Summary

 

  • A freelance creative and STEAM (STEM + art) tutor
  • Focusing on artworks employing the creative use of electronics
  • Located in Coffs Harbour, Australia

 

  • In recent years worked in educational technology and the software industry
  • A technical writer and LXD (Learning Experience Designer)
  • Formerly an academic, researcher and internationally award-winning digital media artist
  • A pioneer in multiple digital areas

 

  • 6+ years experience creating training products in different environments
  • Excel at breaking complex technical information into simple steps
  • Communicate capably in multiple formats, including text, graphics, animation and multimedia


  • Graduated from university as a biochemist; worked in hospital labs before re-skilling in IT
  • Postgraduate qualifications in animation, communication and media
  • Most recently gained a Certificate III in Applied Fashion Design and Technology



Selected Awards

 

New Media Arts Fellowship, Australia Council, 1999 - 2001

The inaugural Elektra Award for a woman with outstanding achievements in the area of new technology, Women in Film and Television (Australia), 1997

Postgraduate Research Award, UWS Nepean, 1992

For interactive works/films/videos

Finalist, Web Art, Drunken Boat's Inaugural PanLiterary Web Art Awards (USA) 2006
Honourable Mention, trAce New Media Writing Competition, 2004 (UK)
Finalist, Competitive Program, Retina VII International Film & Video Festival, 2000 (Hungary)

Shared First Prize, Arts_Edge Multimedia Competition, 1998 (Australia)
Finalist, Competitive Exhibition, VIDEOBRASIL 98 (Brazil)
Finalist, International Competition, Videonale 8, 1998 (Germany)
Finalist CD-ROM competition, COMTECart '98 (Germany)
Finalist, National Digital Art Awards 1998, Institute of Modern Art (Australia)
Shared First Prize, Arts_Edge Multimedia Competition, 1998 (Australia)
Gold Medal and Award of Excellence in Personal/Group Titles, NewMedia Invision Awards, 1997 (USA)
Selection for the New Talent Pavilion, Milia 97 (France)
Finalist, Best Use of Sound, 97 ATOM Awards (Australia)
Finalist, Best Student Work, 97 AIMIA Awards (Australia)
Selected for An Eccentric Orbit, travelling exhibition of contemporary Australian electronic media art (USA)

Selected for 1984 SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre (USA)



Grants

Film Victoria's Digital Media Fund 2001

New Media Arts Fellowship, Australia Council, 1999
Australian Film Commission Marketing Grant, 1997
UTS Creative Activity, 1996
UWS Travelling Fellowship, 1995
UTS Internal Research Grant, 1994
ANAT (Australian Network For Art and Technology),1991
Australian Film Commission, Travel Grant,1990
Visual Arts/Crafts Board, Australia Council,1989
Production Assistance Grant, Film Victoria,1983



Employment

 

Learning Experience Designer 2022

FourthRev

 

Learning Manager 2016 - 2021

Chameleon Software

 

Consultant/Technical Writer 2015 - 2016

Janison


Adjunct Lecturer in Media Design 2015 - 2018

College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University


Lecturer in Media Design 2012 – 2015

School of Creative Arts [now closed], James Cook University

Web, interactive, graphic, publication and information design
involving HTML/CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Flash, etc


Freelance Designer/Artist/Programmer 2009 - 2011

communication and information design, desktop publishing,
Flash animation and programming, interactive and other creative works


Lecturer in Digital Media 2006 - 2008

School of Creative Arts [now closed], Melbourne University


Tutor 2008

School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University, Melbourne


Tutor 2005

School of Communication, Culture and Language, Victoria University


Director/Artist/Programmer 2002 - 2004

Postcards From Writing


Lecturer/Tutor 2000 - 2002

Victoria University; Ballarat University; Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Melbourne


New Media Arts Fellow 1999 - 2001

Australia Council


Lecturer/Tutor 1998

Digital Media Studio, Metro Screen, Sydney


Tenured Lecturer 1990 - 1998

School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology



Artist-in-residencies

 

Zigzag Electronic Labs 2014

Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville

Details


New Media Arts Residency 2001

A combined Northern Territory University, 24HR Art & QANTM initiative

Exhibited, shared skills and experience with local new media artists, NTU art students and staff at NTU

