Josephine Starrs
Most Recent Affiliation / Department / Job Title:
- University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts and Film & Digital Art, Lecturer
Bio:
ISEA2015
- Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski are Australian artists who produce media art installations situated at the juncture of cinema, mapping and sublime landscape. Their project Incompatible Elements, focusing on landscapes in crisis has been shown in Australia, USA, Taiwan, Korea, NZ, and the Maldives Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2013. In their current work they use a drone to record a dancer’s site-responsive performances in several locations. The result is a video artwork that encourages contemplation about our relationship to nature and technology. Cmielewski is a Senior lecturer at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney.
ISEA2013
- Josephine Starrs, artist, Australia
ISEA2011
- Leon mielewski & Josephine Starrs are Australian artists whose video and new media works have been shown extensively in Australia and internationally. They have created numerous projects including Seeker an installation that explores issues of migration, territorial boundaries, conflict commodities and human displacement. Seeker won an Award of Distinction in Interactive Art from the 2007 Prix Ars Electronica, Austria. Cmielewski and Starrs have been invited to participate in several international residency programs including Banff, Canada 1998, Sarai, New Delhi, India, 2006 and Future Lab, Linz, Austria, 2009. Cmielewski lectures at the School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney, Starrs is a Senior Lecturer and Chair of Film & Digital Art at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
ISEA1994:
VNS Matrix / Julianne Pierce, Josephine Starrs, Virginia Barratt, Francesca da Rimini. VNS Matrix is an Australian artists’ collaboration who create hybrid electronic artworks which ironically integrate theory with popular culture. As feminists, we explore language, sexuality and power from subversive and ambiguous positions. As cyberfeminists, our mission is
to hijack technology and remap cyberspace.
Current Location:
- Sydney, Australia
International Programme Committee:
Art Events:
User Unfriendly Interface
Categories: [Art Exhibition] [Interactive Monitor-Based]
[ISEA95]
All New Gen
Categories: [Art Exhibition] [Installation Art]
[ISEA94]
PathogenicVectors
Categories: [Art Exhibition] [Interactive Monitor-Based]
[ISEA94]
Floating Territories
Categories: [Art Exhibition] [Games]
[ISEA2004]
incompatible elements: version 02
Categories: [Literature and Poetry] [Video Art]
[ISEA2013]
Dancing with Drones
Categories: [Art Exhibition] [Video/Animation Installation]
[ISEA2015]
Presentations:
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Title:
Pathogenic Vectors
Symposium:-
ISEA94
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Title: Gameplay, Vapourware and Digital Abberation
Symposium:-
ISEA96
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Title: Do You Know What It Feels Like for a Girl in Virtual Worlds?
Symposium:-
ISEA2002
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Title: Embodiment: Meat and Machines
Symposium:-
ISEA2002
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Title: Engagement and contemplation: communicating data in media art installations
Symposium:-
ISEA2009
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Title: Incompatible Elements
Symposium:-
ISEA2011
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Title: Untitled
Symposium:-
ISEA2011
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Title: The Verdant Shed and Cloud Mapping
Symposium:-
ISEA2013
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Title: The Future Is Unmanned
Symposium:-
ISEA2015
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