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BRUCE MOWSON |
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-NEWS-
I have recently returned from a
studio residency at the Australia Council for the Arts studio in Barcelona. In
the near future I will be working with the material developed there.
-ABOUT-
Bruce Mowson is an artist living
and working in Melbourne, Australia. He lectures at the Interdisciplinary
Centre for Ideas at the Victorian College of the Arts at the University of
Melbourne and for various schools at RMIT University.
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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
PHD and MA, by research
project, from the School of Art, RMIT University. BA (HONS) from the Department
of Media Art, RMIT University.
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
2008 Barcelona Residential Studio, Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australia
Council for the Arts (March-May 2010)
2003-2006 Australian Postgraduate Association scholarship for Masters and
Doctoral study.
2001 Visual Arts First Prize, Melbourne Fringe Festival.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Birdland, Design Research
Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne.
2008 PhD examination exhibition, Gossard project space, RMIT University,
Melbourne.
2007 Melting Moments, Kurb Inc., Totally Huge New Music Festival, Perth.
2006 Barney, Brisbane Powerhouse, Sound Polariods Festival, Brisbane.
2004 Pink Balls, Surround sound/Video projection, West Space Inc, Melbourne.
2002 Flesh Antenna, 36 speaker wireless audio installation, TCB Inc, Melbourne.
2001 Space/Sync, Four Channel video/audio installation, First Site Gallery,
Melbourne.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Sonic Bodies, Westspace Art Inc, Melbourne. (forthcoming)
2005 Hatched, Sound/sculpture installation, Perth Institute of Contemporary
Art, Perth.
2004 Gravity, 16 speaker sound exhibition, Esplanade Theatres by the Bay,
Singapore.
Job Lot #59, Sound/sculpture installation, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne.
2003 Small Worlds, Four Channel sound installation, UTS Gallery, Sydney.
2002 Variable Resistance, Stereo audio exhibition, SFMOMA, San Francisco.
Prototype, 36 speaker wireless audio installation, Victorian Arts Centre,
Melbourne.
Gating, Stereo sound exhibition, West Space Inc, Melbourne.
Summer Salon, Two channel video/sound installation, Centre for Contemporary
Photography, Melbourne.
SELECTED AUDIO-VISUAL PERFORMANCE PROJECTS
2005 InfraCinema, Surround sound/video projection, Melbourne International Arts
Festival, Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall.
Cajid Media National Tour, Surround sound/video projection, Quarter Inch,
Woollongong University; Gentlemen's Club, Armidale; Impermanent Audio, Sydney;
Bus Gallery, Melbourne; Wagga Space Program, Wagga Wagga; Undue Noise, Bendigo;
Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane; Tank Arts Centre, Cairnes; Office of Arts and
Leisure Affairs, Toowoomba.
2004 Small Black Box, Surround sound/video projection, Institute of Modern Art,
Brisbane.
2003 Queensland Biennial Festival of Music, Surround sound performance,
Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane.
Liquid Architecture Festival, Surround sound performance, Underground Car-park,
RMIT University, Melbourne.
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2008 Peer Advisor, Music Board, Australia Council for the Arts.
2006 Peer Assessor, Inter-Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts.
2001-2004 Artistic Director, Liquid Architecture International Sound Art
Festival, Melbourne.
2001 Curator, Document 03: Diffuse (compilation CD), Dorobo Records, Australia.
GRANTS, PRIZES AND AWARDS
2010 Skills and Arts Development, Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australia
Council for the Arts.
2008 Seeding Fund Grant, RMIT Design Research Institute.
2005 City of Melbourne, Arts Project Grant
2004 Australia Council, Research and Development Grant
2003 Arts Victoria, International Program
Australian Postgraduate Association Award
2002 Arts Victoria, Music for the Future Grant
2001 Australia Council, RUN_WAY travelling grant
2000 Visual Arts Prize, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Grants for Liquid Architecture
Festival of Sound Arts
2005 City of Melbourne, Arts House Project Grant
2004 City of Melbourne Project Grant
2004 Arts Victoria Arts Development Grant
2004 Australia Council for the Arts, New Media Arts New Work Grant
2003 City of Melbourne Project Grant
2003 Arts Victoria Arts Development Grant
2003 Australia Council for the Arts, New Media Arts New Work Grant
2002 City of Melbourne Project Grant
COMMISSIONS
2007 Melting Moments, audio-visual installation, Totally Huge New Music
Festival, Perth.
2005 InfraCinema, Installation/performance, Melbourne International Festival.
2003 The Shower, Experimenta Media Arts, New Visions Commission, Melbourne.
2001 Flesh Antenna, Next Wave Festival, New Work commission, Melbourne.
ACADEMIC RESEARCH PROJECTS
2009 Birdland, RMIT Design Research Institute Seeding Fund Research Project.
2005-8 PhD. by Research (Australian Postgraduate Award, 2003-6), School of Art,
RMIT University, Melbourne.
2003 Research Assistant, Eureka/ARC research project, Spatial Information
Architecture Laboratory, School of Architecture, RMIT University, Melbourne.
2002-2004 M.A. by Research (Australian Postgraduate Award, 2003-6), School of
Art, RMIT University, Melbourne.
SELECTED SUBJECT CREATION, LECTURING AND TEACHING.
2009 The Poetics of the Body, The Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the
Arts, Melbourne.
2009 Sensorama: cross-disciplinary installation/performance projects.
2009 Mash-IT: sound and video art.
2009 Archisonic: sound/architecture collaboration, Master of Architecture
Program, School of Architecture, RMIT University.
2008-2006 Music and Sound Design, Computer Games Programs, School of Creative
Media, RMIT University.
2007 Immersive Environments, School of Art, RMIT University.
2005 Art History & Theory, School of Fine Art, RMIT University.
2002-2004 Digital Audio-Video, Department of Design, Monash University,
Melbourne.
WRITING
Forthcoming: An Immanent Plane, Proceedings of the Time Transcendence
Performance Conference, Monash University, Melbourne.
2009 Being Within Sound:
Immanence and listening, Sound Scripts: Proceedings of the Totally Huge New
Music Festival Conference, Volume 2 (Sydney: Australian Music Centre).
2005 OW: Dom Redfern, UN_Magazine No. 4, Kings ARI
2005 Dust my Broom, UN Magazine No. 3, Kings ARI
2004 Unsound: Realtime National Arts Publication No. 64
2003 MAAP in Bejing, Broadsheet Contemporary Arts Review No. 33
2003 ISEA/Nagoya, Realtime No. 53
2003 Sound Education, Realtime No. 50
2003 Can Laptoppers dance?, Realtime No 49
2002 An Orchestra of Speakers, Realtime No 45
2002 Cinesonic, Realtime No 44
2001 Dumb Listening, LIKE Magazine No 15.
REVIEWS
Gail Priest (ed.), Experimental Music, Sydney: University of NSW Press, 2008.
Liza Power, Riding the Wavelength, The Age, 10th October, 2005.
Megan Backhouse, Mixed Media, The Age, 12th October, 2005.
Ted Snell, Art reviews, The Australian, June 2005.
Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic, February 2005.
Joanne Loew, Channel NewsAsia, December 2004.
Walt Miller, Splendid ezine, December 2004.
Virgina Baxter, Realtime, November 2004.
Bob Baker Fish, Cyclic Defrost, October 2004.
Editorial review, Phosphor, October 2004.
Frans de Ward, Vital Weekly, 2004.