Melinda Rackham

Bio: Artist and Author Dr Melinda Rackham is a pioneering web artist, who wove tales of intimacy and identity online when the internet was new. As a cultural producer, curator and writer, she widened audiences for new artforms and engaged with the broader spectrum of media arts, art and science, making and design practices. Melinda’s is currently creating cross media immersive environments and public interventions. She writes poetry, socially informed texts and fictive memoir; and continues to interrogate the philosophies and processes of interdisciplinary arts practices. Education: 1989 BA in Visual Arts - Sculpture and Performance, COFA, UNSW 1997 MA - Gender and Interactive Media, UOW 2003 PhD in Virtual Media, Art & Design/Sociology, UNSW 2016: Artist/Poet in Residence: Sauerbier House, producing WhiteWash exhibition installation/performance/website Author: Catherine Truman : Touching Distance, Monograph, 192 pages, Wakefield Press Panellist: GOMA Talks - Is technology feminism's new frontier? QAGOMA Brisbane, GOMA TV and Radio National Big Ideas Steering Committee: The Space Between, Public Monument for Forced Adoptions, Adelaide Writer: With the Tip of a Needle, Garland Magazine, #2, ed Kevin Murray, Melbourne/online 2010–2015: Media Artist: WIMP: Windows, Icons, Menus & Pointers, Large Screen animations commissioned by Adelaide City Council for Rundle Lantern Panelist: Art of the Networked Practice, Nanyang University, Singapore/online Essayist: Manifest de Stillaire, The Microscope Project Catalogue, Flinders University Art Museum Speaker: Attachment, Transforming Image and Text, Conference, UWS, Sydney Writer in Residence: Bundanon Trust, Attachment Memoir, NSW Asialink Arts Management Residency: Videotage, Hong Kong Advisor: Digital Communities, Prix Ars Electronica, Austria Visual Art, Craft and Design Committee: Arts SA, South Australia Partner Curator: Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus), Adelaide Adjunct Professor: School of Media and Communications, RMIT, Melbourne Curator: Dreamworlds, ACC and AIDC funded large screen Moving Image program, Beijing, China Previous: Internet Artist: extensive exhibition history at major international new media, film festivals, biennales Executive Director: Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) Speaker: International forums speaking on Australian visual art craft and new media Committee Member: Extensive experience of many Arts, Academic, Industry organizations. Artist Residencies: Banff, Artspace, Finland, New Zealand Juror: International festivals including FILE, Ars Electronica, Rhizome, ISEA. Author: 7 x book chapters on Media, Performance and Virtual and Networked Environments Curator of Networked Media: Australian Center for the Moving Image Mentor: Emerging media artists and sculptors Founder and Producer: -empyre- International New Media online Forum Freelance Networked Media Artist, Producer Curator and Writer Community Projects Artist: Inner City Sydney Sculptor and Performer