Education

Current
PHD candidate, Centre for New Media Arts
Australian National University
Thesis: Cross connections - Online activism: real world outcomes

2001
Masters of Arts (Research)
Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre (CIRAC)
Queensland University of Technology
Thesis: The museum of the personal - souvenirs and nostalgia

1996
Postgraduate Diploma of Art History
University of Queensland
Thesis: Metaphysical visions - Theosophy in Australia 1919-1945

1992
Bachelor of Visual Arts
Monash University College Gippsland

1989
Associate Diploma of Fine Arts
Hornsby TAFE

Conference Papers

2006
AIOR conference, Brisbane, Australia
Topic: Online organising, real world responses, new world consequences

PhD topic presentation
Centre for New Media Arts

2005
PhD topic presentation
Centre for New Media Arts

2004
ISEA2004, Tallinn, Estonia
Topic: Wearable experience and textile symbolism
(Panel: Geopolitics of Media: Asylum seekers and border crossings)

2003
N5M4: De Balie, Amsterdam.
Topic: Online networks and public outcomes in Canberra, Australia (TAZ)

2002
Borderpanic: The Performance Space + Museum of Contemporary Art
Topic: ACT Regional Report

'Joining the dots: The CAMEO 10th International Conference'
University of Canberra
Topic: Cross connections

1999
Identities in action - University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Topic: 'Workshopping the museum of the future'

1998
Postcolonialism/representing difference - University of South Australia
Topic: 'Museum of the future'

1997
Postgraduate Seminar Art History - University of Queensland
Topic: 'Sighting Identity'

Critical Legal Conference '97 - University College Dublin
Topic: 'Whose Country'

Topologies: transformations in time and space - University of Melbourne
Topic: 'Mapping Identity'

Framing Time: Text, Archive, Trace - 6th Annual Graduates Conference
SUNY Buffalo, New York
Topic: 'Big Banana Time Inc: My Country'

1995
Speaker, Sexuality Week, Griffith University
Topic: 'Engendered Space: Some Thoughts on how
the Mobility of Women is Regulated by the Built Environment'

1994
Speaker, 'The Female Aesthetic' The Shock of the New Festival La Boite Theatre, Brisbane

Participant, 'Decolonising Knowledge Summer School', Blackwood VIC.
Facilitated through University of Melbourne

Online exhibitions

2005
New Geographies

swipe - airports, borders and fences

2002

Indahaus
Canberra Contemporary Art Space

Borderpanic Online Exhibition
The Performance Space, Sydney

Highway of Shame
CTHEORY Multimedia Issue #3: Wired Ruins

2001/02
http://www.cowgrrls.com
National tour

'Micromuseum' Mediaterra travelling festival

'Graffiti'
www.virtual-museum.org

2000
BIT BY BIT
http://www.bitbybitdigital.org
Business of Art Center, Colorado USA

PROTEST=PROFIT
HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG/PROTEST=PROFIT
- Viper Festival, Basel
- Observatori 2000 - 1st Festival of Artistic Investigation, Valencia

IDAA - International digital art award
http://www.artistsownregistry.com.au/idaa

WDAMA - World digital and multimedia art
www.posit.com.au/cybergallery/digitalintro.html

IV2000 - International conference of information visualisation, London www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV2000/

'Cowgrrls.com'
Cooloola Shire Gallery

'Topographies' curated by Linda Carroli.
Fireworks Gallery Brisbane.

1999
'Dialogue' International museum forum - III Krasnoyarsk Biennial: Studio of the Future art technologies and Krasnoyarsk Museum na Strelke, the International association 'Open Museum' and the internet centre of Krasnoyarsk State University,
www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8809/krasn/dialogue/index.htm (#5)

Sci-art99
www.sciencentre.qld.gov.au/sciencentre/whatsnew/sciart99/sciart1.htm
Queensland Sciencentre (Missile web launch - MAAP)

'Cooking with Carmen' Launch sites, Palace Gallery (MAAP)

'Watch out for those mad artist cowgrrls' National Country Music Muster, Artist in residence project (Missile web launch - MAAP)

