Dr Rewa Wright is a media arts and computational design researcher with a collaborative and transdisciplinary practice, encompassing exhibition, performance, publication, presentation, and community engagement. Working with various modes of analogue and digital art since 1998, Rewa has over 20 years of experience in various aspects of motion-based and sonic media, including live performance, music, digital design, and virtual image creation. As an intra-active media designer, experimental media artist and inverse technologist, research is both traditional and practice-based. Rewa’s projects weave together emerging technologies, Indigenous justice, clean blockchains and digital healthcare. An ecologically conscious researcher, she commits to ensuring her techniques and methods are sustainable, create positive social impact in both local and global communities, and respect Indigenous knowledge systems. Her Māori heritage (Ngāi Tawake/Te Kaimaroke/Te Uri o Hau hapu of Aotearoa/New Zealand) is a strength, and affords the capacity to draw on ancient non-Western knowledge from an embodied as well as a scholarly perspective. Rewa’s extended reality installations have been included in the SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery (2019), Ars Electronica: In Kepler’s Gardens (2020), the Aotearoa Digital Arts Symposium (2022), the Queensland Extended Reality Festival (2022), and several iterations of the International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA). She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Practice (Film, Screen & Animation) at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Alison Bennett works in ‘expanded photography’ where the boundaries have shifted in the transition to digital media and become diffused into ubiquitous computing. Creative projects have tested the discursive potentials of augmented reality, virtual reality and webXR as encompassed by the practice of photography. Their work has been shown at international venues such as Musée du Louvre and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and featured on ABC TV Australian Story, the New York Times, Mashable, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Motherboard, The Creators Project, ABC TV News, Artlink Magazine and The Guardian. Dr Bennett is Associate Dean Photography at RMIT School of Art and leads the Imaging Futures Lab at RMIT.

Linda Loh has an experimental, process-oriented digital arts practice. She is preoccupied by ideas around light-based phenomena and subsequent connections to integral philosophy and psychology. Engaging a variety of software tools, she distorts and transforms photographs and videos that mostly originate from everyday sources of light. Working between Naarm/Melbourne, Australia and New York City, she holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Expanded Studio Practice) and a Master of Fine Art in Computer Arts. Her video, virtual reality and digital 3D works have been exhibited worldwide and online, including NARS (NYC), Westbeth Gallery (NYC), SVA Galleries (NYC), ZeroSpace (NYC), Untitled Art (Miami), Gertrude Street Projection Festival (Melbourne), The Loop (City of Hobart), Bunjil Place (Melbourne), Kunsthalle Zurich, University of Porto, University of Victoria (Canada), the iDMAa (International Digital Media and Arts Association), and various online programs, including a solo pavilion for The Wrong Biennale. Details: https://lindaloh.com/cv/

Beckwith is a transmedia artist academic who combines dance and digital media. Her practice explores the intersection of physicality and technology through the figure of the post-human cyborg. Beckwith combines her dance performance with technologies such as stereoscopic 3D illusions, motion capture, virtual and augmented reality. She creates performance that combine the body and 3D animation and visual effects in a process that layers one over the other, re-working the human figure into new forms. She Lecturers in Digital and Screen Dance at the Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne where she also the Digital Production Studio Fellow.

The author of this paper is a Melbourne-based 3D artist, VR developer and student with a technical foundation in ZBrush, Unity, Maya, and Substance Painter. Spending most of his days on his computer he explores possibilities across architectural visualization, game/interaction design and asset creation.