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- Executive Director at Australian Network for Art and Technology
- Curator - Coded Cloth at Samstag Museum
- Founder and Producer at -empyre-
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- University of New South Wales
- ANAT Emerging Technology Lab
- University of Wollongong
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Dr Melinda Rackham’s Summary
Melinda Rackham is currently the Executive Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology - Australia's leading cultural organisation working at the intersection of art, science & technology; networked & emergent art practices; experimental music & sound arts; and mobile & portable platforms.
For over a decade, as an artist, writer, curator and media consultant she has investigated the aesthetic, technological and philosophical aspects of online identity, locality, sexuality and community, as well as viral symbiosis and trans species relations within 3d multi-user, networked, game and mobile environments.
Her writing appears online and in print in arenas like Artlink, Leonardo, Ctheory, Culture Machine, and Mesh, Realtime, and has chapters in recent Routledge and MIT editions. Her residencies include Polar Circuit, Finland and Banff Center, Canada. Her web works have been widely internationally shown, including Beyond Interface, Arco Electronico, Transmediale, File, Art Entertainment Network, The Biennales in Montreal,Buenos Aires and Istanbul Web, European Media Art Festival, Hybrid Life Forms, MAAP, Perspecta, lab3D, ICC Tokyo, Pompideau Center, and many ISEA's.
As one of Australia pioneering web and 3d VR artists her networked art has won many awards including the SoundSpace Award for Virtual Worlds at the 2001 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, the Faulding Award for Multimedia at the 2000 Adelaide Festival, and Gram 1999 Internet Art Prize in Argentina.
Melinda was the first Curator of Networked Media at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne, and in 2002 she established the globally influential -empyre- media arts forum which facilitates critical perspectives on contemporary cross-disciplinary issues, practices and events in networked media.
Dr Melinda Rackham’s Specialties:
facilitating emerging technologies, creativity generation, ancillary IP creation, collaborative creative research, critical writing on emerging media and virtual environments
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Dr Melinda Rackham’s Interests:
swimming in ocean pools, playing with emerging tech toys, walking in pine forests, smart science fiction, patting others cats when out strolling, watching torrents, gardening, updating social network sites, sleeping.
Dr Melinda Rackham’s Groups:
Game Worlds, -empyre-, ANAT, AIMIA, ISEA, Futuresonic, ACMI
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Dr Melinda Rackham’s Honors:
Winner of SoundSpace Award for Virtual Worlds at the 2001 Stuttgart Filmwinter
Winner of Faulding Award for Multimedia at 2000 Adelaide Festival.
Nominated for the Leonardo 2000 New Horizons Award for Innovation in New Media.
2nd Prize National Digital Art Awards 1999 IMA, Brisbane, Australia
Honorable mention - Art on the Net 2000, Machida City Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Winner of Macromedia/Internet.au, Web In Motion Award for online animation 1999
Winner of Gram - Trails of the Future, International Internet Prize, Argentina, 1999
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