Reports
Swalwell, Melanie, Helen Stuckey, Cynde Moya, Denise de Vries. “Collecting, Curating, Preserving, and Researching Media Arts: A good practice report.” 2023. https://doi.org/10.25916/sut.26255072 https://aama.net.au/resources-2/
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Moya, Cynde, Melanie Swalwell. “Building Better Environments: A Methodology for Configuring and Selecting Emulation Environments in EAASI”, Preservation, Digital Technology and Culture (forthcoming).
Swalwell, Melanie, Helen Stuckey, Denise de Vries, Cynde Moya, Candice Cranmer, Sharon Frost, Angela Goddard, Steven Miller, Carolyn Murphy, and Nick Richardson. “Archiving Australian Media Arts: A Project Overview,” Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, vol. 51, no. 4 (2022): 155-166. https://doi.org/10.1515/pdtc-2022-0026
Peer Reviewed Conference Papers
de Vries, Denise, Cynde Moya, Helen Stuckey, Melanie Swalwell. “AusEaaSI and Archiving Australian Media Art” (poster), iPres, Ghent and Flanders, Belgium, 16-20 September 2024. https://zenodo.org/records/13361955
Ellis, Taryn. “SAVING STAN: Preserving the Digital Artwork of Joseph Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski,” iPRES 2023: The 19th International Conference on Digital Preservation, Champaign-Urbana, IL, US. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121111
Moya, Cynde. “Using AusEAASI and Protoweb to Restore Hybrid Internet/CD-ROM Artwork Metabody by Stelarc,” iPRES 2025, Wellington, New Zealand / Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa. 3-7 November 2025. https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail/o:2199476
Swalwell, Melanie. “The Australian Emulation Network: Accessing Born Digital Cultural Collections,” Proceedings of the Second Summit on New Media Art Archiving, ISEA 2022, Barcelona, 10-16 June 2022, pp. 40-45. https://isea-archives.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ISEA2022_Proceedings-of-the-Second-Summit-on-New-Media-Art-Archiving.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/471461
Presentations
Barnott-Clement, Rebecca. “Preserving Complex Born-digital/Software-based Artworks and the PREMIS Metadata Framework.” Conference presentation. Born Digital Heritage Now 2023. ACMI, Melbourne, 29 Nov–1 December 2023. https://vimeo.com/903189454?fl=pl&fe=cm
Burgess, Matthew and Roxi Ruuska. “Bit by Bit: Preserving Collections on Digital Carriers.” Conference presentation. Born Digital Heritage Now 2023. ACMI, Melbourne, 29 Nov–1 December 2023. https://vimeo.com/901710766?fl=pl&fe=cm
Chan, Seb, Patrick McIntyre, and Melanie Swalwell. “Preservation Futures.” Conference panel discussion. Born Digital Heritage Now 2023. ACMI, Melbourne, 29 Nov–1 December 2023. https://vimeo.com/906178801?fl=pl&fe=cm
Cranmer, Candice. “Balancing Bulk Processing with Responsive Access Methods at ACMI.” Conference presentation. Born Digital Heritage Now 2023. ACMI, Melbourne, 29 Nov–1 December 2023. https://vimeo.com/903189454?fl=pl&fe=cm
Cranmer, Candice and Cynde Moya. “Embedding EaaSI at ACMI to access legacy works,” Conference panel presentation. National Digital Forum, Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand, 21 November 2023. https://www.ndf.org.nz/ndf-videos/v/embedding-eaasi-at-acmi-to-access-legacy-works-candice-cranmer-dr-cynde-moya
Cubitt, Sean. “Emulation and Infrastructure.” Keynote presentation. Born Digital Heritage Now 2023. ACMI, Melbourne, 29 Nov–1 December 2023. https://vimeo.com/899750150?fl=pl&fe=cm
Dobbie, Xanthe and V Barratt. “Art + Film presentation Contemporary Cyberfeminism,” (Screening The Long Now + discussion with VNS Matrix V Barratt), ACMI, Melbourne, 21 May 2023. https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/artfilm/cyberfeminism-xanthe-dobbie-v-barratt/
