Hello, my name is
Robert Walton
I am an artist, educator and writer.
2019
October – Child of Now prototype to be realised through major new commission from the University of Melbourne’s School of Computing and Information Systems in collaboration with Arts Centre Melbourne – details announced soon.
Passed
21 August – EXPERIMENTA SOCIAL #29 – Encoding Empathy – ACMI X
4-7 July – Rigidity and elasticity in performances of human-computer interaction with smartphones – Performance Studies International #25 – Calgary, Canada
28 June – Child of Now: Creating an immersive, intuitive XR artwork with the people of Melbourne – Interaction Design Lab – University of Melbourne
Tues 14 May 12 noon – Child of Now: A Transdisciplinary Conversation About Future Bodies, Technologies, Cities and Communities – CIS Seminar Denis Driscoll Theatre
19, 20, 21 April – Exhuming Johnny – Chicago Cultural Center, USA
21 February – Exhuming Johnny – Work in Progress Performance, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago USA
January – February – Artist in Residence, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago USA
The question of the age is how. In the face of a human-induced change that threatens the future of our species how to act? How to live? How to be? https://t.co/23R41tUfyO
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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