Wrote and directed Camera Natura: A Film on the History of White Australian Landscape, distributed by Ronin Films, 32 minutes, 16 mm film, 1986.  

Winner of ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Jury Award, 1987.

Wrote and directed A Synapse is a Miraculous Thing, a thirty-minute video-tape produced with the Actor-Director Programme of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, 1987.

Wrote, co-directed and co-produced (in collaboration with Ross Harley) A Dollar is a Dollar, a four-minute video-story exhibited at the Performance Space, Sydney, 1988.

Wrote and directed Dead To The World, feature film, 89 minutes, 35 mm, 1991, distributed by AFI Distribution.

Wrote and directed WILD, 55 mins, 16mm film, 1993, distributed by Ronin Films.  Winner of Golden Gate Award, San Francisco Film Festival, 1994.

Wrote, directed, edited and installed The Bond Store, a multi-media gallery of evolving storytelling at the Museum of Sydney, 1994 - 95.  

Wrote and directed The Dead Can Drive, a short film-story for television, commissioned and screened by SBS Television, 1998.

Wrote and directed Life After Wartime, a suite of works derived from an interactive dramatic database funded by the Australian Film Commission and the University of Technology, Sydney, 1997– 2004.

Composed and designed Darkness Loiters, an interactive narrative installation for art galleries, 2001.

Curated and designed Persistence of Vision and Reverberation, two major international exhibitions involving more than forty new-media artworks at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, March – August, 2003.

Composed and designed Street X-Rays, an immersive, multi-screen and sound installation, world premiered at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, December 2004. 

Wrote and directed Conversations, an interactive, networked VR project produced in collaboration with Jeffrey Shaw, Dennis del Favero and Ian Howard, exhibited at The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, 2005.

Wrote and co-directed BYSTANDER, an interactive and immersive cinematic environment composed of real-time composited 360-degree surround-vision and surround sound storytelling, 2004 – 2007.

Co-wrote and co-directed, with Malcolm McKinnon, 60-minute film, The Farmer’s Cinematheque, with funding from Screen Australian and Film Victoria.  Premiered at the Adelaide International Film Festival, 2015.

Co-organised the Third Sydney Super-8 Film Festival at the Chauvel Cinema, Sydney, 1983.

Co-organised the Sydney Super-8 Film Group Festival at the Chauvel Cinema, the Dendy Cinema and Artspace, 1984.

Curated Rushes, a group photographic show of stills from imaginary films by twenty-four artists from Australia and overseas, at Union Street Gallery, Sydney, 1984.

Made the film installation Parallaxis, a three-person show (involving Mike Parr, Suzie Coyle, and Ross Gibson) at Artspace Gallery, Sydney, 1986.

Participated in Sighting References at the National Art Gallery of New Zealand and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1987.

Contributed A Dollar is a Dollar, to the collaborative exhibition, One Roadblock from Heaven at The Performance Space, Sydney, 1988.

Curated and presented Ghosts of A Better Tomorrow, a season of Hong Kong cinema, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1993.

Curated Now That The Worlds Have Collided, a season of films concerned with cross-cultural interactions and adaptation in Australia and the Pacific, at the Museum of Sydney, June – July, 1995.

Curated and presented of One Hundred Years of Ethnographic Film in the Pacific, Pacific Wave Festival, at the Museum of Sydney, Performance Space and the National Film and Sound Archive, November 1996.

Curated and presented Something Strange Disturbing Us every Day, a programme on the history of experimental filmmaking in Australia for the Festival of Experimental Cinema in Madrid, September, 1998 funded by the City of Madrid and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs.

Co-curated, with Kate Richards, Crime Scene, an installation/exhibition of crime scene photography and multi-media ‘atmospherics’ and databases at the Justice and Police Museum, Sydney, 1999 – 2000.

Co-curated, with Kate Richards, Darkness Loiters, part of the SUBURB exhibition in the Olympic Program of the Arts at the Museum of Sydney, 2000, and at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2001.

Curated and designed Persistence of Vision and Reverberation, two major exhibitions of new media installation art, with accompanying book, at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, March – August, 2003.

Devised and co-performed LAW Live With The Necks, an improvised theatrical performance with The Necks - Chris Abrahams, Tony Buck and Lloyd Swanton - and Ross Gibson and Kate Richards. At the Adelaide Fringe Festival and Sydney Opera House, 2001 and 2003 respectively.

Curated and designed Written with Darkness, a major installation of Australian photography and exhibition design at the UTS Gallery, 2004.

Devised and presented Life After Wartime, solo performance at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 2004.

Co-created Pacific/Vast, an exhibition in collaboration with Jelle van den Berg, Cross Art Projects, a Biennale of Sydney Parallel Program, June 2004.

