It’s been an enormous year. Huge strides in terms of my academic identity and specialisation, a rejuvenation of creative practice, worldbuilding, storytelling, and two semesters of teaching across undergrad and postgrad.

More than anything, though, this year has been characterised by a deliberate choice to open up my research, creativity, practice, and weirdo critical-creative play. I’ve delivered ten talks, presentations, papers, facilitated four extended workshops on glitch AI methods, and two guest lectures on AI and media futures. I’ve also published about a dozen blogs/posts on my ongoing work, research, projects.

This sharing has been incredibly daunting: it’s not my default mode at all. And it can be scary to talk about work that is barely in progress, but rather in a constant state of flux and flow. But it has also been hugely rewarding, in terms of hearing about peoples’ excitement, trepidation, and progress in this space.

I ended last year, and started this year, by getting back into drawing. I managed daily sketches until around March/April, and then it dropped right off. But today, in honour of finishing up the last presentation of the year, and because I forgot to take any photos/screenshots, I thought a sketch might be a good way to mark the moment.