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August 2007
- Moderating -empyre-
discussion: The
Good the Bad and the Ugly: Being in Second Life
the aesthetic endeavours, creative constructions and artistic performances
of SL with Annabeth Robinson, Patrick Lichty, Stephan Doesinger, Dr
Ricardo Peach, Christy Dena, Kathy Cleland, Adam Nash and Dr Fabio
Zambetta.
July 2007
June 2007
April 2007
- Safety
of Skin, my chapter
on avatars and their histories, identities, and boundaries is now
out. The long awaited book re:skin,
edited by Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth, is finally available
from MIT Press.
- I spoke at Weaving
with Light -Advanced Technology in Social Enterprise in Melbourne
which explored the possibilities of new technologies in social enterprise,
with a focus on indigenous communities. Organized by Nanotechnology
Victoria and the Equity Research Centre.
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
- Guest on the -empyre-
discussion: What
is to be done (education)? along with Ollivier Dyens (CA), Chris
Molinski (US), Claudia Reiche (DE), Christiane Robbins (US), Ricardo
Rosas (BR), Illyana Nedkova (UK), Sharon Daniel (US) and Øjeblikket
(DK). In 2006 and 2007 -empyre- conducted three conversations, edited
by moderator Christina McPhee and available for download, on the three
leitmotifs of documenta
12 as part of the documenta
12 Magazine Project.
December 2006
- "Into the Internet" paper on the Precursors
of Internet Art given at Multimedia
Art Asia Pacific (MAAP) Out of the Internet Symposium. Other panelists
included Beryl Graham (UK); Julianne Pierce (Au); Kim Machan (Au)
and Fatima Lasay (Philippines). Held in conjunction with the Asia
Pacific Triennial (APT) in Brisbane, Au.
- Mobile Video work blutxt
shown as part of a survey of gender inquiring and feminist digital
art practices GenderTopia,
TekniKunst 06 at the aptly named MeatMarket, Melbourne, Au.
November 2006
October 2006
- Carrier
included in the The
Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1, published simultaneously
on the net and on CD in a form suitable for individual, public library,
and classroom use. Editors: N. Katherine Hayes, Nick Montfort, Scott
Rettberg and Stephanie Strickland
September 2006
- swarm
immersive virtual
reality concept shown in the
Arteast
Collection 2000+23,
at the Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana. Exhibition
curator Zdenka Badovinac invited artists to pair a conceptual development
with existing works in the gallery. I am paired with Anish Kapoor's
The Void.
- Data Trash, commissioned article on the issues surround
archiving net .art published in Photofile,
The
Archive Issue, No 78, 2006, Sydney
August 2006
- Good to be in sunny California presenting a paper
at the Pacific Rim New Media Summit- a pre-conference event to ISEA
2006 in San Jose, USA. With a focus on locative media it was challenging
to physically get to see all of the events and projects.
- Have I said I love Las Vegas
- thanks Dave
Hickey
July 2006
- I have been a member of the Advisory Board
to the Australia
Council New Media Scoping Study whose report has just been published.
- NAVA
Magazine commissioned an article on my proposal for an alternative
to the Tech Bank Technology Loan Facility which was oneof the non
eventuated recommendations of the Myer Report.
June 2006
- I found myself writing a catalogue essay for
Daniel H Kojta's Alien Presence H - [hand made
echo]', an installation of video works by Dan and 10 other
artists at First
Draft Sydney. The show played with notions of the present and
the presence of the unknown.
April 2006
- Read my review of Darren Tofft's new book on
the evolution of media arts in Australia Interzone
in Photofile
-
(better than) The Real Thing, No 77, 2006, Sydney
- Invited to be partt of the International Symposium
on Electronic Arts International Programming Committee for 2006.
March 2006
February 2006
- It was fun chairing the Emerging
Fields Forum at the Adelaide Festival with New York based media
artist Zhang
Ga, Artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works Chico
MacMurtrie, and Berlin based sound artist Carsten
Nicolai.
- I was kindly invited to be the Launch Speaker
for Re:Generation, an Adelaide Fringe
exhibition of emerging artists working between art and science.
January 2006
- an old article - locate.au
-a survey of Australian and New Zealand net artists, is republished
on the Italian Simultaneita
new media arts magazine online site. Established in 1997 as a printed
magazine Simultaneita' is a direct follow-on from the monthly "Futurismo-Oggi"
- check out Trace's
Decade of Online Writing. Writers from across the globe give insights
into the many ways in which technology has changed our lives in the
period 1995-2005. Here is
my contribution
December 2005
November 2005
October 2005
- Facilitator of the Strange
Bedfellows: Art and Science panel session at the Arc
Biennial, Brisbane, a three-day festival bringing visual art,
craft and design together in one program. The session featured artists
working as researchers and inventors, scientists creatively exploring
the possibilities of this unexpected collaboration, and the thought-provoking
art produced.
