Writing
Research and Writing
Links To Writing Online / REALTIME
Review of Relive and Superhuman / Issue 95:
Review of Total Nowhere Expansion Emotion / Issue 94
Review of RadioBots / Issue 93
Review of Game On at ACMI / Issue 84
Review of Experimenta Playground / Issue 81
Review of “Gamer Theory” / Issue 80
Links To Writing Online / THE ESCAPIST
I Am Citizen SingStar
Fear and Loading in Game Journalism
Blood and Trumpets in the Rastan Saga
Limit and Measure
Once Peaceful and Thriving
Links to Writing Online / ACMI
2012
Book Chapters
“Web Zero, The Amateur and the Indie Game Developer” (details available late Jan)
“Concept Art” (details available late Jan)
2011
Book Chapter
‘University Life, Zombie States and Reanimation’, (co-authored with Rowan Wilken), Zombies in the Academy, Intellect Press, London, 2011
Journal Article
“We Play in Public: The Nature and Context of Portable Gaming Systems’, Convergence Journal, Volume 17, Issue 4, November 2011, pp 389-404.
Conference Paper
‘Games, Digital Ethnography and the Practice of The Present’, CCI Emerging Scholars Workshop, Queensland University of Technology, July 2011
2010
Journal Article
“What Now?: The Imprecise and Disagreeable Aesthetics of Remix” (co-authored with Darren Tofts), Fibreculture eJournal, Issue 15, 2010
2009
Book Chapters
‘Starcraft, Strategy and South Korea’ in Games of Locality: Gaming Cultures in the Asia-Pacific (edited by Larissa Hjorth and Dean Chan), London: Routledge
‘Gaming’s Hauntology: Media Apparitions in Forbidden Siren, Dead Rising and Michigan: Report From Hell’ in Games and Horror (edited by Bernard Perron), Boston, McFarland Press.
‘Giorgio Agamben’ in Philosophy And Film: The Key Thinkers (edited by Felicity Colman) UK: Acumen Publishing
Conference Paper
‘Vertigo, Nausea, Menace and Grace’, The Persistence of Animation, Atlanta, USA, 9-12 July 2009
Magazine Article
‘Robotic Impulse’, RealTime 93, (Sep-Oct 2009), p44
‘Abyssal Moves’, RealTime 94 (Nov-Dec 2009)
2008
Journal Article
‘Explosive, Expulsive, Extraordinary: The Dimensional Excess of Animated Bodies,Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 3, no. 1 (March 2008), p. 9-24 Sage Press, Online ISSN: 1746-8485, Print ISSN: 1746-8477
Book Chapter
‘Art in Second Life’ (Co-authored with Melinda Rackham), in Spaces Between People: How the Virtual Changes Physical Architecture, Prestel Press, Berlin ISBN 978-3-7913-3991-7
Conference Paper
‘Clockwork Corpses: The Dance Macabre of Game Characters’, Animation Unlimited 2008, Bournemouth, UK, 18-21 July 2008
Magazine Articles
‘Games as Art: Playtime Is Over’, RealTime, No. 84 (Apr-May 2008), p. 29
2007
Conference Papers
‘Then, Suddenly, I Was Moved: Nostalgia and the Media History of Games’, Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (ACIE 2007), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 03-05 December 2007
‘Dismembers of the Audience: The Expulsive, Explosive Force of Bodies in Games’, Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (ACIE 2007), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 03-05 December 2007
Book Review
(for T.L. Taylor’s ‘Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture’) Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society, Vol. 5, no. 2 (2007), p. 133-134
Magazine Articles
‘Wires Up’, Metro Magazine : Media and Education Magazine, No. 153 (June 2007), p. 198-201
‘Field of Dreams’, RealTime, No. 81 (Oct-Nov 2007), p. 24
‘The Digitalising of Public Art’, RealTime, No. 79 (Jun-Jul 2007), p. 24
