Mitchell Whitelaw Mitchell Whitelaw Projects Writing Bio Mosaic: Life on the Western Lakes A multifaceted digital portrait of a western NSW wetland, created for Flow-MER and the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office launch Projects · April 2026 ALA Lens A rich new interface (and three data stories) for the Atlas of Living Australia, in collaboration with Adrian Mackenzie launch Projects · November 2024 The Sound of Water: sensing a wetland intervention through interactive environmental audio Documenting and reflecting on The Sound of Water, with Skye Wassens and Adrian Mackenzie, in Cultural Geographies launch Writing · September 2023 Beyond the Book A digital exhibition for State Library Victoria, created with Julia Rodwell and researchers from the ARC Linkage Project Transforming the Early Modern Archive: The Emmerson Collection at State Library Victoria launch Projects · August 2023 Making with Climate Data: Materiality, Metaphor and Engagement Reflections on the Climate Coaster project, with Geoff Hinchcliffe, in Ian Gwilt (ed), Making Data: Materializing Digital Information (Bloomsbury, 2022). pdf Writing · April 2022 The Sound of Water An audiovisual data-story exploring Nap Nap Swamp, on the Murrumbidgee River. Created for the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office's Flow-MER program, in collaboration with ecologist Skye Wassens. launch Projects · December 2021 The Early Modern Women's Complaint Poetry Index A generous interface for an index of early modern womens complaint poetry - with Ros Smith, Sarah Ross, Michelle O'Callaghan and Jake Arthur. launch Projects · November 2021 Design Collaboration and Exaptation in a Habitat Restoration Project with Joyce Hwang and Darren Le Roux, in She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation html Writing · July 2021 Biodiversity data as public environmental media with Belinda Smaill, in the Journal of Environmental Media 2(1). An ecocritical analysis of the visual languages of digital biodiversity. pdf Writing · March 2021 Molonglo Life A platform for digital encounters with wildlife in the Molonglo River Reserve, on the fringes of urban Canberra. Projects · July 2019 My Climate 2050 Visualising climate change projections for over 4700 locations around Australia. With Geoff Hinchcliffe; commissioned by the Australian Conservation Foundation. launch Projects · December 2018 Corley Explorer An explorer for the State Library of Queensland's Corley Collection; 61,000 photographs of Queensland houses from the 1960s and 70s. Commissioned by SLQ; made with Geoff Hinchcliffe and our friends at Icelab. launch Projects · December 2018 Climate Coasters Tangible visualisations of Australian climate change, developed with Geoff Hinchcliffe and the ANU Climate Change Institute. Projects · April 2018 Mashups and Matters of Concern: Generative Approaches to Digital Collections Reflecting on generative techniques for remaking digital heritage, through the projects Drifter and Succession. Published in the Open Library of Humanities special issue Remaking Collections. html Writing · April 2018 Visualising Raynal Visualising changes through three editions of Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes. With Geoff Hinchcliffe and Glenn Roe. launch Projects · January 2018 Australasian data practices: Mining, scraping, mapping, hacking in Artlink 37:1, Data Visual. A look at data practice in Australia and New Zealand through the work of four prominent creators spanning visualisation, cartography and digital heritage. Writing · November 2017 Marking Time A catalogue essay on time, attention and climate change for Jo Law's Illustrated Almanac of the Illawarra and Beyond. Writing · August 2017 Pings: Matter, Environment and Technology in the work of HC Gilje A text commissioned by Norwegian artist HC Gilje for his monograph Conversations with Spaces. Writing · May 2017 Local Kin A visual explorer for biodiversity data launch Projects · December 2016 Drifter A multilayered portrait of the Murrumbidgee river system, made out of data launch Projects · March 2016 Asia Art Archive Bibliography Interfaces Generous interfaces for the Asia Art Archive's online bibliography of Indian art launch Projects · November 2015 Macaulay Library Remix An experimental "unsolicited" interface to the wildlife audio collection of the Macaulay Library launch Projects · August 2015 Accretor: Generative materiality in the work of Driessens and Verstappen in Artificial Life 21 (3): 307–312 (Summer 2015) pdf Writing · August 2015 Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections in Digital Humanities Quarterly 9(1) (2015). This paper updates and expands my previous writing on generous interfaces html Writing · July 2015 Representing Digital Collections in Performing Digital: Multiple Perspectives on a Living Archive, ed. David Carlin and Laurene Vaughan (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2015) pdf Writing · May 2015 Epistemological Machines and Protocomputing With Ralf Baecker, in Experiencing the Unconventional: Science in Art ed. Theresa Schubert and Andrew Adamatzky. World Scientific, 2015. pdf Writing · January 2015 Succession Digital fossils from the history of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. An experiment in generative heritage launch Projects · November 2014 Discover the Queenslander A generous interface to 1,000 covers and pages from The