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Larissa Hjorth is researcher and artist
lecturing in the Games and Digital Art Programs. Since 2000, Hjorth
has been researching and publishing on gendered customizing of mobile
communication, gaming and virtual communities in the Asia-Pacific.
Hjorth has published widely on the topic in over a dozen refereed articles
in national and International journals such as Convergence journal,
Journal of Intercultural Studies, Continuum, ACCESS, Fibreculture
and Southern Review and single authored chapters in International
high-esteemed publications with presses such as Routledge and Duke University
Press. She is currently editing two Routledge anthologies, Games
of Locality: Gaming cultures in the Asia-Pacific (with Dean Chan)
and Mobile technologies:
from Telecommunication to Media (with Gerard Goggin). Hjorth is
regularly an invited speaker at International conferences on Mobile
Media, Asia-Pacific popular culture, New Media and ICTs.
In 2007, Hjorth co-convened
the International Mobile media conference with Gerard Goggin
(www.mobilemedia2007.net) and the Interactive Entertainment
(IE) conference with Esther Milne (www.ie.rmit.edu.au). She recently edited a special issue
of Games and Culture journal on gaming in the Asia-Pacific region
and has a forthcoming book, Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific
(London, Routledge) available from January 2009. Hjorth is a member
of the ARC Cultural Research Network and recently she was awarded an
ARC discovery grant (and APD) to conduct a longitudinal, cross-cultural
case study of online communities in six locations in the region.
As an artist who has been practicing
for twelve years, Hjorth has been awarded various prestigious awards
such as The Australia Council new work fellowship (2006), Australian
Council Tokyo studio (2000), Akiyoshidai International Art Village residency
(2002) and the Asialink Seoul visual art residency (2005) as well as
gaining over 20 government and corporate grants for her work involving
new media in the region work including Australia Council; Multimedia
Victoria, Besen Foundation; Myer Foundation and Arts Victoria. Hjorth
has had over 10 solo exhibitions at institutions such as EAF and CACSA,
participated in over 50 art exhibitions (such as Yokohama Triennale
2001 with Japanese Internet group, Candy Factory) and curated many
cross-cultural projects such as the Japanese and Australian magazine
and exhibition project, gloss (2002).
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