Dr Robert Walton
ARC DECRA Senior Fellow
Victorian College of the Arts
52 Scholarly works
6 Projects
HIGHLIGHTS
2026
Research grants (other domestic)
Flashover Next Steps - Ember: A National Portrait After Black Summer [Working Title]
2026
Book Chapter
First Encounter Dramaturgy with Multi-robot Swarms (Without Mentioning Robots!)
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-2398-6_412026
Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)
Why the Robot Crossed the Road: Can AI Perform Believable Comedy?
2025
Book Chapter
Computer Science and Performance
DOI: 10.4324/9781003231394-132025
Book Chapter
Learning Through Art: Speculative Pasts and Pedagogical Imaginaries
DOI: 10.24981/2025-ltasppi2022
Original Creative Work
Sacrifice: Contemplating Time and Trust
2018
Research Contracts
Child of Now
RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS
2025
Recorded or Rendered Work
Fire Orchids – Pyrorchis nigricans have fleshy, oval leaves and form colonies which flower profusely after bushfires
DOI: 10.26188/318079692025
Recorded or Rendered Work
'All we found were bones,' say veterinary workers distressed at the remains of three billion native vertebrates that perished.
DOI: 10.26188/318078282025
Recorded or Rendered Work
4 of 64,500 volunteers — Diptych of volunteer firefighters in portrait and landscape. Each firefighter's backdrop is co-created from their memories of encounters with fire
DOI: 10.26188/318079842025
Recorded or Rendered Work
Flashover — A perpetual film shot from a firefront's perspective as it moves through a pristine forest, transforming life into fuel and reducing its complexity to homogenous carbon remains: ash
DOI: 10.26188/318474582025
Recorded or Rendered Work
I saw the air burn — Computer simulation of a perpetual fire vortex that never burns out, diminishes, ends or begins
DOI: 10.26188/318080262025
Recorded or Rendered Work
24 million hectares burned, an area larger than 124 countries, including Monaco, Gibraltar, Tuvalu, Bermuda, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands, Aruba, American Samoa, Cayman Islands, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Maldives, Malta, Grenada, Virgin Islands, Mayotte, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Seychelles, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Guam, Saint Lucia, Singapore, Bahrain, Tonga, Dominica, Netherlands Antilles, Kiribati, Turks and Caicos Islands, Sao Tome and Principe, Faroe Islands, Comoros, Mauritius, Luxembourg, Samoa, French Polynesia, Cape Verde, Trinidad and Tobago, Brunei, Puerto Rico, Cyprus, The Gambia, The Bahamas, Lebanon, Jamaica, Qatar, Vanuatu, East Timor, Swaziland, Kuwait, Fiji, New Caledonia, Slovenia, El Salvador, Israel, Belize, Djibouti, Rwanda, Burundi, Albania, Haiti, Solomon Islands, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Armenia, Belgium, Lesotho, Moldova, Netherlands, Bhutan, Switzerland, Estonia, Denmark, Slovakia, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Togo, Latvia, Lithuania, Sri Lanka, Ireland, Georgia, Sierra Leone, Panama, Czech Republic, Austria, Azerbaijan, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Serbia and Montenegro, Hungary, Portugal, Malawi, Liberia, Iceland, Eritrea, Guatemala, Bulgaria, Cuba, Benin, Honduras, Nicaragua, Greece, Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Nepal, Tunisia, Suriname, Uruguay, Cambodia, Syria, Kyrgyzstan, Senegal, Guyana, Uganda, Belarus, Ghana, Romania, Laos, United Kingdom
DOI: 10.26188/318100002025
Recorded or Rendered Work
Flashover (installation)
DOI: 10.26188/31807813
RECENT PROJECTS
2018
Research Contracts
Vanitas