Presented new media works to teachers and inmates as part of the “Ending Offending” Art Program at Berrimah Jail

Separate workshop at the Dondale Youth Detention facility

Emphasis in both workshops was developing opportunities for creatives

 

Women, Art and Technology 1989

The Performance Space, Sydney

Details



Selected Exhibitions

 

  • Radical Utopia: the Archeology of a Creative City, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne 2023
  • Animation Shorts: Within These Walls, QAGOMA, Brisbane 2022
  • On Medication, eMerge Gallery, Townsville 2013
  • Thessaloniki Biennale at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece 2009
  • File Electronic Language International Festival 05, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2005
  • The New Incunabula: The Shape of A Woman Form, and Assemblage: The Women's Online New Media Gallery, UK 2004
  • Unearthed, Bendigo Fine Art Gallery, 2001
  • Cybercultures, 24HR Art, Darwin, 2001
  • Dissection: International Multimedia Art Exhibition Macau Museum of Art, 2000
  • VideoLisboa, Portugal 2000
  • 2nd International Show of Art in CD-ROM, MECAD Media Centre d'Art, Spain 1999
  • Contact Zones: The Art of the CD-ROM, Cornell University, USA and travelling internationally 1999
  • Women in the Director's Chair International Film and Video Festival, Chicago 99
  • Seventh Annual Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology, Connecticut College 1999
  • Ways of Being Touring Exhibition curated by Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 1998-1999
  • Muumediafestivaali 98, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland
  • Apple Multimedia Gallery, Australian Film Commission's "Being Connected" 1998 Conference
  • Ngapartji Multimedia Centre, Adelaide 1998
  • ACM Multimedia 98 Art Program, USA/UK
  • Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d'Arles, Arles 1998
  • Matinaze, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney 1997
  • E-Media Gallery, Australian Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 1997
  • WOW Film Festival, Chauvel Cinema, Sydney 1997
  • Bad Toys, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art 1994
  • Virtual Landscapes, Artspace Gallery, 1990
  • A Matter of Refraction, Performance Space Gallery, 1990
  • Computer Animation show and Art Show, AUSGRAPH '88, Melbourne
  • Experimenta, Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne, 1988
  • SIGGRAPH 85 Art Show, San Francisco, USA and Art Show Slide Set (#70)
  • SIGGRAPH 84 Electronic Theatre (first Australian work selected), 1984

 


Collections

 

Artbank, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, university libraries and new media archives of various national and international institutions, including the Australian Centre for Moving Image lending collection, the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell University USA, Revisiting Australian CD-ROM Art of the 1990s, Curated by Prof Melanie Swalwell & Dr Helen Stuckey and many private collections.



Education

 

Certificate III in Applied Fashion Design and Technology

TAFE, 2023

 

Doctor of Philosophy (Communication, Design and Media)

University of Western Sydney, 2004


Graduate Diploma (Applied Film and TV)

Swinburne Institute of Technology, 1983
[3D computer animation]


In-house analyst/programmer training

Burroughs Corporation [now UNISYS], 1979-81


Master of Science (prelim.)

Sydney University, 1977 [the equivalent of Honours]


Bachelor of Science

Melbourne University, 1972-1974



Employment pre 1990

 

Lecturer/Tutor 1989

College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Digital Media Studio, Metro Screen, Sydney


3D Computer Animator 1989

XYZap Productions, Sydney


Programmer/Artist/Designer 1987 - 1988

Integrated Arts, Kilcare, NSW


3D Computer Animator/Designer 1986 - 1987

Video Paint Brush Co, Sydney [now Animal Logic]


3D Computer Animator/Technical Director 1984 - 1986

Cranston/Csuri Productions, Columbus, USA


Consultant Systems Analyst/Programmer 1982 - 1983

Armstrong/Nylex Pty Ltd., Melbourne


Systems Engineer 1979 - 1982

Burroughs Corporation, Melbourne [now Unisys]


Clinical and Research Biochemist 1978 - 1979

Endocrinology Unit, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne


Clinical Biochemist 1976

Luzmila Hospital, Amman, Jordan


Clinical Biochemist 1975 - 1976

Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne