Born 1964, Melbourne, Australia, Lives and works in Melbourne.
Education:
PhD, COFA, University of NSW, Sydney, 2010-2014
Masters Degree, Media Arts, Dept of Visual Communication, RMIT, Melbourne, 1997-98
Graduate Diploma of Art, Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne, 1990 (now RMIT)
Diploma of Art, Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne, 1987 (now RMIT)
Employment:
Senior Lecturer in media art, School of Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 1994 – present
Selected Solo Exhibitions and collaborations
2023 Untitled Syndrome, Rubicon gallery, Melbourne
2022 Pox Party, Rubicon gallery, Melbourne
2019 Meatspace, The Salon, Capitol Theatre, Melbourne
The Foaming Node, Black Box, MARS gallery, Melbourne
2018 The Foaming Node, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Studio 1, Melbourne
2017 The Institute of Fungus, Riddoch Art gallery, Mount Gambier, South Australia
2016 Analogue, Black Box, MARS gallery, Melbourne
2015 Video Nasty, Strange Neighbour, Melbourne
2014 Melted Head Connected to the Internet, Window, Auckland University, New Zealand
(online exhibition)
2013 Some Thing, West Space gallery, Melbourne
Workshop of Filthy Creation, Kings, ARI, Melbourne
2011. Tyger, Tyger, West Space gallery, Melbourne, (with Kotoe Ishii)
Chronicles of the New Human Organism, Centre for Contemporary photography,
Melbourne
2010 Chronicles of the New Human Organism, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2007 Zoso, Project Space gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, with Philip Samartzis and DarrenTofts
2006 Open Studio, Ssamzie space, Seoul, Korea
The Dirt Factory, VCA gallery, Melbourne
Sick, Conical Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Flesh Coloured Plastic, Esa Jaske gallery, Sydney
Flesh Coloured Plastic, Spacement gallery, Melbourne
The Dirt Factory, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Bimbo Laboratory, Cast gallery, Hobart
2004 Futurotica, Erotica LA, Los Angeles
2003 Futurotica, Sexpo, Melbourne
Human Aquatic Breeding Centre, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
Premonition, Span Gallery, Melbourne (with Martine Corompt and Chris Langton)
My Favourite Babe, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
2002 Brain Tumour Helmets with Microwaves, Centre for Contemporary Photography,
Melbourne
2001 Anti Ergonomic Hump Machine, West Space gallery, Melbourne
2000 Colossus: Super Human Factory Online project sex computer 2000 unit, First Floor
gallery, Melbourne
1997 Trick or Treat, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne (with Martine Corompt & Philip Samartzis)
1992 The Thing with 200 Heads, Paper Heroes gallery, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Rainbow Video, Old Customs House, Fremantle & Composite, Melbourne
All Stars, Site 8 Gallery, RMIT University
Future Creep (online)
2023 Raw, Cooked, Rotten, Taboo, Transgression, Transcendence in Art & Science, Malta
Society of the Arts, Valletta, Malta
Das KAPITAL, Melbourne
Rencontres Internationales, Paris, Berlin
Wrong Biennale: Sensory Disconnection & AI/AI (online)
Horror is nothing other than reality, Verge gallery, University of Sydney
Elastic Mind, South Campus Art Gallery, Broward College, Florida
Transhumance, Contemporary Art Observatorium, Lavagna, Italy
2019 The Abyss, Griffith University Museum, Brisbane
Other Suns, Fremantle Art Centre, Perth
Intercambio, Casa de Asia, Havana Biennial, Cuba
2018 Unhallowed Arts, Perth
2017 Open a new page, commandN, Tokyo
I am Internet Famous, Wrong Biennale, Panke Gallery, Berlin
Homeostasis Lab, Wrong Biennale, (online)
Very Unco, Torrance art museum, Los Angeles
Dallas Medianale, Dallas
Flesh on Flesh, Momentum, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin
Something is trying to tell us some things, Five Walls Projects, Melbourne
Cancelled, Eastern Bloc, Montreal
The Museum of Lost Public Notices, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
The Image, pop up exhibition, Eighth International conference on the image, Venice
University, Italy
2016 Space Bodies, Transart Triennale, Berlin
10th Audiovisual Arts Festival, Corfu, Greece
1000 Forms of Fear: Special Interest Section, AEAF 24:7, Australian Experimental Art
Foundation, Adelaide
New Alchemists, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart & National touring exhibition:
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Queensland; Devonport Regional Art
Gallery
Tasmania; Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia.
