Artist and university professor specializing in new media. After earning a Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne, she worked as a biochemist at hospitals and clinics. In the mid-1970s she started working as a computer analyst and programmer, and in 1984 she started a career in the 3D animation and special effects industry in the United States and Australia. In the late 1980s she focused on her academic career and on digital art, delving into the subjects of art-technology integration, and the relations between body, gender and subjectivity, which ultimately led to her writing the paper Thinking of Oneself as a Computer, published in several specialized magazines. In 1999 she won a new media grant from the Australia Council. In 2004 she defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Western Sidney. She is a former professor at the School of Creative Arts of Melbourne University. She is currently a professor at James Cook University, which has several campuses across Australia and in Singapore.