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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.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Ginninderry Living Lab: open and play space
Hope, C., Peng, F. & Thwaites, D.
2/04/20 → 31/08/22
Project: Research
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Creative Recovery and Resilience Forum
Hope, C., Thwaites, D. & Mckenzie, V.
1/07/21 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
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Creative Recovery and Resilience Artist Residencies - Cross Sector, Digital Technology and Innovation
Thwaites, D., Hinton, S., Hope, C. & Mckenzie, V.
1/07/21 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
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ACT Creative Industries Research
Bainbridge, J., Webb, J., Hope, C., Thwaites, D., Ennis Butler, B., Mckenzie, V., Tanton, R., Dare, L., Pearson, L., Vidyattama, Y., Cassidy, S. & LEE, J. Y.
24/06/21 → 23/06/22
Project: Research
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Economythologies – MoneyLab#X
Thwaites, D., Mauro-Flude, N., Pailthorpe, B., Ilyas, S., Sluis, K. & Rossiter, N.
14/09/20 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
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A token sale: Christie’s to auction its first blockchain-backed digital-only artwork
Thwaites, D., 25 Feb 2021, The Conversation, 2021, February , p. 1-6 6 p.Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Bulletin › Article
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'Caviar Outlook' and 'Hoarding': After Anna McDonald
Thwaites, D., Dec 2021, 1 p. The Australiasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP).Research output: Textual Creative Works › Poem/s
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Home Economix
Thwaites, D., Madeleine Raupach, A., Savage, D., Matthews, K., Herrington, J., Peng, F. & Whyte, R., Dec 2021Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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Keeping It Together: Creative Recovery and Resilience Forum
Thwaites, D., Mckenzie, V., Hope, C., Morecombe, K., Bell, W., Campbell, L., Collective, V., Savage, D., Madeleine Raupach, A., Matthews, K., Hutch, E., Penkethman, S. & Dudley, J., 2 Dec 2021Research output: Non-textual form › Performance
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Ways of Making Dinner: After Hera Lindsay Bird After Bernadette Mayer
Thwaites, D., 1 Aug 2021, 3 p. Australia : Cordite Poetry Review.Research output: Textual Creative Works › Poem/s
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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 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk