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Biography
Denise Thwaites is a curator and researcher specialising in contemporary digital arts and humanities. Her work interrogates emergent frames of inclusion, exclusion and collaboration, especially as they are re-imagined through decentralised technologies.
As Assistant Professor in Digital Arts and Humanities at the University of Canberra, Denise teaches into the Bachelor of Arts and Digital Cultural Heritage. Over the past ten years, Denise has developed, co-ordinated and lectured undergraduate courses in Aesthetics, Political Theory, French Critical Theory and Art History at The University of New South Wales, The National Art School, Sydney and The University of Wollongong. She has led and co-led curatorial projects for This Is Not Art Festival (Newcastle), New Beginnings Refugee Culture and Arts Festival (Sydney), Firstdraft (Sydney) and Next Wave Festival (Melbourne). She previously held the position of Associate Director at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, having also worked at the Australia Council for the Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
In 2014, Denise completed her doctoral thesis under the dual supervision of Paul Patton (The University of New South Wales, Australia) and Bruno Clément (l’Université Paris 8, France). Her thesis explored the relationship between the fields of art and politics in light of different conceptualisations of interstitiality. For this she was awarded the distinction of 'Docteur en Littératures Françaises avec la mention très honorable avec félicitations du jury' (summa cum laude) by l’Université Paris 8.
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Projects
- 1 Active
Haig Park Activation Manager
Hope, C., Turner, B., Holland, K., Drayton, I., Tait, O., Reif, A., Caffery, D., Jasper, M., Castro De Jong, D. & Thwaites, D.
6/03/19 → 31/12/20
Project: Other
Research Output
Blocumenta: Ideas Platform, Artspace (Curated exhibition)
THWAITES, D. & Pailthorpe, B., 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Open Access
Blocumenta: An Experimental Art Project Using Blockchain
Thwaites, D. & Pailthorpe, B., 2019, p. 1-1. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to conference (non-published works) › Abstract
Escape Velocity: Between the possible and actual
THWAITES, D., Jul 2019, Shaun Gladwell: Pacific Undertow. 1 ed. Melbourne, Australia: Museum of Contemporary Art, p. 144-147 8 p.Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Chapter in text book
Foraged Stories: Planting the Seeds of a Story Economy in Haig Park
Thwaites, D., Terado, T., Pailthorpe, B., Herrington, J., Barclay, E., Curham, L., Allan, S., Lambert, N., Madeleine, A. & Savage, D., 23 Nov 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Design
Open Access
Hygiene Beyond the Sanitised Self: Abjection, Human Microbiota and the Ecological Medical Imaginary
Thwaites, D., 4 Dec 2019, p. 1-1. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to conference (non-published works) › Abstract
Activities
- 1 Invited talk
TEDx Canberra Adventure: Festival of Creativity-an exploration of creativity in business with workshops and talks
Michael Socolow (Speaker), Fanke Peng (Speaker), Chris Huet (Speaker), Denise Thwaites (Speaker), Louise Curham (Speaker), James Evans (Speaker), Amannda Huot (Speaker), Kerstin Oberprieler (Speaker), Marianne Boruch (Speaker), Pauline Griffiths (Speaker), Arran McKenna (Speaker)8 Apr 2019 → 11 Apr 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk