About

Josh Wodak is an Australia-based artist and researcher.

This website outlines his art and research projects made since 2000. Projects have been in painting, sculpture, photography, narrative filmmaking, music composition+performance, interactive installations and fiction+non-fiction writing. These projects have been presented as performances, screenings, installations and exhibitions in art galleries, museums, theatres, performative spaces, cinemas, festivals and on-line. Each project is listed in reverse chronological order on the left, and by medium in the categories above.

Earlier projects were adjunct to a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Anthropology from the University of Sydney (1998-2002), followed by a suite of artworks created as part of a Doctor of Philosophy in Media Arts at the Australian National University (2004-2010).

His PhD research and practice concerned environmental responsibility in Responsive Environments, Interactive Art and Artificial-life Art, under the framework of the Sciences of Complexity and the 5e's: error, evolution, ecosystemics, emergence and ethics.

Projects in this pursuit have explored relationships between art, science and technology, involving large-scale long-term interdisciplinary collaborations with fellow intermedia artists, designers, social scientists, computer scientists, engineers and technologists. Projects at the other end of the medium+collaboration spectrum have been produced with pen, paper, stills camera, boots and backpack out in the wilderness. In between are various hybrids between analogue+digital art; art+research and solo+collaborative practice.

Current activities are focused on photography, through a series of Artist Residencies in Sydney, Canberra and Grafton and exhibitions in Sydney, Canberra and Perth in 2011-2012.

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Current

– May 17 - Jun 29 2012 | Solo photography exhibition
Sense of Surroundings | Cervantes Institute | Sydney @ Head On Photo Festival
– May 22 - Jun 01 2012 | Solo photography exhibition
Turaluralu Tuvalu | School of Art Foyer Gallery, ANU | Canberra
– Visiting Fellow, Digital Humanities Hub,
Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University, 2012

Upcoming

– Aug 15 - Aug 26 2012 | Solo photography exhibition
when i was a buoyant | Chrissie Cotter Gallery | Sydney
– Artist in Residence, Marrickville Council, Sydney, 2012
– Artist in Residence, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, 2012
– Research Residency, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, 2012

Recent

– May 03 - May 20 2012 | Group photography exhibition
Access all Areas |PhotoAccess Gallery | Canberra
– Mar 03 - Apr 22 2012 | Group photography exhibition
Muswellbrook Photographic Award | Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre | Muswellbrook
– Mar 14 - Apr 15 2012 | Solo photography exhibition
the idea of [(n)t+f(n)(q)] | Midland Atelier | Perth @ FotoFreo Photography Biennale
– Mar 15 - Apr 01 2012 | Solo photography exhibition
Sense of Surroundings | PhotoAccess Gallery | Canberra
– Feb 21 - Mar 02 2012 | Solo photography exhibition
the idea of [(n)t+f(n)(q)] | School of Art Foyer Gallery, ANU | Canberra
– Artist in Residence, Department of Photography and Media Arts,
Australian National University School of Art, 2011
– Artist in Residence, PhotoAccess Gallery, 2011
– Visiting Fellow, Centre for European Studies,
Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University, 2011

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