Jeffrey Shaw has been a leading figure in new media art since its emergence from the performance, expanded cinema and installation paradigms of the 1960s to its present day technology-informed and virtualized forms. In a prolific career of widely exhibited and critically acclaimed work he has...
Nancy Mauro-Flude is an artist, writer and curator based in Tasmania. Her research engages with digital materiality, embodiment and computer culture in a speculative manner. She is an accomplished arts practitioner who lectures, performs and exhibits locally and internationally.
Sari TM Kivinen in is an Australian/Finnish artist currently based in Helsinki. Kivinen completed a Bachelor or Fine Arts (Honours) at the University of Western Sydney in 2004 and is currently completing studies in the Masters degree programme of Live Art and Performance Studies at the Theatre Academy, Helsinki.
While studying Russian in Moscow in 1989-90 Ruth Maclennan first became interested in the conceptual and performance art she saw there, in squatted Baroque studios and unofficial public spaces. Later, in Berlin at the Hochschule der Künste, she started making videos and writing scripts. For two years, she was a...
Cavallaro works predominantly with paper and uses images from art history combined, coloured, layered and cut-out to create enigmatic narratives.
From Wired Lab's residency program: "One of Australia’s electronic pioneers, from 1979 – 1985 Garry was a member of the seminal electronic post-punk band ‘Severed Heads’ and appeared on the albums ‘Since the Accident’, ‘City Slab Horror’, ‘Blubberknife’, ‘Clifford Darling’, ‘Please Don’t Live In The Past’. Garry has also produced works...
Severed Heads was an Australian electronic music group based and founded in Sydney in 1979 as Mr. and Mrs. No Smoking Sign. The original members were Richard Fielding and Andrew Wright, and were soon joined by Tom Ellard. Fielding and Wright eventually left the group, leaving Ellard as a singular talent, the sole continuing member of the group. A variety of people played in...
Stephen Harrop grew up on Sydney's northern beaches and studied graphic design at Randwick Tech followed by film studies and photography at the City Art Institute (now CoFA) over 1980-1982. His early film work and photography used found and acquired images, re-contextualising them and translating them into new forms. His...
Tim Humphrey collaborates with Madeleine Flynn. The pair has worked together since 1993. The duo are Australian performers/composers/sound designers/researchers/writers/creators/socially engaged sound artists who work across performative art-forms. Their curiosity about sound in space and cultural engagement with sound/music has led them to develop links with artists in dance, theatre, installation, film...
Rob Saunders is a Senior Lecturer in Design Computing at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney. Rob’s research engages with creative agency, computational curiosity, and robotic art. Rob collaborates with artists and designers to apply his research in design customisation systems, interactive installations...
Atanas Djonov was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria in 1972 and moved to Sydney in 1996. He completed a video-production course at the College of Journalism and Mass Communication at Sofia University, Bulgaria. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in 2002 and a PhD in 2011 from the College...
Brad Miller was born in Sydney in 1961. He studied Electrical Engineering and Graphic Design at TAFE, received a BA in Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, and a Masters of Fine Art (Research) at The College of Fine Arts (COFA), University of NSW. He...
Josh has been involved at the nexus of Stills Photography, Digital Cinema and the Visual Arts for over two decades. He has participated in exhibitions over the last twenty years and is frequently sought as a cinematographer and photographer for other significant Australian visual artists. He also works commercially as...
A sailing vessel hoves into view, white sails billowing in the darkness. Images appear on the sails, projections of microscopic surfaces, rocks, patterns, pages of the Bible. Children laughing and electronic noises can be heard on the soundtrack. So begins John Gillies’s Armada (1994-1998), a video/sound installation. Gillies’s work since...
The city is watching. As the technologies of surveillance have multiplied and spread through the environment, so too the relationship between the individual and the state has become increasingly complex. Dennis Beaubois explores this relationship, finding within it the possibility for poetry and anarchy. In The Event...
An important figure in the rise of video art especially in relation to music, installation and performance, Tim Gruchy originally studied architecture and later music at the University of Queensland. His art practice is performative, and, as a designer of interactive installations, often created in collaboration with his brother Mic....
Chris Caines is an artist who works across a variety of media exploring the impact, effect and story telling possibility of combining cinema and new technologies.
John Conomos is a writer, artist and theorist. In addition to his exhibitions, he has written extensively on film, video and the visual arts, as he seeks to chart a path between the practice of the essay as a written form but also as an ongoing practice across video, films,...
David Haines (b. 1966) and Joyce Hinterding (b. 1958) are a collaborative art duo based in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. The duo have been collaborating on art and music projects since 1999. While both artists have extensive solo careers, as Haines & Hinterding the duo...
Joyce Hinterding is a contemporary artist based in The Blue Mountains, New South Wales. As part of the collaborative art duo Haines & Hinterding with David Haines, Hinterding has exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas. Hinterding's solo work has combined drawing, sound and sculpture to reveal hidden layers of ambient...
Maria Fernanda Cardoso is an international artist, born in Colombia, currently living in Sydney, Australia. Graduating from Yale University with a Masters degree in Sculpture and Installation in 1990, she is well known for her unconventional use of materials and the use of animals as inspiration. Cardoso exhibits widely in...
Elvis Richardson was born in Sydney in 1965. Currently residing in Melbourne, Richardson works in a variety of media including photograpy, sculpture and video. Richardson was awarded a BFA from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales in 1992 and in 1996 obtained a Master of Arts, before gaining...
Stephen Fearnley studied for his Diploma in Fine Arts at Alexander Mackie CAE, finishing in 1982. With his class mate Stephen Harrop he began putting pictures to “pre-existing sound” such as old radio plays and in this way producing short films using Super 8.
Garth Paine is internationally regarded as an innovator in the field of interactivity in electronic music and media arts. He gained his PhD in interactive immersive environments from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia in 2003, and completed a Graduate Diploma in software engineering in the following year at...
Chris Henschke and Donna Kendrigan are Topologies, a unique and inspired creative partnership. Topologies covers every facet of contemporary media including fine ...
