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Tom Willma

Tom Willma

PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Art & Design

贰尘补颈濒:听t.willma@unsw.edu.au

厂耻辫别谤惫颈蝉辞谤蝉:听Oliver Bown, Anna Munster

My research strides across the fields of media studies and science and technology studies, broadly conceived. I鈥檓 particularly interested in the relationships between creative labour and contemporary technologies (think generative AI, machine learning, metaverse, digital avatars, cloud technologies etc). My specialisation is on the music industry, targeting recent music-tech transformations and the commodification of ideological labour. I鈥檓 often working across 探花系列 and USYD on a range of projects and teaching courses including as a research assistant with A/Prof. Benedetta Brevini (USYD & NYU) on the ARC funded project 鈥極nline Hostilities in Australian Digital Cultures' (housed at RMIT).

I completed my Bachelor of Arts (Honours) with the University of Sydney and my Bachelor of Music Studies with the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. I鈥檓 also a current member of 探花系列鈥檚 Creative Technologies Research Lab, an Australian Postgraduate Representative for the Australian Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association and a joint HDR Rep (with the incredible Marcia Swaby) for 探花系列鈥檚 school of Art & Design. I鈥檓 always happy to chat so feel free to reach out!
  • Media studies
  • Cultural industries
  • Labour
  • Generative artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning
  • Popular music
  • Live music

Publications

  • Willma, Tom. In press. Beyond Embodiment: Rethinking Avatars in Contemporary Digital Media. Media International Australia.
  • Jovic, D., Butt, M.-A., Stanton, R., & Willma, T. 2023. . AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2022.聽

Conference Presentations

  • Willma, Tom. 2024. Beyond Embodiment: Rethinking Performer Avatars in the Virtual Creative Industry. Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Butt, Mahli-Ann, Ryan Stanton, Dhalia Jovic, and Tom Paul Willma. 2022. Why play when you can watch or listen? Multi-modal engagements in digital gaming. Association of Internet Researchers, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Willma, Tom. 2022. When Game Music Tops the Charts: A Study on K/DA, Riot Games and Mixed Reality. Digital Games Research Association Australia, Virtual Conference, Australia.