Ellis, Taryn. “Saving Stan: Preserving the Digital Artwork of Joseph Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski.” Conference presentation. Born Digital Heritage Now 2023. ACMI, Melbourne, 29 Nov–1 December 2023. https://vimeo.com/900481837?fl=pl&fe=cm
Fleming, Joanna, and Lisa Mansfield. “Beyond File Borders: Digital Preservation of Time-based Art.” Conference presentation. Born Digital Heritage Now 2023. ACMI, Melbourne, 29 Nov–1 December 2023. https://vimeo.com/903189454?fl=pl&fe=cm
Goddard, Angela and Patrick Lester. “From Centre to Museum: Revisiting CD Rom works in Griffith University’s Collection.” Conference presentation. Born Digital Heritage Now 2023. ACMI, Melbourne, 29 Nov–1 December 2023. https://vimeo.com/901408113?fl=pl&fe=cm
Moya, Cynde. “Archiving Australian media arts.” Conference presentation. Joint Technical Symposium 2026, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, 3-4 March 2026. https://vimeo.com/1173163318/2a6b74bfd3
Moya, Cynde. “Building an Environment Creation Workflow for AusEaaSI Using the ACMS Software Accession.” Conference presentation. Born Digital Heritage Now 2023. ACMI, Melbourne, 29 Nov–1 December 2023. https://vimeo.com/903189454?fl=pl&fe=cm
Moya, Cynde (panelist and facilitator), with Melanie Swalwell, Ben Abbott, Bryony Cavallaro, Sally O’Callaghan, Felipe Olivares, Beatrice Zhang. “AusEAASI in Practice: Emulation Use Cases from Australia,” panel at iPRES 2025, the 21st International Conference on Digital Preservation, Wellington, New Zealand, 5 November 2025.
Murphy, Carolyn (Chair), with Candice Cranmer, Rebecca Barnott-Clement, Dr Cynde Moya, and Patricia Falcão. “Conserving Time-based Media Art,” Conference panel. Born Digital Cultural Heritage, online and ACMI, Melbourne, 16–18 February 2022. https://vimeo.com/679053172?fl=pl&fe=sh
O’Brien, Chelsey and Candice Cranmer. “Preserving the Present: contemporary media in the museum,” MuseumNext: Digital Collections Summit, Online conference, 6 October 2021.
Pandilovski, Melentie (Chair), Michael Conner, Angela Goddard, Helen Stuckey. “Curating Historic Media Art,” Born Digital Heritage Conference 2022. Online 16–18 February 2022. https://vimeo.com/678971943?fl=pl&fe=sh
Stuckey, Helen “Archiving Australian Media Arts” Digital Media Art History panel, AAANZ, Sydney/online, 8–10 December 2021.
Stuckey, Helen, “Archiving Australian Media Arts: Towards a Method and a National Collection” Born Digital Cultural Heritage Conference, ACMI, Melbourne, 16-19 February 2022.
Stuckey, Helen, Cynde Moya, Candice Cranmer, Xanthe Dobbie, Troy Innocent. “Archiving Australian Media Arts of the 1990s: Towards a method and a national collection,” ISEA, Brisbane, 21–29 June 2024. https://www.isea-symposium-archives.org/publications/
Swalwell, Melanie. “AusEAASI: From Game Preservation to Software Preservation.” Keynote presentation. Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approaches, an Online Symposium, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, 12 March 2026. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuSH8QYlqUs
Swalwell, Melanie, Kimberlee Weatherall and Stuart Buchanan. Moderated by Matt Millikan. “Presenting the new canon in 2050.” Conference panel discussion, Future of Arts, Culture & Technology (FACT), ACMI, Melbourne, 14–15 February, 2024. https://www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-ideas/presenting-new-canon-fact-2024-symposium
Swalwell, Melanie. “Consortia in Digital Heritage Research: the ‘Archiving Australian Media Arts’ project and beyond,” Keynote presentation, Born Digital Cultural Heritage Now, 29 November 2023, https://aama.net.au/program/
Swalwell, Melanie. “Incrementalism in the preservation of complex digital artefacts.” Keynote, DH Days, Lausanne, 23 June, 2022. https://youtu.be/ktDPnHS20Js?t=18692
Swalwell, Melanie, Cynde Moya, Seb Chan, Adam Bell, “Preserving and sharing Australian media art with shared emulation infrastructure,” AMAGA Conference, Perth/online, 17 June 2022.
