Curriculum Vitae
Ian Haig
| Born 1964, Melbourne, Australia, Lives and works in Melbourne. | ||
| Education | ||
| PhD, COFA, Univeristy of NSW, Sydney, 2010-2014 Masters Degree, Media Arts, Dept of Visual Communication, RMIT, Melbourne, 1998 Graduate Diploma of Art, Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne, 1990 (now RMIT) Diploma of Art, Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne, 1987 (now RMIT): |
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| Employment: | ||
| Senior Lecturer, School of Art, RMIT, Melbourne, 1994 – present | ||
| Selected Solo Exhibitions and collaborations |
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| 2022 | Pox Party, Rubicon Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 2019 | Meatspace, The Salon, Capitol Theatre, Melbourne The Foaming Node, Black Box, MARS Gallery, Melbourne |
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| 2018 | The Foaming Node, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 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 |
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| 2011 | Tyger, Tyger, West Space gallery, Melbourne (with Kotoe Ishii) Chronicles of the New Human Organism, Centre for Contemporary photography, Melbourne |
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| 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 | The Dirt Factory, VCA gallery, Melbourne Sick, Conical Gallery, Melbourne Open Studio, Ssamzie space, Seoul, Korea |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | ||
| 2023 | 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 |
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| 2019 | The Abyss, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane Other Suns, Fremantle Art Centre, Perth Intercambio, Havana Biennial, Cuba |
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| 2018 | Unhallowed Arts, Perth | |
| 2017 | Dallas Medianale, Dallas Very Unco, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles I am Internet Famous, Wrong Biennale, Panke Gallery, Berlin Homeostasis Lab, Wrong Biennale, (online) Open a new page, commandN, Tokyo Cancelled, Eastern Bloc, Montreal Flesh on Flesh, Momentum, Berlin Something is trying to tell us some things, Five Walls Projects, Melbourne The Museum of Lost Public Notices, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne The Image, pop up exhibition, Eighth International conference on the image, Venice university, Italy |
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| 2016 | 10th Audiovisual Arts Festival, Corfu, Greece Space Bodies, Transart Triennale, Berlin 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. 1000 Forms of Fear, AEAF 24:7, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide Contemporary Australian Drawing #6, The Bury Museum, Bury, Manchester, UK |
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| 2015 | Carnal Desire, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany Dallas Medianale, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, USA Facsimile, Contemporary Australian Drawing 5, SACI Institute, Florence, Italy International Symposium of Electronic Art, Vancouver |
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| 2014 | In and Out, Brightspace Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 2013 | Contemporary Art Ruhr, Zollverein, Essen, Germany Unco, Torrence art museum, Los Angeles Reading the space: Contemporary Australian Drawing No.3, New York studio School International Symposium of Electronic Art, Verge Gallery, Sydney The world below, Presgrave place (part of White Night Melbourne event) |
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| 2012 | The Substation Contemporary art prize , The Substation, Newport, Melbourne National New Media Art Award, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane NotFair: Primal Mutation, 1000 Pound Bend, Melbourne and 24Hr art centre for contemporary art, Darwin Contemporary Australian Drawing 2, Wimbledon Gallery, University of the Arts London |
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| 2011 | Southern Panoramas, 17th International Contemporary Art Festival, Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil BYOB, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne International Symposium of Electronic Art, Cumhuriyet Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey Awfully Wonderful, Performance Space, Sydney VideoRow, Torrance art museum, Los Angeles |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 2008 | The Bon Scott project, Fremantle arts centre, Perth Lions never sleep, champions never cry, Satin Satan gallery, Chicago |
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| 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, 2009 |
