Benjamin Laird
About Benjamin Laird
I am a research associate in software engineering for cultural data at Flinders University, working on AusStage, and I support the Cordite Poetry Review website in my free time.
I have a PhD from the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University based in Melbourne, Australia. My research was in biographical poetry in print and programmable media. My PhD project, The Code of Things, involved a creative component—poetry in print and programmable media—and a dissertation.
My undergraduate degrees are in engineering and computer science from Swinburne University of Technology and an honours year in creative writing at RMIT University. My honours exegesis, (en)coded poetry: read, write, execute (PDF), concerned the relationship between code and poetry and involved the creation of poems.
I have worked as IT support, a puppet animation technician, a front-end web developer, a web application developer, a software engineer, a creative technologist and taught digital writing.
My essays, posts, and poetry have been published in various places.
In general, I am interested in digital poetry, poetry, metadata, the Semantic Web, Python, literature, publishing, ergodic literature, digital humanities and open source hardware.
