Tully Barnett

Tully Barnett is Director of Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries at Flinders University. Her current research includes a DECRA Fellowship exploring digitisation as a cultural practice and serving as a Chief Investigator for the ARC Linkage project Laboratory Adelaide: The Value of Culture, looking for qualitative and quantitative methodologies for measuring and reporting the intangible and non-financial benefits of cultural activities, institutions and events.

Yulia Brazauskayte

Yulia Brazauskayte is a design and academic at the University of New South Wales, Art & Design and UTS College, Sydney. With a background in Product Design her practice-based PhD project explored movement-based interactions with technology. Through her experimental practice Brazauskayte reinforces characteristics of our embodied existence that allows people to communicate over distance in a dynamic, co-regulated and ambiguous way without the use of words or explicit written language.

Silvio Carta

Silvio Carta is an architect, fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Head of Art and Design at the University of Hertfordshire, where he is also Director of the Professional Doctorates in Fine Arts and Design. His research focuses on computational design and public space. Carta is editor of A_MPS Architecture Media Politics and Society (UCL Press) and the author of Big Data, Code and the Discrete City (Routledge 2019) and Machine Learning and the City Reader (Wiley 2022).

Beck Davis

Beck Davis is Associate Professor and Head of School, Art & Design at the Australian National University. Her research focuses on the fuzzy front-end of design which includes examining design teams, how they generate ideas, collaborate, and respond to complex problems. Additionally, she contributes to emerging practices such as collaborative design as well as design services that encompass research facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and problem framing. As a practitioner, she is recognised for her design thinking and collaborative expertise.

Andrew Gall

Andrew Gall was born in Queenstown, lutruwita (Tasmania). He is pakana, the son of Connie Mansell, and his language name is kurina (eagle/hawk). Gall holds a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art and is currently a doctoral candidate at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Trained as a jeweller, his practice has expanded within the context of innovations in 3D scanning, drawing and printing technology, exploring technology’s role in aiding the preservation of cultural knowledge and tradition.

Angela Goddard

Angela Goddard is a writer, curator, Director of Griffith University Art Museum and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Queensland College of Art. She is the current Chair of University Art Museums Australia and a Board member of Sheila: A Foundation for Women in Visual Art. Prior to taking up her position at Griffith University she was Curator, Australian Art at Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art.

Alice Gorman

Alice Gorman is an internationally recognised leader in the field of space archaeology. Her research on space exploration has been featured in National Geographic, New Scientist, and Archaeology magazines. She is a faculty member of the International Space University’s Southern Hemisphere Space Program in Adelaide. Her book Dr Space Junk vs the Universe: Archaeology and the Future (NewSouth Publishing, MIT Press, 2019) won the NIB Award People's Choice as well as the John Mulvaney Book Award.

Natalie Harkin

Natalie Harkin is a Narungga woman and activist-poet in Adelaide. She is a Senior Research Fellow at Flinders University with an interest in decolonizing state archives, currently engaging archival-poetic methods to research and document Aboriginal women’s domestic service and labor histories in South Australia. Her words have been installed and projected in exhibitions comprising text-object-video projection, including creative-arts research collaboration with the Unbound Collective. Harkin has worked in the Aboriginal higher education sector since 1995.  She completed her PhD in 2016 with the University of South Australia. 

Geoff Hinchcliffe

Geoff Hinchcliffe is a designer, developer and researcher with an interest in design, data, computation and interface aesthetics. His research focuses on enlivening data and digital collections through visualisation, interface and interaction design. This research results in both theoretical and creative outputs, from the highly practical, to the experimental, playful and occasionally provocative.

Ian McArthur

Ian McArthur is a hybrid practitioner and is known for his work across domains of experimental interdisciplinary practice, transcultural collaboration, sound art, experimental radio, metadesign, and education change. He is currently working on an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) through the University of New South Wales. Through his work McArthur tests theoretical assumptions that participatory urban media can act as a co-designed interface between the urban environment its community, government stakeholders and industry.

Katherine Moline

Katherine Moline is Associate Professor at UNSW Arts, Design and Architecture. Her research focuses on the dynamics between technological and social forces in art and design. Her analyses of experimental design are published in Undesign: Critical Practices at the Intersection of Art and Design (Routledge, 2018) and Food Democracy: Critical Lessons in Food, Communication, Design and Art (Intellect, 2017). Her innovations in research methods have also been documented in Uncertainty and Possibility: New Approaches to Future Making in Design Anthropology (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Amy Prcevich

Amy Prcevich is one third of the art-activist collective Countess.Report. Her artwork uses the aesthetics of organisation and advocacy to interrogate narratives of social and public space, connected knowledge, labour and language. Her conceptual, spatial and text-based practice blends elements of gallery display with real-world outcomes in order to extend and unsettle the relationship between artist, artwork, the physical world and the audience. This critical engagement with the viewer elevates the importance of everyday self-education and critical thinking.