Contemporary Australian Drawing 6, Bury Art Museum, Manchester, UK
2015 Carnal Desire, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany
International Symposium of Electronic Art, Vancouver, Canada
Facsimile, Contemporary Australian Drawing 5, SACI Institute, Florence, Italy
Dallas Medianale, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, USA
2014 In and Out, Brightspace, Melbourne
2013 Contemporary Art Ruhr, Zollverein, Essen, Germany
Unco, Torrance art museum, Los Angeles and Northern centre for contemporary art,
Darwin
International Symposium of Electronic Art, Verge gallery, Sydney
Reading the space: Contemporary Australian Drawing No.3, New York studio School
The world below, Presgrove place, Melbourne (part of White Night, Melbourne)
2012 The Substation Contemporary art prize, The Substation, Melbourne
Not Fair, Primal Mutations, Melbourne and 24HR art centre for contemporary art, Darwin
National New Media Art Award, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Contemporary Australian Drawing 2, Wimbledon Gallery, University of the Arts London
2011 BYOB, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne
Southern Panoramas, 17th International Contemporary Art Festival, Videobrasil, Sao
Paulo, Brazil
International Symposium of Electronic Art, Cumhuriyet gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Awfully Wonderful, Performance Space, Sydney
VideoRow, Torrance art museum, Los Angeles
2010 Retro Futurism, Space Camp gallery, Indianapolis
New media, Sex, and Culture in the 21st century, Museum of new Art, Detroit
Constellations: A Large number of Small drawings, RMIT gallery, Melbourne
Canadian Pharmacy, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2009 The Shilo project, Ian Potter Museum of art, Melbourne and regional gallery tour
Anonymous Drawings, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
BODY, Project Space gallery, RMIT University, Mellbourne
2008 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo art gallery
The Bon Scott project, Fremantle arts centre, Perth
Lions never sleep, champions never cry, Satin Satan gallery, Chicago
2007 U-Turn, Glendale College Art gallery, Los Angeles
Living Elvis, RMIT gallery, Melbourne
Loose ends, Loose Projects, Sydney
Artist Makes Video, Art Rage Survey 1994-1998, Griffith University, Queensland College
of Art, Brisbane
Open studio, Ssamzie space gallery, Seoul, Korea
Animated, National Portrait gallery, Canberra (online exhibition) also Lake Mcquarie
gallery, NSW
2006 Eyes, Lies and Illusions, Australian Centre for the moving image, Melbourne
Syn City, Dlux media arts, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney and National tour
Media State, Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts 2006 Artists Week
2005 Substance, Blacklab Gallery, Brisbane
Mutantric Love Hotel, Whitehouse Gallery, Brisbane
Sex, Breadbox Gallery, Perth
BankART, The Art Autonomy Network, Yokohama, Japan
D.art, Sydney opera House exhibition hall, Sydney
Box2 Public video screen, Federation Square, Melbourne
2004 Futurotica, Erotic Museum, Los Angeles
Transmitter, European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
Unnatural Selection, Ars Electronica, Austria
2003 Odd, Faculty Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne
Headspace, National Neuroscience Facility, Melbourne
House of Tomorrow, Experimenta media Arts, Victorian Arts Centre,
Melbourne and Institiute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2002 Moist, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Festival, Art Museum of China, Beijing,
Peepshow 28, Lusty Lady adult cinema complex, San Francisco and Seattle Arte Red,
ARCO, Madrid
2001 Waste, Experimenta media arts, Melbourne Festival For the Arts,
Blackbox, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
Sticky Fingers, Para/Site Gallery, Hong Kong
Under_score, BAM - Next Wave Festival, New York and ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
Cube 37, Frankston Arts Centre, Melbourne
2000 Cybercultures: Sustained Release, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney and National tour
to: Wollongong City Gallery; Global Arts Link, Ipswich; Perth Institute of Contemporary
Art; Moving Image Centre Auckland, New Zealand
The 2nd International City Video Installation – Akihabara TV, Tokyo, Japan
Festival International de Linguagem Electronica, Museum of Image and Sound,
São Paulo, Brazil
1999 The 7th New York Digital Salon, Visual Arts Museum, New York, US and
International tour to: Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, and Valladolid, Spain
National Digital Art Awards, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Missile, MAAP Festival, Brisbane
Initialising History, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Real 3.0, Vision Network/co:exist, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Game Play, Span gallery, Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne
Cartoons and Caricature in Contemporary Art, Geelong Art gallery and regional
gallery tour
1997 Deacons Graham &James/Arts 21 Award Show, Melbourne University gallery
No Holds Barred 2, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne
1996. Nothing Natural, Basement Gallery, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne and regional
gallery tour
The Seventh International Symposium on Electronic Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1995 The 4th International Biennale, ARTEC 95, Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan.
