How do the tropics affect creative practice? This is an investigation of the impact on the creative mind, body and output of: heat and humidity; light and colour; and the impermanence of material culture. These elements are analysed scientifically; adaptive strategies and wider implications are discussed, filtered through my experience and that of selected local artists.

Multimedia resources such as video and animations are increasingly used to enhance student engagement and understanding, particularly when teaching cognitively complex concepts. However, the creation of animation is time-consuming and hence, expensive compared to the creation of graphics. Recognising this and the challenges students face in learning immunology, we describe here a process of a multi-disciplinary collaboration that produced a series of 3-minute animated infographics videos for tertiary-level immunology teaching within an Australian university. We evaluate the benefit of these and their merit as supplemental curriculum resources to enhance learning.

Broadly speaking, an integrationist theory of writing separates writing from speech and (re)aligns it with spatial configurations. This approach offered robust solutions to the challenges I faced when creating interactive digital artworks about writing. However the integrationist theory of language and communication is rather challenging…

A description of the intentions, process and technical functioning of Ephemeron, a collaboratively-developed, responsive sculpture that invites an emotional engagement with the eternal, ephemeral human epic, the daily song of pain and struggle, love and loss, lived by beings "full of mud and dreams" [Kazantzakis]

Thinking of Oneself as a Computer was a widely-published paper that I wrote in 1990 where I tried to think through what it meant to think about yourself as if you were a computer (see below). In this paper I revisit those thoughts and update them in the light of my more recent understandings of language, subjectivity and tecthnological utopias.

A book chapter that explaine the unique contribution that integrationism, as expressed in Postcard From Tunis, makes to language teaching and learning.

Integrationism can be extremely difficult to comprehend when expressed as written words on paper. A solution is offered by my works Postcard From Tunis and Postcards From Writing. The unique rollover-based interfaces both express the integrationist theory of communication and require it in order to explain the creation of communicative signs that they demonstrate are possible

A reflection of new media art through a series of personal snapshots of the early 80s, the late 80s, the mid 90s and 2005. A reminder that the human computer interface should be framed as where and how the human and computer meet, rather than as a set of usability tools and their use in action

An analysis of the research outcomes of Postcard From Tunis, and an exploration of the theoretical issues that influenced the artistic practice. Includes a thorough analysis of Integrationism and its ground-breaking analysis of writing. The link below takes you to the abstract; you can then read the full thesis if desired.

It wasn't easy in 1988 to publish and promote a CD-ROM. This paper shares my tips. It was later published as the feature article in Issue 25 of the Metro Screen News.

An exploration and gendered investigation of virtual reality.

What does it mean to think of yourself as a computer? An exploration of the the disembodied landscape surrounding the human and the computer at that time, linking the software/hardware dualism with mind/body, self/other, reason/emotion and male/female dualisms. A landmark, widely-published paper.

"You don't tend to find too many women working in high technology. I've been very lonely. As Jan Zimmerman puts it, 'In the modern world where science and technology have displaced the gods of rain and wisdom, men still constitute most of the high priests worshipping at the laboratory altar'. Why is this? In what some call the post-feminist era ..."