This represents my early work in digital poetry before I had the courage to pivot and face my own trauma in my writing.
“Participatory culture and Michel Foucault: how we’re all to blame for ‘fake news’ and the loss of social consciousness.” The Digital Review. May 2020.
Metalepsis in Digital Poetry: Representing Australian Suburbia through the Convergence of the Verse Novel and Electronic Literature and Chamberlain Street. (Doctoral thesis). Available from Curtin eSpace. 2017.
“Poetry and Video Games.” The Postgraduate Bulletin. Ed. Mudhan, Keturah. Curtin University Postgraduate Student Association. December 2014.
Digital Literature
A Condensed History of Australian Camels by David Thomas Henry Wright, Louis Pratt, Karen Lowry, and Chris Arnold (2023). Australian Council of the Arts grant.
Paige & Powe by David Thomas Henry Wright. Interface by Karen Lowry. Shortlisted for the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards.
Speaking
Electronic Literature Organisation Conference, 2023. Coimbra. Digital Literary Adaptation Workshop: Curatorial, Recombinant, and AR Reimagining. (i.e. VR –> AR). David Thomas Henry Wright (Nagoya University), Karen Lowry (Curtin University) and Chris Arnold (University of Western Australia).
DDD Perth. Western Australia. They’re People, Not Users. September 2022. [Voted in anonymously]
Metalepsis and Mourning: Using electronic literature to explore our different responses to grief and loss. Electronic Literature Organisation Conference 2020, Orlando. July 2020.
The gender gap between frontend and backend developers. Web Weekend Kathmandu, Kathmandu. 2019.
Designing courses for the future: using artificial intelligence to make students more effective learners. Tertiary Education Management Conference, Association for Tertiary Education Management (ATEM) and the Tertiary Education Facilities Management Association (TEFMA), Perth. September 2018.
Metalepsis and the Digital Verse Novel: The Role of Electronic Literature and Game Techniques in Poetry. The Great Writing Conference, London. June 2015.
Developing Digital Poetry: Utilising Gaming Techniques to Write About Suburbia. Rites of Spring, Curtin University. November 2014.