Geoffrey Weary
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| Name | Geoffrey Weary MFA UNSW |
| Current Role(s) | Senior Lecturer, Film and Digital Art Coordinator, Master of Film and Digital Image |
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Research
Weary's art practice is based in film, video and photography in the context of digital media production. His exhibitions have often included a mixed media approach with the inclusion of photographs, film and video elements and rediscovered objects. His interest in exploring themes related to the visible and the intangible have led to the production of a series of recent works digital video works that shift in focus between documentary and fictional and biographical elements. These works have extended investigations into the domains of the personal and public archive as a means of tracing the evidence of lived existence and patterns of private desire.
His recent digital film, Scenes From a Shanghai Hotel, was selected for competition in both the Panoramas section of the 15th Festival Internationale de Arte Electronica, Video Brazil and the Harries International Digital Art Award exhibition at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane.
Selected Exhibitions and Film Festival Selections
Australian Screen Online, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, 2009
International Festival of Cinema and Technology, Los Angeles, USA, 2008
Video Instants, Friche Belle da Mai, Marseille, France, 2007
Harries National Digital Art Award, QUT Brisbane, 2006
Festival Internacional de Arte Electronica, Southern Panoramas, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2005
Academici, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 2004
TIME WAS …, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, 2003
Revelation, Perth International Film Festival, Perth, 2002; Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne, 2001
Oeuvres De Etre, Temple Gallery, Rome, Italy, 2000
EMBRACE, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 1999; The Houston International Film Festival, Houston, USA, 1998
Adelaide Installations, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide, 1997
Geoffrey Weary: Recent Video Works 1994-1996, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 1996
FIN, International Video Festival, Buenos Aries, Argentina, 1995
OBJECTS for the BLIND, Queensland State Gallery, Brisbane, 1994
Satellite Cultures, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 1993
Faraway. Three Video and Photographic Works, 1988-1991, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1992; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1991
Monographs
Conomos, J. Geoffrey Weary Faraway: Three Video/Photographic Works 1988-1991, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1991
Research Supervision
2009: Jillian Gates PhD, ‘The Reception of Public Art in Hospitals.’
2007: Michael Shilman MVA, ‘The Wondering Jew: art born of suffering, struggle & desolation.’
2004: Rachael Brown MVA, ‘The Moving Body and the Screen.’
2004: Virginia Hilyard MVA, ‘Filmspace: in and out of frame, on and off screen.’
2003: Maria Miranda MVA, ‘Museum of Rumour: fictive art in new media.’
1999: Brigid Costello MVA, ‘Erotecha: electronic intimacy in the computer-based interactive narrative.’
1998: Justine Cooper MVA, ‘Conceptual Shifting in Time and Space Through Art and Technology.’
In Progress
Kylie McKendry PhD, ‘Mirror Reflections on Narcisus, Time and the Gaze. The Liquid Aesthetics of Video Art.’
Helen Goritsas PhD, ‘Through a Glass Darkly. Tracing Inter-subjectivity in the Film Process.’
Neslihan Barlak PhD, ‘Hybrid Documentary.’
Celia Lam PhD, ‘The Impact of Changing Media Technologies on the Audience Viewing Experience.’
Kyuwon Kang MFA, ‘Victim to Offender: The Representation of Dominant Female Characters in Contemporary Korean Cinema.’
Awards & Grants
2002 Apple Scholarship, Apple Australia and University of Sydney
2001 Digital Film Production Grant, Australian Film Commission
2000 New Work Grant, VA/CB Australia Council
1999 Roma Studio Residency, VA/CB Australia Council
Professional Memberships
Australian Directors Guild (ADG)
Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA)
Screen Hub
Arts Hub
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