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| 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 |
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| 2005 | Substance, Blacklab Gallery, Brisbane Mutantric Love Hotel, Whitehouse Gallery, Brisbane Sex, Breadbox Gallery, Perth BankART, The Art Autonomy Network, Yokohama, Japanh D.art, Sydney opera House exhibition hall, Sydney Box2 Public video screen, Federation Square, Melbourne |
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| 2004 | Futurotica, Erotic Museum, Los Angeles Transmitter, European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany |
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| 2003 | Odd, Faculty Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne House of Tomorrow, Experimenta media Arts, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne and Institiute of Modern Art, Brisbane |
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| 2002 | Moist, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Festival, Art Museum of China, Beijing,China Peepshow 28, Lusty Lady adult cinema complex, San Francisco and Seattle, Arte Red, ARCO, Madrid, Spain |
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| 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 |
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| 2000 | Cybercultures: Sustained Release, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney and National tour in 2001 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 also Useby, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne; Festival International de Linguagem Electronica, Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil |
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| 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 Real 3.0, Vision Network/co:exist, Tokyo, Japan |
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| 1998 | Game Play, Span gallery, Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne Cartoons and Caricature in Contemporary Art, Geelong Art gallery and regional gallery tour |
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| 1997 | Deacons Graham &James/Arts 21 Award Show, Melbourne University gallery No Holds Barred 2, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne |
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| 1996 | Nothing Natural, Basement Gallery, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne and regional gallery tour The Seventh International Symposium on Electronic Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
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| 1995 | The 4th International Biennale, ARTEC 95, Nagoya, Japan The Sixth International Symposium on Electronic Art, Montreal, Canada Virtualalities, Scienceworks, Melbourne |
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| 1994 | Bit Map 101, Next wave Festival, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne Humanetics, New Media Network Gallery, Melbourne |
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| 1993 | SIGGRAPH 93-Machine Culture, Anaheim, California, USA Panorama Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne |
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| 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 |
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| 1990 | Roar 2 Gallery, Graduate Diploma Exhibition, Melbourne | |
| 1988 | Trash and Junk Culture (Video Component), The Performance Space, Sydney, and The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, (1989) | |
| Selected Screenings | ||
| 2022 | Vast Lab, Los Angeles Interface video festival, Art Kino Rijeka, Croatia My mama told me I’m experimental, Hanoi, Vietnam Unco film festival, Asagaya loft, Tokyo The Violence Project, Alphabet Art Centre @ The new Museum of Networked art Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico Lightness in Gravity, Gallery of Modern Art, Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary art, Brisbane XPRMNTL Anti film festival, UK |
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| 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 |
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| 2020 | Saigon Experimental film festival, San Art Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Simultan festival, Unseen, Timisoara, Romania Revelation international film festival, Perth Punk film festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Vastlab, 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) Motel/X film festival, Lisbon, Portugal (online) Besides the Screen, Vitoria, Brazil (online) Broken Screen, Buenos Aires, Argentina (online) |
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| 2019 | Autobahn STUFF MX touring film festival, Mexico Saigon Experimental film festival, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Altered Esthetics film festival, Minneapolis, US Chicago Underground film festival Hazel Eye film festival Delete TV, UK and Austria Uncensored festival, London |