‘Escaping Into The Hands of the Enemy: Review of McKenzie Wark’s Gamer Theory’, RealTime, No. 80 (Aug-Sep 2007), p. 28
Essays
‘We Bleep This City’, for Scoot Project, Australian Centre for the Moving Image http://www.acmi.net.au/scoot_bleep_this_city.htm
‘Once Peaceful and Thriving’, The Escapist, No. 91 (03 Apr 2007)
‘Limit and Measure: The World of Art Mods’ The Escapist, No. 95 (01 May 2007)
‘Blood and Trumpets in the Rastan Saga’, The Escapist, No. 102 (19 Jun 2007)
‘Fear and Loading in Games Journalism’, The Escapist, No. 108 (31 Jul 2007)
‘I Am Citizen Singstar’, The Escapist, No. 116 (25 Sep 2007)
2006
Conference Paper
‘It Was Not a Significant Bullet: Beautiful Images on Tiny Screens’ XIIIth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16-19 November 2006
‘Ceaselessly Menacing: The Refrain of Heavy Metal Aesthetics’, Syntax Cultural Conference, University of Melbourne, September 12-15th 2006
Magazine Articles
‘Wires Up’, Metro Magazine : Media and Education Magazine, No. 148 (2006), p. 192-194
‘Wires Up: Three Brilliant Minutes’, Metro Magazine, ATOM Press, Issue 149, ISSN 0312-2654, pp. 234
Catalogue Essays
‘Soft Serve’, BUS Gallery, Melbourne
‘Liquid Light’, BUS Gallery, Melbourne
Contributions
Three Thousand (Cultural Website), at http://www.threethousand.com.au
( Interviews with My Disco, Darren Sylvester, weekly art reviews.)
Atomic Threat (Cultural Website), at http;//www.atomicthreat.com
(Interviews with Barry Adamson, Kristoffer G. Rygg, articles on music and digital culture.)
2005
Journal Article
‘Gestures Towards The Digital Maypole’ (co-authored with Felicity Colman) Fiberculture Journal, Issue 6, March (eds. Andrew Murphie, Larissa Hjorth, Gillian Fuller and Sandra Buckley), ISSN: 1449 – 1443
Conference Papers
‘”Fahrenheit” Discussion Panel’ Invited Speaker, The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), 23 September 2005
‘Writing on Games’ Invited Speaker, Free Play: The Next Wave Independent Game Developers Conference, The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), July 15 – 17th 2005
‘Magneto Was Right: Anarchy and Magic over Time and Space’, ‘Holy Men in Tights!’ Conference, University of Melbourne June 9-12th 2005
‘Wolves Evolve: Digital Poetics and Dandyism’, Postgraduate Symposia Series, University of Melbourne, May 12th 2005
Book Reviews
‘Review of ‘The Midnight Eye Guide To Japanese Cinema’’, Senses of Cinema, ISSN 1443-4059
‘Review of ‘The Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to Reality TV and Beyond’’, Senses of Cinema, ISSN 1443-4059
Catalogue Essay
‘Otakulture!’, This Is Not Art!, Rocketart Gallery, Newcastle
2004
Conference Paper
‘Television Aesthetics Since The Prisoner and The Avengers’, Aesthetics Cultural Conference, University of Melbourne, July 25th 2004
Catalogue Essay
‘Saccharin Metric’, Heart Gallery, July 2004
2003
Conference Papers
‘Whose Screen Is It Anyway?: Gaming’s Role Underneath the TV’; Conference Papers from Media in Transition 3: Television (ed. William Urrichio), MIT
‘A Kick In the Balls: Threats of Violence and Male Hysteria’, ‘What Lies Beneath’ Conference. University of Melbourne, November 6th 2003
2002
Conference Papers
‘When the Fine Art of Bad Taste No Longer Stinks’, Screenscape Conference Proceedings, Issue 3 (ed. Mark Nichols) University of Melbourne pp. 34-41
‘The Death of Cinema: Materiality and Cinema’s ‘Neveryday’, The XIth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association, Adelaide, November 3rd-5th 2002
