Here is a select list of publications, public presentations, and creative and curatorial research outputs. You can Contact me if you want the complete list.
Link to Google Scholar profile: Dr Tracey M Benson
Books
2015 A Transitional Imaginary: Space, Network and Memory in Christchurch
(Booksprint collaboration)
2013 Finding Balance: Mura Gadi, ISBN: 978-1-32-003731-0
Scholarly book chapters (peer reviewed)
2024 Water Dialogues, Edited by Pier Luigi Cappucci, NOEMA, ISBN: 978-88-943827-6-1
2023 Alternative Reality Garden (AwhiWorld)
2023 URBAN NATURES: Living the More-than-Human City. Edited by Ferne Edwards, Lucia Alexandra
Popartan and Ida Nilstad Pettersen, Berghahn Books, https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805390824
2021 Indigenous Art, Resilience and Climate Change: Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and Samoa,
Devy, G. (Ed.). (2021). Environment and Belief Systems. London: Routledge India,
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367814274
2020 Borderlands: Disruptions between remote map-making and local readings of place, Walking Arts
Encounters/Conference (WAC) 2019, School of Western Macedonia, Edited by Yannis Ziogas and Geert
Vermeire (pp.397-405), IBSN: 2654 2315
2016 Locating Emerging Media. Edited by Ben Aslinger and Germaine Halegoua,
Routledge, January 2016
2014 Visibility, sound, and presence, Manhattan Phrase, Shannon Novak
2014 Water Views: Caring and Daring – Waterwheel World Water Day Symposium 2014–3WDS14,
E-book, PDF, 2015 (pp.362-366)
2013 Mobile Media Practices, Presence and Politics, Edited by Kathleen M. Cuminskey & Larissa
Hjorth, Routledge, June 2013
Peer reviewed scholarly journals
2025 Conceptualising the OneWater: Exploring the plural possibilities of community, saltwater and
freshwater in Organism, E., & Psarras, B. (Eds.) 22.2 | Into/Across the Sea | Technoetic Arts.
Retrieved from https://ta.pubpub.org/pub/22-2-sea
2023 Paul Brown, Tracey M Benson; From Thought Forms to Art Concret: Tracey M Benson interviews Paul
Brown. Leonardo 2023; doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02425
2022 Learning lessons from the Onewater, series on water pedagogies edited by Sritama Chatterjee. NiCHE
Journal, Network in Canadian History & Environment | Nouvelle initiative Canadienne en histoire de
l’environnement
2021 Walking together: Artistic collaboration across cultures in Australia and New Zealand,
The Canadian Journal of Action Research, Vol 21 No 3, Action Research and Indigenous Ways of
Knowing, DOI: https://doi.org/10.33524/cjar.v21i3.511
2021 Enabling enduring evidence-based policy for the Southern Ocean through cultural arts practices
PERSPECTIVE article, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, doi: 10.3389/fevo.2021.616089
Lisa Roberts, Tracey Benson, Danae Fiore, Paul Fletcher, Ellery Johnson, Cat Kutay, Jess
Melbourne-Thomas, Katherina Petrou, Melissa Silk, Stephen Taberner, Victor V. Filgueira and Andrew
J. Constable
2016 Way of the Turtle, Fusion Journal, Issue 10, (with Lee Joachim)
2016 Waters of the Past, Textshop Experiments, Volume 2, Tours and Detours,
ISSN 2377-9039, 2016
2016 Transdisciplinarity: the “how” is more compelling than the “why”, NiTRO Edition 3, 2016
2015 Words for Water and SCANZ2015, What Lies Beneath Earth e-mag
2013 Review of Media Convergence, Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, Volume 34, Issue 3,
November 2013
2005 Review: Trish Adams – Wave Writer: ISEA2004, Eyeline, Issue 56, Summer 2004/2005
2004 Review: Computers and Art, 2nd Edition, Stephen Mealing (Ed.), Fine Art Forum Vol.18, Issue 2, February 2004
2003 Report: Tactical Tour (Escaping Oblivion), N5M4, Amsterdam
2003 Report: FEM SND, N5M4, Amsterdam
2003 Report: The riot porn video booth, N5M4, Amsterdam
2003 The problem with waiting… Review of “Queue Here”, Muse Online (February),
www.muse-arts.com
2003 Interview with BORDERPANIC curators – Zina Kaye and Deborah Kelly, Fine Art Forum Vol. 17,
Issue 5-6, May 2003
2002 Article: Cross connections: the aesthetic economy of online social relations, Fine Art Forum
Vol. 16, Issue 12,December 2002
2001 Review: Focus: art and social change in Singapore, Issue One, Fine Art Forum Vol. 15, Issue
12, December 2001
1997 William Yang and the North, MESH#11 “Altered States”
1997 Scalpland, Heretical (Uni Of Qld. Student Union, 1997) p.31-35
1996 Defying the State: Acts of Transgression, Virgins, Violets and Vamps, Exhibition
Catalogue,1996
Postgraduate theses
- Cross Connections: Online Activism, Real World Outcomes, Doctor of Philosophy, Media Arts and Technology, The Australian National University, 2010
- Museum of the Personal: Souvenirs and Nostalgia, Master of Arts (Research), Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology, 2001
- Metaphysical Visions: Theosophy in Australia, Postgraduate Diploma, Art History, University of Queensland 1996
Residencies
A selection of international residencies exploring place, story and materiality.
