Melinda Rackham has engaged with sculptural, performative, distributed, emergent and responsive media artforms as an artist, critic, curator, consultant and cultural producer for twenty-five years.
Her extensive knowledge of the many fields of new arts practcies is drawn from participation in the major international media art exhibitions and festivals either as an exhibiting Artist, a Jury or Selection committee member or a Conference presenter. Dr Rackham’s perspectives on emerging art practices appear in diverse academic and arts industry publications online and in print.
Melinda was the first Curator of Networked Media at he Australian Centre for Moving Image, and in 2002 she established -empyre-, one of the world’s leading online critical media art theory forums.
As Director of Australian Network for Art and Technology from 2005 till 2009 Melinda forged significant industry partnerships and elevated public engagement and critique of research and practice in art, science and new technologies.
Currently Adjunct Professor at RMIT University, Dr Rackham’s focus is curating and writing on the emerging art and cultures manifesting across networked, responsive, biological, wearable and distributed practices and environments which impact on our everyday lives.
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