University of Western Sydney

Faculty Member, School of Communication Arts

About

Dr Peter Dallow teaches in the School of Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He researches across a number of media and art forms. He has been a member of the Strehlow 'Journey to Horseshoe Bend' online media project, and the DiverCities intercultural online project. Publications include 'Mediatising the Web: The New Media Modularity and Extensibility' in Journal of Media Practice 8(3) 2007, and book chapter 'The Visual Complex: Mapping Some Interdisciplinary Dimensions of Visual Literacy' in Elkins 2008 anthology 'Visual Literacy'; article 'Future Sense: Screen Metaphors in the Digital Age' in online journal 'Movement', issue 1.1, 2009; 'Journey of a Book: The new media reconstruction of a novelistic memoir', International Journal of the Book, Vol. 6 Issue 4, 2009; and ‘The Media Multiverse And Adaptive Virtuality’, in Jahrbuch Immersiver Medien 2011— Immersion, Annaherung, Erkundung. (Yearbook Of Immersive Media 2011 — Immersion: Classifications, Definitions And Explorations.) Marburg: Schüren Verlag. Several other writing projects are, as they say, in development.

The most recent conference presentation is ‘The New Media Multiverse: Digitally Augmented Reality in the Everyday World’, given at the ECREA Digital Culture & Communication 3rd workshop
— Digital Culture: Innovative Practices and Critical Theories workshop in Barcelona, Spain, November 24-25, 2011. In this illustrated talk, it was argued that mediated experience, however immediate it may seem to be, creates ambiguity, distance, creates a shadow over physical reality. It places us in a juxtaposed condition at the intersection of physical space and psychical space. Increasingly though the newer media have been affording new architectures of participation that are not simply virtual worlds we transit, but have begun to virtualize aspects of our everyday world/s.