Urambi Nature Park 2020
The Silence Puanga, 2019
Made of Walking : Prespes 2019
Made of Walking, Cyprus 2018
Ancestral Realms, Drammen 2017
Te Mahia SCANZ 2017
SIM residency, Iceland 2016
Clipperton Project, Faroes 2016
Water Peace Power, 2016
SCANZ 2015
SCANZ 3rd Nature 2013
Cultural strangers, Turkey 2011
PRESENTATIONS
2024
Panel with Pasha Clothier, Sarah Jane Pell and Kristine Diekman. Weaving water: place, presence and protocol (PDF), 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art Meanjin (Brisbane)
2022
Panel with Geert Vermeire, Flows of connection, 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art Barcelona (10-16 June 2022), https://youtu.be/wDXN-HKPbuI, video editing by Fred Adam.
TransArts Institute, Open Window Series Connecting with the local: building relationship with the more-than-human
Journey to Yarun, Presentation to Plant Lab 22 – link to slides
Treecreative: Encouraging awareness and action through creative walking projects, 4th Annual BEST Conference on Human Behaviour & Decision Making 2022
2021
Social Entrepreneurship, values based decision making and Appreciative Inquiry: Treecreate as a case study,
Joint conference paper with Elizabeth Sweigart (The Chicago School), 3rd Annual BEST Conference on Human Behaviour & Decision Making 2021
Treecreative: Ecosystems of inclusion, DIY and More-than-Human Media Architecture, QUT
2020
Panel chair and curator, Weaving Place, Deep Listening and the Sacred, Guests: Jo Tito, Leah Barclay, Michelle Maloney and Ruth Irwin, SoundWalk September, Hosted by Australian Earth Laws Alliance and The Valley Centre
Panel guest, “Land and Fire”, Beyond Crisis with Kirsten Larsen, Rebecca Scott, Gemma Meier and Tracey Cooper, hosted by Australian Earth Laws Alliance, The Valley Centre, Future Dreaming, Pingala and New Economy Network Australia
Walking with Trees in Ngunawal Country, Urban Tree Festival
Eco-activism, guest presenter at Walk, Listen, Create cafe.
Ignite*Energy: Virtual Reality Experience as a means to influence energy consumer behaviour, (with Josiah Jordan) BEST Conference, QUT
2019
Borderlands, Walking Encounters/Conference in Prespes Greece, July 1-7 2019. Visual March to Prespes/ Department of Fine and Applied Arts of the University of Western Macedonia and Made of Walking (V) / the Milena Principle
Ignite*Energy: Energy Efficiency Behaviour Change, IREE2019, Brisbane
Ignite*Energy: Virtual Reality for EE behaviour change, IREE2019, Brisbane
Ignite*Energy, HDR STEM conference, Institute of Applied Ecology, University of Canberra
2018
Weaving connections, (with Felicity Chapman), Healing Our Spirit Worldwide, Sydney, Australia
Augmented Reality in Walking Arts projects, Made of Walking, Cyprus
Giving voice to the Feminine, Women, Arts and Feminism in Australia since 1970, Melbourne, Australia
Ancestral Journeys: DNA Music(with Josiah Jordan) SCANZ 2018, Parihaka, New Zealand
2017
Philosophical evening with Haaken Sund @ Kulturhuset Hovtun, Norway
Waters of the Past @ RIXC Open Fields, Riga, Latvia
Ritual as creative practice | Guest Lecture @ SAE Masters of Creative Industries
2016
Art, Ecology and Governance—Intercreate, Panellists: Michelle Maloney; Ilka Blue Nelson; Sandy Sur; Thomas Dick; Leah Barclay; Tracey Benson; Jason Macleod, Global Ecologies–Local Impacts Conference, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Encouraging sustainability behaviour change at home : Lessons learnt from Living Greener, APS “World Usability Day”, DIPB, Canberra, Australia
Way of the Turtle (Prezi), Land Dialogues, Wagga Wagga, April 2016
Curator, Water Works Water-Wheel – focus on data, the importance of rivers and cultural connections, March 2016
Speaker, Using Data to Empower Community and Build Culture (Prezi), Electronic Visualisation and the Arts Australasia, University of Canberra, March 2016
2015
Workshop participant to invitation only event: Canberra Digital Inclusion Manifesto Workshop, National Library of Australia
Panel chair, “Vanuatu Women’s Water Music”, Gender in the Pacific, State of the Pacific conference, Australian National University
2014
Contributor (with Ian Clothier, delivered by Deborah Lawler-Dormer) ISEA2014 Educational Forum, American University in Dubai
Words for Water, Waterwheel World Water Week Symposium (2014)
Artist Talk, PhotoAccess, Canberra November 2014
Panel discussion, Performing the City, ADA Mesh Cities Symposium, Auckland September 2014