Queenslander, 1890-1939. Developed with Geoff Hinchliffe. launch Projects · June 2014 Nolan Explorer An exploratory interface for the Canberra Museum and Gallery's Nolan Collection launch Projects · March 2014 The Institutional Harvest Visualising the history of women's services and agencies in Australia, 1970-2011 launch Projects · December 2013 Sheer Hardware: Material Computing in the Work of Martin Howse and Ralf Baecker In Scan 10(2) (2013), "The In/Visibilities of Code" html Writing · December 2013 Towards Generous Interfaces for Archival Collections This paper makes the case for the limitations of search, and proposes instead the concept of “generous interfaces” for digital collections pdf Writing · October 2013 Figuring Data A catalog essay commissioned for Datascape, an exhibition at QUT's Cube Gallery, April 2013. html Writing · June 2013 Explore Australian Prints + Printmaking Three experimental, "generous" interfaces for the National Gallery of Australia's Australian Prints + Printmaking site launch Projects · April 2013 Ten Questions Concerning Generative Computer Art with Jon McCormack, Ollie Bown, Alan Dorin and Jonathan McCabe; in Leonardo 47(2) (2014) pdf Writing · March 2013 TroveMosaic An experimental "generous" interface for the Trove picture search launch Projects · December 2012 Transmateriality: Presence Aesthetics and the Media Arts in Throughout, ed Ulrik Ekman, MIT Press 2012 pdf Writing · November 2012 A Framework for Understanding Generative Art with Alan Dorin, Jonathan McCabe, Jon McCormack and Gordon Monro; in Digital Creativity 23 (2012). Writing · November 2012 Manly Images An experimental web interface to the Manly Local Studies Image collection Projects · October 2012 Weather Bracelet and Measuring Cup: Case studies in data sculpture Practice-led research in data sculpture and tangible visualisation. pdf Writing · April 2012 Playing with Complexity: An Approach to Exploratory Data Visualisation with Ben Ennis Butler and Sam Hinton, presented at ACUADS 2011 html Writing · September 2011 Local Colour and Networked Specificity Investigating digital materiality using generative fabrication and cardboard vegetable boxes. A paper presented at ISEA 2011 html Writing · August 2011 Memory of a Nation Multitouch Interactive A multi-touch interactive for the National Archives, in collaboration with Lightwell. Projects · June 2011 Local Colour A generative fabrication project in recycled laser-cut cardboard. Projects · June 2011 After the Screen: Array Aesthetics and Transmateriality Presented at the Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference, Artspace, November 2010 Writing · March 2011 Networked Production: On Making with Bits and Atoms A short essay on craft, making and digital fabrication for Craft Australia's eNews 54 Writing · August 2010 Exploring the Digital Commons: An Approach to the Visualisation of Large Heritage Datasets with Sam Hinton; presented at EVA 2010 html Writing · July 2010 Measuring Cup Representing long time-series of climate data in small, tangible forms. Projects · June 2010 Visualising Archival Collections: The Visible Archive Project in Archives and Manuscripts 37 pdf Writing · October 2009 Right Here, Right Now: On HC Gilje’s Networks of Specificity A catalogue essay on the work of HC Gilje, commissioned for his 2009 solo exhibition Blink at the Hordaland Art Centre html Writing · October 2009 Limits to Growth (Exurbs) Self-constraining growth forms robot-plotted onto paper islands. Projects · October 2009 Weather Bracelet A wearable dataform made from 365 days of Canberra weather Projects · September 2009 The Visible Archive A research project on the visualisation of archival collections, supported by the National Archives of Australia. Projects · July 2009 Landscape, Slow Data and Self-Revelation An invited contribution to Kerb 17: Is Landscape Architecture Dead? html Writing · May 2009 Strange Ontologies in Digital Culture With Mark Guglielmetti and Troy Innocent, in ACM Computers in Entertainment 7 pdf Writing · February 2009 Watching the Street Slit-scanning the streetscape, revealing patterns of change and stasis in human and environmental activity. Projects · November 2008 Limits to Growth Generative experiments with self-limiting growth. Projects · September 2008 Watching the Sky Visualising change in the environment, using long image time-series. Projects · July 2008 Synesthesia and Cross-Modality in Contemporary Audiovisuals in Senses and Society 3(3) (2008) html Writing · April 2008 Art Against Information: Case Studies in Data Practice in Fibreculture 11 html Writing · February 2008 System stories and model worlds: a critical approach to generative art Presented at Readme 100, Dortmund (2005) and published in Readme 100: temporary software art factory pdf Writing · January 2006 Hearing Pure Data: Aesthetics and Ideals of Data-Sound An essay on data-bending, microsound and sonification commissioned by Sonic Acts X pdf Writing · August 2004 Playing Games with Reality: Only Fish Shall Visit and Interactive Documentary Catalog essay for Brogan Bunt's Halfeti: Only Fish Shall Visit (2002) pdf Writing · December 2002 1968/1998: Rethinking a Systems Aesthetic A short essay on the legacy of Jack Burnham's 'systems aesthetic', marking the 30th anniversary of the Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition. Published in the ANAT Newsletter #33, May 1998. pdf Writing · April 1998