Staff profiles
Master of Film and Digital Media Coordinator: Geoffrey Weary
Geoffrey Weary completed a Master of Fine Art research degree at the University of New South Wales in 1991. While the basis of his practice is drawn from the traditional medium of film his body of creative work also includes video, photography and mixed media installation. He has an ongoing interest in exploring a range of visual and sonic ideas that express notions of the visible and the intangible. These investigations have recently included the production of a series of digital films that shift in focus to incorporate documentary, fictional and biographical elements. These works also make extensive use of personal and public archives as a means of tracing the evidence of lived existence and the patterns of private desire.
A selection of Geoffrey Weary’s works have been have been chosen for inclusion in the Australian Video Art Archive, an initiative of Monash University, Melbourne. One of his recent films has also been selected for inclusion in the National Film and Sound Archive website: Australian Screen Online. This is a web-based resource that provides worldwide public access to information about the Australian Film and Television Industry.
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Senior Lecturer: John Conomos
John Conomos is a media artist, critic, and theorist who extensively exhibits both locally and internationally. His art practice cuts across a variety of art forms - video, new media, installation, performance and radiophonic art - and deals with autobiography, identity, memory, post-colonialism, and the "in- between" links between cinema, literature, and the visual arts.
Conomos is a prolific contributor to local and overseas art, film and media journals and a frequent participant in conferences, forums and seminars. In 2000 Conomos was awarded a New Media Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts. He also co-edited (with Brad Buckley) the recent anthology Republics of Ideas (Pluto Press) in 2001.
Conomos worked on a collection of his essays called Mutant Media (Artspace, Sydney) in 2004. John Conomos is currently writing a book on film, video and new media to be published in 2006.
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Associate Lecturer: Mahalya Middlemist
Mahalya Middlemist is a Sydney-based film/video/multimedia artist. Her work is primarily realised through the production of experimental 16mm dance films and short video works. She has also worked collaboratively on a number of performance-based projects, combining live dance and sound performance with projected film, video, and still images.
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Casual Lecturer: Stefan Popescu
Stefan Popescu is an experimental filmmaker, film theorist and is one of the founders and directors of the Sydney Underground Film Festival. Stefan recently completed his PhD (Visual Arts / Film and Digital Arts) at SCA in 2007 and has been making experimental screen-works since 1999, which has been screened at various festivals, galleries and on television programs such as SBS' Eat Carpet. In late 2005, Stefan screened a collection of his screen-works at Bangkok's National Gallery and at Bangkok's 4th Experimental Film Festival.
Images: (top to bottom) Scenes from a Shanghai Hotel, film still, copyright Geoffrey Weary 2007; My Mother Told Me, film still, copyright Geoffrey Weary 2007.