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New media art is an exciting and integral part of the contemporary art scene in Australia. New media art, as defined by the Australia Council, is a process where new technologies are used by artists to create works that explore new modes of artistic expr...
Artbank was founded by the Australian Government in 1980 to buy Australian contemporary art and rent it out to public and private sector clients. Instead of only seeing Australian art in galleries, Artbank ensures that more Australian art can be seen in m...
Each year the Sydney Festival offers a rich and diverse program spanning all art forms including dance, theatre, music, visual arts, film, forums and large scale free outdoor events. The National Multicultural Festival is held over two weeks and features...
Winner of the 2007 Portia Geach Award. The Portia Geach Memorial Award is recognised as one of the most important celebrations of the talents and creativity of Australian female portrait painters. Winner of the 1992 Portia Geach Award. ...
Ben Snow, Visual Effects Supervisor for Van Helsing (2004) and Pearl Harbour (2001). Hidden behind the scenes in film, television, new media and game production, a number of Australian individuals and companies have been quietly contributing their creati...
Image courtesy of the artist and the National Gallery of Victoria. Contemporary art is defined as art that is current, offering a fresh perspective and point of view, and often employing new techniques and new media. These confronting public art projects...
Bark Painting, Evans Collection, Northern Territory Library. Image courtesy of the Northern Territory Library and the National Library of Australia. Australian Indigenous art is the oldest ongoing tradition of art in the world. ...
Image courtesy of Australian Network for Arts and Technology and Samstag Museum of Modern Art. Wearing textiles and jewellery with embedded technology has undergone a fashionable renaissance with creative designers working across art, fashion, design and...
ReelDance International Dance on Screen Festival (more info)
ReelDance is a project of the Performance Space, supporting innovative choreographic practice that works across disciplinary boundaries of dance, film and new media art.
Blakkbyrd: Australia (more info)
Blakkbyrd: Australia offers musings on contemporary art issues, including street art and urban painting, new media art, blogging and internet resources.
Arts agency established to support the development and promotion of new media art in Australia and elsewhere. With a portfolio which showcases a diverse range of innovative projects, Novamedia provides expert advice to private collectors and public organi
Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Conference (more info)
The MAAP site is a presentation platform to promote excellence and exchange of ideas in New Media Art. It attempts to foster dialogue between professionals who create, experiment, design, and build electronic forms of art. This site has links to the onli
ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology) (more info)
ANAT creates connections and collaborations across art, culture, science and technology. It is Australia's peak network and advocacy body for artists working with science and technology, creating opportunities for innovation, research and development both
We meet Indigenous Male Elder of the year, Steve Mam and talk to Cybertribe founder and online curator, Jenny Fraser about contemporary Indigenous art using new media. Light One BLACKOUT LAUNCH - fAf January - February 2003 BLACKOUT: INDIGENOUS NEW MEDIA ...
TITLE New Screen Media- cinema, art, narrative with DVD-ROM AUTHOR RIESER, Martin & ZAPP, Andrea - eds DESCRIPTION visual representation & narrative, the whole art of the moving image- juxtaposing the work of leading cultural theorists & philosophers of t...
New media art is an exciting and integral part of the contemporary art scene in Australia. New media art, as defined by the Australia Council, is a process where new technologies are used by artists to create works that explore new modes of artistic expr...
The National Gallery of Australia presents part II of its innovative program fullscreen:explorations in new media. Dr Chris Chesher, Senior Lecturer from the School of Media and Communications at the University of NSW will explore the convergence of new m...
Gary Hill / Bruce Nauman: International New Media Art, the first exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia to focus on New Media art, shows a broad selection of works from two American artists who have been central to this most contemporary of art m...
Accessible Arts promotes full inclusion, access and cultural opportunities in the arts for people with disabilities through advocacy, education and the provision of information. Tess introduced Dancing Hands Sing, a music program she has been developing ...
Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds is the 26th-volume in the series “Electronic Mediations,” which looks at the impact of digital technology on society and culture. This work brings together highly-conceptualised discourses fr...
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