'"A traveller, who has lost his way, should not ask, Where am I? What he really wants to know is, Where are the other places?"
- Alfred North Whitehead
I'm a media/cultural theory academic, and that's fun but I try not only to be that. I'm involved in a lot of projects, and I'm lucky to work with/know lots of lovely people. This is a basic site (while I build a much better one - but that's what they all say). If you want to know more about me, try looking at my delicious link tags in a cloud formation, the music I listen to on last.fm, etc, from the links on the left. For the moment, anyway, I'm on Facebook.
You can download/access a fair bit of my writing here. It's on: technology and digital media; the
virtual; embodied, extended, generally post-connectionist and postructuralist models of mind;
Guattari and Deleuze (and others - I'm not quite a card carrying "deleuzean"); art and interaction; electronic music (especially in Australia); performance and the visual arts,
critical approaches to performance systems and what I call "auditland"; biophilosophy and
biopolitics; innovation; education and techology.
I'm currently working on lots of interesting things. I'm pretty involved with online publishing, digital humanities things, partly via editing (since 2003) the Fibreculture Journal, and more recently in work with interesting projects like 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've been interviewing all kinds of interesting people around the world for this. We're building a new exciting site for it soon. I'm very interesting in new forms of collaboration, and new modes of education. I also work with the wonderful Senselab in Montréal.
In the pasts, 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 used to do things like Shiatsu and Yoga but now I sit in front of the computer rather too much of the time.
Online, I'm sometimes called "ibbertelsen", and even "andersand" (which
is Donald Duck in Danish). I don't believe in astrology but that
figures, because I'm a septuple Virgo, and in Chinese astology, a yang
earth dog. I live in Sydney, and my other favourite places in the world
are Copenhagen, Sønderborg, Melbourne, Montréal and believe it or not,
Canberra. I sometimes pretend to be an amateur VJ, as VJ Comfy.
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"I thought I had reached port; but I seemed to be cast back again into the open sea"
(Deleuze and Guattari, after Leibniz)