Wrote, Directed and Co-Investigated (with Jeffrey Shaw, Dennis Del Favero, I Howard) Conversations, a networked interactive cinema environment exhibited at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 2004.

Curated Every Day, Selected paintings by Debra Dawes, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU Canberra, 2005.

Wrote and Directed Storylines, curated by Sue Hunt, a permanent interactive gallery exhibition at the Museum of Sydney, 2006 and continuing.

Created, with Janet Laurence and Jane and Phillip Ulman, Birdsong, a collaborative art exhibition at the Object Gallery, Australian Centre for Craft and Design, 2006.

Created, with Kate Richards, BYSTANDER, a installation at Performance Space Gallery at Carriageworks, Sydney, August – September, 2007.

Designed, installed and performed CONVERSATIONS II, eighty days of durational work in the Biennale of Sydney, 2008.

Created a new version of BYSTANDER, an installation at the Justice and Police Museum, Sydney, January, 2009.

Created, with Kate Richards, Spirit Patrol, a video installation in An Archival Impulse, curated by Brigita Ozolins at the Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart. 2011. 

Created, in collaboration with Carl Warner, Protection, a commissioned artwork of sixty images at the University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 2011.

Designed and created the major curated exhibition and performance – Australia Vs Korea Dance Battle – coordinating simultaneous all-day live events on large public screens in Melbourne, Perth and Seoul, commissioned by Federation Square Company (Melbourne), NABI Art Centre (Seoul) and Perth City Council, 2012.

Co-curated TEDX Parramatta 2012, an all-day program of music and dance performances plus contemporary oration, with Riverside Theatres and TEDX Enterprises, 2012.

Created Unhomely– a multi-screen, site-specific exhibition occupying a complete two-storey gallery, utilising five video projections and sculptural installation. Commissioned by the International Symposium of Electronic Arts Sydney 2013. Exhibited May – June 2013.

Wrote, designed, and installed the public artwork Bluster Town on a 22 metre screen in Barangaroo Walkway, Wynyard Station, Sydney.  Commissioned by Transport NSW, 2017.

Contributed ‘A Visibility Matrix’ in response to a commission from Gerard Byrne and Sven Anderson, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, June – September 2018.

Created Telopea Park Mystery, a multi-screen video installation at part of the ‘Seeing Canberra’ survey exhibition at Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, 2020 – 21.

Created head_phone_film_poems, an exhibition of films and installations, Gallery 5, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, June – November 2021

Wrote and performed full-length audio commentary (140 minutes) for DVD of Akira Kurosawa’s’s feature-film The Bad Sleep Well, Melbourne: Madman Entertainment, Director’s Suite Series,  2007.

Wrote and performed full-length audio commentary (170 minutes) for DVD of Akira Kurosawa’s’s feature-film The Seven Samurai, Melbourne: Madman Entertainment, Director’s Suite Series,  2007.

Wrote and performed full-length audio commentary (120 minutes) for DVD of Douglas Sirk’s feature-film A Time To Love and a Time To Die, Melbourne: Madman Entertainment, Director’s Suite Series, 2008.

Wrote and performed full-length audio commentary (90 minutes) for DVD of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s feature-film The American Soldier, Melbourne: Madman Entertainment, Director’s Suite Series,  2008.

Wrote and performed full-length audio commentary (90 minutes) for DVD of Robert Bresson’s feature-film A Man Escaped, Melbourne: Madman Entertainment, Director’s Suite Series,  2009.

Wrote and performed full-length audio commentary (110 minutes) for DVD of Robert Bresson’s feature-film Lancelot du Lac, Melbourne: Madman Entertainment, Director’s Suite Series,  2009.

Wrote and performed full-length audio commentary (120 minutes) for DVD of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s feature-film In a Year of Thirteen Moons, Melbourne: Madman Entertainment, Director’s Suite Series, 2008.

Wrote and performed full-length audio commentary (150 minutes) for DVD of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s feature-film The Third Generation, Melbourne: Madman Entertainment, Director’s Suite Series, 2008.

Wrote and performed full-length audio commentary (130 minutes) for DVD of Yasujiro Ozu’s feature-film, Late Spring, Melbourne: Madman Entertainment, Director’s Suite Series, 2009.

Wrote and performed full-length audio commentary (130 minutes) for DVD of Kenji Mizoguchi’s feature-film Sansho the Bailiff, Melbourne: Madman Entertainment, Director’s Suite Series, 2010.

Wrote and performed full-length audio commentary (90 minutes) for DVD of Kenji Mizoguchi’s feature-film Street of Shame, Melbourne: Madman Entertainment, Director’s Suite Series, 2010.