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| 2018 | Switzerland International film festival Monster Fest, Melbourne Cinematheque, Dlux Media Arts, Sydney Bangkok Underground Film festival STUFF MX film Festival, Mexico City Arizona Underground film festival Sydney Underground film festival Revelation international film festival, Perth Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico |
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| 2017 | Off the Wall, Arts & Literature laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin Revelation international film festival, Perth Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico, US and Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen, Germany |
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| 2016 | Nihilist film festival, Echo Park Film Centre, Los Angeles Diffrazioni festival, Florence, Italy Melbourne Central Art Loop, Melbourne Central Shopping Centre |
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| 2015 | Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico, US | |
| 2014 | We Have Never Been Modern, Dope Chapel, Oklahoma, US Revelation international film festival, Perth Reality Codes, Next Wave festival, Melbourne Melbourne Now – Rooftop Transmissions, (Channels video art festival/National Gallery of Victoria) Rooftop cinema, Melbourne |
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| 2013 | Tele Visions, Sydney Channels, video art festival, Melbourne VideoFormes, video festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany |
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| 2012 | Tape Projects, Melbourne Lumens Festival, Suzhou, China and Federation square, Melbourne |
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| 2011 | 360 Dok Documentary Film Festival, Polytechnic Museum of Moscow Dork Bot, Canberra contemporary art space |
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| 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 |
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| 2007 | Syn City, Australian centre for the moving image, Melbourne and Mercury cinema, Adelaide Sunstroked, Videotage, Hong Kong, HetWildeWeten, Rotterdam, SpielRaum, Berlin |
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| 2006 | The Super 8 effect, dlux media arts, Chauvel cinema, Sydney and The Perth Independent Film Festival Bit Projects, Hamburg, Germany |
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| 2005 | Pescara Electronic Art Festival, Italy European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany D.art 05, dlux media arts, Chauvel cinema, Sydney |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 ’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 Microwave Festival, Contamination, Hong Kong |
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| 1999 | Halloweird, Independent Exposure, Seattle; The Video Lounge, New York, Prague, Czech Republic Vidarte, Videoelectroacustica, Festival de video y artes electronicas, Mexico City 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, Auckland, New Zealand; Arte and Comunicazione 99, Rome |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 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 |
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| 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 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 |
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| 1992 | Fatal Visions Film Festival, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide Valhalla Cinema, Melbourne The Melbourne 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 1988 | Frames Film and Video Festival, Adelaide 3rd Australian Video Festival, Sydney Splash, Film and Video Event, Sydney Experimenta, State Film Theatre, Melbourne |
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| 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 |
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| 1986 | The 7th Sydney Super-8 Film Festival | |
| 1985 | Next Wave Festival, Melbourne | |
| Bibliography | ||
| 2020 | Interview, The Foaming Node, At Home streaming platform Jack Sargeant, Parasites, Signals, and Nodes, Inhuman Screens, Journal of Asia Pacific Pop Culture Vol. 5 No.1 |
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| 2019 | Matthew Bowen,The Absolute Mixture: Shit Art Positive, Divus art publishing Andrew Frost, Other Suns: Contemporary Art and Science Fiction (catalogue) Steve Kopian, The Foaming Node – Unseen Films Damian Smith, INTERCAMBIO: Australia in the 13th Bienal de la Habana, Cuba |
