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 and exhibitions taking place in 2011-2012.

Recent

– Visiting Fellow, Centre for European Studies, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University, Canberra
– Artist in Residence, Department of Photography and Media Arts, Australian National University School of Art
– Artist in Residence, PhotoAccess Gallery, Canberra

Upcoming

– Turaluralu Tuvalu: Solo photography exhibition at Australian National University School of Art Foyer Gallery, Canberra, February 20 - March 3 2012.
– Sense of Surroundings: Solo photography exhibition at PhotoAccess gallery, Canberra, March 15 - April 1 2012 and Cervantes Institute, Sydney, May 17 – June 30 2012.
– Visiting Fellow, Digital Humanities Hub, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University, Canberra