Ben Byrne

Dr. Ben Byrne

Senior Lecturer
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Details

  • College: School of Design
  • Department: School of Design
  • Campus: City Campus Australia
  • ben.byrne@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Ben Byrne is a listener. He creates and inhabits situations for listening that foster experimental, ethical, and sustainable ways of being in response to technological pressure, climate crisis, and hegemonic power. This involves an ongoing listening, making sonic works, commissioning and organizing sonic programs, teaching, writing sonic theory, building community connection and engagement, and working to preserve and archive sonic practice.

Supervisor projects

  • Distributing synthesis across audience devices
  • 7 Mar 2024
  • Creative writing and publishing: play, experiments and new directions
  • 1 Jan 2023
  • Sounding Transformation in Three Cities: Articulating encounters of sonic shifts in Kaifeng, Melbourne and Suzhou through field recording practice and sound composition
  • 1 Aug 2020
  • Volumetric Light Sculptures: Occupying the Space Between the Apparatus and the Image
  • 6 Jan 2020
  • Phantom Perspectives: Diffracting Sentient Encounters of Site, Space and Place Through an Experimental Field Recording Practice
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Local Time
  • 1 Jul 2019
  • Browser Compositions
  • 14 May 2019
  • Adventures in Vaporwave: A Participant-led Creative Practice Exploration of Everyday Life in a Weird Internet Community
  • 7 Mar 2019
  • Future Anxieties: XR in Speculative Critical Design
  • 27 Feb 2019
  • Forgotten but Not Gone: A Video Art Project Examining Video Library Culture as a Creative Tool, Focusing on the Artistic Community of Melbourne.
  • 30 Oct 2018
  • Listening In: Approaching Difference, Multiplicity and Collectivity through a Practice of Listening in Documentary
  • 17 Jul 2017
  • THE LIGHTHOUSE; AN INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARY The application of user centred, responsive and interactivity design theory and practice to the Case Study of the Lighthouse Interactive Documentary
  • 1 Jul 2016
  • With Friends like These, Who Needs Enemies: The Affordances of Game Mechanics for the Development of Affective Relationships
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • Performance Engine: Immersivity, Artist & Audience
  • 11 Feb 2016
  • Falling Upwards: Somatic Sensing in Virtual Space
  • 11 Feb 2016

Teaching interests

Ben has taught across the Bachelor of Design (Digital Media) program and he is currently running an elective focused on radical organizing, through which final year students are exhibiting their work in the Design Grad Shows.

Research interests

Sonic art, media and design; Sound studies and philosophy; Radical organizing; Sustainable creative research practices

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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