Research Exhibitions

.Gyeonggye: Border
Gyeonggye: Border

This film collaboration between Pedro Velasco (DOP), Hyelim Kim (taegŭm) and Bruce Crossman (composer) uses nature as a metaphor to suggest healing processes amidst grief.

Skateparks: Trace and Culture
Skateparks: Trace and Culture

This study explores both anti-social and pro-social aspects of skateparks, where traces of use reveal the complex relationships that occur with and within these youth orientated spaces.

Every Day stress
Everyday Stress

My images herewith note ‘everyday stress’ encountered on and just off the street, public and private, I don’t believe all photographs should bear a smile endlessly.

Visualising Empathy: An Alchemist in the Landscape
Visualising Empathy: An Alchemist in the Landscape

These full colour infrared spectrum images visualise ancestral landscapes created during my recent doctoral fieldwork in the United Kingdom.

Showcase of Music HDR Projects
Showcase of Music HDR Projects

The showcase reflects the breadth of music research projects being undertaken by HDR candidates, academic staff and Summer UG Scholarship researchers.

The Unreflected
The Unreflected

The film is a response to writing of one’s immediate direct and metaphorical relationship to place and the lansdscape as a moving visual plateau.

Baxter and Me
Baxter and Me

Gill questions her own relationship with her big brown chocolate Labrador, Baxter, and our relationships in general between dogs and humans.

Pattern Recognition: Noise, Frequency and Form
Pattern Recognition: Noise, Frequency and Form

A collection of 3D and 2D motion graphic work centred on themes of audio reactive pattern making and generative pattern finding using an array of audio-visual production techniques.

Finding light through Dark
Finding Light through Dark

Conversation fragments combine with images of Varuna, representing the dreamlike state where ideas, words, and stories are formed, honouring the Dark's creative vision. Music by Noel Burgess.

Human centered?
Human centered?

Polymer intaglio prints, inspired by the beauty and wonder of endangered Australian species combined with human aspects which represent our role as both perpetrator and saviour.

Ghost Cities: New Writing from Western Sydney
                    by The Writing Zone
Ghost Cities: New Writing from Western Sydney by The Writing Zone

The Writing Zone is a mentoring program for emerging writers and arts workers from Western Sydney, housed in the Writing & Society Research Centre.

From Living Labs to Lively Labs
From Living Labs to Lively Labs

Two research projects include Urban Forests, combining “biodiversity conservation with social integration” and Womsat, a citizen science project aiming to conserve “these important ecosystem engineers”.

The Future Makers documentary film
The Future Makers documentary film

The Future Makers tells the story of key Australians leading the way on the world stage in renewable energy. People creating solutions that won't cost the earth.

Weather System Project: Water State
                    Sketch v.1.3
Weather System Project: Water State Sketch v.1.3

Audio reactive and generative sea state using audio (composed by mapping weather data to modular synths) to drive a generative vector and particle systems sketch.

The Australian Media Literacy Alliance
The Australian Media Literacy Alliance

This engaged research initiative has been designed to understand and address media literacy inequalities in Australia.

Untitled Film on the Theme of Fire
Untitled Film on the Theme of Fire

This film was commissioned by Juxta Jam, a club-style DJ/VJ event that premiered at NEXUS (Bankstown Arts Centre) in March 2022 and supported by Create NSW.

Mobile Stories
Mobile Stories

Mobile Stories, is an interactive online documentary, featuring a collection of multi-media profiles investigating the culture and future goals of students at Western Sydney University and their counterparts in the young developing nation of Timor-Leste.