Ben Ennis Butler

Awards and Grants

Re-Pete Gold Winner (2023). Australian Good Design Awards 2023: Product/Furniture and Lighting.

Re-Pete Award of Merit (2023). Design Institute of Australia, Designers Australia Awards 2023.

Re-Pete Gold Winner (2023). Designers Institute of New Zealand, Best Design Awards 2023: Furniture.

Re-Pete Silver Prize in Product Design (2023), Design Educates Awards.

Iconic Canberra Map (2023). Australian Institute of Architects. CI: Sally Farrah. CoI: Mike Louw, Emma Phillips

Re-Pete, MPavilion Chair Commission (2022). MPavilion and Naomi Milgrom Foundation, Melbourne. With Sam Tomkins, Max Maxwell.

Difficult Conversations (2022). British Council, University of Canberra, Ulster University. Joint Chief Investigator.

ACT Creative Industries Assessment (2021). ACT Government and University of Canberra. Joint Chief Investigator.

​​Workplace Plasticity: Furnishing the Net Zero-Office through Robotic Fabrication (2021). Alistair Swayn Strategic Grant. Joint Chief Investigator, with Sam Tomkins, Max Maxwell.

Dickson Living Rooms (2020). City Renewal Authority, ACT Government. Accepted into Design Canberra Festival. Chief Investigator.

Heritage of the Air: How Aviation Transformed Australia (2019). ARC Linkage Project LP160101232. Joint Chief Investigator.

Change by Design: Co-Design for Healthy Living (2019). Faculty of Arts and Design Collaborative Project Development Grant. Member of the research team.

Second prize, Best Digital Humanities Data Visualisation (2015). Digital Humanities Awards. Awarded to my PhD work Explore Australian Prints + Printmaking.

Australian Prints and Printmaking visualisation project (2013). Faculty of Arts and Design Micro Linkage Grant in collaboration with the National Gallery of Australia.

Creative Publications

rus en urbe - garden in the city (2022). Artwork. Exhibited at Belco Arts, Upending | Mending exhibition.

Creative Canberra (2022). Web-based data visualisation and map for ACT Creative Industries research project.

Aviation Mosaic (2021) with Mitchell Whitelaw. A poetic interface developed for the Heritage of the Air: How Aviation Transformed Australia project. Not online yet.

Dickson Living Rooms (2020). Physical installation and digital artefact. Developed alongside Canberra Design Lab team. Available at: http://dicksonlivingrooms.com. Supported by the ACT Government under the City Renewal Authority's Dickson Grants program.

Passenger Cards (2019) with Mitchell Whitelaw. A poetic interface developed for the Heritage of the Air: How Aviation Transformed Australia project. Available at http://hota.beneb.com

Timeline (2016) An explore interface for Australian Prints + Printmaking, National Gallery of Australia. Available at: http://printsandprintmaking.gov.au/explore/timeline

Subjects Explorer (2015) An explore interface for Australian Prints + Printmaking, National Gallery of Australia. Available at: http://printsandprintmaking.gov.au/explore/subjects-explorer

The Fader. (2014) An explore interface for Australian Prints + Printmaking, National Gallery of Australia. http://printsandprintmaking.gov.au/explore/the-fader

All Artists. (2013) An explore interface for Australian Prints + Printmaking, National Gallery of Australia. Developed with Mitchell Whitelaw. Available at: http://printsandprintmaking.gov.au/explore/all-artists

Decade Summary (2013) An explore interface for Australian Prints + Printmaking, National Gallery of Australia. Developed with Mitchell Whitelaw. Available at: http://printsandprintmaking.gov.au/explore/decade-summary

Works and Networks (2012) An explore interface for Australian Prints + Printmaking, National Gallery of Australia. Developed with Mitchell Whitelaw. Available at: http://printsandprintmaking.gov.au/explore/works-and-networks

Published papers

Refereed

Ennis Butler, B (2017). Added Value: new interfaces for cultural collections. Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools Annual Conference 2017. Australian National University, Canberra. Available online.

Ennis Butler, B. (2013). Escaping search: generous interfaces for cultural collections. Museums Australia National Conference, Canberra.

Ennis Butler, B. (2013). Visual Exploration of Australian Prints and Printmaking. Museums and the Web. Portland, Oregon. Available online.

Ennis Butler, B., Hinton, S. & Whitelaw, M. (2011). Playing with Complexity: An approach to exploratory data visualisation. Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools Annual Conference. University of Canberra and Australian National University, Canberra. Available online.

Non-Refereed

Whitelaw, M. & Ennis Butler, B. (2012). Visual Exploration of Australian Prints and Printmaking. Digital Humanities Australasia conference. Australian National University, Canberra.

Conference Presentations & Symposiums

Ennis Butler, B (2017). Added Value: new interfaces for cultural collections. Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools Annual Conference 2017. Australian National University, Canberra.

Whitelaw, M., Ennis Butler, B. & Post, R. (2016). Digital Collections: Generous and Poetic Interfaces Online. Electronic Visualisation and the Arts Australasia. Canberra.

Ennis Butler, B. & Whitelaw, M. (2015). Explore Australian Prints + Printmaking. Recasting the Question: Digital approaches in art history and museums symposium. University of Sydney and Australian National University, Canberra.

Ennis Butler, B. (2015). Innovative interfaces for digital cultural heritage collections. Museums and the Web Australia conference, Melbourne.

Ennis Butler, B. (2015). Artists and Virtual Archives. Future Feminist Archive Symposium. Sydney College of the Arts and Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Ennis Butler, B. (2013). Escaping search: generous interfaces for cultural collections. Museums Australia National Conference, Canberra.

Ennis Butler, B. (2013). Visual Exploration of Australian Prints and Printmaking. Museums and the Web. Portland, Oregon.

Ennis Butler, B. (2011). Playing with complexity. Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools Annual Conference 2011. University of Canberra and Australian National University, Canberra.

Invited / Guest Lectures

Digital collection interfaces and Australian Prints + Printmaking. Guest lecture for Digital Humanities Theories and Projects, Australian National University (October, 2018).

Escaping the search box. Guest lecture for Digital Humanities Theories and Projects, Australian National University (October, 2017).

Explore: Australian Prints and Printmaking: the first three. Guest presentation to National Gallery of Australia Staff, Gandel Hall (June, 2014).

Explore: Australian Prints and Printmaking, and a quick introduction to data visualisation. Guest lecture for Cyberculture, Australian National University (March, 2014)

An introduction to Data Visualisation. Guest lecture for Foundation Computer Studies, Australian National University (October, 2013)

Data Visualisation 101. Guest lecture for Influence, Belief and Argument at University of Canberra (October, 2012)

Workshops

Digital Critical Friends Workshop, National Gallery of Australia (March 2021).

Private workshop for the Sheila Foundation and Cruthers Art Collection (June 2018).

eLearning Workshop, Australian Institute of Sport (August 2015).

Presenter, THATCamp Canberra (October 2014).

Concepts and Methods Workshop, organised by the News and Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra. (August 2014).

Invited to attend 2 day Data Visualisation Conference at the National Institute of Experimental Arts at UNSW. (November 2011).