You can access a fair bit
of my writing here.
I'm
currently working on online publishing and all things open access. I
edit (since 2003) the Fibreculture
Journal, part of The Open
Humanities Press. I'm also a Chief Investigator (with Dr Anna Munster)
on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 2007-1010: Dynamic
Media: innovative social and artistic developments in new media in Australia,
Britain, Canada and Scandinavia since 1990. I'm also interested
in new forms of collaboration, and new modes of education. I also work
with the wonderful Senselab
in Montréal and Kolding
Design School in Denmark. I'm looking forward to a stint there as
guest Professor in December 2009.
More
generally, my work is fashionably transdisciplinary,(although I'm actually
fond of many tradtional disciplines and think we need to look after
them).
Media,
Social Impacts, Arts
* technology and digital /networked media
* media philosophy and sociology
* electronic arts, music and design—from electronic music to Human-Computer
Interaction
* performance, film and the visual arts
* data visualization and the social
Minds,
Models and Society
* social impact of models and practices of mind, from cybernetics
to neuroscience
* theories of embodied, extended, generally post-connectionist and
postructuralist models of perception and thinking processes
Cultural
Theory
* Guattari and Deleuze (and others, such as Whitehead and Stengers-
I'm not quite a card carrying "deleuzean")
* the virtual in philosophy, social theory, politics and theories
of thinking processes
* biophilosophy and biopolitics
Education
and Research Methods
* open access publishing and education
* education and techology
* network literacies
* new forms of collaboration
Critical
Politics of Organization
* critical approaches to innovation and/vs invention
* audit and performance management and their social impacts;
* new forms of organization
* the production of subjectivity, in relation to contemporary social
and political issues such as global warming
In
the past, I've worked as a marketing manager and production manager
for arts companies, and as a freelance theatre director (which has included
work on productions of Samuel Beckett's shorter plays and Heiner Muller's
Hamlet-Machine). I have some training in Shiatsu, with interests
in meditation and Buddhism. Although I now I sit in front of the computer
rather too much of the time. I sometimes pretend to be an amateur VJ,
as VJ Comfy. One day I will design this site properly.