Job Opportunity: Research Associate

There is currently a position open for a Research Associate who will work on the “Play It Again” project, a multi-disciplinary project to create a playable history of Australasian digital games, for industry, community and research purposes. The focus of this research...

International Council on Archives

Mr David Fricker, who is the President of the International Council on Archives and Director-General of the National Archives of Australia, visited the Computer Archaeology Laboratory today. Dr de Vries and Mr Fricker discussed the complexities of digital preservation...

Preserving Microbee software with MSPP

Last month, we were lucky enough to have a visit from Alan Laughton, of the Microbee Software Preservation Project (MSPP).  MSPP is a collaborator in the project we have been undertaking with the State Library of South Australia, “Computer Disk Collections at the...

Lab Launch

Marty Gauvin (Tier 5 and Flinders University Council) officially launched our new Computer Archaeology Lab last Thursday, 30th April.  You can read the press release about it here. Several media outlets (including The Advertiser and ABC Perth) were good enough to pick...

Lunchtime seminar

There will be a lunchtime research seminar of the Dept of Screen and Media, on Monday 4th May from 1pm, featuring papers by two scholars, Graeme Kirkpatrick (UK/Sweden) and Melanie Swalwell (Flinders), working in the emerging field of game history. You are welcome to...