Massive/Micro Autoethnography : Creative Learning in Covid Times

Dan Harris is an international expert in creativity studies combining critical theory and creative practice methods. Harris also writes and researches on performance, gender, and diversity. Harris is the series creator and editor of Creativity, Education and the Arts (Palgrave Macmillan), has authored over 100 articles/book chapters and 17 books, in addition to public productions of plays, films and spoken word performances, and has won over $2.9 million in competitive research funding since 2010. Harris is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and RMIT Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, and the Director of Creative Agency research lab

Annette N. Markham is Professor at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and Co-Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre. She is an internationally recognized scholar of innovative and ethical practice in digital research and design. Her work focuses on facilitating morecreative, adaptive, and ethical practice for social research by disrupting the vocabularies around method. She founded the Future Making Research Consortium and has facilitated dozens of arts-based experiments and seminars to build data and digital literacy through critical pedagogy.  Her work can be found in multiple academic books and journals.

Mary Elizabeth (“M.E.”) Luka is Assistant Professor, University of Toronto and an award-winning producer of digital content for television, exhibition and digital platforms. She examines co-creative production and dissemination in arts, culture and media creative hubs and networks in Canada, UK, USA, and Australia. Dr. Luka is a founding member of the Critical Digital Methods Institute at University of Toronto Scarborough and policy co-lead for Archive/Counter-Archive, a national partnership involving 27 universities and cultural organizations in activating audiovisual archives created by Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Métis, Inuit), the Black community and People of Colour, womxn, LGBT2Q+ and immigrant communities.