MEMBERS DIRECTORY_

1974
David Kirkpatrick

David Kirkpatrick is an Australian sound and multimedia artist who explores the increasingly blurred intersections between the physical and the virtual and the effect this has on life, society and the environment. His practice encompasses the areas of composition and sound design, projection and live visuals, and interactive design.

A selection of his past works include a dance/video/sound collaboration with dancer Anna Kuroda at the Japan Women's College of Physical Education Showcase2010 (Static Cocoon), a theatrical collaboration with Shopfront and Japan's Nibroll merging vide...

1965
Neil Brandhorst

I am interested in how science can inform artistic activity - particularly recent discoveries in neuroscience, human development, evolutionary deveopment, and sociobiology - and how these insights begin to explain the complexity of embodiment. In other words I want to provide quantitative information regarding human behavior and from this information develop an informed perspective of aesthetics.

 

My work often encourages sensorimotor engagement by incorperating unconventional opt...

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Kirrily Schell

Kirrily Schell creates comics, illustration, animation, printmaking, and lectures at RMIT in the Bachelor of Design (Multimedia Systems). Her freelance work also incorporates the delivery of short animation workshops. These have included, more recently, and in collaboration with Community Prophets, the running of film and animation workshops in the remote Aboriginal communities of

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Sohan Ariel Hayes

 

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Tessa Elieff

Tessa Elieff AKA Tattered Kaylor is a Sound Artist and Composer based in Australia.  A lifelong fascination with submersion into the sonic environment has led her to explore the capabilities of surround soundscape composition. Immersive experience is her speciality, with recent work delving into the emotional and physical effects selected natural sonic phenomena has upon the listener. Her work includes both stereo and surround sound live performance and AV collaboration.

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M. Leaf-Tierney

M. Leaf-Tierney is an artist engaged in the fields of experimental music, installation, software art and live audio-visual performance. Under the current moniker 'Sinuso Dial', he uses extended guitar techniques, field recordings, and a combination of visual processes to create immersive, ambient and seductive audio-visual experiences. He has exhibited and performed locally & internationally.

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Peter McNally

Member of ANAT Board.  See ANAT Board page for further information.

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Mark McAllister

Mark has more than 30 years experience working in the private and public sectors variously as an employee, business owner, director and consultant.  Most of this experience has been at CEO or Board level.

With qualifications in engineering, management, finance and corporate governance, Mark's experience at the arts / science interface includes building interactive science museum exhibits, managing a 3d computer animation studio creating a virtual human model, and board positions with m.Net Corporation and Chair of the Torrens Valley TAFE.

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Malcolm Haines

Hi,

I'm currently studying my Master's in Internet Studies online at Curtin University and a Grad Cert in GIS. My Aspirations are to work with and design spontaneously creative A-life models.I am also interested in knowledge structures and how they are expressed and have worked with spiritualists anshamanic people of several cultures, looking at alternative ways of perception.

I have come from a BSc in Environmental Management and Hons in Aboriginal Studies and since then have worked frequently with a local Aboriginal community, running workshops with my wife, who is a te...

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Svenja Kratz

Svenja Kratz is a Brisbane based artist interested in interdisciplinary practice, particularly the intersections between art and science. Originally trained in interdisciplinary and collaborative arts practice as Griffith University on the Gold Coast, she completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts, majoring in Contemporary Art and Creative Writing and graduated with first class honours in 2003. Over the past few years, she has produced a number of works both independently and collaboratively, including painting, photomedia, interactiv...

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Tara Pattenden

Tara Pattenden, works across multiple mediums creating video work, installations, performances, costumes and audio. 

Her work investigates cultural identity and ritual both real and imagined.  These works experiment with forms of storytelling, and performance through physically interactive interfaces such as games, wearable instruments, make believe and mobile based interaction.

In addition to exhibiting Tara creates live performance.  As Schmelfhelp she performs live audiovisual material.  She performs with her partner John Fail as Bat Tarbet and with...

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Thom Browning

Thom Browning is a Brisbane based emerging multi-disciplinary artist whose practice is centred around creating works for and with young people.

He is a graduate of the QUT Creative Industries faculty majoring in Performance Studies and over the past seven years has immersed himself in creating art, working extensively in Brisbane and Asia as a performer, performance maker, sound and multimedia designer, composer, musician, DJ, VJ and Artsworker.

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Sherryl Ryan

Artist

Art & Science Education & Research

Currently work at The Art Gallery of NSW

Worked at The Australia Council for the Arts

Coordinated Code Red for ANAT

Coordinated 'Deep Immersion: Scientific Serendipity' for ANAT 1998.

