Dr Robert Walton
ARC DECRA Senior Fellow
Victorian College of the Arts
54 Scholarly works
6 Projects
HIGHLIGHTS
2026
Research grants (other domestic)
Flashover Next Steps - Ember: A National Portrait After Black Summer [Working Title]
2026
Conference Proceedings
Flashover: Spatial Storytelling of Wildfire from Memory to Spatial Experience
DOI: 10.1145/3799822.38124582026
Conference Proceedings
First Encounter Dramaturgy with Multi-robot Swarms (Without Mentioning Robots!)
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-2398-6_412026
Journal article
Robot matters: prior implication and empathy in first encounters with a stone-robot swarm
DOI: 10.1080/14794713.2026.27253232026
Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)
Why the Robot Crossed the Road: Can AI Perform Believable Comedy?
2022
Original Creative Work
Sacrifice: Contemplating Time and Trust
2018
Research Contracts
Child of Now
RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS
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-ltasppi2025
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
Fire Orchids – Pyrorchis nigricans have fleshy, oval leaves and form colonies which flower profusely after bushfires
DOI: 10.26188/318079692025
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
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
I saw the air burn — Computer simulation of a perpetual fire vortex that never burns out, diminishes, ends or begins
DOI: 10.26188/31808026
RECENT PROJECTS
2018
Research Contracts
Vanitas