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| 2018 | Matthew Roe, The Foaming Node, Film Threat, http://filmthreat.com/reviews/the- foaming-node/ Diego Ramirez, The Foaming Node – A mutant cult on television, http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/the-foaming-node-a-mutant-cult-and-television/ interview, Andrew Frost, The Art Life |
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| 2017 | Interview, Melantie Pandilovski,The Institute of Fungus (catalogue) Darren Tofts, Mean Cuisine, Food Democracy – Critical Lessons in Food, Communication, Design and Art, edited by Oliver Vodeb, Intellect books image, Plague, Art and Australia |
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| 2016 | Eliza Burke, New Alchemists, Artlink (www.artlink.com.au/articles/4518/new-alchemists) Alicia King, New Alchemists (catalogue) |
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| 2015 | Nico Pointer, The spectral exhibition which shows much meat, Westdeutsche Zeitung, 15th October Marcus Golling, Remains of the Animals, Neu-Ulmer Zeitung, 20th October Lena Grundhuber, Fleisheslust im oberschwabischen, Museum Villa Rot, Sudwest Presse, 23rd October image, Fleisheslust – Fleisch Meat as Art Object, Hamburger Abendblatt Stefanie Dathe, Transitory Vanity and Lust of the Flesh, Carnal Desire (catalogue) Adrian Martin, Body Dysmorphic Order (catalogue text) Interview, Channels video art festival, blog |
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| 2014 | Interview, Sonya Harford, The Age, 8th February | |
| 2013 | Interview, Dlux MediaArts (https://vimeo.com/81157366) Gail Priest, Olefaction, decay and speculation, ISEA2013, RealTime Blog Interview, Reanimating the Dead in the Name of Art (au.blouinartinfo.com) Darren Tofts, Pizzles, pluck and postmodernism (catalogue text) |
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| 2012 | Interview, Pictureskew (http://pictureskew.net) Amanda Slack-Smith, It came from within, National New Media Art Award (Catalogue) Interview, ABC Radio National, Drivetime: The Drawing Room – Nice Vs Ugly Darren Tofts, Video Void: Australian Video Art 1970s-2010s, Australian Scholarly Publishing |
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| 2011 | Andrew Frost, Scanlines: Video Art in Australia since the 1960’s (http://scanlines.net/person/ian-haig) Kelly Fliedner, ‘Tyger, Tyger’ (catalogue) Mark Bell, ‘Chronicles of the new human organism’, review, Film Threat online Interview, ABC Radio ‘Radio Australia Breakfast’ |
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| 2010 | Darren Tofts, ‘Transition aborted’, Photofile no. 90 Darren Tofts, ‘Your reality transformation is almost complete’, Vlak magazine, issue 1 |
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| 2009 | images, Pornotopias, co – edited by Andrew Mitchel, Jane Lewty & Louis Armand Darren Jorgensen, The Bon Scott project, Eyeline, No 67, Jan – Feb |
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| 2008 | Robert Cook, The Bon Scott project, Art Monthly Australia, No. 216 | |
| 2007 | Helen Stuckey, ‘Art at the crossroads’, Realtime, No. 82, Dec-Jan Cover, Realtime, No. 82, Dec-Jan |
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| 2006 | Kerrie-Dee Johns, ‘Trick or Treat’, Eyes, Lies and Ilusions, ACMI (cat) Ashley Crawford, ‘The Dirt Factory’, preview magazine, The Sunday Age, 30th April Darren Tofts,’Happy as a pig in art’ interview, Onscreen, Realtime, June – July |
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| 2005 | Samara Mitchell, ‘Better out than in’, Eyeline, Spring, No 58 Darren Tofts, ‘Interzone: media Arts in Australia’ Thames and Hudson Sue Green, South China Morning Post, World Beat, Hong Kong, 17th July Stephanie Radok, ‘A provocative, manic brain’ Adelaide Review, 29th April Interview, Alchemy, SBS Radio National Tracey Clement, ‘Good Vibes’ Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 21st October. Ashley Crawford, Flesh Coloured Plastic, Preview, The Sunday Age, 20th March Katrien Jacobs, Libi_Doc: Journeys in the Performance of Sex Art, Parlor Press Ashley Crawford, preview, Flesh Coloured Plastic, Australian Art Collector, No 31 Interview, Luke Benedictus, Preview magazine, The Sunday Age, 2nd January |
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| 2004 | Julianne Pierce, ‘Squeeze me please’, Photofile, No.72 images, Bizarre magazine, No, 89, UK Darren Tofts, ‘Machineries of Joy’, OnScreen, Realtime No. 59, Feb – March |
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| 2003 | David Broker ‘Premonition’ (Catalogue, with Martine Corompt and Chris Langton) Edward Colless, ‘Freak’, (Catalogue) images, Sarai Reader 03: Shaping Technologies, Delhi, India Adrian Miles, ‘Intent is Important’ Journal of Digital information, vol 3, issue 3 Stuart Koop, ‘Brain Tumour Helmets with microwaves’, Eyeline, No.50 |
