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Dr

Robert Walton

Dean'S Research Fellow
Fine Arts and Music
Contemporary Performance Practices
Directing and Dramaturgy
Mobile Computing and Smartphones
Theatre and Performance Studies
Art and Science
Theatre Training
Art and Computing
Computing and Performance
Interaction and Immersion
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Dr

Robert Walton

 
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Fine Arts and Music
 
Primary Interest
Theatre and Performance Studies
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Projects

Displaying the 4 most recent projects from 4 for Robert Walton.

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Child of Now

2018 - 2025
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Vanitas

2018 - 2020
Completed
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goat island archive – we have discovered the performance by making it

2018 - 2019
Completed
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Vanitas

2018 - 2018
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

4

Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works from 25 for Robert Walton.

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Beyond the Dystopia-in-Progress: Rehearsing an Indigenized Future ‘Australia’ through Public Art

Robert E Walton, Claire G Coleman

Book Chapter  |  2023

In this chapter we write from the creative process of our interdisciplinary public artwork ‘Child of Now’ which locates the presen..

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Did That Stone Move? Staging stone swarms in galleries and virtual reality

Elena M Vella, Daniel A Williams, Aleks Michalewicz, Airlie Chapman, Robert Ellis Walton

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  Electronic Workshops in Computing

This paper presents the development of a forthcoming interactive multimedia gallery installation, Sacrifice. We introduce the rati..

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Sacrifice: Contemplating Time and Trust

Robert Walton, Airlie Chapman, Aleksandra Michalewicz, Goran Duric, Elena Vella, Daniel Williams

Original Creative Work  |  2022

An intimate ceremony performed with an autonomous swarm of stone-robots. Part performance, part experiment, Sacrifice is the produ..

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Flow: A Child of Now Prototype

Robert E Walton

Original Creative Work  |  2022

Flow is a 25-minute mixed-reality performance installation for one or two people at a time. It is set in the ‘everywhen’ (a place ..

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Sacrifice: Contemplating Time and Trust

Robert E Walton, Elena M Vella, Goran Duric, Airlie Chapman, Daniel Williams, Robert Walton

Original Creative Work  |  2022

Sacrifice is an intimate ceremony performed with an autonomous swarm of stone-robots. Part performance, part experiment, Sacrifice..

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Theatres of artificial intelligence and the overlooked performances of computing

RE Walton

Journal article  |  2021  |  Theatre Journal

The term performance is used liberally in the computing and artificial intelligence (AI) literature, yet it is frequently deemed o..

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Blackbird: Turdus merula merula

Robert Ellis Walton

Original Creative Work  |  2021

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Exhuming Exhuming Johnny - a delegated reunion

Robert Walton

Original Creative Work  |  2020

In 2019, Robert Walton was commissioned by The City of Chicago and the Goat Island Archive to respond to Goat Island’s 1991 work ‘..

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Exhuming Johnny

Robert Walton

Original Creative Work  |  2019

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Field Work: Locating Site is Set

Robert Walton

Book Chapter  |  2019

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Keyword Analysis

Arts
Performing Arts
Art History, Theory and Criticism
Visual Arts
Artificial Intelligence
Expanding Knowledge
Screen and Digital Media

News

Displaying the 4 most recent news articles from 4 for Robert Walton.

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Vanitas: An app to die for

Robert Walton

Blurring documentary with fiction, Vanitas is a reflective thriller about life’s great mystery: death. Experienced as an app on your smart..

April 9, 2018
pursuit Article
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Confronting the feel, smell and taste of blood

Ryan Jefferies, Sharon Lewin AO, Robert Walton

Human blood can be made into bio-plastic. It is dried, powdered, moulded into a shape, heated to 200 degrees Celsius and put under 10 tonne..

July 26, 2017
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The Festival of Live Art has arrived ... but what is live art?

Robert Walton

The inaugural Festival of Live Art (FOLA), which begins today in Melbourne, celebrates some of the most exciting artists working in perform..

March 13, 2014
conversation Article
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Acting up – climate change cause needs performers' help

Robert Walton

Preventing catastrophic climate change is the greatest challenge humankind has ever faced. Instead of being overwhelmed, the performing art..

July 8, 2013
conversation Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2021

Chancellor's Prize for Excellence in PhD Thesis

University of Melbourne
2019

Green Room Award - Nomination - Best Production - Vanitas

Green Room Awards Association
2019

Green Room Award - Nomination - Innovation in Site Responsive Performance - Vanitas

Green Room Awards Association
2019

Commissioned Artist for The Goat Island Archive and Chicago Year of Theater

City of Chicago
2019

Jackman Goldwasser Resident Artist

Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago
2018

The Webby Award - Nomination - Art & Experimental Mobile Sites & Apps - Vanitas

International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
2018

Feasibility Study Funding - Child of Now - Arts Centre Melbourne

City of Melbourne
2018

PVI Collective and Blast Theory International Residency

Australia Council For The Arts
2018

Excellence in Teaching Award 2018 - Victorian College of Arts

Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
2015

Positive Champion Award - Received on behalf of The Victorian College of the Arts

Living Positive Victoria
2015

Regional Training and Engagement Fund - FRISK: Festival of New Work (Natimuk)

Creative Victoria and The Victorian College of the Arts
2015

Dean's Discretionary Fund - Delegation of students & staff to attend UNESCO International Theatre Institute Asia-Pacific Bureau of Drama Schools

University of Melbourne
2014

Regional Training and Engagement Fund - FRISK: Festival of New Work (Natimuk and Benalla)

Creative Victoria and The Victorian College of the Arts
2014

Digital Theatre Fund with Arts House Melbourne

Australia Council For The Arts
2014

Special Project Funding - ENUF is Enough project in collaboration with Living Positive Victoria

VCA Foundation Board
2013

Regional Training and Engagement Fund - ‘Three Performances of Community’ project in partnership with Centre for Cultural Partnerships

Creative Victoria and The Victorian College of the Arts
2012

Conference and Creative Research Activity Fund

University of Melbourne
2011

Made in Scotland - Curated Edinburgh Festivals Showcase Fund

Creative Scotland
2008

National Touring Fund

Scottish Arts Council
2006

Seed Funding

Scottish Arts Council
2006

SURGE! Commission

Tramway, Glasgow
2005

Creative Lab Residency 2005 (year long)

Centre for Contemporary Art
2004

Creative Lab Residency 2004 (year long)

Centre for Contemporary Art
2003

Dark Lights Commission

Tramway, Glasgow
2011

FHEA - Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK)

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Dean'S Research Fellow

Fine Arts and Music

Fellow

Higher Education Academy

Education

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The University of Melbourne

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Teaching and Learning in Higher Arts Education

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Master of Science Information Technology

The University of Glasgow

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Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

United Kingdom