Swalwell, Melanie “The Australian Emulation Network: Accessing Born Digital Cultural Collections,” ISEA Second Summit on New Media Art Archiving, Barcelona/remote, 10 June 2022. https://www.isea-symposium-archives.org/publications/
Swalwell, Melanie (panelist and chair), with Adam Bell, Elliott Bledsoe, Seb Chan, Euan Cochrane & Rowena Loo. “Software Strategies”, “Emulation and Research” panel, Born Digital Cultural Heritage 2022, 16–19 February, 2022. https://vimeo.com/678525800?fl=pl&fe=sh
Swalwell, Melanie (panelist and organiser) with Helen Stuckey, Angela Goddard and Cynde Moya. Digital Preservation and Emulation in the Context of Digital Media Art History panel, AAANZ, Sydney/online, 8–10 December 2021.
Swalwell, Melanie, Cynde Moya, “Born Digital Remains: Creative Micro-computing in Australia, 1976–92,” SIGCIS 2021: Online edition, 23–25 September 2021.
Swalwell, Melanie “Australian Media Arts Heritage: Towards a national distributed collection,” Presentation, ISEA, Montreal, Quebec Canada, 16 October, 2020 (streamed online). https://www.isea-symposium-archives.org/publications/
Swalwell, Melanie (chair), Chris Henschke, Irene Proebsting, and Martine Corompt. “Reviewed/Reconstructed.” Conference panel discussion. Born Digital Heritage Now 2023. ACMI, Melbourne, 29 Nov–1 December 2023. https://vimeo.com/906196448?fl=pl&fe=vl
Swalwell, Melanie. Emulation panel discussion. Online meeting. AusPreserves, 19 August 2020. https://australasiapreserves.blogspot.com/2020/08/august-meetup-emulation.html
Talboom, Leontien, Andrew Jackson, Matthew P. Burgess, Cynde Moya, Adam Bell, “Preservation.exe: Working with ICT in Digital Preservation.” Panel at iPRES 2025, the 21st International Conference on Digital Preservation, Wellington, 6 November 2025.
Awards
Radical Utopia: An Archaeology of a Creative City. Winner 2023 Australian Museums and Galleries Association Victoria small project award, curated by Harriet Edquist and Helen Stuckey with Melanie Swalwell. https://research-repository.rmit.edu.au/articles/event/RADICAL_UTOPIA_An_Archaeology_of_a_Creative_City/27402681
Press/Media
Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM) Newsletters: August 2023; December 2023; April 2024; August 2024.
Chantiri, Emily. “The race to save Australia’s digital heritage: Conserving the history of computing for future generations,” ACS Information Age, 11 March 2024. https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/the-race-to-save-australia-s-digital-heritage.htm
Cranmer, Candice “Making legacy videogames and interactive artworks playable with EAASI via ACMI’s website,” Medium. 2 May 2022. https://labs.acmi.net.au/making-legacy-videogames-and-artworks-playable-with-eaasi-via-acmis-website-43c686dfe947
Cranmer, Candice. “Archiving Australian Media Arts,” ACMI Stories & Ideas. 18 October 2023. https://www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-ideas/archiving-australian-media-arts/
Cranmer, Candice. “Archiving Australian Media Arts,” Artlink, 46:1, Autumn–Winter 2026. https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/6196/archiving-australian-media-arts/
Lei, Celina. “Predictions for the Arts Canon in 2050,” ArtsHub, 22 February 2024. https://www.artshub.com.au/news/features/predictions-for-the-arts-canon-in-2050-2704487/
Lemon, Barbara. “The Emulation Game” (Scripturient column), Information Professional, Winter 2025, pp. 26–27. https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/InfoPro2025
Maxwell, Jini. “Martine Corompt and the conquest of cuteness,” Presentation, Melbourne Design Week, Victorian Pride Centre, Melbourne, 27 May 2024.