Elvis Richardson

Elvis Richardson is the founding member of Countess.Report, an independent artist run initiative that collects, compiles and publishes freely accessible data measuring the gender representation of artists exhibiting in Australian art institutions. She collects and curates personalised objects and imagery she extracts from public sources and re-constructs them as the raw materials of her studio practice. Her objects and images disrupt the everyday commodifications of lifestyle to satirically expose the promises, disappointments and contradictions that we all live with.

Aidan Rowlingson

Aidan Rowlingson is a multidisciplinary artist, producer based on Jaggera and Turrabal country. He is a proud queer Butchulla man of K’gari (Fraser Island) and the Wide Bay area. After graduating from the University of Canberra with a Bachelor of Acting and Performance, Rowlingson has worked in classical and contemporary theatre and has performed poetry at a number of local events. Rowlingson currently works at La Boite Theatre and is First Nations Producer and Community Liaison with Jungle Love Festival.

Fiona Salmon

Fiona Salmon is a curator, educator, and arts administrator who has worked in the public sector since 1995 including for an extended period with Aboriginal communities in Arnhem Land (1997–2002). Currently the director of Flinders University Museum of Art, she is interested in the power of visual language in teaching and learning, and role of university art collections in cultivating cross-disciplinary thinking. Salmon holds a BA (Hons) and MA from the University of Melbourne and Grad. Dip. (Museum Studies) from Deakin University. 

Miranda Samuels

Miranda Samuels is one third of the art-activist collective Countess.Report and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) in 2014 from UNSW Art and Design. She co-founded the Girl Genius award and founded the Brightside alternative education program. Samuels previously worked as Public Engagement and Events Officer at UNSW Galleries and has established a number of responsive art education programs for young people without access to mainstream art education, building education programs for organisations in the public, private and community spheres.

Tea Uglow

TL Uglow (‘Tea’) is Creative Director for Google's Creative Lab in Sydney. She works with cultural and creative organisations around the world exploring the space between technology and the arts and what can happen where they intersect.

Tea has a history in the arts, a love of literature, and a problem with staying focused. She speaks graphics geek, a bit of web‑dev, some Python, a touch of digital strategy, remedial project management, and really bad French. Her likes include physical/digital, pen and ink, and carefully organised chaos doubt.

Carly Vickers

Carly Vickers is an interdisciplinary designer, researcher and Lecturer within the UNSW Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture. She holds a Bachelor of Music Studies (Performance) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, a Bachelor of Design (First Class Hons) from UNSW and is currently completing a PhD in Interdisciplinary Creative Practice. Her research is practice-based and explores the visualisation of gesture in live music performance contexts.

Judy Watson

Judy Watson lives and works in Brisbane. She graduated from the University of Southern Queensland in 1979, the University of Tasmania in 1982 and Monash University in 1986. Using printmaking, drawing, painting and installation, she often explores themes relating to her Aboriginal heritage and traditional Waanyi culture. Watson often uses archival documents and photographs in her art and the extensive documentation of Aboriginal people in Australia as a resource, and describes discovering how her ancestors were treated as a ‘heavy burden’.

Tali Weinberg

Tali Weinberg is an American artist based in Champaign, Illinois. She graduated from New York University in 2004, 2011 and California College of the Arts in 2013. Using sculpture, drawing, and textiles, Weinberg translates climate data into abstracted landscapes and waterscapes. Her practice looks to the history of weaving as a subversive language for women and marginalized groups and outlines the artwork as a feminist, material archive of climate knowledge, care, and attention.

Mitchell Whitelaw

Mitchell Whitelaw is an academic, writer and maker with interests in digital design and culture, data practices, more-than-human worlds and digital collections. Whitelaw’s work with institutions includes the State Library of NSW, the State Library of Queensland, the National Archives and the National Gallery of Australia, where he develops generous interfaces to their digital collections. His current research investigates environmental and biodiversity visualisation and digital design for a more-than-human world.

Sean Williams

Sean Williams is an award-winning, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of 50 novels and over 120 short stories for adults, young adults and children. As well as his original fiction, he has contributed to shared universes such as Star Wars and Doctor Who, and collaborated with other authors such as Garth Nix. He is an affiliate of the J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Flinders University.