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| 2002 | Edwina Bartleme, ‘Experimenting with waste’, Art and Australia, Vol 39, No.4 | |
| 2001 | Interview, Elisa Berg, Space – ABC Arts Online Cover, Realtime, Dec-Jan Daniel Palmer, ‘Wilful waste’ OnScreen, RealTime, Dec-Jan Darren Tofts, ‘Hexadecimal Dump.exe’ (Excelsior 3000, Catalogue) Interview on ABC Radio ‘Arts Today’ Mitchell Whitelaw, ‘net.art: a polymorphous survivor’, RealTime, Oct-Nov Darren Tofts, ‘Wrestling with Proteus: Net Art, the Antipodes and Beyond’; McKenzie Wark, ‘Now Here’s what’s happening in your world’(even as we speak); Allen Feldman ‘The Digital Miniature: Private Perceptions in a Public Space’ - Bam, Under_Score, Next Wave Festival, New York, (Catalogue essays) Ned Rossiter, ‘Web Devolution -Working the Screen’ RealTime, Oct-Nov Darren Tofts, ‘Storming the Reality Studio: remediating popular culture,Artlink, vol 21, No, 3, September Jean Poole, interview, technosphere, 3D magazine, April Jenny Sinclair, ‘Art makes a stand on computer torture’ IT, The Age, Feb13 |
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| 2000 | Darren Tofts,’K-Rad Man: the reanimation of Ian Haig’, Mesh # 14 (http://www.experimenta.org/mesh/mesh_2000/index.htm) Kathy Cleland, Cybercultures: Sustained Release‘Infectious Agents’ (Catalogue) Anti Ergonomic Hump Machine, ‘Working the screen’, RealTime, Aug-Sept |
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| 1999 | Philip Brophy, ‘Die Trekkie die’, OnScreen, RealTime, Feb – March Michael Hill, ‘Digital Rules’ OnScreen, RealTime, Aug-Sept |
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| 1998 | Anna Clabburn, ‘Whimsey in the White Cube’ – Cartoons & Caricature in Contemporary Art (Catalogue) Interview on ABC Radio, National Talkback, Angela Certerns Interview on ABC Radio ‘Arts Today’ |
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| 1997 | Darren Tofts, ‘Between Media Living and the Dead’, Onscreen, Oct -Nov RealTime, Dominic Redfern, ‘Trick or Treat’, Mesh # 11 Myfanwy Warhurst, ‘The mouse that soared’ EG, The Age, August Interview on ABC TV ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ documentary Anna Clabburn, ‘Machines built to trick us’, The Herald Sun, August Rachel Kent, ‘Diverse Voices’, Deacons Graham& James/Arts 21 Award, (Catalogue) |
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| 1996 | Jackie Cooper ‘Haig: the anti-animator’ Syte, Weekend Australian, Sept, 199 Anna Clabburn, ‘There’s something in Nothing Natural’, Mesh #8/9 Helen Stuckey, Nothing Natural, (Catalogue) |
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| 1995 | Cover – Leonardo Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, Vol 28, Number 5 Richard Wright, ‘It’s just like art’, Millennium Film Journal: Interactivities,No.28 Cover, EG, The Age, 25 August |
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| 1994 | Cover – CT Arts Magazine, No. 9 | |
| 1993 | Graeme Byrne, ‘Engineering Poetics’ Arena Magazine N0.4 April/May | |
| 1992 | Cover – Art Almanac, July | |
| 1991 | Jay Younger, Fuel, (Catalogue) | |
| Author: (published articles, reviews, papers) | ||
| 2022 | The Corporate University, NiTRO Pox Party, exhibition statement |
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| 2018 | The badly rendered potential of VR, Virtual Reality: Ways of seeing, Artlink 38:4 The impact of failure, NiTRO |
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| 2017 | Body Horror 2.0, Unlikely Journal, issue 3, http://unlikely.net.au/issue-3 Virtual Disturbing Reality, The Article |
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| 2016 | All that is Bad, NiTRO All that is Bad 2.0, The Article No.1 Pin, Two Euro/Dollar Movie, Lola Journal, October Visceral Bodies, Pornoterrorism, De-Aesthticising Power, edited by Louis Armand & Jaromir Lelek, Litteraria Pragnesia books Impossible and Incompatible Bodies, journal for literature and cinema Anthropino, Ionian University, Greece |
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| 2015 | The Kipple Institute, Ctrl-Z, issue 5, http://kipple.ctrl-z.net.au (with Darren Tofts and Martine Corompt) Uncanny Objects, Realtime, OnScreen, No 129 Artist pages, Dissect Journal, No.2 |
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| 2013 | Smelly Artists, History is our Audience, West Space Gallery McCarthyism, Un magazine, issue 7.2 The Horror of the Toilet, VLAK magazine No.4 Deranged Disney, OnScreen, Realtime, No.116 You’re Unco! (catalogue text for exhibition) |
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| 2011 | Electronic art must be destroyed, Scan magazine, journal of media arts culture The Joey Machine, (catalogue text for exhibition) |
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| 2010 | In trash, the return of mystery, OnScreen, Realtime No.99 | |