O’Halloran, Brent. “Saving Aussie Media,” Sky News, 9 May 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o5AqZ4MmXY
Olivares, Felipe. “A Pixelated Notion.” LOOK Magazine, December 2024–January 2025, p. 10. Published by Art Gallery Society of New South Wales.
“Shaping Research Software: An interview with Professor Melanie Swalwell,” Australian Research Data Commons, 30 May 2025. https://ardc.edu.au/article/shaping-research-software-an-interview-with-professor-melanie-swalwell/
Strange Cities Productions. “Strange Cities interactive curated in Play It Again- Archiving Australian Media Arts 2024,” Strange Cities Productions blog, 2024. https://strangeblackbox.net/2023/12/11/strange-cities-interactive-curated-in-play-it-again-archiving-australian-media-arts-2023/
Events & Exhibitions
Born Digital Cultural Heritage 2022, ACMI, Melbourne, 16–19 February 2022. https://playitagainproject.com/conference/conference_program/
Born Digital Cultural Heritage Now, Online/ACMI, Melbourne 29 November-1 December 2023. https://aama.net.au/conference/aboutbdch23/
Corompt, Martine. Cute Machine Display, (Cabinet display featuring the preservation of the on the CDROM Cute Machine) part of The Story of the Moving Image, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (2023-2026).
Dobbie, Xanthe. Matrix Re-Loaded, RMIT First Site Gallery (11 July–4 August 2023).
Dobbie, Xanthe. “Cyberfeminism Reading Group.” Matrix Reloaded Public Program, First Site Gallery RMIT (12 July 2023).
Dobbie, Xanthe. “Confession Booth, ”Matrix Reloaded Public Program, First Site Gallery RMIT, First Site Gallery RMIT (2 August 2023).
Dobbie, Xanthe. “Matrix Reloaded Workshops,” Matrix Reloaded Public Program, First Site Gallery RMIT, First Site Gallery RMIT (19 & 26 July 2023).
Revisiting Australian CD-ROM Art of the 1990s, curated by Melanie Swalwell & Helen Stuckey, online exhibition (July 2026-ongoing). https://1990s-cdrom-art.au/
Stuckey, Helen, Melanie Swalwell. “Born Digital and the Emergence of Digital Tools and Design” in Radical Utopia: An archaeology of a creative city, exhibition curated by Harriet Edquist and Helen Stuckey, RMIT Design Archives/Gallery (21 Feb–2 May 2023). Winner, Small Project of the Year (Gallery), AMAGA (Victoria) Awards 2023.
Swalwell, Melanie, Cynde Moya, Side by Side, exhibition of 2 1990s games and 5 1990s media artworks running on original hardware and in Emulation as a Service Infrastructure (EaaSI), Swinburne University of Technology (10 February 2023).
The Choice is Yours, Griffith University Art Museum (coinciding with ISEA 2024), curated by Patrick Lester (6 June–3 August 2024). https://www.griffith.edu.au/art-museum/moving-image-sound-archive/programs
New Artworks
Dobbie, Xanthe. “Call Out Prompt and Eulogy to Ghost” (Editor’s Letter) Runway Journal, Issue #46: GHOST, 2023. https://runway.org.au/issues/issue-46-ghost
Dobbie, Xanthe. The Long Now (2022), Gallery 5, Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
Dobbie, Xanthe. EIDOLON (2021), Shortwave, Sydney Opera House.
Dobbie, Xanthe. Real_Things (2021), Contemporary Arts Digital Shorts Program (CADS), Munch Museum, Norway.
Dobbie, Xanthe. Cloud_Copy (2023), for Conflict is my Outlook: Don’t Be Evil, curated by Anna Briers The University of Queensland Art Museum.
Research Documents & Misc.
de Vries, Denise, Melanie Swalwell. “Media Arts in Australian Collections”, electronic dataset, Swinburne University, Melbourne (2020). https://www.aama.net.au/maac/
Sample Interview Questions (Access as pdf).
Permissions Document-Virtualities case study (Access as pdf).
~32 media artworks from the 1990s, preserved and emulated, from the Archiving Australian Media Arts Linkage Project.