The Sixth International Symposium on Electronic Art, Montreal, Canada.
Virtualalities, Scienceworks, Melbourne
1994 Bit Map 101, Next wave Festival, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne
Humanetics, New Media Network Gallery, Melbourne
1993 SIGGRAPH 93-Machine Culture, Anaheim, California, USA
Panorama Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1992 The Third International Symposium on Electronic Art, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sydney
1991 The Graphic Art of Contemporary Comics, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Association City, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Fuel, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane: also toured to The Australian Centre for
Photography, Sydney and in 1992, to The Australian Centre for Contemporary
Art, Melbourne and regional galleries
1989 Trash and Junk Culture (Video Component), The Performance Space, Sydney, and The
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Selected Screenings
2024 GutterCast film festival, North Carolina, USA
Chicago Underground film festival, USA
Chroma Art film Festival, Miami, Florida, USA
ONED Art experimental film festival, Beijing, China
Post Cinema festival, Sicily, Italy
AA29 video project, Caserta, Italy
Revelation film festival, Perth
XPRMNTL Anti film festival, UK
Philip K Dick film festival, Museum of the Moving Image, New York
Worm Pornography, Thornbury picture house, Melbourne
Diametrale International experimental film festival, B-Sides, Innsbruck, Austria
Flickers, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2023 Vastlab, experimental film festival, Los Angeles
Experimental Superstars, Novi Sad, Serbia
Light Matter film festival, New York
Sydney Underground film festival
Nahui Ollin film festival, Mexico
Pleasure Planet, Miscellania, Melbourne
VisualContainer TV, Milan, Italy
2022 Interface video festival, Art Kino Rijeka, Croatia
My mama told me I’m experimental, Hanoi, Vietnam
Vastlab, experimental film festival, Los Angeles
Unco film festival, Asagaya loft, Tokyo
The Violence Project, Alphabet Art Centre @ The new Museum of Networked art
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Animation shorts: Lightness in Gravity, Gallery of Modern Art, Asia Pacific Triennial of
Contemporary art, Brisbane
XPRMNTL Anti film festival, UK
2021 15th Busan International Video Arts Festival, Busan, South Korea
Sydney Underground film festival
Over the real, international festival of video art, Lucca, Italy
7th Bogota Experimental film festival, Colombia
MotelX festival, SectionX, Lisbon, Portugal
Sphere festival, Kolkata, India
In the screen, Ann Arbor film festival, Detroit
WeVe TV, New York
Cyberthon, Australian Centre for the moving image, Melbourne
2020 Saigon Experimental film festival, San Art Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
STUFF MX film festival, Mexico City
Simultan festival, Unseen, Timisoara, Romania
Punk film festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vastlab, experimental film festival, Los Angeles
Mr Holehead’s warped dimension film festival, San Francisco (online)
Coop gallery, experimental short film & video festival, Nashville (online)
Couched, Revelation international film festival, Perth (online)
Revelation international film festival, Perth
MotelX film festival, Lisbon, Portugal
Besides the Screen, Vitoria, Brazil (online)
Broken Screen, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019 Autobahn STUFF MX touring film festival, Mexico
Saigon Experimental film festival, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Altered Esthetics film festival, Minneapolis, US
Uncensored festival, London, UK
Chicago Underground film festival
Hazel Eye film festival (online)
Delete TV, UK and Austria
2018 Switzerland International film festival (online)
Cinematheque, Dlux Media Arts, Sydney
Bangkok Underground film festival
STUFF MX film festival, Mexico City
Arizona Underground film festival
Sydney Underground film festival
Monster Fest, Melbourne
Revelation international film festival, Perth
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2017 Off the Wall, Arts & Literature laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin
Cinesonika, International film & video festival of sound design, Surrey, Canada
Revelation international film festival, Perth
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen,
Germany
2016 Nihilist film festival, Echo Park Film Centre, Los Angeles
Diffrazioni festival, Florence, Italy
Melbourne Central Art Loop, Melbourne Central Shopping Centre
2015 Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2014 Melbourne Now – Rooftop Transmissions (Channels video art festival/National Gallery
