Me, Myself and AI

Dr Clem Bastow (they/them) is a screenwriter and researcher from Naarm/Melbourne. Clem has a PhD (RMIT, 2023) in something incredibly cool but difficult to explain in the space of an elevator ride. Their thesis, '"I can’t describe what I’m feeling”: reframing Autism and Hollywood action towards an Autistic screenwriting practice' examined the creative intersections of Autistic experience, screenwriting practice, and Hollywood action movies. Clem works as a screenwriter, story consultant and neurodiversity consultant for film and TV, most recently for Spooky Files (ABC/BBC, 2023). They have contributed chapters to books including Investigating Stranger Things (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021) and ReFocus: The Films Of Elaine May (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Their writing appears regularly in The Guardian. Clem’s debut nonfiction book, Late Bloomer (Hardie Grant Books) was published in July 2021, and they are currently co-editing Someone Like Me, a collection of essays by Autistic gender-diverse people and women for UQP with Jo Case. Clem lives and works on Wurundjeri land with their dog, Milly.

Cat Sparks is a multi-award-winning Australian author, editor and artist with a PhD examining the intersection between ecocatastrophe science fiction and climate fiction. Career highlights include five years as Fiction Editor of Cosmos Magazine, directing two speculative fiction festivals for Writing NSW, participating in the Science Fiction as a Lens into Future War seminar at the Centre for Defence Research ADC (2019), running Agog! Press, working as an archaeological dig photographer in Jordan, studying with Margaret Atwood, 90+ published short stories, two collections – The Bride Price (2013) and Dark Harvest (2020) and a far future novel, Lotus Blue (2017) best described as 'Mad Max meets Ghost in the Shell'. Calvaria Fell, a shared world collection with Kaaron Warren, was published by Meerkat Press in 2024. Other interests include climate activism & photography.

James Harland is the inaugural Director of the STEM Hub for Digital Innovation (HuDINi) and a Professor of Computational Logic at RMIT University. Professor Harland has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, and has been a staff member at RMIT since 1994. He has an international reputation for his research into logic programming, automated reasoning, intelligent agents, interactive narratives, Turing machines and computer science education. He has taught various courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and has managed offshore programs at RMIT Vietnam and in Malaysia. The HuDINi's mission is to develop world-leading practice in STEM teaching through digital innovation via various technological innovations, including augmented reality technologies, digital laboratories, chatbots, automated marking and studio-based teaching.

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