*”Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast,” said the Queen*
Creating Safer Cities in collaboration with Indian Youth
One of my favourite things is to utilise creative and experiential experiences to work with young people towards social change. The "R U Safe? Design Challenge for Safer Cities" was one such challenges which held during the 16 days of activism against gender violence....
CBF Community Media Visual Projections @ HLCI Workshop 2021
CBF Community Media Visual Projections was presented during "Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces 2021: Beyond the Screen", on 23rd November 2021, 07:00 UTC/ 17:00 AEST. CBF Community Media Visual Projections is a community media visual projection onto QUT Z2 building in the...
Chatty Bench Festival @ ABC Radio Brisbane
Chatty Bench Festival (CBF) has come a long way from the Chatty Bench Project (CBP). The benches that could only feature symbolically during CBP are now the key feature of CBF: they are places of connection, community and collaboration. It's been a good two weeks of...
TransHuman Saunter @ QUT Cube & Transitioning towards Sustainable Futures Symposium
TransHuman Saunter was presented during two QUT events: QUT Transitioning towards Sustainable Futures | 2 November 2021 TransHuman Saunter was presented during this QUT event which asked the questions: How do we prepare the next generation of design graduates to...
DIY Situated Narrative: Feminist HCI Workshop
One of the first things my initial PhD concept got accepted to was the "Methods, Theories, and Taking Action through Gender and Feminisms in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)" Symposium on 12 September 2019. The symposium was planned for June/July 2020 in Hannover,...
Making a Manifesto: Ars Electronica Creative Producer Program
The last-minute decision to throw in an application into the Ars Electronica Creative Producer Program has only reaped rewards. It brought together 22 practitioners, artists, curators, designers, architects who are creating, making and breaking...
TransHuman Saunter @ Uroboros Festival
On 15th & 16th May, TransHuman Saunter presented as part of Uroboros Festival: an international festival of critical design & art. Description of the workshop TransHuman Saunter #1 took place online with Agapetos & Napusamohn taking stage. TransHuman...
TransHuman Saunter @BAD festival
Ficus benghalensis The Great Banyan Tree It’s wide roots that reach out into the ground It’s roots that hold up the sky Agapetos, Lan, Naputsamohn & Natasha of TransHuman Saunter took the stage during QUT Art Museum's offering "On Earth" for BAD festival...
TransHuman Saunter opens at Uroboros Festival
In the wee mornings of Meanjin/Brisbane, I joined a group of very talented artists, researchers, academics and practitioners for the lightning talks of Uroboros Festival opening. We have all sorts of exciting work showcasing: blockchain and art, social media...
TransHuman Saunter: Multispecies Storytelling in Brisbane Botanic Gardens
Project Page TransHuman Saunter is a geolocative artwork that documents the entanglements of four women artists with the multispecies ecosystem of the Indian Banyan Tree. These entanglements constitute re-created and re-imagined narratives of their relationship with...
MAB20 Workshop: DIY & More-than-Human Media Architecture
Gregory Nijs, Waldemar Jenek, Thomas Laureyssens, Jorgos Coenen, Glenda Caldwell, Andrew Vande Moere, Marcus Foth and I are organising the workshop “DIY & More-than-Human Media Architecture” during MEDIA ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2020. *Paper Submission Deadline: 30...
Presentation: Pandemic, Floods, and Bushfires: A Cli-Fi Trilogy across the Utopia-Dystopia Continuum.
On 15th Jan 2021, Jenna Mikus , Hira Sheikh and I discussed a process to facilitate #multispecies narrative creation along the utopian/dystopian continuum during the Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics in Fiction, Film and...