Maria Miranda is an art-maker and art researcher. She has maintained a collaborative art practice with Norie Neumark as Out-of-Sync since 1993 – making work that engages with questions of culture, place and memory. In the late 1980s Maria co-edited and co-published the zine Drawing Away: an Australian Women’s comic book. In 1999 she received a New Media Arts Grant for Volcano a new media installation – installed at Artspace, Sydney in 2000.

In 2004 Maria received an ATOM award for the project Museum of Rumour. Since 2010 she has been a Research Fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne. In 2013 she was awarded a 3-year research fellowship from the Australian Research Council (DECRA) for the research and study of artist-run initiatives in Australia. (http://the-ari-experience.com) Maria is Director of Gallery Ellipsis, the online gallery of the Centre for Creative Arts, La Trobe. http://centreforcreativearts.org.au/gallery/ She is author of Unsitely Aesthetics: uncertain practices in contemporary art (Errant Bodies Press, 2013) http://www.unsitelyaesthetics.com.