Author: thomvandooren

New multimedia essay

I have recently co-produced a multimedia essay on the decline of the critically endangered regent honeyeater. The piece is the product of a collaboration between scholars in the humanities, design, and biology: me, Zoë Sadokierski, Myles Oakey, Timo Rissanen, Samuel Widin, and Ross Crates.

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Digital Projects

I have been working on a range of digital projects over the past several years, primarily aimed at public audiences. These projects include everything from community storytelling archives and audio documentaries, to digital exhibitions and multimedia essays.

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Living on the Edge

Living on the Edge is a multi-year collaborative project being developed by the National Museum of Australia and the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney. The project brings together cultural researchers, writers, curators, traditional custodians and artists, as well as policy-makers, scientists and community conservationists, to share knowledge and explore ideas about how best to care for threatened places.

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I acknowledge the traditional custodians of Country in Australia,
including the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples of the Blue Mountains where I live,
and the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation where the University of Sydney is located.

I pay my respects to elders, past, present and emerging
and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.