Melinda+Rackham

Melinda Rackham



http://www.nla.gov.au/webarchiving/about_speakers.html  Dr. Melinda Rackham is an artist, writer and curator based in Sydney, Australia. Since the mid-1990's her practice has investigated the aesthetic, technological and psychological aspects of online identity, locality, sexuality and community, as well as viral symbiosis and trans species relations. She has recently completed her PhD on the nature and construction of, and avatar relations within Virtual Reality Networked Spaces at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. Rackham's writing appears online and in print in arenas like Leonardo, Ctheory, Culture Machine, and Realtime, and as chapters in Routledge and MIT editions, and has participated in residencies at Polar Circuit in 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, Perspecta, Biennial of Buenos Aires, lab3D and ISEA. 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 - Trails of the Future 1999 Prize for Internet Art in Argentina. She was recently Curator of Networked Media at the Australian Centre for Moving Image in Melbourne, and is the producer of [|-empyre-] online media forum.
 * Abstract: [|The Art of the Network]**
 * Paper: The Art of the Network** ||

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