Panel discussion, KM Australia 2014 Congress, Knowledge Border Crossings, Sydney, July 2014
Cross Connections: Linking Art, Science and Identity, School of Music, Australian National University, Canberra April 2014
Words for Water, Waterwheel World Water Week 2014 Symposium (WWWD14)
2013
Invited Speaker, Inaugural Digital Humanities Meetup, Canberra
Panel discussion, ADA MESH Cities, Dunedin (Skype)
Panel discussion, ISMAR, Adelaide (via video)
Curator, Taranaki Tales, dorkbot cbr, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
2011
Remotely Connected, Remotely Creative, ISEA Istanbul
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 – current
PhD and MFA advisor, TransArt Institute
Advise postgraduate researchers from around the world.
2022 – current
Sessional academic, University of Sunshine Coast, Creative Industries,
Subjects:
- Design Methods (DES105), Course coordinator
- Animation (DES231), Course coordinator
- Animation and Visualisation (DES232)
- Design Futures (DES200)
- Sensing Environment (DES304)
- Design Principles (DES101)
2013 – 18
Unit convenor, Cross Media Production, University of Canberra (Sessional)
Designed and delivered lectures, workshops and tutorials on project based compulsory subject.
Grading of projects. Provided significant input to course content and approach.
2017
Guest professor and external examiner, Cross media and Script writing, Masters of Media, University of Volda, Norway
Co-led 4 day intensive residential program focusing on storytelling across media platforms. The course synthesised practical and theoretical contexts of media in the context of storytelling. Examined MA submissions.
2017
Guest lecture, Masters of Creative Industries, SAE Creative Media Institute
Gave a presentation and led a discussion about ritual as a form of embodied creative media practice. Focus on experimentation and pushing the boundaries of comfort and expression.
2009-10
Sessional Lecturer/Tutor, Media Cultures, School of Humanities, ANU
Taught Media Cultures 1, 2 and 3 (second, third and Honours year compulsory theory subjects). Provided input to course content and design of Media Cultures 1 and 3. Designed + delivered Media Cultures 3.
2005-07
Sessional Lecturer, New Media Arts, Centre for New Media Arts, ANU
Taught Media Cultures 1 and 2 (second and third year compulsory theory subjects). Provided significant input to course content and design
2001-04
Sessional Lecturer, Electronic Imaging, Canberra School of Art, ANU
Taught third year, Undergraduate, Honours and Postgraduate students digital media areas including: Digital Video, Web Design, 2d / 3d Digital Animation and Interaction Design in the Photo Media and Core Computers areas of the School of Art.
2000-01
Sessional Lecturer, Computer based art and design, University of the Sunshine Coast
Taught Web Design and Interaction Design, Desktop Publishing and Illustration. One of the first courses in Australia that also taught web standards as set out in WCAG (www.w3c.org)
2000
Sessional Tutor ‘Arts and environment’, Queensland University of Technology
Compulsory third year subject. Tutored over 100 students using online and face-to-face methods.
EDUCATION
2023 Masters of Applied Science (Research), University of Canberra
(currently under examination)
2010 PhD, Media Arts and Technology, The Australian National University
2006 Project Management Principles, ANU Graduate School of Management
2001 MA (Research), Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology
1998 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, Southbank TAFE
1996 Postgraduate Diploma, Art History, University of Queensland
1992 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Monash University
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2020- current
Phd Advisor, TransArt Institute | Liverpool John Moore University (UK)
2019-21
Visiting Researcher, More than Human Lab
School of Design, Victoria University Wellington, NZ
2016-24
Honorary Appointment, Professional Associate
Institute of Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, AU
2010-15
Adjunct Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Canberra School of Music,
The Australian National University, AU
2010-12
Visiting Scholar, School of Critical Inquiry, The Australian National University, AU
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Complete list available on my academic resume – Dr Tracey M Benson | Academic Resume
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