- Mobile Video work blutxt
shown as part of PEAM
(Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting) Italy, 22-30 October.
- Mobile Video works Over
the Stars and ShipBoard from the
Portable
World Series showing in the Mobile
Exposure Festival, from Microcinema
International, Oct 15 and 16 in Houston, Texas.
September 2005
- Keynote Speaker
at Vital
Signs, held at ACMI, Melbourne - a conference surveying the range
of new media and interdisciplinary creative practice across Australia.
Artists, filmmakers, curators, critics and arts academics unite to
clarify and articulate the pivotal role they play within Australian
culture.
- Wonderland:
A Manifesto for 21st Century Immersive Works commissioned for
Mesh#18 Experimenta Vanishing Point,
Ed Lisa Gye, Experimenta Media Arts Inc, 2005, p13-15.
August 2005
- Appointed Executive Director of the Australian
Network for Art and Technology - Australia's peak network and
advocacy body for media artists, which entailed a physical relocation
from Sydney to Adelaide.
- Sadly after many years nurturing -empyre-
forum, it is time for me to pass the day to day management to the
care of the other facilitators, who I am sure will build upon it's
solid foundations to bring more outstanding monthly critiques and
dialogues from a global arena of media arts.
July 2005
June 2005
May 2005
April 2005
March 2005
- Tunnel
site showing in Violencia
Sin Cuerpos, part of
Carcel de Amor on violence and gender curated by Remedios
Zafra at Museo
Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid from 31 March to
6 May then touring other Spanish museums. The work -originally authored
in 1996 - has had the Java updated due to the backwards incompatibility
of current browsers.
- Guest Lecture at University of Technology Sydney
[UTS] on New Media Aesthetics & Theories - Blogs,
vogs, Lists and Databases.
February 2005
- Moderating a panel on International Mobile
phone artworks at Mobile
Journeys Professional Forum, presented by consortium partners
including dLux media arts, ANAT, AIMIA, ABC New Media and mNet
- Moderating -empyre-
discussion: To Save or Not to Save?
- International preservation projects dealing with online art.
January 2005
December 2004
November 2004
- empyrean
showing in CYNETart04areale,
Dresden,
Germany
- Moderated Metacreation: Art
and Artificial Life month on -empyre-
with writer and researcher Dr Mitchell Whitelaw (AU), who was joined
by eminent a-life practitioners Paul Brown (UK), Mauro Annunziato
(IT), Ken Rinaldo (US), and Maria Verstappen (NL).
- Guest lecture - History
of Networked Art, Media Studies, University of Technology,
Sydney [UTS].
October 2004
-
The
art of the network paper given @
Archiving
Web Resources, National Library of Australia, Canberra.
- Networked
Soft Space, chapter in Art and New Media,
eds Yu Wei-Cheng and Phillip George, Tainan National University of
the Arts, Taiwan, 2004. Mandarin p 112-119, English, p 209-214.
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Dr Melinda Rackham is currently the Executive
Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology - Australia's
peak network and advocacy body for media artists working in screen,
sound, installation, performance, literary and networked arenas; creating
opportunities for connection, collaboration, innovation, research
and development both locally and globally.
Over
the past decade, as an artist, writer, curator and media consultant
she has investigated the aesthetic, technological and philosophical
aspects of online identity, locality, sexuality and community, as
well as viral symbiosis and trans species relations. Her Ph.D. explored
the nature and construction of, and avatar relations within multi-user
Virtual Reality Networked Spaces.
Her writing on Immersive Space, Portable Medias
and Networked Cultures appears online and in print in arenas like
Artlink, Eyeline, Leonardo, Ctheory, Culture Machine, Mesh, and
Realtime, and has chapters in recent Routledge and MIT editions.
Her residencies include Polar Circuit, Finland and Banff Center,
Canada. Her web works have been shown widely, including Beyond Interface,
Arco Electronico, Transmediale, File, Art Entertainment Network,
The Montreal Biennale, European Media Art Festival, Hybrid Life
Forms, MAAP, Perspecta99, Biennial of Buenos Aires, lab3D, ICC Tokyo,
many ISEAs and the Pompidou Centre.
Rackham won the SoundSpace Award for Virtual
Worlds at the 2001 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, the Faulding Award for
Multimedia at the 2000 Adelaide Festival, and Gram 1999 Internet
Art Prize in Argentina. She was the Curator of Networked Media at
the Australian Center for Moving Image in Melbourne, and
initiated and produced -empyre- international media arts forum.
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