of Victoria) Rooftop cinema, Melbourne
2013 Tele Visions, Sydney
Channels, video art festival, Melbourne
Berlin International Directors Lounge, Germany
VideoFormes, video and digital cultures festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2010 Video Void, Centre for contemporary photography, Melbourne
Cinesonika, International film & video festival of sound design, Surrey, Canada and
touring festival
Torrance art museum, Los Angeles
Australian Centre for the moving image, Melbourne
2007 Syn City, Australian centre for the moving image, Melbourne and Mercury cinema,
Adelaide
Sunstroked, Videotage, Hong Kong, HetWildeWeten, Rotterdam, SpielRaum, Berlin
A Little Blah, Blah, Albb Reading Room, Vietnam
2006 The Super 8 effect, dlux media arts, Chauvel cinema, Sydney and The Perth
Independent Film Festival
Bit Projects, Hamburg
2005 Pescara Electronic Art Festival, Italy
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
D.art 05, dlux media arts, Chauvel cinema, Sydney
2004 Descore, Australian Centre for the moving image, Melbourne
Res-fest, Australian Centre for the moving image, Melbourne and Sydney Dendy Opera
Quays and The Studio, Sydney Opera House
Ozone, 10th London Australian Film Festival, The Barbican Centre, London
Phantom Power Festival, Kennedy Gallery, Ontario, Canada
Soma, Australian Centre for the moving image, Melbourne
Periscope, Adelaide International Film Festival, Adelaide
2003 Res-fest, Australian Centre for the moving image, Melbourne
Ozone, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Another Planet, Gene Siskel Film Centre, Chicago and Robert Beck Memorial
Cinema, New York
2002 Plasmatic, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Festival, Beijing, China
Australian Centre for the moving image, Melbourne
2300, Plan 9, Paris, France
Cinealternative, Paris, France
Lausanne Underground Film Festival, Switzerland
2001 Microwave Festival, VideoSlam, Hong Kong
Zeppelin Sound Art Festival, Soundtrack 2001, Barcelona, Spain
VideoBrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Melbourne Underground Film Festival
The 8th Chicago Underground Film Festival, US
2000 Travels in Time and Culture, Cologne Academy of Media Arts, Germany
Cinema Libre, Montreal, Canada
Mixmove Festival, International Symposium of Electronic Art, Paris, France
Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Germany
The 7th Chicago Underground Film Festival, US
Mind and Mutation, Interfilm Festival, Berlin, Germany
L’immagine leggera, International Video Festival, Palermo, Italy
Euro Underground Film Festival, Krakow, Poland
Excess, MAAP Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse
[d]vision 2000, Vienna, Austria and Kiev, Ukraine
Catacomb, Winnepeg, Canada
Expo 2000, Australian Pavilion, Hannover, Germany
Contamination, Microwave Festival, Hong Kong
1999 Halloweird, Independent Exposure, Seattle; The Video Lounge, New York,
Prague, Czech Republic
Vidarte, Videoelectroacustica, Festival de video y artes electronicas, Mexico City
Bienal de video y Nuevos Medios, Chile, Santiago
No Dance Film Festival, Utah, US
The Witching Hour, Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne
Body of information, DIFECA, Festival of Comics and Animation, Seoul, Korea
Flo Film Festival, Florida, US
D.art 99, dlux Media Arts, 46th Sydney Film Festival, also; 24 hr
Art, Darwin; MAAP Festival, Brisbane; Revelation, Independent film festival, Arte and
Comunicazione 99, Rome
1998 VideoBrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Transcinema Festival, Blasthaus, San Francisco, US
Pandaemonium Festival of Moving Images, London Lux Cinema, UK
11th Dallas International Video Festival, Dallas, US
Technophilia, Brisbane
Lovebytes, Digital Arts Festival, Sheffield, UK
Rencontres Arts Electroniques Festival, Rennes, France
Cinema Obscura, Melbourne
Edge of the World Film Festival, Hobart, Tasmania
1997 The 4th Valdivia Cine and Video Festival, Valdivia, Chile
Euro Underground Film Festival Tour, Berlin, Germany;
Krakow, Poland; Sofia, Bulgaria
Body of Information, Connexion Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick: Canada
The Great Australian Byte, Pan Pacific Festival, Groningen, The Netherlands
The 4th Chicago Underground Film Festival, US
International Short Film Festival of Santiago, Chile
Res-Fest - Digital Film Festival, International Tour, ICA - London, Montreal
International Festival of Cinema and New Media, Canada
Guttervision, Los Angeles, USA
WRO 97, Sound Basis Visual Art Festival, Wroclaw, Poland
Altered States, Experimenta, Melbourne and PowerHouse Museum, Sydney
The 4th New York International Video and New Media Festival
Techne, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and National Tour
