#BDCH23 SPEAKERS
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Matthew Burgess is the Lead Digital Archivist at the State Library of NSW, responsible for ensuring the long-term preservation and access of the Library’s born-digital collections. He works closely with colleagues who identify and acquire new digital materials and develops and implements policies and procedures for the long-term preservation of digital collections. He leads the Digital Preservation Network for National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA), represents NSLA on the Digital Preservation Coalition’s Australasian stakeholder group, and is a co-organiser for the Australasia Preserves digital preservation community of practice.

Dr Avery Dame-Griff is a Lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies at Gonzaga University. He founded and serves as primary curator of the Queer Digital History Project (queerdigital.com), an independent community history project cataloging and archiving pre-2010 LGBTQ spaces online. His book, The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (August 2023, NYU Press) tracks how the Internet transformed transgender political organizing from the 1980s to the contemporary moment.

Taryn Ellis is a technical professional with nearly two decades experience in the GLAM sector. During this time Taryn has worked across multiple state organisations to record, analyse and preserve both physical and digital heritage material. In her current role as Digital Preservation Technical Analyst at the State Library of South Australia, Taryn is focussed on ensuring ongoing access to the unique collections held in trust for the public.

Angela Goddard is a curator and writer of settler descent. She is Director of the Griffith University Art Museum (GUAM), chair of University Art Museums Australia and a board member of the Sheila Foundation. Recent publications include Richard Bell Reader: TATE Modern, 2023, and Richard Bell Reader: documenta fifteen, 2022 (co-edited with Megan Tamati-Quennell), Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings, 2020 (co-edited with Tim Riley Walsh), and recent exhibitions Round About or Inside co-curated with Wouter Davidts, GUAM, 2021 and Vandenhove, Ghent, 2022, and Rebecca Belmore: Turbulent Water co-curated with Wanda Nanibush, GUAM, 2021 and Buxton Contemporary, 2021-2022.

Kieran Hegarty is a librarian and sociologist. He is currently a PhD candidate at RMIT University and a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. In 2022, he was an inaugural Digital Humanism Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Kieran’s research examines how public institutions and infrastructures are evolving in an era of digital and social media and is published in a range of media and information studies journals, including Internet Histories and New Media & Society.

Richard Lewei Huang is a PhD student at the Information School of the University of Washington, Seattle. He is interested in histories of Internets, web archiving, and software preservation. He holds an M.A. in Media, Culture, and Communication and a B.S. in Interactive Media Arts and Global China Studies from New York University. https://lewei.me

Dr Joseph C. Osborn is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Pomona College.  His research spans media studies, artificial intelligence, and software verification in the domain of videogame design and development.  His current research areas include automatically retrofitting accessibility features onto 1980s-1990s videogames and structured knowledge representations for automated playtesting of adventure and role-playing games.  Dr. Osborn is currently developing the Game and Interactive Software Scholarship Toolkit (GISST) with funding from the US National Endowment for the Humanities.