PIP SHEA

User experience research & design within the Digital Engagement & Strategy Unit at the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services (current).

Director of hackerspace and technology charity, Belfast (2015-2016) http://www.farsetlabs.org.uk/

Research associate on the ARC Discovery project ‘Urban Cultural Policy and the Changing Dynamics of Cultural Production,’ with Professor Justin O’Connor and Dr Xin Gu at Monash University 2017-2018.

I was an invited speaker at the 2008 Alfred Deakin Lectures 2008, curated by Robyn Archer AO. I presented during 2 panels, ‘Innovation: a global view’ and ‘Voices of the Future’.

I received the 2004 Australia Council residency to the Banff Centre for Arts. During my time there I created the net art work ‘My Fellow Australians’. This work was archived by the National Library, and included in an exhibition at the Sydney Opera House.

Investigated the history of WiFi in Australia for the Internet Histories project, an Asia-Pacific wide research project encompassing China, Japan, and Korea. Led by Professor Gerard Goggin, head of the School of Media at the University of Sydney 2012

Exhibition design and development for the Northern Ireland Science Festival project focusing on the Internet of Things 2015-16

Fibreculture 26: Entanglements—activism and technology

I was the lead editor for this issue of the Fibreculture Journal. It explores the entanglements that arise due to frictions between the philosophies embedded within technologies and the philosophies embedded within activism. Co-editors: Tanya Notley and Jean Burgess. Publisher: Open Humanities Press.

Hacker agency and the Raspberry Pi: Informal education and social innovation in a Belfast makerspace
Book chapter in Making Our World: The Hacker and Maker Movements in Context, 2018.

Civic practices, design, and makerspaces
Book chapter in Rethinking Digital Citizenship: Control, Contest and Culture, 2016

Makerspaces and urban ideology: the institutional shaping of Fab Labs in China and Northern Ireland
Journal article in the Journal of Peer Production Issue 12.

The 2006 Next Wave Festival was themed ‘Empire Games’ to coincide with the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. Running alongside all the sporting events was a free cultural festival called Festival Melbourne 2006, and under the Artistic Directorship of Marcus Westbury, Next Wave delivered the Youth Program for this festival.

As part of the festival, I devised and fasciltated the digital art project Bitscape. I worked with youth from Morwell, Wagga Wagga and the Macedon Ranges to create audio-visual works, some of which were displayed as large-scale projections on a 90 metre high power station.

Researched and wrote short form articles and an exhibition catalogue essay for an international program of art-making, exhibitions, and training based at Fab Labs in Madrid, Limerick, Belfast and Derry, 2016.

ABC Radio National - freelance designer, Sydney, Australia 2008-10

Triple J Radio - freelance designer, Sydney, Australia 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) - senior designer, Melbourne, Australia 2007-08

ABC Radio National - freelance designer, Melbourne, Australia 2005-07

ABC International - freelance designer, Melbourne, Australia 2005-07

Australia Network Television - freelance designer, Melbourne, Australia 2005-07

ABC Radio National - freelance designer, Melbourne, Australia 2005-07

ABC Arts Online - designer, developer, producer, Melbourne, Australia 2002-03

Acting executive producer and online community manager at ABC Pool participatory media platform, Sydney, Australia 2009-10

-        Maintained a best practice online engagement hub

-        Negotiated online community governance frameworks

-        Developed participatory media methodologies and protocols

-        Supervised project teams

-        Stakeholder management

-        Published a journal article situating ABC Pool as innovation infrastructure

Design and development of tools for impact measurement in grassroots ‘video for change’ projects. An initiative of the MIT Center for Civic Media and Engage Media 2014