Brendan Keogh
Brendan Keogh
Queensland University of Technology Senior Lecturer
Dr Brendan Keogh (he/him) is a senior lecturer in the School of Communication and a Chief Investigator of the Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology. His research focuses on the cultures of videogame production and consumption. He is the co-author of The Unity Game Engine and The Circuits of Cultural Software (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019; with Benjamin Nicoll), and is the author of The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press, 2023), A Play of Bodies: How We Perceive Videogames (MIT Press, 2018) and Killing is Harmless: A Critical Reading of Spec Ops The Line (Stolen Projects, 2012). He has written extensively about the cultures and development practices of videogames for outlets such as Overland, The Conversation, Polygon, Edge, and Vice.
Related Sessions
Games and the Australian Music Industry
FRI, OCT 20, 2:00 PM
Conference
A conversation to unveil the untapped potential for collaboration between Games and the Australian Music industry. Host Kirsty Rivers, Head of Music at Creative Australia, will share the findings of the landmark 2023 Music in Games benchmark audit and lead a discussion with industry representatives: Australian writer and composer Dan Golding, academic Dr Brendan Keogh and Australian art pop musician and Twitch streamer Montaigne.
This session is presented by Creative Australia and celebrates the powerful public value of Australian artists and creative practitioners.