| 2009 | Please don’t call me doctor, Second Nature, International Journal of Creative media, RMIT, Melbourne Sputnik Baby, Fibrecultuture Journal, No.15, Remix |
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| 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 |
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| 2005 | Bowel media, paper, Vital Signs Conference, Australian Centre for the moving image, Melbourne Dirt Factory interview (with Dominic Redfern) (catalogue) |
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| 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 |
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| 2002 | My brain hurts, OnScreen, Realtime, No.51, Oct – Nov Brain Tumour Helmets with microwaves (catalogue) (As Brian Oblivion) |
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| 1998 | Born to be alive, paper for Videor Conference, Centre for Contemporary Photography and globe e – journal, Issue 9 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 |
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| 1997 | Electronic Noise, Practice, Journal of Visual, Performing and Media Art,Issue2 The New Age Virus OnScreen, RealTime, Oct – Nov Web Crud, OnScreen, RealTime, June – July |
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| 1995 | The Computer Graphics Crisis, Poster Session, ISEA95, Montreal (ISEA95 Proceedings) | |
| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| Commissions | ||
| 2002 | Massterraton, Victoria Commissions, Arts Victoria, in association with the State Library of Victoria, Experimedia Courtyard (with Martine Corompt) | |
| Grants and Awards | ||
| 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 |
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| 2015 | Creative Victoria, VicArts grant | |
| 2013 | Australia Council, Emerging and Experimental Arts grant | |
| 2012 | GRS Special Scholarship, University of New South Wales | |
| 2011 | Australia Council, Inter-Arts office grant | |
| Arts Victoria, International program, cultural exchange | ||
| 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 | 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 | |
| Curator | ||
| 2017 | Very Unco, The Dark room, Torrance art museum, Los Angeles | |
| 2013 | Unco, The Dark room, Torrance art museum, Los Angeles | |
| 2009 | Sleeper, a public art video project, in collaboration with City of greater Dandenong, Arts Victoria, and Public Art, School of art, RMIT | |
| 2001 | Wet and Dry, (Co-Curator) International Video Art Screening program, in association with The Centre For Contemporary Photography, Treasury Theatre, Melbourne | |
| 1998 | Mousetrap, International animation and video screening program, 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 | ||
| 2020 | Paper, Worm Pornography, Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science conference, University of Applied Arts, Venice, Austria | |
| 2019 | Selection panel, Video Visions, Channels Festival, Melbourne Artist Q&A, Chicago Underground film festival |
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| 2018 | Convener, Deepfake symposium, RMIT University Melbourne Artist Q&A, Monster Fest, Melbourne Artist Q&A, Sydney Underground film festival Artist Q&A, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Studio 1, Melbourne 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 Artist talk, School of Art, Architecture and Design, University of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| 2017 | Participant in workshop Playful Resistance, School of Media Communications, RMIT University 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 |
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| 2016 | Paper, Cannibal Art, Feasting on Hannibal, The University of Melbourne Opening remarks, Indisposed opening by Cassandra Tytler, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne Artist talk, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide Artist talk, Salamanca Art Centre, Hobart Paper, Un-Whole Bodies Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science, 10th AudioVisual Arts Festival, Corfu, Greece Paper, Impossible Bodies, Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science, 10th AudioVisual Arts Festival, Corfu, Greece |
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| 2015 | Paper, All That is Bad, AAANZ Image, Space, Body Conference, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane 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 Artist talk, International Symposium of Electronic Art, Vancouver |
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| 2014 | Paper, Conquest of the Inner Body, Conquest of Space Symposium, COFA, University of New South Wales, Sydney Artist talk, Screamposium, Monster Fest, Yah Yah’s bar, Melbourne |
