Dr Marsha Berry

Position	Senior Lecturer
School / Work Unit	Media and Communication
Contact Details	+(61 3) 9925 2592 marsha.berry@rmit.edu.au
Location	Building: 14 Level: 11 Room: 14 City Campus
Portfolio	Design & Social Context

On this page:

• Qualifications
• Research and scholarship

Qualifications

PhD: English and Cultural studies. Monash University

MEd (Hons):James Cook University

BA, Monash University

Dip Ed, Monash University

Research and scholarship

Dr Marsha Berry is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Creative Media. She is a founding member of the Mobile Media Research Group at RMIT University. Berry has published her research in mobile media and its relationship with place and memory at nationally and internationally significant conferences and journals. Berry is currently leading a research team that is building a wireless Bluetooth system for locative and mobile media.

Berry is a founding a member of Evolved Art. She has exhibited her work using genetic algorithms in recognised international and regional art galleries. She contributed to several of the group’s refereed publications at highly regarded international conferences.

Berry has also made significant contributions in education and new media through the implementation of blogging software in 2002 and as a result of this work she was invited to be a lead investigator in a research study in 2005 exploring the use of Tablet PCs in the design process with students from the Bachelor of Design (Multimedia Systems). This research was reported at significant national and international conferences. She has published papers on user experience and HCI and received the Best Paper award in the International Conference on Computers in Education 2004, organized by the Asia Pacific Society for Computers in Education. She has also worked with a nationally recognised multimedia expert (Reece Lamshed) to design and develop wizards to assist educational designers to develop online instructional material that is sound pedagogically, usable and accessible by people with disabilities, visit Binary Blue blog (Opens in new window).

Supervision of research students including number / level of students

4 Masters & 1 PhD completions, currently senior supervisor for 3 PhD students, co-supervisor for 1 PhD, senior supervisor for 3 Masters students and co-supervisor for 1 Masters.

Grants obtained

2009 DRI Seeding grants (3) – Geoplaced Knowledge Program and Urban Fields Program

2008 DRI Seeding grants (3) – Geoplaced Knowledge Program and Urban Fields Program

2007 HP Digital Publishing $75,000

2005 HP Mobile Computing $150,000

2004 Telematics Trust for VCE Multimedia resources with Binary Blue $30,000

2003 ANTA Applied Research Grant - Web Accessibility $45,000

2002 TAFE Frontiers. for Weblogs Grant $25,000

2001 Telematicss Trust for Usability Wizard $25,000

2000 TAFE Frontiers. for Digital Data Casting Grant $15,000

Book Chapters

Berry, M., Hamilton, M., Herzog, N., Padgham, L and Van Schyndel, R. (2007) Enhancing Learning Through Mobile Computing. In Enhancing Learning Through Human Computer Interaction. Idea Group Reference, London. Pages 57 – 75

Refereed Journals

Berry, M (forthcoming, accepted Dec 2007) Exiled, Always Elsewhere: Video as an Expression of Postmemory. Amsterdam Journal Of Cultural Narratology

Berry, M (2008) Locative Media: Geoplaced Tactics of Resistance. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Vol. 4, Issues 2 & 3, pp101-116.

Berry, M and Hamilton, M (forthcoming, accepted November 2008) Changing Urban Spaces: Mobile Phones on Trains, Mobilities

Berry, M., Armstrong, L and Lamshed, R (2006) ‘Meeting accessibility guidelines: lessons from Australia’. International Journal of Cont. Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning (Inderscience Publishers), Vol. 16 Nos. 3/4, 2006.

Armstrong, L, Berry, M and R, Lamshed, (2004) ‘Blogs as Electronic Learning Journals.’ e-Journal of Instructional Science and Technology (Opens in new window) (e-JIST). Vol 7. No 1

Refereed Conferences

Berry, M (2008) A Displaced Place (Dresden): Reading Place Against Postmemory. Global Arts/Local Knowledge, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, 30 June – 5 July 2008, Melbourne, Australia

Shahrul Badariah Mat Sah, Vic Ciesielski, Daryl D'Souza, and Marsha Berry. (2008) Comparison between genetic algorithm and genetic programming performances for photomosaics generation. In SEAL '08: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning,, 7 – 10 December 2008.

Berry, M (2007) Mobile Phones, Networked Selves, Media Ecologies. Mobile Media: an international conference on social and cultural aspect of mobile phones, convergent media, and wireless technologies, 2-4 July 2007, The University of Sydney, Australia , pp143-150

Ciesielski, V, Berry, M, Trist, K and D’Souza, D (2007) Evolution of Animated Photomosaics. EvoMUSART2007, Fifth European Workshop on Evolutionary Music and Art incorporated in Evo* 2007, Valencia, Spain, 11-13 April 2007

D’Souza, D, Berry, M, Ciesielski, V and Trist, K (2007) Generation of Self-Referential Animated Photomosaics. ACM Multimedia, MM’07, September 23–28, 2007, Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. Copyright 2007 ACM 978-1-59593-701-8/07/0009

