About

This is the personal website of Erik Champion. Erik is an Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia (Creative-Architecture), Honorary Professor at ANU Centre for Digital Humanities Research (CDHR), Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia and Emeritus Professor at Curtin University. In 2023 he was invited to be an adjunct professor at Universitas Bunda Mulia, Jakarta, he is a Senior Associate at Outside Opinion, and in 2021 he was a visiting scholar in Finland.

He was previously UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Visualisation, and Professor at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. He was also CIC Visualisation Theme Leader and Steering Committee member at the Curtin Institute for Computation (CIC). His Curtin page is here.

He was recently a chief investigator on four Australian Research Council grants (involving research infrastructures and cultural heritage) and an Australian Research Data Commons Platform Grant. He trained as an architect / architectural historian, received a second master’s (with honours) in philosophy, a Graduate Certificate (with VC Commendation) in Digital Learning Futures, and his ARC Scholarship PhD was from two Faculties (Geomatics-Engineering and Architecture-Melbourne School of Design) with Lonely Planet as the industry partner. He has been teaching multimedia since 1990. He specializes in virtual heritage and serious games. He can be followed on Twitter at @nzerik or visited via LinkedIn.

His recent books are Assassin’s Creed: History’s Playground or a Stab in the Dark (De Gruyter 2024), Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes: the Real, the Virtual and the Cinematic (Routledge 2023), Playing With The Past: Into The Future (Springer 2023), Rethinking Virtual Places (Indiana University Press, 2021), Critical Gaming: Interactive History and Virtual Heritage for Routledge’s Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities Series, and Playing with the Past (Springer, 2011). He also wrote Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture (Routledge, 2019).

He edited Virtual Heritage: A Guide (Ubiquity, 2021), The Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places (Routledge, 2018), Game Mods: Design, Theory and Criticism (ETC Press, 2012) and co-edited Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes (2022), and Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities (Routledge, 2017).

EMAIL: nzerik AT gmail.com
TWITTER @nzerik
SLIDESHARE: http://www.slideshare.net/nzerik/presentations OR https://www.slideshare.net/nzerik/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-champion/
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5362-6176