Denise Thwaites is a curator, poet and theorist specialising in contemporary digital arts. Her transdisciplinary research explores the complexities of contemporary networked life, as they implicate digital, financial, and medical imaginaries.

Denise is Assistant Professor in Digital Arts and Humanities and convener of the Masters in Creative and Cultural Futures at the University of Canberra.  Over the past twelve years, Denise has developed and taught  courses at The University of New South Wales, The National Art School, Sydney, The University of Wollongong and University of Canberra. She has led and co-led curatorial projects for MoneyLab (Institute of Network Cultures, Amstrdam), 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 was awarded her PhD through The University of New South Wales (Australia) and l’Université Paris 8 (France). She now supervises PhD students exploring theoretical, creative and practice-led approaches to examining the relationship between culture, technology, economy and social change.