Research output per year
Research output per year
Assoc Professor
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
DP200102612: Designing digital aquatic play to foster Australians’ engagement with water
Research activity per year
The research of Dr. Sarah Jane Pell focuses on the relationship between technological innovation, advanced life support, human factors research, and aesthetic practices in sea and space exploration domains. Pell has extended experience in the visual and performing arts developing new choreographies and expertise in developing multimedia platforms, by converging audio visual new media and traditional arts medias and commercially relevant industry regulation, equipment, technologies and science protocols. Her previous dissertation, Aquabatics as new works of Live Art, explored aqueous philosophies and issues around the human performance experience underwater through practical and theoretical examinations of the diving body producing innovative live art performance laboratories, prototype life support and pneumatic technologies, operational protocols and manuals for the practice of Aquabatics in accordance with Australian and UK ADAS/ HSE Occupational Diver Standards, various lectures, new media exhibitions and publications.
Pell is currently working on interactivity with ocean exploration technologies and aquatic play systems, and designing subspace habitat performance laboratories to test innovative countermeasures and hybridised life support architectures for potential use in outer space applications. Her interest lies in the exploration of the aesthetic possibilities, and economies, of biotelemetries; communications systems; cognitive adaptation; spatial navigation; adaptive systems; actual and virtual presences; the limits and behaviours of human performance in extreme environments; and the creative intelligence potentials of extreme environments sustaining life. This research may lead to significant new thought paradigms, strategies and technologies for future human habitation away from the earth. The intent is to contribute a distinctly human voice to further the sci-techno-medico and sporting terrains of subspace research by asking 'what are the futures we imagine, and how do we begin constructing them?' How can Australia leverage existing research strengths and capabilities to lead enriching programs for space research and space analogues on earth, and in related spaces such as VR and remote stellar outstations. Leadership in this area demands a unique perspective on the poetics, ethics, aesthetics and politics of these spatial intersections.
The significance of Pell's research lies in her ability to critique and extend the human condition through the physical and psychological limits of the body and aesthetics of care operations and life support in extreme environments with new technologies, choreographies and protocols. Furthermore, by documenting how the body adapts to perform in extreme environment habitat situations, new technologies and bio-psycho data with predictive validity for longer durational subspace habitability will result (unhindered by the challenges and limitations of remote ocean operations for example). This research contributes widely to life support system development and understanding: from health care to the defence and military, information and surveillance systems, the mechanisms of public and private institutions, and the design and technology of living systems in, and of themselves for example, and the benefit therefore filters down to deliver wellbeing and enjoyment of Australian's interaction with water.
Visual Arts, PhD, Edith Cowan University
1 Feb 2002 → 1 Mar 2005
Award Date: 1 Apr 2005
Human Movement, Masters of Arts, Victoria University
1 Feb 1996 → 30 Jun 1997
Award Date: 17 Sep 1997
Drawing, Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Melbourne
25 Feb 1993 → 30 Oct 1995
Award Date: 1 Nov 1995
Vice-Chair, ITACCUS, International Astronautical Federation
1 Oct 2018 → 28 Feb 2022Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
Sarah Pell (Member)
Activity: Industry, Government and Philanthropy Engagement and Partnerships › Membership of an advisory panel/policy group/ board
Sarah Pell (Member)
Activity: Industry, Government and Philanthropy Engagement and Partnerships › Membership of an advisory panel/policy group/ board
24/11/19 → 25/11/19
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Article/Feature
Sarah Pell, Susmita Mohunty, Ulrike Kuckner, Bernard H. Foing, Susmita Mohunty, Ulrike Kuckner, Ekaterina Lapina-Kratasyuk, Marko Peljhan, Miha Turšič, Stavros Katsanevas, Rob La Frenais, Andie Gracie, Damien Hartmann, Eléonore Hellio, Jean-Luc Soret, Regina de Miguel, Vanessa Lorenzo, Miha Turšič, Marco Volponi, Eléonore Hellio & Vanessa Lorenzo
23/03/19
3 Media contributions
Press/Media: Blogs, Podcasts and Social Media › Podcasts
Sarah Jane Pell & David Barnes
3/02/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Article/Feature
Sarah Jane Pell & Richard Move
11/09/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Profile/Interview