Danielle Zorbas is a videomaker and creative practice PhD candidate from Sydney researching cinema and the networked image: tropes and affect, identity and affinity.
Nicholas Zurbrugg, who tragically died of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 54, made an invaluable contribution to contemporary art and cultural theory, and more specifically, to the study and promotion of the postmodern multimedia avant-garde. Nicholas, as an academic, critic, poet and a tireless promoter of postmodern creativity...
An award winning artist and researcher, Zurr formed, together with Oron Catts, the Tissue Culture and Art Project. She has been an artist in residence in the School of Anatomy and Human Biology since 1996 and was central to the establishment of SymbioticA in 2000. Zurr, who received her PhD...
Born 1967 in Heidenheim/Brenz, Germany.
Alan Schacher is a contemporary performance-maker: a director, choreographer, designer, performer and installation artist, whose focus is on spatial experience and bodily mediation. An undercurrent of cultural landscapes and diasporic references, both imagined and inherited, form significant motifs in his work. He has developed an architectural approach to the interpretation...
Cathy Vogan is an Irish-Franco-Australian singer, performer, composer, media artist, and writer, living between Sydney and Europe since the 1970s. Born in Ireland into a musical family, and raised there until adolescence, Cathy Vogan — aka CaTV — was a professional singer in the theatre and cabaret from the age of...
Anna Munster is an artist, writer, curator and researcher. She is the author of Materializing Culture [2006] and an editor of the online journal Fibreculture. She regularly collaborates with Michele Barker on largescale multi-channel interactive works which explore the relations between perception, magic and the brain.
Since 1992 Gravity Feed has evolved a unique architectural performance-theatre, employing large sets to create potent, subversive and densely atmospheric events. Their impressive body of haunting work in which movement, objects, sound, light and the audience are equal partners traverses visual arts,...
Kate Richards is a Sydney-based media artist with an undergraduate degree in BA Communications from UTS (1980), and a Masters in Fine Art in New Media Research from the University of NSW (CoFA) 1st class honours in 1996. Richards was an important figure in the rise of the...
For his video Superhuman Factory Online [2000] Ian Haig shot footage of the Toba International Erotic Science Fiction Museum and the Grand Old International Adult Museum, both in Japan. The video is virtually static, a series of shots revealing mannequins apparently engaged in sexually depraved acts in sets reminiscent of...
Dr Keely Macarow has worked as a producer, writer, artist and curator for exhibition, film, video, performance, screening and writing projects in Australia, England, the US and Europe. Keely is currently a Chief Investigator forDesigning Sound for Health and Wellbeing, an interdisciplinary project which is currently being conducted by researchers...
Patricia Adams completed her Doctor of Visual Arts at Griffith University in 2005. Her thesis explored the impact of experimental biomedical engineering techniques on expressions and representations of corporeality. Her interactive installation: “machina carnis” incorporated digital video micrograph image data of cardiac cells that she cultured in the laboratory by...
Jessica Tyrrell is a Sydney-based new media artist who works at the intersection of installation, audiovisual performance, sound, video, online & locative media. Fusing a cinematic sensibility with a love of poetic text, she creates works that draw out fragmented narratives and often incorporate documentary elements.
Anthea Behm is a visual artist working with and between video, performance, and photography. Behm is a 2011-2012 Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. During 2010-2011 she was a participant of the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. She completed her Masters of Fine Arts...
Amanda Stewart is a contemporary Australian poet, sound and performance artist. Stewart began writing and performing poetry in the late 1970s, and has since built a career as Australia's premier sound poet. From 1983 to 1993, she was a radio producer at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, but has since worked...
From his earliest Super 8 works to the most recent video projects Ross Harley has been decoding visual language. Starting with the tropes of horror films and the grammar of architecture, through to furniture and interior design of the 1950 and 60s to the exterior world of parks, petrol stations,...
Working since the late 1970s Brophy’s extensive creative output has covered a huge array of activities from work as an artist, film director, curator and author to collaborative and solo projects as a musician, composer, sound designer and graphic illustrator. Brophy’s aesthetic is an unlikely mix of pop art gloss...
Sonia Leber’s films have been exhibited widely at film festivals and contemporary art spaces including Germany’s Oberhausen International Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and Australian Perspecta at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In 1994, Leber curated the sound art event Earwitness: Excursions in Sound for Melbourne’s Contemporary Music...
If perceptions of time and space can be altered by digitally capturing, storing and viewing images of the world, Daniel Crooks is a poet playing with the building blocks of electronic reality. Crooks uses computer technology to warp and distort video field recordings, stretching and melding together...
Josephine Starrs is an Australian artist whose video and new media works have been exhibited extensively both in Australia and overseas. She was a founding member of the 1990s Cyberfeminist group, VNS Matrix, and since 1994 she has also collaborated with Leon Cmielewski on a variety...
Simon Hunt is an artist and musician whose work has encompassed a wide range of media including video, music and live performance. Since the mid 1980s, Hunt’s work has engaged with popular culture in a variety of forms, from Super 8 and video works to sound collages, soundtracks, dj performances,...
Pia van Gelder is an electronic artist and curator. Van Gelder develops performances and installations by working with media machines, both custom built heirloom technologies like the audio-video modular synthesizer, and common electronic devices which are hacked and opened up to perform in ways that negate their use or assumed design....
The late Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi artist Michael Riley is one of the most important Indigenous artists of the past two decades. Over his career he created an impressive body of work ranging from black & white portraiture to film, video and large-scale digital photography.
