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.
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...
Selected images from the portfolio of Stephen Fearnley
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...
