I am a researcher, entrepreneur and consultant in Digital Humanities at the intersection of computer science, information and communication design, and social sciences. I was trained as an audio/broadcast engineer and transitioned over the years into developing information systems in the social sciences. I received my PhD at Griffith University working on information networking technologies for machine learning, specifically data ontology for applications in anthropology. I have held fellowships in Digital Technologies at Macquarie University and Griffith University, looking into digital capacity building, and the development of intelligent systems in the social sciences. I am an advocate for Digital Humanitarian Technologies, that contribute to community empowerment creating more resilient societies and improve our understanding and connection with our environment.
Technology
As a technologist, I have been extremely privileged to contribute to research that investigates some of the oldest records of human memory captured in rock art. With a background in engineering and information science, I develop tools that explore our past, present and future through new technologies in Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, Extended Reality (XR, VR, AR), Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. My interdisciplinary approach bridges the gap between traditional research in the social sciences and modern technological advancements.
Design
Developing digital technologies, I do not just work with data and machines but I work with real people that are at the heart of any application, impacting their culture, their identity, their lives. Technology changes us, and we have to tread carefully. Design can change the world and meaningful design has to be at the core of every project considering not only Computational Thinking and Systems Thinking, but Design Thinking and Human- and Humanity Centered Design. I am especially passionate about projects that leverage the potential of technology for Social Impact Design, that make a positive change to issues that matter towards betterment of society and healthy planet.
Teaching
Through my work in digital technologies and humanities, I have developed a teaching portfolio spanning from computer science and media technologies to communication studies, design and media theory. The advancement of AI seems to spark new discussions in these fields, as we seek to understand our place in the universe, striving for positive change, healthy planet and building resilient societies through empowered communities.
“The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.”
Norbert Wiener, 1964
Books and Ideas that Changed My Life
Merlot, J. (1956). The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
Wiener, N. (1964). God & Golem, Inc., A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion
