Nancy Mauro-Flude

Dr. Nancy Mauro-Flude

Lecturer, MDIT

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Collaborative projects
  • Media enquiries
  • Mentoring (long-term)
  • Membership of an advisory committee
  • Industry Projects

About

Nancy Mauro-Flude is a computing arts researcher devising projects at the frontiers of maker culutre. She choreographs explicitly dramatised acts of poetic programming, advancing off-grid lo-fidelity networks and wireless Linux infrastructures to address flora fiction and data fauna awareness disparities.

 

Nancy is a senior supervisor Higher Degree Research candidates, affliliated to the global Practice Based Research Symposium, the Digital Ethnography Research Centre  and Post carbon research

 

As Regenerative Future Fellow she designs transformative courseware (i.e., diverse economies) for delivery across colleges to undergraduate and postgraduate students and to learners in cross-sector contexts. She also leads studio curricula for the Master of Design Innovation and Technology (MDIT) cohort and lectures in philosophies of technology, spatial practices and feminist science technology and science studies.

 

 

 

Her longitutional empirical studies of experiential processes in grassroots contexts notwithstanding the bedlam of feminist-anarchist-web server communities, selected publications include: Thinking with Shells: Decolonising Digital Culturescapes (2025), Writing the Feminist Internet (2024), Caring About the Vast Horizon (2022), Performing with the Aether (2020), and Methodologies of Risk (2017), 

Media

Research fields

  • 330302 Design anthropology
  • 360503 Digital and electronic media art
  • 470102 Communication technology and digital media studies
  • 330313 Social design
  • 430204 Digital heritage

UN sustainable development goals

  • 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • 10 Reduced Inequalities
  • 1 No Poverty
  • 14 Life Below Water

Academic positions

  • Assistant Professor (Communication Performance/Interactive Media)
  • National University Singapore
  • Communications and New Media Department
  • Singapore
  • 5 Aug 2016 – 1 Jun 2018
  • Visiting Associate Professor (Art & Technology)
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • Trondheim Academy of Fine Art
  • Trondheim, Norway
  • 17 Aug 2015 – 11 Jul 2016

Supervisor projects

  • Generative AI as tool to expedite the creation and dissemination of verified news content to marginalised communities.
  • 28 Feb 2024
  • Alien Bodies: Choreographic Worlding toward Unfamiliar Corporeality
  • 1 Feb 2024
  • Ecological Grief, Mobile Media and the situation of Social Change
  • 1 May 2023
  • The Smallest Measure: Signifiers of Atmospheres in Transformation
  • 8 Dec 2021
  • Regenerative: The Making of Social Media Savvy Neo-Farmers
  • 21 Nov 2020
  • Xeno AI. How can Creative Arts Practice Express Disalienation of an AI system?
  • 10 Dec 2019
  • Machine Talking: Speculative Conversations with AI through Practice-oriented Research
  • 30 Aug 2019

Teaching interests

Innovative Research Methodologies, 

Digital Performance, 

Digital Ethnography,

Somatic Design

Theory and Criticism, 

Networked Art Practices, 

Feminist Media Theory

Art and Design History and Theory 

Creative Coding and Low Carbon Creativity,

Dramaturiges for Critical UX Design, 

Aesthetic Human-Computer Interaction,

Computational Poetics and Choreography 

 

 

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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