Meet our incredible researchers
Directors
Acting Director / Theme Leader: Creative Arts 4.0 John McCormick is a technology-based artist and researcher. He is Associate Professor…
Acting Deputy Director / Theme Leader: Digital Cultural Heritage Melanie Swalwell is Professor of Digital Media Heritage. Her research focuses…
Theme Leaders
Acting Director / Theme Leader: Creative Arts 4.0 John McCormick is a technology-based artist and researcher. He is Associate Professor…
Theme Leader: Tech Media Culture César is a lecturer in Media and Communication. His current research focuses on what he…
Research and Teaching Connections Leader
Liam Burke is the coordinator of the Cinema and Screen Studies Major. Liam has written and edited a number of…
Development team
Our specialist in house development team supports creative practice research and development in immersive and interactive media. We are experts in all aspects of motion capture and AR, VR and MR development, providing end-to-end support – from ideation and prototype to finished product. If you can think it, we can do it.
Adam is a multidisciplinary developer and artist with a passion for bringing technology to other creative mediums. His dream projects…
Casey is a multidisciplinary artist with an emphasis on 3D graphics and UI/UX development. She models and textures high-quality props…
Casey is a multidisciplinary artist and developer with a passion for character art and accessible gameplay. In his latest project…
Emrys is a 3D Artist who specialises in asset creation and world building. She enjoys all aspects of the 3D…
Haydon is a technical designer with experience in games programming. Haydon brings unprecedented energy and enthusiasm to every project, liaisons…
Joshua is a software developer with a background in VR and Game development. He collaborates with artists to bring life…
Researchers
The Centre for Transformative Media Technologies brings together over 20 researchers, artists and developers from the creative arts, humanities and social sciences. We work collaboratively across disciplinary and conceptual lines to understand and proactively advance the power of new media technologies to transform art, culture, industry and human experience.
Kim Vincs is a leading researcher in the creative arts, with six Australian Research Council grants, 50+ industry partnerships, and…
Petra Gemeinboeck is an internationally recognised artist and researcher engaging questions of embodiment and agency in human-machine relations. Petra is…
Angela Ndalianis is Research Professor in Media and Entertainment. Her research focuses on entertainment culture (films, video games, television, VR,…
Kay Cook is a Professor and the Associate Dean of Research in the School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and…
Anne Cranny-Francis is a Professor and Adjunct Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology. Her research on the body has…
Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek is a multi-award-winning community-based design researcher, digital media artist and educator. Partnering with art centres, museums and schools,…
Dr Sarika Kewalramani is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Swinburne University of Technology. Her research strives to explore inclusive…
Michael McMahon is Professor in Film and Television. He is a screen content producer and founder and first Executive Chairman…
Jock Given researches, writes and teaches about media and communications policy, business, law and history. His work has been published…
Daniel Golding is a Lecturer in Media and Communications and is interested in the intersection of media history, cinema, videogames,…
Mia Lindgren is Dean of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at Swinburne University of Technology. Her work explores aesthetics and…
Flavia comes to Swinburne after a varied teaching career at Deakin and Melbourne Universities and Temple University’s Rome Campus. While…
Simone Taffe is Professor in Communication Design. Simone worked as a graphic designer and design manager for over fifteen years,…
Associate Professor Max Schleser is an award-winning filmmaker with expertise in immersive media, documentary film and creative arts 4.0 with…
Dr Cynde Moya directs the Digital Heritage Lab in the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies. The Lab is a collection…
Rob Saunders is Associate Professor in the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS). Saunders studied Artificial Intelligence at The…
Kyle Moore is a lecturer in Digital Media. He researches playful and playable mobile and locative media, exploring the social,…
Denise de Vries is an adjunct researcher in the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies at Swinburne University. Her research focuses…