Benjamin Laird
About Benjamin Laird
I am a Research Associate in Software Engineering for Cultural Data at Flinders University, working on AusStage as part of Australian Creative Histories and Futures.
I have a PhD from the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. 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, and a creative technologist, and have taught digital writing.
I also contribute to the literary community by providing technical support to Cordite Poetry Review and as a board member of Australian Poetry.
My essays, posts, and poetry have been published in various places.