Developed the IdEAS project Interdisciplinary Enrichment Art & Science research project at The Australian Museum, The Powerhouse Museum and Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design.

Developed the Strategic Plan for education and learning at Object and created Cultivate - a learning program for...

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Matthew O'Shannessy

Matthew O'Shannessy studied documentary at the VCA but his work is not restricted to one medium or genre and moves between sound and video, installation and performance. Recurring obsessions include found sound, video and text; experimental documentary and trespass.

Matthew's video work has shown in Brooklyn, New York and at the NMA in Canberra, and he has performed live video and sound works along the eastern seaboard of Australia. His sound art has been released on vinyl and CD, and he writes on music for a US-based website.  

Matthew lives and works in Melbourne.

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Jose William Vigers

I am currently an emerging-unestablished-baby artist.

I work primarily with images, and digital manipulation.

My practice also includes painting, drawing, video and installation.

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Aviva Reed

Aviva Hannah BSc (Environmental Science)
Visual Ecologist

0407618415       
Pobox 30 Huonville 7109       
blacksassycollective@hotmail.com

Education
2007 Graduated BSc University Of Tasmania
1998 Graduated HSC The Emanuel School

Employment History
2000-present Illustrator Turnbull Ossher Design
2002-08 Illustrator Humble Productions
2003- Education officer for Huon Valley Environment Centre
2004-07 Co-Ordinator Black Sassy Collective (blacksassy.org)

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Sally Pryor

Sally Pryor is a pioneering artist/researcher/educator who has been involved with computers and audiovisual creativity since 1983.

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Maggie Buxton

Maggie Buxton has been working around the globe for over fifteen years as a facilitator, consultant, researcher, and more recently designer and producer.

Her activities exist in the entangled spaces between education, creative arts, technology, organisational and community development, games, science fiction, spirituality and enterprise.

Maggie is focussed on helping organisations and communities learn, innovate and regenerate through creatively playing in the spaces between the digital, physical and imaginal realms.

 

 

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Sian Bates

Sian Bates is a Cinematographer and Camera Assistant residing in Adelaide, South Australia. She is currently working as a freelance Cinematographer and Camera Assistant within the South Australian Film Industry. She has experience shooting short dramas, documentary, corporate videos, TVC and music video and excells working on 16mm and 35mm formats.

As a camera Assistant she has learnt from some of Australia's best D.O.P's including Ian Jones ACS, Roger Dowling ACS and David Foreman ACS.

She has completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) in Cinematography at Flinders ...

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CIA Studios

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Arts (CIA) Studios is a new artist initiative dedicated to supporting the development of interdisciplinary arts in Australia. Housed in an old school on the cusp of Perth City, CIA provides local, national and international artists with dedicated workspaces, resources, a peer network and access to CIA-run initiatives developed to encourage, nurture and launch interdisciplinary practice. CIA support is focused on artists working across or between forms, with an emphasis on the contemporary performance spectrum. This could include new media, live art, hybri...

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Christopher Newman

Master of Creative Arts (Graphic Design and New Media)
-2000-2002 University of Wollongong

Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication)
-1989-1993 University of Technology, Sydney

1st Year Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts)
-1988  Sydney College of the Arts

Recent Employment
2006-current
Freelance graphic designer-
NewsLtd, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph
Holt Street, Surry Hills, Sydney

Recent Gallery Exhibitions
Christmas Show - Galley 41, Riley Street, Wooloomooloo, Sydney, December 2008

Rece...

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Stephen Pascoe

 

Stephen is an experienced educator and active illustration and design practitioner. This experience includes his role as program coordinator of illustration and design at Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE as well continuing engagement with diverse facets of the illustration and design industry.

Qualifications include Diploma of Graphic Design and Graduate Diploma, Film and Television, (Animation), both completed at Swinburne. Stephen is currently undertaking a Masters of Design (Research) at Monash University with the subject of illustration ...

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Ashley Scott

I make music, video & images. I participate marginally in the Sydney music & arts scene. I am employed as a programmer & system administrator which sometimes carries over between work life & real-er life.

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Tamara Rewse

Tamara Rewse (Writer/Performer/Puppeteer) has worked as a Director, Devisor, Maker and Performer in Puppet and Visual Theatre, touring internationally and nationally. Her work includes; Human Layer, 2005 Fringe Melbourne Festival (Most Visionary) 2006 Adelaide Fringe, Men of Steel, toured internationally to Edinburgh, Dublin, China, Hong Kong, 1 month at London’s SOHO theatre, New Zealand and Singapore, COOP, for Black Hole Theatre, 2007 & 2008 seasons at 45 Downstairs and is one of Australia’s most talented burgeoning puppeteers. She has just completed a new project...