Sue Broadhurst is a writer and practitioner in the creative arts. She is Professor of Technology and Performance and has worked at Brunel since 1999. Prior to this she was based in Australia at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth. She obtained a First Class Honours degree from Murdoch University in Western Australia, gained a Commonwealth Scholarship to allow her to undertake postgraduate studies, and was awarded a PhD in English and Comparative Literature in 1996.

Sue has published widely in the area of performance and technology. Her publications include: Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory (London: Cassell/New York: Continuum, 1999) and Digital Practices: Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic Approaches to Performance and Technology (Palgrave MacMillan, 2007), together with various articles including ‘Interaction, Reaction and Performance: The Jeremiah Project’, The Drama Review, MIT Press 48, (4): 47-57 and ‘Digital Practices: an Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic approach to Virtuality and Embodiment’. Performance Research 11 (4), 2007): 37-47. She is co-editor with Josephine Machon of Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2006) and Sensualities/Textualities & Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21st Century Performance (Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming 2009). She is also co-editor of the Body, Space & Technology on-line journal (www.brunel.ac.uk/bst/). Sue is currently working on a series of collaborative practice led research projects entitled, ‘Intelligence, Interaction, Reaction and Performance’, which involve introducing various digital technologies into live performance and artworks including: artificial intelligence, 3D film, modeling and animation, motion tracking and biotechnology.