Larissa Hjorth is an artist, digital ethnographer and senior lecturer in the Games Programs, School of Media & Communication, RMIT University. Since 2000, Hjorth has been researching and publishing on gendered customising of mobile communication, gaming and virtual communities in the Asia–Pacific — these studies are outlined in her book, Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific (London, Routledge). Hjorth has published widely on the topic in national and International journals in journals such as Games and Culture journal, Convergence journal, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Continuum, ACCESS, Fibreculture and Southern Review and in 2009 co-edited two Routledge anthologies, Gaming Cultures and Place in the Asia–Pacific region (with Dean Chan) and Mobile technologies: from Telecommunication to Media (with Gerard Goggin). In 2010 Hjorth released Games & Gaming textbook (London: Berg).

In 2009 Hjorth began her ARC APD discovery fellowship with Michael Arnold exploring the role of the local and online with communities in the region. This three-year, cross-cultural project will explore six locations – Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Manila, and Melbourne. She is also currently working together with Jack Qiu, Baohua Zhou and Ding Wei on a South China grant studying social media and the migrant working class in China (2009-2011).

As an artist, Hjorth has been awarded various prestigious awards such as Gyeonggi Creation Center art residency (2010), The Australia Council new work fellowship (2006), Australia 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. 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). In 2010 she had a solo exhibition, Still Mobile, at Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in Korea.