Mr Mark Pesce
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Mr Mark Pesce

Honorary Associate
Discipline of Media and Communications
Address
A20 - John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney
  • VRML Consortium, Board of Directors 1998 - 2000
  • Los Angeles Virtual Reality Users’ Group
  • 2020 - Best Columnist, ACS IT Journalism Awards
  • 2019 - Best Columnist, ACS IT Journalism Awards
  • 2018 - Best Technical or Scientific Podcast, Australian Podcast Awards
  • 2018 - Best Columnist, ACS IT Journalism Awards
  • 2010 - Top 10 Geeks from Downunder’, WIRED Magazine, February
  • 1999 - Digital Coast 50, Silicon Alley Reporter
  • 1998 - VRML Consortium, Community Service Award
  • 1997 - International Design Magazine, selection as one of the “ID 40”
  • 1996 - Ars Electronica Art Festival, Honorable Mention for “WebEarth”
  • 1995 - Network Computing Magazine, “50 Most Important People In Networking”
  • 1995 - Meckler Virtual Reality Market Impact Award

Publications

Books

  • Pesce, M. (2024). Getting Started with ChatGPT and AI Chatbots: An introduction to generative AI tools. Wiltshire UK: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. [More Information]
  • Pesce, M. (2021). Augmented Reality: Unboxing Tech's Next Big Thing. Cambridge: Polity Press. [More Information]

Book Chapters

  • Pesce, M. (2025). No Man Knows: Cultural Anthropology and the Cybernetics of Oracular Apocalypse (forthcoming). In Graham St. John and Kevin A. Whitesides (Eds.), Altered Statesman: A Terence McKenna Anthology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
  • Pesce, M. (2016). Malleus Speculis. In John Reppion (Eds.), Spirits of Place. London: Daily Grail Publishing.
  • Pesce, M. (2014). Position Statement: Contraludics. In Steffen P. Walz and Sebastian Deterding (Eds.), The Gameful World: Approaches, Issues, Applications, (pp. 107-112). Cambridge: MIT Press. [More Information]

Journals

  • Pesce, M. (2022). GOING META. Meanjin, 81(1), 110-116. [More Information]
  • Pesce, M. (2021). Monopolies of the Australian Mind. Meanjin, Winter(80), 2-106. [More Information]
  • Pesce, M. (2020). In the beach. Meanjin, 79(4), 77-83. [More Information]

Conferences

  • Pesce, M. (2017). The Web-Wide World. 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017), Perth, WA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Recorded / Rendered Interarts

  • Pesce, M., Tonkin, J. (2006). BlueStates: Exploring Relational Space. South Hall. San Jose, United States of America: ISEA.

Web Site / Exhibition

  • Pesce, M. (2023). Millions: AI Transforming Business. Millions, Australia: Harrison.AI. [More Information]

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

  • Pesce, M. (2022). From Mars to Morpheus and back again. Cosmos. [More Information]
  • Pesce, M. (2021). Beyond Bitcoin: China's Surveillance Cash. IEEE Spectrum. [More Information]
  • Pesce, M. (2021). Electricity Distribution Needs to Get Smarter on a Finer Scale. IEEE Spectrum. [More Information]

Other

  • Pesce, M. (2022), When Y2K threatened, futurist Mark Pesce fled to Hawaii. ABC Radio National: Life Matters.
  • Pesce, M. (2021), Major development for cryptocurrencies as El Salvador accepts Bitcoin as currency. ABC Radio National: PM with Linda Mottram. [More Information]

2025

  • Pesce, M. (2025). No Man Knows: Cultural Anthropology and the Cybernetics of Oracular Apocalypse (forthcoming). In Graham St. John and Kevin A. Whitesides (Eds.), Altered Statesman: A Terence McKenna Anthology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

2024

  • Pesce, M. (2024). Getting Started with ChatGPT and AI Chatbots: An introduction to generative AI tools. Wiltshire UK: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. [More Information]

2023

  • Pesce, M. (2023). Millions: AI Transforming Business. Millions, Australia: Harrison.AI. [More Information]

2022

  • Pesce, M. (2022). From Mars to Morpheus and back again. Cosmos. [More Information]
  • Pesce, M. (2022). GOING META. Meanjin, 81(1), 110-116. [More Information]
  • Pesce, M. (2022), When Y2K threatened, futurist Mark Pesce fled to Hawaii. ABC Radio National: Life Matters.

2021

  • Pesce, M. (2021). Augmented Reality: Unboxing Tech's Next Big Thing. Cambridge: Polity Press. [More Information]
  • Pesce, M. (2021). Beyond Bitcoin: China's Surveillance Cash. IEEE Spectrum. [More Information]
  • Pesce, M. (2021). Electricity Distribution Needs to Get Smarter on a Finer Scale. IEEE Spectrum. [More Information]

2020

  • Pesce, M. (2020). Augmented Reality and the Surveillance Society. IEEE Spectrum. [More Information]
  • Pesce, M. (2020). In the beach. Meanjin, 79(4), 77-83. [More Information]
  • Pesce, M. (2020). The impossible election: America votes and the world waits. Griffith Review, 73. [More Information]

2019

  • Pesce, M. (2019). Narcissus triumphant: Breaking up with Twitter. Griffith Review, 64. [More Information]

2017

  • Pesce, M. (2017). The last days of reality. Meanjin, 76(4), 66-81.
  • Pesce, M. (2017). The Web-Wide World. 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017), Perth, WA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

2016

  • Pesce, M. (2016). Malleus Speculis. In John Reppion (Eds.), Spirits of Place. London: Daily Grail Publishing.

2014

  • Pesce, M. (2014). Position Statement: Contraludics. In Steffen P. Walz and Sebastian Deterding (Eds.), The Gameful World: Approaches, Issues, Applications, (pp. 107-112). Cambridge: MIT Press. [More Information]

2013

  • Pesce, M. (2013). The New Media Toolkit. In John Hartley, Jean Burgess, Axel Bruns (Eds.), A Companion to New Media Dynamics, (pp. 429-438). Malden, MA, USA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. [More Information]

2006

  • Pesce, M., Tonkin, J. (2006). BlueStates: Exploring Relational Space. South Hall. San Jose, United States of America: ISEA.