Wrote The Ancient Mariner Tales, a series of short monologues for radio, funded by ABC Radio National, 1993.

Wrote and performed Bad Roads, a 54-minute radio feature for ABC Radio National, co-produced by Brent Clough and John Jacobs, 2003 (ABC entrant in 2004 Prix Italia award.)

Co-wrote and performed Energy Grids, 48-minute radio feature for ABC Radio National, produced and directed by Sherre de Lys and Chris Abrahams, 2015.

Wrote, performed and co-directed Green Love, 50-minute radio feature for ABC Radio National ‘Earshot’ program, produced by Kerry Steward, 2016

Co-edited and co-published On The Beach, a quarterly journal of art and cultural analysis, published with the financial support of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, 1983 – 85.

Edited Toward New Holland, published by the Power Institute of Fine Arts, 1986.

Edited a special double issue of Photofile: South Pacific, published with the financial assistance of the Australian Bicentennial Authority, 1988.

Edited Exchanges: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Australia and the Pacific, a book of essays, Sydney: MOS Publications, 1996.

DP0209550 The reformulation of narrative within digital cinema as the integration of three models of interactivity.

Participants: Prof Ian Howard, Dr Dennis Del Favero, Prof Ross Gibson, Prof Jeffrey Shaw

Organisation: The University of New South Wales

First year funded: 2002.

LP0349327 The BYSTANDER Field: immersive feedback environments for exhibiting and dramatically interacting with semiotic, aesthetic and emotional patterns in archived imagery.

Participants: Prof Ross Gibson, A/Prof Toni Robertson

Organisation: University of Technology, Sydney

First year funded: 2003.

LE0453517 240 x 360 degree digital video camera for interactive immersive visualization research applications.

Participants: Prof Jeffrey Shaw, Dr Dennis Del Favero, Prof Neil Brown, Prof Ian Howard, Prof Ross Gibson, Mr Mark Guglielmetti, Mr Adrian Miles, Dr Scott McQuire, A/Prof Nikos Papastergiadis, Dr Henry Gardner, Mr Pascal Vuylsteker

Organisation: The University of New South Wales

First year funded: 2004.

LE0668542 Multimedia Computing, Production, Management and Distribution for HDTV and its Applications.

Participants: Prof Dagan Feng, Dr Weidong Cai, Dr Zhiyong Wang, Prof David Everitt, Prof Peter Eades, Prof Doan Hoang, Prof Ross Gibson, Prof Ernest Edmonds, A/Prof Massimo Piccardi, Dr Valerie Gay, Prof Hong Wu, Dr Jidong Wang, Prof Maria Orlowska, Prof Xiaofang Zhou

Organisation: The University of Sydney

First year funded: 2006.

LP0775364 Outside the Box: Australian television 2016.

Investigators: Prof Ross James Gibson, Prof Philip Brian Bell, Dr Hugh Matthew Pattinson, Mr Andrew Thomas Lloyd James

Organisation: University of Technology, Sydney 

Keywords: Media Studies, Digital Communications, Cultural History, Narrative Theory, Scenario Planning RFCD: 400104, 420304, 420302

First year funded: 2007.

LP0882238 Cultural Asset Mapping for Planning and Development in Regional Australia.

Investigators: Prof Ross James Gibson, A/Prof Christopher Robert Gibson, Prof Jim Walmsley

Organisation: University of Technology, Sydney

Keywords: cultural mapping, regional development, creative industries, the arts, cultural tourism RFCD: 370402, 419999, 370401

First year funded:  2008.

LP0882972 New Ways of Doing School: Mixing story and technology to generate innovative learning, social and cultural communities.

Investigators: A/Prof Rosemary Ross Johnston, Prof Ross James Gibson, Prof Dr Larissa Yasmin Behrendt, Rev William David Crews, Mr Stephen Melville Harris

Organisation: University of Technology, Sydney     Keywords: school education, technology and story arts, education in remote areas, disadvantaged youth, indigenous education, connecting communities RFCD: 330199, 330299, 420399

First year funded:  2008.

LP0989302 Large screens and the transnational public sphere.

Member of the editorial board for Photofile, 1986 – 88.

Member of the editorial board for Art & Text, 1989.

Member of editorial board for Public History, 1995 – 96.

Member of editorial advisory committee for The UTS Review, 1995 – 2001.

Member of editorial advisory committee for Cultural Studies Review, 2002 – 2023

Member of Editorial Board for Photography and Culture, 2006 – 2023

Judge for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, 1999.

Judge and Chair for NSW Premier’s History Awards, 2007.

Judge for NSW Premier’s History Awards, 2010.