ArtRage, ABCTV, Sydney, (and gallery tour)
aliens.au, Video Positive 97, Manchester, UK
1996 Cyber Cultures, Sydney
Thaw 96, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Experimenta Media Arts Melbourne
Robotica, Experimenta, Melbourne Film Festival
Electronic Theatre: The Seventh International Symposium on Electronic Art, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
Elastic Light, Art Gallery of N.S.W Sydney and National Tour
1995 Voyage, CeBit, Hannover, Germany (Video Wall)
The Third Annual New York Digital Salon, New York
Metropolis, Television Espanola, Madrid, Spain
Digital State, The Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
The Sixth International Symposium on Electronic Art, Montreal, Canada
LACE, Los Angeles
AIMIA conference, Adelaide
Out of the Analogue, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
Fiv 95, Buenos Aires, South America
1994 An Eccentric Orbit, Media Art from Australia, touring exhibition organised by the
American Federation of the Arts and the Australian Film Commission (curated by
Peter Callas) Venues including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA;
Cornell cinema Ithaca, New York, USA (1995); Dalhousie Art Gallery,
Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada (1995); Espace Lyonnais d'art Contemporain,
Lyon, France (1995); Scene Nationale Les Plateaux, Angouleme, France (1995);
"Erlibnis Australien", Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany (1995);
Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany (1995) University of North
Texas, Denton, USA (1995); "Cyberria", Museo das Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain
(1995); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sophia, Madrid, Spain (1995);
Canary Island International Video Festival, Las Palmas, Spain (1996);
The Festival of Perth, "Articulations" Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (1999);
The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (1999); National Gallery
of Australia, Canberra; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Queensland Art
Gallery, Brisbane (1999)
The 1st New York International Video festival
1993 Technopolis, Pixel Art Expo, Rome, Italy
Big Day Out, (Video Wall), Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth
Panorama Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Bit Movie 93, Riccione, Italy
Telling Stories, Scanners of Memory, Video Positive 93, Liverpool. UK
Consume, Hobart
3rd International Festival for Animation, Berlin
Colour Bar, Stockholm, Sweden
Science And Fiction, Interfilm Festival, Eiszeit, Berlin, Germany.
1992 Fatal Visions Film Festival, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide
Valhalla Cinema, Melbourne
The Melbourne International Film Festival
Thai Cultural Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
Exposed, The AFI Cinema, Sydney
Asia Pacific Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
Frames Film and Video Festival, Adelaide
The 7th Australian International Video Festival, Sydney
The Third International Symposium on Electronic Art, Art Gallery of NSW,
Experimenta, State Film Theatre, Melbourne
1991 WRO 91, Sound Basis Visual Art Festival, Wroclaw, Poland
1990 Frames Film and Video Festival, Adelaide
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Experimenta, State Film Theatre, Melbourne
Video Art and New Technology Festival, Fremantle
1989 4th Australian Video Festival, Sydney
Other Pleasures, State Film Theatre, Mima, Melbourne
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Attitude, Film and Video Event, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
1988 Frames Film and Video Festival, Adelaide
Melbourne International film festival (super – 8 program)
3rd Australian Video Festival, Sydney
Splash, Film and Video Event, Sydney
Experimenta, State Film Theatre, Melbourne
1987 10th Tokyo Video Festival, Japan
Melbourne Film Festival (Video Component)
Latitude 34'S, Longitude 151'E: A program of contemporary Australian super 8,
touring program
The 2nd Melbourne Super - 8 Film Festival
The 2nd Australian International Video Festival, Sydney
Linden Multi Media Event, Melbourne
1986 The 7th Sydney Super - 8 Film Festival
1985 Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
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Publications
Book Chapters
2022 Container Bodies, Human Rights, AS/SF Vol.1, Amphetamine Sulphate, US (edited by
Philip Best)
2017 Impossible and Incompatible Bodies, ebook chapter, ‘Taboo -Transgression -
Transcendence in Art and Science’, Corfu, Greece, (editors: Dalila Honorato and
Andreas Giannakoulopoulos)
2016 Trust me I am a Doctor, Doctoral research in art, Australia Scholarly Publishing
