Josephine Starrs

Research

Josephine Starrs has 2 decades of experience as a media artist; researching, managing, creating and exhibiting projects, and speaking at international conferences on the subject of new technologies and culture. In 2003 she curated a major international Dlux Media Arts event in Sydney titled Plaything focusing on current and future trends in the field of digital games, featuring key Australian and international game designers, theorists and artists.

My art practice focuses primarily on the relationship between society, the machine and the individual, often using play as a strategy for engaging with the social and political contradictions inherent in contemporary life.

My most recent project, Seeker was developed in collaboration with Leon Cmielewski, during international residencies at the Waag Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam and Sarai, New Delhi in 2005-6. Seeker was first exhibited in Contemporary Commonwealth at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the flagship exhibition for Festival Melbourne 06.

Key Publications

Seeker, three-screened interactive video installation, exhibited at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and the Experimental Art Foundatin in 2006 and Artspace in February 2007.

Floating Territories used computer game culture as a springboard for exploring real and virtual territory and was exhibited at ISEA, Helsinki 2004 and in Beijing as part of the Second International New Media Exhibition, 2005.

Bad Code, CD ROM, exhibited at Synworld, Vienna, Austria 1999. Created with VNS Matrix and Funded by the Australian Film Commission.

a.k.a. Short video, screened at the Sydney Film Festival, 2001 and chosen for the European Media Arts festival European tour for 2002 – 2003

All New Gen, Multimedia Installation created with VNS Matrix, exhibited at the Inernational Symposium of Electronic Art, Helsinki, Finland, 1995

Bio-Tek Kitchen, Compter game patch, exhibited in "SHIFT-CTRL", Beall Center for Art and Technology, UC, California, USA.

Diagnostic Tools for the New Millenium, Multimedia installation exhibited at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin 1997.

Trace, Multimedia installation, exhibited at Sydney Records Centre, 2002

Internal Aliens, Photographic and video installation, exhibited in UFO Strategien Oldenburg, Germany 2000

User Unfriendly Interface, CD ROM exhibited in Transmediale media arts festival, Berlin, Germany 1997

White, Video installation exhibited at the Australian Centre for Photography, 1996

Exhibitions

2006

Seeker, Experimental Art Foundation. Adelaide, S.A.

Contemporary Commonwealth, ACMI, Melbourne. Seeker, multi-screen installation. Curator Mike Stubbs.

2005

The Butterfly Effect, Australian Museum,Sydney. Pathfinder, mixed media installation. Curator, Michael Goldberg.

In the line of Flight, Second International New Media Exhibition and Symposium, Millenium Monument, Beijing. Floating Territories. Australian works Curator Antonetta Ivanova.

2004

Seoul Media Art Biennale. Bio-Tek Kitchen, computer game mod. Australian works Curator Liz Hughes.

ISEA2004, Finland, Floating Territories.

Sightseeing, Beijing, China. a.k.a., Bio-Tek Kitchen & Dream Kitchen. Curator S. Garside.

2003

House of Tomorrow, Experimenta, Melbourne. Bio-Tek Kitchen. Curator Hughes, L.

Computerspiele von Kunstlerinnen, Dortmund, Germany. Bio-Tek Kitchen. Curator, Tillman Baumgartel.

2002

Trace, mixed media installation, Sydney Records Centre, The Rocks, Sydney. Curator Susan Charlton.

a.k.a. short video screened:

Transmediale Media Arts Festival, Berlin.
2002 European Media Arts Festival, OsnabrŸk, Germany.
2002 Kasseler Dokumentarfilm & Videofest, Germany.
2002 Contagion exhibition, Auckland, New Zealand.
2001 d>art, Sydney Film Festival.

Awards

Asialink residency Grant, 2005
ARC Discovery Project Grant, 2004
New Media Fellowship, Australia Council,1998-9
Australia Council Studio, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin one year residency, 1997
Australia Council Studio, Greene St, New York 1993

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