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| 2013 | Paper, The Parasite and Confrontation of the Body, 2nd Global Conference: Body Horror: Contagion, Mutation, Transformation, Athens, Greece Speaker, Channels video art festival, Australian Centre for the moving image, Melbourne Artist talk, West Space gallery, Melbourne Artist talk, Lunchbox forum, School of Art, RMIT Illustrated lecture, The Unclassifiable Body, Morbid Anatomy/ The Observatory, New York Presentation, The Absent Abject Body in Media Arts, ISEA 2013, Sydney Speaker, Drawing out conference, RMIT University, Melbourne |
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| 2012 | Artist talk, College of Fine Arts, Shanghai University, China Artist talk, National New Media Art Award, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. Paper, Inside out Bodies, Sensualising Deformity Conference, Edinburgh University |
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| 2011 | Paper, That Strange Feeling, ISEA2011, Istanbul, Turkey Artist talk, Dork Bot, Canberra Contemporary art space Artist talk, West Space gallery, Melbourne Artist talk, Centre for contemporary photography, Melbourne |
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| 2010 | Speaker, Video Void, Centre for Contemporary photography, Melbourne Panel, 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 Selection panel. City of Melbourne, signal, art projects grants |
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| 2009 | Paper, Cool video dude, Nomad, new media art scoping conference, Victorian College of the arts, Melbourne Artist talk, Swinburne University, Media and Communications, Melbourne |
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| 2008 | Artist talk, 18th Street Art centre, Los Angeles Artist talk, Swinburne University, Media and Communications, Melbourne |
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| 2007 | Paper, The Human Transformation Project – cult cinema and art, Cine Excess conference London, UK Artist talk, Swinburne University, Visual art and New Media, Melbourne |
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| 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 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 Panel member, David Cronenberg retrospective, public forum, ACMI, Melbourne Artist talk, Swinburne University, Media and Communications, Melbourne |
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| 2005 | Paper, My Hugh Hefner Sex Machine Fantasy Came True, Culture Fix conference, University of Technology, Sydney Artist talk, Cool Bytes Lecture Series: Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane and Gold Coast City Art Gallery Paper, Bowel media, Vital Signs conference, Australian Centre for the moving image, Melbourne Artist talk, University of Tasmania, Hobart Artist talk, Swinburne University, Media and Communications, Melbourne Artist talk, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide |
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| 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 |
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| 2003 | Artist talk, Ozone, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Artist talk, Experimedia, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Selection Panel, 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 |
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| 2002 | Artists talk, Multimedia arts Asia Pacific festival, Beijing, China Artist talk, Swinburne University, Media and Communications, Melbourne |
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| 2001 | Interview, Arts Today, ABC Radio National 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 |
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| 1999 | Casual lecturer in digital video at Swinburne University, National School of Design, Melbourne | |
| 1998 | Paper, Videor Forum two, Centre For Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Artist Talk, Game Play, Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne Artist talk, Nothing Natural, Festival Centre Artspace, Adelaide |
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| 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 |
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| 1996 | Artist Talk, Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne | |
| 1995 | Artist Talk Entertaining Motion, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne Poster Session,The Computer graphics crisis, ISEA 95, Montreal, Canada Artist Talk, Artist and the Media, IMZ World Congress, Sydney |
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| 1994 | Artist Talk, Artech Symposium, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne Tutor for the ANAT National Summer School, RMIT University, Melbourne |
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