Jill Bennett is Professor of Experimental Arts and founding Director of NIEA, and formerly Associate Dean Research, UNSW Art & Design, 2006–2016. A writer and curator, she has published widely on visual culture, new media and transdisciplinary aesthetics.
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Anna Munster has been at UNSW Art and Design since 2001 on a full-time tenured basis. She is an active researcher with two sole published books: An Aesthesia of Networks (MIT Press, 2013), and Materializing New Media (Dartmouth College Press 2006).
Associate Professor John McGhee is Deputy Director of NIEA and Director of the 3D Visualisation Aesthetics Lab. A practicing 3D CGI artist, researcher and senior lecturer, McGhee has background in design and 3D computer arts research. His visual practice explores arts-led modes of visualising c
NIEA Research Leaders
Jill Bennett is Professor of Experimental Arts and founding Director of NIEA, and formerly Associate Dean Research, UNSW Art & Design, 2006–2016. A writer and curator, she has published widely on visual culture, new media and transdisciplinary aesthetics.
As an internationally exhibiting artist and architect, Richard Goodwin has sustained a prolific, award-winning practice for over thirty years.
Anna Munster has been at UNSW Art and Design since 2001 on a full-time tenured basis. She is an active researcher with two sole published books: An Aesthesia of Networks (MIT Press, 2013), and Materializing New Media (Dartmouth College Press 2006).
Professor Mari Velonaki is Director of the Creative Robotics Lab and is lead chief investigator in an ARC LIEF Grant which has led to the development of the multi-institutional National Facility for Human Robot Interaction, in partnership with CSE UNSW, School of Psychology, UNSW, ACFR, USyd, Cen
Professor Jennifer L. Biddle is Director of Visual Anthropology & Visual Culture Lab and Senior Research Fellow in the National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA), UNSW Art & Design.
Associate Professor John McGhee is Deputy Director of NIEA and Director of the 3D Visualisation Aesthetics Lab. A practicing 3D CGI artist, researcher and senior lecturer, McGhee has background in design and 3D computer arts research. His visual practice explores arts-led modes of visualising c
NIEA Researchers
Professor Sarah Kenderdine researches at the forefront of interactive and immersive experiences for museums and galleries. She is considered a pioneer in the field digital heritage, digital humanities and big data visualisation and is a regular keynote speaker at related forums internationally.
Dr. Julie Louise Bacon is an artist, curator and writer. Her research focuses on contemporary shifts in the way that time is experienced and understood as the relationship between cultures and technologies changes, and scientific theories about matter and worlds evolve.
Dr Michele Barker works in the field of new media arts, exhibiting extensively both in Australia and overseas. Barker has contributed to the field of new media arts extensively via her engagement as a research-oriented practitioner.
Brenda L Croft is from the Gurindji/Malngin/Mudpurra peoples in the Northern Territory on her paternal side, and Anglo-Australian/German/Irish heritage on her maternal side. She has been involved in the arts and cultural sectors for three decades as an artist, arts administrator, curator, academic and consultant.
Dr Uros Cvoro is a senior lecturer at the College of Fine Arts, and is a researcher at Contemporary Culture, Art & Politics (CCAP).
Dr Alex Davies is an artist and researcher whose practice spans a diverse range of media and experiments with interaction, technology, perception, mixed reality and illusion.
Bec Dean is a curator, writer, educator and consultant with a background in photomedia and performance art. She has recently completed a PhD at the University of New South Wales, Art and Design, Australia.
Kate Dunn is a practicing artist and designer with a strong international research background.Her research investigates sustainable material innovation, robotics and digital fabrication in the fields of data visualisation and art and design.
Dr Felicity Fenner is the Director of UNSW Galleries. She is a renowned curator of contemporary art, having curated over 30 exhibitions of Australian and international art.
Specialising in spatial design and design history and theory, focussing on restorative and therapeutic environments in health care and urban settings.
Dr Petra Gemeinboeck's installation practice explores the materiality of the digital, its embodiment, agency and performativity. She is interested in the audiences’ aesthetic experience as they become bodily involved, or even implicated.
Allan Giddy is one of Australia’s foremost proponents of sustainable energy systems, electronic interconnectivity and the interactivity of physical art objects.
Lydia Gitau is a Postdoctoral Fellow (Psychosocial Practice) in the fEEL Lab - feltExperience & Empathy Lab based at the UNSW School of Art and Design.
Dr Tim Gregory is a theorist and artist. His research focus is on the spatio-political potentiality of pornography. Gregory's practice revolves around the movement of the invisible to the visible and the homogenizing effect that the “consensus” has on our daily experience.
Dr Lily Hibberd is a DECRA ARC Research Fellow in the National Institute of Experimental Arts. An interdisciplinary artist, writer and curator, her research centres on marginalised people and communities and the restoration of their histories through new forms of memory.
