Architecture Commission in 2021, and won the AIA Victorian Architecture Awards – Award for Small Project Architecture 2022.
https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/c/carey-james
Ron McBurnie
Artist
Townsville
I have lived and worked in Townsville since 1980. I was a born a baby boomer, a little too late to be a hippy but early enough to have observed and appreciated the music and visual art produced during that period.
Music is an important part of my life. I collect records, for the enjoyment I get from the music and innovative cover designs. I play records in the studio when I paint or make etchings. Their sounds do not directly influence my work but put me in a particular state of mind where I can mentally move in and through the image I am constructing.
The information I draw upon in my work comes from a variety of different sources; from contemporary and historical art as well as visual observations gathered directly from life. Ideas for artworks may come from obscure and seemingly unconnected bits and pieces of information but become linked and act as one within the structure of an individual work.
Ruth Gardner
Musician, Producer & Performer
Brisbane
Ruth is professional guitar player, songwriter/composer, comedic performer, radio announcer and producer with over 20 years of visibility in the artistic landscape of Brisbane, Queensland. She is a two time Brisbane Pride Queen’s Ball Awards, Media Personality of the Year winner, for her work on 4ZZZ 102.1 FM Dykes on Mykes.
She has been a QLD finalist in the national RAW Comedy Competition, MC for the QLD Poetry Festival, Vulcana Women’s Circus, QLD Cabaret Festival and Queensland Music Awards.
She has produced sell out one woman shows, “Ruth: The Musical” and “Nothing But The Ruth” for MELT Festival and QLD Cabaret Festival. She has also appeared in film clips for bands such as The Stress of Leisure and currently plays guitar for several SEQ based artists and bands. She has several other side hustles and her official title is ‘multi-purpose solution”
Tyne Daile-Sumner
Arc Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts
University of Melbourne
Tyne is an interdisciplinary Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her research covers three main areas: literary studies, digital humanities, and surveillance. She is interested in how the study of surveillance narratives in literary texts offers new ways of thinking about privacy, identity, confession and subjectivity. Tyne also researches surveillance as a cultural practice in art, performance, popular media, and film.
Some of this material is explored in her recent book, Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillance. Tyne’s other research interests include: Australian Literature, Twentieth-century American poetry, typography, critical infrastructure studies, and cultural data.
https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/389360-tyne-sumner
Jennifer Perkin
Writer & Journalist
Melbourne
Jen refuses to commit: to an identity, a job, or place to call home. Though she identifies as a global citizen, for now she resides in the cozy bubble of Melbourne’s inner north. Just a few of the things she has done for money include writing about music, talking about mezcal, and running a chaotic creative space in Mexico.
She is currently finishing up studies in social work/mental health while working in homelessness and primary prevention of gendered violence. She is a recovering technophobe and an enthusiastic latecomer to podcasts who gets unreasonably excited about noise rock music and just about any kind of food (especially Vietnamese).
Raul Posse
Photographer & Teacher
Bogota, Columbia
Raul works in the tourism industry, audio-visual media education and as a photographer in collaboration with artists and scientists. He has a wide experience as a university professor and hosting workshops for young people and children in both urban and rural communities.
Most of Raul’s exhibitions and projects focus on social and environmental issues. His strong advocacy for nature and community has seen him volunteer in both national park and at-risk urban community settings.
Maisy goodwin
Student
Clifton Hill Primary School
Maisy is a grade 5 student at Clifton Hill Primary School in Melbourne, Australia.
Maisy a big fan of Sam Kerr and plays soccer for Clifton Hill FC. A talented cross country runner, she competed at the Victorian State championships in 2022. She is a big fan of Bluey, Taylor Swift, King Stingray and the Southbound Three.
Born in Townsville, her magic place is Cape Nelson in the great South-West.
Michelle hall
Artist & Curator
Townsville, Australia
Creating site specific works, Michelle is a soft sculpture installation artist. Her mediums are textiles, light, paper and mixed media, and the works she creates challenge the viewer to consider the impact of social class, race and gender on marginalized people.
Michelle has curated new media arts projects in the North Queensland Region, Emergence | a series of collaborations between artists and scientists | The Bohemian Masquerade Ball, a multi arts performance showcase of emerging artists works and Luxlumin, a biennial digital projection festival in the Townsville CBD.
Lani Motiekaitis
Musician & Registered Music Therapist
Gold Coast University Hospital
Lani Motiekaitis works professionally as a Music Therapist specialising in mental health at the Gold Coast University Hospital. Lani collaborates with acute mental health patients to create original music and videos that promote the healing and recovery journey. Patients are also invited to join the annual hospital ArtBeat festival during QLD mental health week. Lani also composes her own music and has toured extensively around Australia.
https://www.youtube.com/@lanimotiekaitis
ingo petzke
Professor Emeritus (Film)
Technical University Würzburg, Germany
Ingo is a filmmaker, film curator, festival founder, author of 15 books and numerous articles. He has run lectures, seminars and workshops in 31 countries around the globe. Ingo has supervised In excess of 2,000 student films/videos, including approximately 70 films as Diploma/Bachelor/Masters final works.
Ingo was an Associate Professor, at Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia; Adjunct Professor, James-Cook University Townsville, Australia; Guest Professor, University of the Philippines Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Research focus: History of Experimental/Avant-garde Film; Australian Cinema.
Curator & Prompt Wrangler
Mitch Goodwin *
Artist, Writer & Academic
Melbourne, Australia
Mitch is an interdisciplinary academic with a research focus on digital aesthetics, media ecologies, cultures of automation and education futures. He writes regularly for The Conversation on music and culture.
As a practicing media artist, his works have screened internationally, including the IEEE VISAP (Baltimore, MD), Lumen Digital Arts Prize (New York & Cardiff), MADATAC (Madrid) and the WRO Media Arts Biennale (Wrocław, Poland). Mitch was the Founding Director of Screengrab International (2009-15) and curator of the associated exhibition program which interrogated the political and technical infrastructures of network culture. During Melbourne’s COVID lock downs Mitch moonlighted as a street artist, taking aim at the Trump administration’s wilful neglect in the mosaic series POTUS45/COVID19.
As a speaker on gothic and dystopian tendencies in science, technology and culture, Mitch has appeared at venues such as SXSW Interactive (Austin, TX) and RIXC Open Fields (Riga, Latvia). He has presented his work in a diverse range of disciplinary fields including digital literacy, AI ethics, drone cultures, digital anthropology, musicology and urban space studies.
Mitch is currently based in Arts Teaching Innovation at the University of Melbourne with a work focus on education futures, experiential assessment design and digital media literacy. Prior to his time at Melbourne he was the Program Director for the undergraduate degree in Media Arts (James Cook University, 2008-14) and the Degree Coordinator of the BSc Film Production and Technology and the MSc Interactive media (Birmingham City University, 2005-08).
He is currently developing a monograph and a media assemblage, The Digital Gothic which is a historical narrative of 20th Century techno-culture and its post-millennial shadow.
Mitch is a Liverpool FC fan and a Bowie tragic.
https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/756098-mitch-goodwin
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