Adjunct Associate Professor (Research)

Faculty of Engineering; Office of the Engineering Dean; Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture

Artist-in-Residence, Monash Immersive Visualisation Platform [MIVP]

For the term of my Monash University Appointment, I have collaborated with the Monash Immersive Visualisation Platform [MIVP] and various remote partners including choreographer Richard Move, Lucy Electric LLC and Space Garden Company. MIVP have helped create tools for spatial awareness during simulated EVAs in terrestrial analogue sites, and post-processing large data transmission between global sites through the CAVE2 and the Monash Future Control Room. Together we designed tactical laboratories for experimental arts to support performance within extreme operational isolated confined environments. We seek to enrich and extract the human factors of extreme performance sites. Artefacts have included immersive media, mixed reality, human-robotic interaction design, and new systems for live art and translocation communication and interdisciplinary human performance research published in Live, and VR formats. Outcomes are real and speculative, poetic and practical with high technical cultural value and human factors benefits during and post-mission. Creating works of art, and design tactics for engaging space phenomena within a mission simulation increases opportunities for enabling discovery and legacy. As Principal Investigator, I employ performance-as-research and transdisciplinary practices to explore affective visualisation by interactions with new media dance technologies. These engagements support forums for reflexive analysis of our human ambitions, and our cultural assumptions about a human return to the Moon and budding extra-terrestrial culture. As Artist-in-Residence, I encourage transmedia interactivity and iterative performance investigations within and from MIVP. Barnes and I are trying to discover new tools for embodied immersive performance, and affective performance translation across and between sites. Artworks arising from our experiments symbolise our collective human-scale existence, our hopes, dreams, reflections and ambitions.

Top Tier Research & Publication Venues

Practical research highlights collaborating with Assoc. Prof. David G. Barnes and the Monash Immersive Visualisation Lab, Monash University, Clayton AU.