Writing

Gail has written extensively about sound and media arts predominantly for the cross-disciplinary arts magazine RealTime for which she was the Associate Editor (2003-2015) and Online Producer (2011-2015). She was the editor of the historical survey Experimental Music: Audio Explorations in Australia (UNSW Press 2009), part of a four part Australia Council music book series. She has contributed catalogue essays for various artists and was writer-in-residence for Chamber Made's Hi-Viz Symposium 2021. She is currently on the editorial board of the academic journal Sound Stage Screen (University of Milan). She has partiuclar creative and critical interests in science fiction, short form poetry and creative non-fiction. Her PhD, Languages of Listening was on mediated ficto-critical approaches to sonic art-focused sound theory. Below is a selection of her writings across the last 20 years.

See also her sporadic blog - sound/s/words

Academic

Forthcoming: Mediated Sounds

Encyclopedia of New Media Arts Vol 2: Artists and Practice
Editor: Paul Thomas, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Sound Theaters of the 21st Century: Material Functions and Voltaic Performativities

Guest editor of Forum section for Sound Stage Screen, Vol. 1 No. 2 (2021)

Experimental Music: Audio Explorations in Australia

Editor and contributor. University of NSW Press, 2009 [Out of Print]

Arts Reviews & Commentary

The Saturday Paper

The Forest Collective: Sun Songs and Cycles

26 November 2022

Chamber Made Writer-in-Residence

Hi-Viz Practice Exchange 2021

November 2021

RealTime archive

Since 2001 Gail has written regularly for RealTime magazine, Australia's leading contemporary arts magazine, prodcuing over 150 articles covering sound & music, media art and hybrid performance. She has also produced over 40 video interviews and mini documentaries for the online version of the magazine.