I am really thrilled to have been selected for an online creative and educational programme called 'Meeting of the Waters: Locative Media Oceania' which will run from 18 September to 4 October. The course is hosted by the Centre of Applied Water Science at the @University of Canberra in Australia.

The programme is an online creative and educational program exploring the themes of water, climate change, cultural connections to place, ecosystems health and deep time. I will learn how to use locative media technologies and other collaborative tools to codesign projects concentrating these themes. There are 36 participants in total from across the world, and together we will develop location based artworks about the Oceania region. The themes focus on a shared concern and the need to act for the restoration of ecosystems, living with climate change, plus the impacts of forced migration and the loss of biodiversity.

There is an incredible list of speakers, including Tracey M Benson, Tyson Yunkaporta, Lisa Roberts, Sandy Sur, Michelle Maloney, Andrew Constable, Kate Genevieve @chroma.space , Nola Turner-Jenson, Desna Whaanga-Schollum, Leah Barclay, Brendan Kennedy, Lee Joachim, Bruce Shillingsworth, Josiah Jordan, Nina Czegledy, Pasha Ian Clothier and Trudy Lane.

This image was taken at an expansive beach called Birdlings Flat, looking out at the Pacific Ocean on the Banks Peninsula in Aotearoa New Zealand. I took the image almost a year ago, whilst on a Pale Blue Dot Collective residency at The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand