Flinders University of South Australia

Faculty Member, Screen and Media

About

I am a scholar of digital media arts, cultures and histories. My research centres on newer media with particular attention to media arts and digital games, as well as the intersections of these. I am concerned with questions of aesthetic and affective experience and the implications of these for theories of audience reception, engagement and meaning making. Much of my research attends to experimental media uses, and the issues that are raised by the creations of media artists, modders, and independent game developers. I also undertake research with different communities of practice (lanners, collectors, home coders).

Currently I am working on a project entitled “The Production and Reception of Computer Games in 1980s Australia”. This is the result of the 2009 Nancy Keesing fellowship I was awarded at the State Library of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia).

I am also finishing a suite of projects on the history of digital games in New Zealand. Outcomes include traditional and interactive journal articles, a monograph (in preparation), an exhibition of historic photographs, an online, community database of early NZ software, as well as revived examples of such software.

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