De la Harpe, B, Peterson , J F, Berry, M, Horvat, L and Anastasiou, P. (2007) Studio collaboration across disciplinary and International Borders. In Proceedings of ConnectEd International Conference on Design Education, Sydney, Australia, 9–12 July 2007

Peterson , J F, De la Harpe, B, Berry, M, Horvat, L and Anastasiou, P. (2007) Digital Publishing and Virtual Mobility in a Creative Knowledge Network. In Proceedings of EdMedia World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Vancouver, Canada, 25–29 June 2007

Hamilton, M and Berry, M (2007) ‘Mobile Computing, Games and Online  

Communities: Changes to the Communicative Ecology of Multimedia Design Students Through Mobile Computing, Part 2.’ Copyright © 2007,  

Australian Computer Society, Inc. Eighth Australasian Computing  

Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia, January

Shortis, M, McGovern, J, Berry, M and Farrel, M. (2006) Two case studies on the influence of mobile computing on student learning behaviour. Creativity, Challenges, Change: Partnerships in Engineering Education, 17th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Dec 10-12, 2006, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.

Berry, M and Hamilton, M. (2006) "Generational Computing Tastes: Tablet PCs in the Communicative Ecology of Multimedia Design Students" AACE--Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, E-Learn 2006--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, October 13-17, 2006.

Berry, M and Hamilton, M. (2006) ‘Mobile Computing, Visual Diaries, Learning and Communication: Changes to the Communicative Ecology of Design Students Through Mobile Computing’. Copyright © 2006, Australian Computer Society, Inc. This paper appeared at the Eighth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2006), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, January 2006. Conferences in Research in Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 52.team use of Tablet PCs.

Keep, D and Berry M. (2005) ‘Narratives in Miniature: Aesthetics for Mobiles’. Informit RMIT Library: Vital Signs: Creative Practice and New Media Now. Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 7 – 9 September 2005.

Armstrong, L., Berry, M and Lamshed, R. (2004) ‘Reflective Learning and Blogs.’ International Conference on Computers in Education 2004 Proceedings, Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE) Melbourne Exhibition Centre, 30 November to 3 December 2004.

Berry, M., Armstrong, L and Lamshed, R. (2004) ‘Technology of Delivery or Vehicle of Exclusion: Levels of Accessibility Conformance in Australian Colleges.’ International Conference on Computers in Education 2004 Proceedings, Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE) Melbourne Exhibition Centre, 30 November to 3 December 2004. APSCE Award for Best Paper.

Berry, M. (2004) ‘Selves in Process: Theatre Community Discursive Practices.’ Informit RMIT Library: Image, Text and Sound 2004: The Yet Unseen: Rendering Stories. Trades Hall, Carlton, Victoria, 21 – 22 September 2004

Selected Exhibitions

2008, Left to our own devices, RMIT University, Melbourne

2008, Australian Gothic, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Perth

2008, A House, A Home, Project Space, Melbourne

2008 Order of Magnitude, Queensland Centre of Photography, Brisbane

2007 Order of Magnitude, First Site Gallery, Melbourne

2007 Australian Gothic, Project Space, Melbourne

2007 Australian Gothic, Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany

2007 Art Escapes, Valencia, Spain

2006 W11 – Melbourne to Karachi, VM Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan

1994 Pure Pleasure, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Australia

Selected Performance Art, Theatre and Collaborations

2006/2007 W11- Tram; Tram Overheard, Tram Otherwise, Tram Overboard, Melbourne (Opens in new window)

1995 Feet of Clay, Performing Arts Centre, Monash University, Clayton

1995 Vampires in the Kitchen, Nuremburg Conservatory of Music, Nuremburg, Germany

1994 Women of Troy, The Cowshed, Townsville

1993 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Karnack Theatre, North Queensland

1993 Another Time, Another Place, Cairns Civic Theatre, Cairns

1993 Another Time, Another Place, Townsville Civic Theatre, Townsville

1992 Our Lady of the Massacre, Tropic Line, Townsville Little Theatre, Townsville

1990 Under Milkwood, Townsville Civic Theatre, Townsville

1989 Poozle, The Cowshed, Townsville, Australia

Commissioned Projects and Workshops

Lamshed, R, Berry, M and Armstrong, l (2003) Keys to Access: Accessibility Conformance in VET. Report commissioned by ANTA, (Grant $45,000)

Lamshed, R, Berry, M & L, Armstrong, (2002) Weblogs – Personal e-Learning Spaces. TAFE Frontiers website. (Grant $25,000)

Berry, M., Lamshed, R & L, Armstrong, L (2002) Usability Wizard for E-learning Resources. (Grant $25,000) (Opens in new window)

Berry, M and Lewis Fitzgerald, C (2002) Weblogs Workshop: An Introduction to an Interactive Tool for Flexible Learning Flexible Delivery Models @ RMIT in new learning environments Forum Program

Berry, M, Lamshed, R & R, Kelso, (2000) Digital TV and Datacasting: Opportunities for Education and Training (Grant $15,000) (Opens in new window)

Berry, M (2003) ‘Writing Listening.’ Paper for Practice Based Research: Recognition, Relevance and Rigour. (RMIT research conference)

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