2021
This year I’m the Resident Artist in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. I’m working on a Child of Now prototype in collaboration with Arts Centre Melbourne and The Heart, a major new digital artwork for Melbourne Connect.
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SACRIFICE a new interactive installation combining swarm robotics, ancient standing stones and performance with Melbourne Flight Lab and Swarm Robotics Team.
Squid-inspired lighting: the functional bio-bulb creating the world’s first “functional bio-bulb” – a light that works using bioluminescence with biomedical engineer Matt Faria and mathematical biologist Stuart Johnson.
The brilliant @clairegcoleman and I have been squirrelling away on Child of Now for a few years. This year we bring the first prototype to @artscentremelb with the support of @cis_unimelb https://about.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2021/april/child-of-now-an-ar-look-at-our-future-generations-in-the-heart-of-melbourne @vca_mcm
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Robert Walton’s production attains the fluid potency of a fever-dream
– The Age
A spine-tingling encounter
– The Guardian
The world’s first piece of iPad theatre. Eerie, unsettling and very, very clever.
– The Independent
An original and talented thinker and theatre-maker
– The Times
A wholly new theatrical experience
– The List
A brand new way of looking at the world
– The Stage