Media artist, designer, educator
Sydney Area, Australia
Media artist, designer, educator
Sydney Area, Australia
Pip Shea is a media artist and designer. Her creative practice is influenced by social media and networked culture. Her work explores hybrid art practices, the participatory media space and peer production models.
She is currently producing a new work for ISEA2009 (International Symposium of Electronic Art) in Belfast.
Web projects, participatory art-making, social media research, video, projection, visual design, interaction design, teaching/training, speaking, community cultural development.
(Arts and Crafts industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 months)
Developing a new work for ISEA2009 (International Symposium of electronic Art).
(Events Services industry)
April 2009 — May 2009 (2 months)
A live AV mash-up of music and film, news and advertising for the 2009 Creative Sydney Festival at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Remixing History are a collective of video and audio artists hell-bent on reviving the best bits of pop culture from the past 40 years - music, news footage, films, TV shows, commercials, jingles and everything else in their collective memories - revisiting our most memorable sights and sounds of days gone by. Time travel you can dance to.
(Arts and Crafts industry)
January 2009 — February 2009 (2 months)
Cinema Nosso is a media arts organization in Rio de Janeiro, that uses film and video as a means of education, empowerment and cultural expression.
(Arts and Crafts industry)
October 2008 — December 2008 (3 months)
Researching and developing arts projects in the UK, Ireland and Brazil.
(Arts and Crafts industry)
September 2008 — October 2008 (2 months)
I was one of 3 artists in residence at the 2008 Electrofringe Festival in Newcastle, Australia. I presented the work 'NEOCONFESSIONAL' - a media installation that took a peak at the widespread cultural practice of resisting change.
http://www.neoconfessional.com
(Arts and Crafts industry)
February 2008 — June 2008 (5 months)
Commissioned to work with the Melbourne Turkish community to create light-based installation for the Light In Winter Festival at Fed Square.
(Civic & Social Organization industry)
May 2008 — June 2008 (2 months)
Invited speaker at the 2008 Deakins Lectures on the topic 'Innovation: A Global View".
(Educational Institution; Arts and Crafts industry)
March 2008 — May 2008 (3 months)
(Government Agency; Media Production industry)
April 2007 — April 2008 (1 year 1 month)
(Educational Institution; Arts and Crafts industry)
May 2007 — June 2007 (2 months)
Development and implementation of an aerosol art program for 100 year nine students. The program is an Arts Victoria community art initiative.
(Arts and Crafts industry)
March 2007 — April 2007 (2 months)
Researching the cross over between media arts and community cultural development practice in India (funded by the Australia Council's RUN_WAY initiative). The focus of the trip is the Sarai new media centre in Delhi, a division of Delhi's Centre For The Study of Developing Societies.
(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Online Media industry)
June 2006 — February 2007 (9 months)
ABC Local Radio website redesign - design and information architecture
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
June 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Secured funding, facilitated new media workshops, developed artwork with regional communities and coordinated 4 artistic outcomes.
(www.nextwave.org.au/bitscape)
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2005 — February 2005 (2 months)
Lectured and tutored first year media students at the RMIT School of Applied Communication. The course, Networked Media, covered an introduction to media theory, basic HTML and web production.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
May 2004 — July 2004 (3 months)
Six week Australia Council new media artist residency during which I created a net art work exploring xenophobia and Australian identity, called My Fellow Australians (www.myfellowaustralians.com).
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
October 2003 — April 2004 (7 months)
Artist, producer and facilitator of 'Colliding Worlds', a co-production between the Next Wave Festival and Knox City Council. Ran workshops and assisted in developing art works for large-scale outdoor projection with young people from the Knox City municipality in Melbourne. (www.nextwave.org.au/collidingworlds)
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
July 2003 — September 2003 (3 months)
On site delivering workshops for primary and secondary students as well as developing audio, visual and multimedia artworks. This was a shared position with sound artist Ryan Griffith. (www.popomo.com/ectopia)
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Online Media industry)
August 2002 — September 2003 (1 year 2 months)
Commisioned and developed arts content for ABC online's arts gateway and worked extensively as a web designer for Triple J, Radio Australia and ABC Asia Pacific.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Online Media industry)
March 2001 — July 2002 (1 year 5 months)
Flash animation and web design for Lino, Love Tattoo, Kasey Chambers, Moby, Paulmac, Gorillaz, Eskimo Joe and Sekiden.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2000 — February 2001 (1 year 2 months)
Was one of four senior web designers in the Sydney office of the New York based web company Oven Digital.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1997 — December 1999 (2 years 10 months)
Designed and developed touchscreen kiosk interfaces for the industrial design firm Abuzz.
Bachelor of Design , Visual Communication