2015 Visceral Bodies, Pornoterrorism, De-Aesthticising Power, (edited by Louis Armand &
Jaromir Lelek) Litteraria Pragnesia books
2014 The parasite and confrontation of the body, ebook chapter ‘Body Horror and
Shapeshifting’, Inter Disciplinary, Press, UK (edited by Jessica Folio and Holly Luhning)
2012 Goo goo muck, ebook chapter, ‘Inversion of Power & Paradox’, Inter-Disciplinary
Press, UK (edited by Jonathan A. Allan and Elizabeth E. Nelson)
Academic Journal articles (peer reviewed)
2018 Body Horror 2.0, British Computer Society (Proceedings)
2017 Body Horror 2.0, Unlikely Journal, issue 3, http://unlikely.net.au/issue-3
2015 The Kipple Institute, Ctrl-Z, issue 5, http://kipple.ctrl-z.net.au (with Darren Tofts and
Martine Corompt)
The Darkness Within, interalia, journal of queer studies, - bodily fluids, issue 9
2009 Please Don’t Call me Doctor, Scond Nature, International Journal of Creative media,
RMIT University, Melbourne
Sputnik Baby, Fibrecultuture Journal, No.15, Remix
1998 Born to be Alive’, paper for Videor Conference, Centre for Contemporary Photography
and globe e - journal, Issue 9
1997 Electronic Noise, Practice, Journal of Visual, Performing and Media Art, issue2
conference papers
2020 Paper, Worm Pornography, Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science
conference, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
2018 Paper, Nothing is truly dead, Quite Frankly, conference, Perth
Paper, Body Horror 2.0, Politics of the machines - art and after, EVA, Aalborg
University, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 Paper, Cannibal Art, Feasting on Hannibal, The University of Melbourne
Paper, Impossible Bodies, Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science, 10th
AudioVisual Arts Festival, Corfu, Greece
Paper, Un-Whole Bodies Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science, 10th
AudioVisual Arts Festival, Corfu, Greece
2015 Paper, All that is bad, AAANZ Image, Space, Body Conference, Queensland Art
Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2014 Paper, Conquest of the inner body, Conquest of Space Symposium, COFA, University
of New South Wales, Sydney
2013 Paper, The parasite and confrontation of the body, 2nd Global Conference: Body
Horror: Contagion, Mutation, Transformation, Athens, Greece
Illustrated Lecture, The unclassifiable body, Morbid Anatomy/The Observatory room,
New York
Presentation, The absent abject body in media arts, ISEA 2013, Sydney
2012 Paper, Inside out bodies, Sensualising Deformities conference, Edinburgh University
2011 Paper, That strange feeling, ISEA 2011, Istanbul, Turkey
2010 Panel, Colonic Transformations, Thresholds, Fluids and the Materiality of Perversion -
Metamorphoses: Transformations, Transgressions, English, Media & Performing Arts
Postgraduate Symposium University of New South Wales, Sydney
Paper, Goo goo muck, 8th Global Conference: on Monsters and the Monstrous, Oriel
College, Oxford University, UK
2009 Paper, Cool video dude, Nomad, new media art scoping conference, Victorian
College of the arts, Melbourne
2007 Paper, The human transformation project - cult cinema and art, Cine Excess
conference London, UK
2006 Paper, Showing the unshowable: a re-reading of the films of David Cronenberg;
Subversive Re/Viewing: Readings, Communities, Practices, Conference, University of
Gloucestershire, UK
Panel member, David Cronenberg retrospective, public forum, ACMI, Melbourne
2005 Paper, My Hugh Hefner sex machine fantasy came true, Culture Fix conference,
University of Technology, Sydney
Paper, Bowel media, Vital Signs conference, Australian Centre for the moving image,
Melbourne
1995 Poster Session, The Computer graphics crisis, ISEA 95, Montreal, Canada
published articles, reviews, texts (non – peer reviewed)
2022 The Corporate University, NITRO
Pox Party, exhibition statement
Body Horror 2.0 (various ongoing self published Substack articles)
2021 Flesh tokens, Bio Science Fiction, CGCB BioInfo Database entry (mega hackteria.org)
2018 The badly rendered potential of VR, Virtual Reality: Ways of seeing, Artlink 38:4
The impact of failure, NiTRO
2017 Virtual Disturbing Reality, The Article
2016 All that is Bad, NiTRO
All that is Bad 2.0, The Article
Pin, Two Euro/Dollar Movie, Lola Journal, October
2015 Uncanny Objects, Realtime, OnScreen, No 129
Artist pages, Dissect Journal, No.2
2013 Smelly Artists, History is our Audience, West Space Gallery
McCarthyism, Un magazine, issue 7.2
You’re Unco (catalogue text)
Deranged Disney, OnScreen, Realtime, No.116
The Horror of the Toilet, Vlak magazine, No.4
2012 Dr Benway - Notes on Some Thing, 21C Magazine
2011 Electronic Art must be Destroyed, Scan magazine, journal of media arts culture
