Dr Abbie Trott
Teaching Associate in Digital Media & Lecturer
School of Communication and Arts
Journal Articles
Johanson, Katya, Trott, Abbie, Taylor, Mark, Kershaw, Anne, Glow, Hilary and Margieson, Tracy (2025). Centring the audience: attitudes and behaviours in Australian arts organisations. International Journal of Cultural Policy, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-20. doi: 10.1080/10286632.2025.2458571
Trott, Abbie (2024). Review of Deserted devices and wasted fences: everyday technologies in extreme circumstances, by Dani Ploeger. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 20 (2), 1-2. doi: 10.1080/14794713.2024.2391202
Rae, Paul and Trott, Abbie Victoria (2023). “I don’t know why I cried, but I did.” Diversity and the dramaturgy of impact in Australian theatre for young people. Critical Stages, 28, 1-17.
Trott, Abbie (2023). Review of Mediatized dramaturgy: the evolution of plays in the media age : by Seda Ilter, London: Methuen Drama, ISBN: 978-1-3500-3115-9 978-0-7456-8131-3. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 19 (1), 139-140. doi: 10.1080/14794713.2023.2170626
Trott, Abbie Victoria (2022). ‘She might find out the truth:’ Action researching with young theatre audiences. Action Learning, Action Research Journal, 28 (1), 72-98.
Trott, Abbie Victoria (2021). What are the ties that hold us together?: The smartphone networks in As If No One is Watching and Body of Knowledge. Australasian Drama Studies (78), 224-252.
Trott, Abbie Victoria (2021). 'It was a cracker': Listening in to youth audiences, regional and urban, with show reports. Australasian Drama Studies Journal, 77 (January) 13, 244-272.
Conference Papers
Trott, Abbie Victoria (2025). Pigeon Fool’s Turing test: the relationship between the audience, the live AI bot, and the recorded human performer. International Federation of Theatre Research, Cologne, Germany, 9 - 13 May 2025.
Trott, Abbie Victoria (2024). Pigeon fool: hybrid assemblages and the relationship between the live AI bot and the recorded human performer. Artificial Visionaries: Exploring the Intersections of Machine Vision, Computation, and our Aural and Visual Cultures Symposium, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 27 - 28 November 2024.
Trott, Abbie Victoria (2024). Intermediality and community circus: Vulcana Circus and disrupting tragedy. International Federation of Theatre Research, Manila, Philipines, 15 - 19 July 2024.
Johanson, Katya and Trott, Abbie Victoria (2023). An argument for a living archive: audience diversity and the relationship between data collection and programming. Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama & Performance Studies (ADSA), Adelaide, SA, Australia, 27 November - 1 December 2023.
Theses
Trott, Abbie Victoria (2022). A ‘standard’ topic?: theatre, young people and the everyday postdigital. PhD Thesis, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.
Trott, Abbie Victoria (2016). “Being With:” establishing co-presence between multimedia images and performers in multimedia performance. MPhil Thesis, School of Communication and Arts, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2016.92