Working in the kitchen, Lindsay Kelley's art practice and scholarship explore how the experience of eating changes when technologies are being eaten.
Caleb Kelly is an academic, event director and curator working in the area of the sound arts. He is the Program Director of the Bachelor of Art Theory and in 2015 he will be the Edgard Varèse Guest Professor at the TU Berlin.
Gail Kenning is an Interdisciplinary Research Fellow, Ageing Futures Institute and with fEEL - feltExperience & Empathy Lab based at the UNSW School of Art & Design.
Dr Elena Knox is a performance, video and installation artist, and a scholar in the FTS (feminist technoscience studies) field. She is engaged in challenging the encoded performativity of gendered technologies, and their related epistemologies and aesthetic logics.
Volker Kuchelmeister is a media artist, researcher and digital media specialist. He is expert in place representation and has worked extensively with cinematography, interactive systems, immersive visualisation and mediation in the performing arts while exploring and exploding the boundaries of the cinematic image. He was a founding member of several media-based research labs (ZKM Karlsruhe, UNSW iCinema Centre) and his art projects are exhibited internationally.
Dr Chrisoula Lionis is a Sydney based researcher and curator.
Dr Astrid Lorange is the author of several poetry collections, including Eating and Speaking, Minor Dogs, one that made it alike and FOOD TURNS INTO BLOOD.
Dr. Katherine Moline explores the cross-overs between avant-gardism in visual art and contemporary experimental design.
Veronica Tello is a Chilean-Australian writer. Her research broadly focuses on biopolitics and critical border studies. She enagages discourses of decolonisation to examine the potentiality of subaltern knowledge and 'border thinking' as made manifest via collaborative projects between contemporary artists, refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, and stateless people.
Associate Professor Paul Thomas has been working in the area of electronic arts since 1981, when he co-founded the group Media-Space—part of the first global link-up with artists connected to ARTEX.
Dr Josh Wodak is a transdisciplinary researcher and artist whose work transforms climate science into visceral and embodied experiences of climate change, by metaphorically mapping audiovisual representations of change onto human and non-human landscapes.
Dr Andrew Yip researches the applications for interactive digital environments and emerging new media technologies in the gallery and museum sector.
Affiliates/Adjuncts
Dr. Susan (Su) Ballard is an art historian and curator from New Zealand. Her research examines materiality and machines in contemporary art and the art gallery.
Associate Professsor Fay (Fae) Brauer's research and publications explore the cultural politics and national rivalry inherent in showcasing and acquiring art, as well as interactions in art, science and medicine through visual cultures of the human and animal body.
Associate Professor Bonita Ely is a founding member of the Environmental Research Institute of Art (ERIA) at UNSW, funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage grant.
Louise Fowler-Smith, director of the Imaging the Land International Research Initiative (ILIRI, COFA, UNSW), is interested in promoting new ways of perceiving the land in the 21st century. She believes that how we contemplate the land affects how we treat it.
Dr Gillian Fuller is a digital media specialist whose research focuses on the impact of digital cultures on the interaction and aesthetics of bodies, matter and data in space. She also has a background in information and communication design in cultural institutions.
Dr Katve-Kaisa Kontturi is an art theorist and curator, with a focus on the relational materialities of art and the body.
Ian McArthur is a hybrid practitioner working in the domains of experimental and speculative multidisciplinary practice, transcultural collaboration, metadesign and education change.
Brad Miller is an artist and academic at the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts; he lives and works in Sydney.
Associate Professor Andrew Murphie’s research examines the productive nature of differential intensity across a range of fields and practices in media, science and technology, the arts and philosophy.
Dr David Silvera-Tawil is an Early Career Researcher with a strong record in the fields of tactile sensing and human-robot interaction (HRI).
Associate Professor Liz Williamson is an internationally respected textile artist and her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Mary Zournazi is an Australian writer and philosopher. She teaches in the sociology program at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
General Staff
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Alison Groves is a Research Assistant with NIEA specialising in research writing, grants, and events. She has assisted on many NIEA projects including the Arts & Health conference, Curating Cities, Veloscape, Signs of Life, and Amnesia Lab.
Jeong Greaves is a research assistant at NIEA. She completed a Bachelor of Art Theory with Distinction at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW.
Anna McMahon is a research assistant with NIEA, and an artist and curator. She is a 2015/2016 Co-Director at Firstdraft Gallery Sydney, and a resident artist at Parramatta Artist Studios in 2016.
Katherine Yeh is the Research Support Officer in the office of COFA's ADR and NIEA. She manages and provides research support for competitive research grant applications, oversees research project finances for both research leaders and postgraduate researchers.