Ga;r Morumba
http://brisbane-stories.powerup.com.au/gar_morumba/default.htm

'Bananarama 2000' Experimenta Media Arts on-line gallery
http://www.experimenta.org (Missile web launch - MAAP)

'Synthetic bananas', digital art gallery,
IV'99 - International conference of information visualisation, London

1998
'Griller girls' curated by Di Ball - Volt, the new performance
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

1996
'Virgins, Violets and Vamps' curated by Edwina Bartlem

Video and slide installations

2002
'Screengrabs'
Geraldton Regional Gallery, WA

1999
Bodyline', Freak Show, Stage X Five to midnight
Southbank parklands, Brisbane

'My Country' video installation from Big Banana Time Inc.
The Next 5 Minutes 3: Tactical Media conference Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1997
Critical Legal Conference '97, University College Dublin

Development Space, Metro Arts, Brisbane

'Framing Time: Text, Archive, Trace' SUNY Buffalo, New York

'Topologies: transformations in time and space', University of Melbourne

Grants and awards

2004
Quick Response Grant, Arts ACT

ANAT Workshop and Conference Grant

ANU Fieldwork Grant

2003
Quick Response Grant, Arts ACT

2002
Graduate material award, Canberra School of Art

ANU Graduate School PHD Scholarship

2001
Student volunteer travel grant, SIGGRAPH 2001

1999
Individual Professional Development Grant, Arts Queensland

Conference and workshop grant, ANAT

1998
Highly commended - Hinchinbrook art competition

1997
Metro Arts Artist Agreement- 3 year exhibition contract

Travel Grant, Department of Art History, University of Queensland

Individual Professional Development Grant, Arts Queensland

1996
Pat Corrigan Artist Grant

1994
Individual Professional Development Grant, Arts Queensland

1993
Pat Corrigan Artist Grant

 

Residencies

2002
Geraldton Regional Gallery, Geraldton WA

2001
Churchie, Anglican Boys Grammar School, Brisbane QLD

1999
Cooloola Shire Gallery, Gympie QLD

Dakabin High School, Dakabin QLD

Logan Youfest99, Logan QLD

Published writing

2005
Review: Trish Adams - Wave Writer: ISEA2004
Eyeline, Issue 56, Summer 2004/2005

2004
Review: Computers and Art, 2nd Edition
Stephen Mealing (Ed.)
Fine Art Forum Vol.18, Issue 2, February 2004

2003
Report: Tactical Tour (Escaping Oblivion)
N5M4, Amsterdam
www.n5m.org

Report: FEM SND
N5M4, Amsterdam
www.n5m.org

Report: The riot porn video booth
N5M4, Amsterdam
www.n5m.org

'The problem with waiting...'
Review of 'Queue Here'
Muse Online (February)
www.muse-arts.com

Interview with BORDERPANIC curators - Zina Kaye and Deborah Kelly
Fine Art Forum Vol. 17, Issue 5-6, May 2003

2002
Article: Cross connections: the aesthetic economy of online social relations.
Fine Art Forum Vol. 16, Issue 12,December 2002

2001
Review: Focus: art and social change in Singapore, Issue One
Fine Art Forum Vol. 15, Issue 12, December 2001

1997
William Yang and the North
MESH#11 "Altered States"

'Scalpland',
Heretical (Uni Of Qld. Student Union, 1997) p.31-35
1996
'Defying the State: Acts of Transgression
Virgins, Violets and Vamps, Exhibition Catalogue,1996

'A Short Fiction'
Heretical (Uni Of Qld. Student Union, 1996) p. 48-51

'Promise for Professional Women Artists'
Back Up (WandA, issue 1, 1996) p. 3

Curatorial experience

2000
Curator, 360degrees

1999
Curator, 'Fuzzy Logic Toystore',
Queensland Sciencentre

1998
Curator, 'English speaking art' QUT MA exhibition, Palma Rosa Gallery

1997
Curator, 'Wild Women' works from the collection, University Art Museum,
University of Queensland

1996
Co-Curator, 'A Future Without Limits' International Women's Day Exhibition
Queensland College of Art Gallery

Curator, selected works from 'A Future Without Limits' University Art Museum,
University of Queensland

Co-Curator: 'Masculinity' Bauhaus Gallery, Brisbane