The Joey Machine, (catalogue text for exhibition)
2010 In Trash, the Return of Mystery, OnScreen, Realtime No.99
2007 Plastic Surgery – Artist Book
2006 Your’e just Dirt, (catalogue essay) The Dirt Factory, Melbourne
Art as a Pathology (text for exhibition) Sick, Melbourne
2005 Dirt Factory interview (with Dominic Redfern) (catalogue)
2003 All things hybrid, recombinant and mutant, OnScreen, Realtime, No. 58, Dec - Jan
Future shit, Mesh #16
Interactive refrigerator art, Photofile, No, 68, Febuary - March
2002 My brain hurts, OnScreen, Realtime, No.51, Oct – Nov
Brain Tumour Helmets with microwaves (catalogue) (As Brian Oblivion)
1998 William Castle - The Alternative History of Audience Participation’, Mesh, #12
Mousetrap’ Catalogue Notes, The Melbourne International Film Festival
Glitch, Dominic Redfern, review, Like, Melbourne, September
Binary Code: year zero, review Like, Melbourne, March
1997 The New Age Virus’ OnScreen, RealTime, Oct - Nov
Web Crud, OnScreen, RealTime, June - July
1993 SIGGRAPH 93 - Machine Culture ACM SIGGRAPH, New York (Visual Proceedings)
1989 Michael Jackson’s Dimple, Stuffing No.2: Music/Image issue
Co-editor and contributor to *?#%&#! Comics Magazine (Meathead Publications
Issue 1, 92 Pages of Graphic Violence)
Grants and Awards
2024 Honourable mention, Post Cinema festival, Sicily, Italy
Honourable mention, Experimental Forum, Los Angeles
Honourable mention, Flickers, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2022 Honourable mention, Interface video festival, Art Kino Rijeka, Croatia
2018 Honourable mention, Experimental Forum, Los Angeles
Directors Choice Award, Sydney Underground film festival
City of Melbourne Arts grant
2015 Creative Victoria, VicArts grant
2013 Australia Council, Emerging and Experimental Arts grant
2012 GRS Special Scholarship, University of New South Wales
Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Award, finalist
2011 Arts Victoria, International program, cultural exchange
Australia Council, Inter-Arts office grant
2009 Australia Council, music board – media arts
2006 City of Melbourne Arts grant (with Philip Samartzis and Darren Tofts)
2004 Arts Victoria, Arts development grant
Australia Council, New media arts board, presentation and promotion grant
2002 Australia Council, New media arts board, Fellowship (2003-2004)
Arts Victoria, Arts development grant
2001 Cinemedia, Digital media fund (with Martine Corompt and Chris Langton)
2000 Cinemedia, Digital media fund
1999 Australia Council, New media arts board, Presentation and Promotion grant
1997 The Australian Film Commission: New image research production grant
Australia Council, New media arts board, project grant
1995 Arts Victoria, Arts 21 - International export and touring program, Travel grant
Prize of recommendation, ARTEC Biennale, Nagoya, Japan
1993 The Australian Film Commission: Film Development/Production investment
1990 The Australian Film Commission: New image research production grant
1988 The Australian Film Commission: No frills fund production grant
Artist in residencies
2017 Momentum, platform for time based art, Berlin, Germany
2008 Australia Council, Visual arts board, studio residency, Los Angeles
2006 Asialink Studio residency, Ssamzie space, Seoul, Korea
1999 Australia Council, Visual Arts/Craft board, studio residency, Tokyo, Japan
Collections
National Library Film and video Collection
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
Griffith Artworks, Queensland
Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea
Australian video art archive
Private Collections
Commissions
2002 Massterraton, Victoria Commissions, Arts Victoria, in association with the State Library
of Victoria, Experimedia Courtyard (with Martine Corompt)
Curator
2017 Curator, Very Unco, The Dark Room, Torrance art museum, Los Angeles
2013 Curator, Unco, The Dark Room, Torrance art museum, Los Angeles and Northern centre
for contemporary art, Darwin, 2014
2009 Curator, Sleeper, a public art video project, in collaboration with City of greater
Dandenong, Arts Victoria, and Public Art, School of art, RMIT
2001 Co-Curator, Wet and Dry, International Video Art Screening program, in asSociation
with The Centre For Contemporary Photography, Treasury Theatre, at Cinemedia
Melbourne
1998 Curator of animation and video screenings: Mousetrap as part of the 47th International
Melbourne
Film Festival, also screened at Future Screen, dLux Media Arts, Chauvel Cinema,
Sydney
Music
Performed in noise music group Sociocusis (1983 - 84) performed in Melbourne at The Seaview Ballroom, Glass House cinema – RMIT, The Grierson cinema, One-C-One and in Sydney at Art Unit and The Trade Union club.
