The Australian International Video Festival - Essay Early Days Yet John Conomos
Interview with John Conomos by John Gillies.
Essays on Cinema, Video Art and New Media Published by Artspace & Power Publications, 2008 Mutant Media gathers together a selection of John Conomos’ essays across the years, tracking the trajectory of his cinephilia since the 1960s, his ongoing interests in film criticism and theory, as well as his deep involvement in...
Debra Petrovitch's new CD-ROM Uncle Bill is an engrossing, multilayered work that explores, with thematic and formal inventiveness, questions dealing with childhood memories, sexual abuse, social class and space. Petrovich's distinctive, foreboding soundtrack presages its Gothic narrative of sexual violence, industrial chaos and repression.
Interviews with the artist conducted by dLux MediaArts as curatorial content for the survey exhibition 'Scanlines' which toured nationally in Australia, initially between February 2015 and March 2017.
With the assistance of the Australia Council and the Community Employment Programme, the South Australian Ministry of Technology and the Experimental Art Foundation jointly sponsored a pilot project to collect information on artists using new technologies. This brochure invited artists to be included in this international survey.
Chair’s Report For much of the past 18 months, I was Deputy Chairperson of ANAT. I became chair when Louise Dauth stepped down to make herself available to be considered as a consultant to ANAT.
True to her name, in recent years Destiny Deacon has blazed an extraordinary trail. Since first exhibiting at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, in 1991, Deacon has been represented in the prestigious international exhibitions Documenta, the Yokohama Triennale, the first Johannesburg Biennale and...
'I think blak dolls represent us as people, I don't think white Australia, or whatever you want to call it, sees us as people.' Destiny Deacon 1993 'Dolls are silent reminders of childhood, but Deacon gives voice to her dolls by communicating feelings… these dolls are decapitated, ...
Destiny Deacon is a photo artist, video maker, performer, writer and broadcaster, whose images work to re-interpret, parody and make transparent cultural stereotypes. She was born in Maryborough, Queensland in 1957, however she was raised in Melbourne. Deacon has a Bachelor of Arts, major in politics,...
Destiny Deacon is a photo and video artist, performer, writer and broadcaster, whose images re-interpret, parody and make transparent cultural stereotypes. She was born in Maryborough, Queensland in 1957 and educated at La Trobe and Melbourne universities. Deacon's work has been exhibited extensively in Australia and...
'I think blak dolls represent us as people, I don't think white Australia, or whatever you want to call it, sees us as people.' Destiny Deacon 1993 'Dolls are silent reminders of childhood, but Deacon gives voice to her dolls by communicating feelings… these dolls are decapitated, ...
From the series Oz. ‘I call myself a “shy photographer”. Taking pictures of real people makes me nervous. They always want me to explain details to them and start growling if I seem vague. Who can be bothered when you’re trying to think things out for yourself anyway?...
True to her name, in recent years Destiny Deacon has blazed an extraordinary trail. Since first exhibiting at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, in 1991, Deacon has been represented in the prestigious international exhibitions Documenta, the Yokohama Triennale, the first Johannesburg Biennale and...
‘I call myself a “shy photographer”. Taking pictures of real people makes me nervous. They always want me to explain details to them and start growling if I seem vague. Who can be bothered when you’re trying to think things out for yourself anyway? I prefer ...
Destiny Deacon’s work deals with both historical issues and contemporary Aboriginal life. It is informed by personal experience and readily accessible mass media. Her photographs feature members of the artist’s family and friends posing for the camera as well as items from her collection of ‘Aboriginalia’...
Held in the collection of Stephen Fearnley who cites Frank Wesley as a key early influence.
