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Art and Community-based projects
Poetry 4 U
Melbourne Writers Festival
A Twitter poetry mapping project that pins poems to place. This allows you to read site-specific poetry while being in the space it was written about, adding context and narrative to your surroundings.
The project was part of the Melbourne Writers Festival across 3 years, received more than 600 entries and media attention, including ABC Australia.
Poetry 4 U
Poetry Ireland
The site-specific twitter poetry project was part of Poetry Ireland in 2015. More than 200 submissions were entered, with selected poems adding additional narrative to spaces including The Smithfield Market, James Joyce Centre and Book of Kells.
Selected poets
Nial O'Conner
Claire Blennerhassett
Peter Cullen
One of the poetry maps that was part of Poetry Ireland.
Publication: Poetry 4 U
This Anthology is geo-locative twitter poetry that was exhibited at the Melbourne Writers Festival.The publication later became course material at RMIT University, and included in the permanent collection at the Australian National Library.
Publication: How technology can create new cultural spaces
The article explores how a new generation of smartphones, social software, GPS and other location-based technologies offer the ability to create new cultural spaces and publication models. Published in New Media and Society.
Dragopedia
I created Dragopedia to collect, archive and showcase the best drag names from around the world.Since launch more than 2,000 drag names have been added. Add yours here.
The Pigeons of Melbourne
Site specific sculpture commissioned for the City of Melbourne. The artwork received national TV coverage, including ABC, Channel 7, 9, 10, and radio stations Triple J, and ABC774. It also was featured on the front page of The Age newspaper. Some press articles: here, here and here.The artwork later became a part of the Melbourne City permanent art collection and exhibited at Monash University Art Gallery.
See more photos here.