Related work and invited lectures/talks
2024 video short, Media parasites and leaking bodies for Blu-ray extras for the release of
Upstream Colour, Umbrella Entertainment
2023 Q&A, Rainbow Video, Cinema Nova, Melbourne
Horror Debate, Horror is nothing other than reality, Verge gallery, Sydney
2022 Artist talk, Your mic is on chaos: stories from the pandemic symposium
Artist talk, Pox Party, Rubicon Gallery, Melbourne
2021 Artist talk, round table, Ann Arbor film festival (online)
2019 Selection panel, Video Visions, Channels Festival, Melbourne
Artist Q&A, Chicago Underground film festival
2018 Convener, Deepfake symposium, RMIT University Melbourne
Artist Q&A, Monster Fest, Melbourne
Artist Q&A, Sydney Underground film festival
Artist talk, School of Art, Architecture and Design, University of South Australia,
Adelaide
Artist Q&A, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Studio 1, Melbourne
Assessment panel member, City of Melbourne, Visual Arts grants
2017 Artist talk, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier
Artist talk, Booker T. Washington School of Performing and Visual Arts, Dallas
Artist talk, Flesh on Flesh, Momentum - platform for time based arts, Berlin, Germany
2016 Opening remarks, Indisposed opening by Cassandra Tytler, Counihan Gallery,
Melbourne
Artist talk, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Artist talk, Salamanca Art Centre, Hobart
2015 Convener, Contemporary Art and The Media sphere forum, RMIT, Design Hub,
Melbourne
Presentation, Special Interest Section, Contemporary Art and The Media Sphere,
Melbourne
Presentation, Art, Anti Science and the Flat Earth, Unconference, National
Experimental Art Forum, Perth
Artist talk, International Symposium of Electronic Art, Vancouver, Canada
Assessment panel member, City of Melbourne, Visual Arts grants
Artist talk, Strange Neighbour, Melbourne
2014 Artist talk, Screamposium, Monster Fest, Yah Yah’s bar, Melbourne
2013 Artist talk, Lunchbox forum, School of Art, RMIT
Speaker, Channels video art festival, Australian Centre for the moving image,
Melbourne
Artist talk, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne
Speaker, Drawing out conference, RMIT University, Melbourne
2012 Artist talk, College of Fine Arts, Shanghai University, China
Artist talk, National New Media Art Award, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
2011 Artist talk, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne
Artist talk, Dork Bot, Canberra Contemporary art space
Artist talk, Performance space, Sydney
Artist talk, Centre for contemporary photography, Melbourne,
2010 Speaker, Video Void, Centre for Contemporary photography, Melbourne
Selection panel, City of Melbourne, signal, art projects grants
2009 Artist talk, Swinburne University, Media and Communications, Melbourne
2008 Artist talk, 18th Street Art centre, Los Angeles
Artist talk, Telic Art Exchange, Los Angeles
Artist talk, Swinburne University, Media and Communications, Melbourne
Artist talk, Swinburne University, Visual art and New Media, Melbourne
2006 Artist talk, Dept of Fine Art, University of Gloucestershire, UK
Artist talk, Ssamzie space, Seoul, Korea
Artist talk, professional development seminar, Nets Victoria, National Gallery of
Victoria, Melbourne
Artist talk, Swinburne University, Media and Communications, Melbourne
2005 Artist talk, Cool Bytes Lecture Series: Queensland College of Art, Griffith University,
Brisbane and Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Artist talk, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Artist talk, Swinburne University, Media and Communications, Melbourne
Artist talk, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2004 Artist talk, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Artist talk, Queensland University of Technology, Creative Industries, Brisbane
Artist talk, Swinburne University, Media and Communications, Melbourne
Artist talk, European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
2003 Artist talk, Ozone, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Artist talk, Experimedia, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Assessment panel member, Arts Victoria, Professional Development/New Work
Shine, Installation Workshop and Artist talk, Frankston Arts Centre, Melbourne
Artist talk, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
Artist talk, Edim, RMIT University, Melbourne
Artist talk, Swinburne University, Visual art and New Media, Melbourne
Artist talk, Swinburne University, Media and Communications, Melbourne
2002 Artist talk, Multimedia arts Asia Pacific festival, Beijing, China
Artist talk, Swinburne University, Media and Communications, Melbourne
2001 Artist talk, Swinburne University, Media and Communications, Melbourne
Artist talk, Waste, Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne
Artist talk, Digesis Film Festival, Treasury Theatre, at Cinemedia Melbourne
1999 Casual lecturer in digital video at Swinburne University, National School of Design,
Melbourne
Artist Talk, Game Play, Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne
Artist talk, Nothing Natural, Festival Centre Artspace, Adelaide
1997 Artist talk, Trick or Treat, 200 Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne
Artist talk, Barton Institiute of Tafe, Melbourne
Artist talk, Swinburne University, National School of Design, Melbourne
1996 Artist Talk, Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne
1995 Artist Talk Entertaining Motion, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
Artist Talk, Artist and the Media, IMZ World Congress, Sydney
1994 Artist Talk, Artech Symposium, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
Tutor for the ANAT National Summer School, RMIT University, Melbourne