In repertoire: a guide to Australian new media art

A vital introduction to new media art practice in Australia. Illustrated throughout with examples of work, In repertoire contains essays on the development of digital art and hybrid art practice in Australia, and the funding, exhibition and educational resources that support practice.

The term 'new media art' (sometimes called 'electronic' or 'digital art') includes work that is often, though not always, screen-based and is experienced via computer, on CD-ROM or online, in galleries on screens and in installations, and is increasingly interactive. Hybrid art (sometimes called multi-platform) combines artforms, most prominently in installation and in performance.

Australian new media art is realising the creative potential of digital technologies and bringing together traditionally discrete artforms in new permutations. Its ongoing 'new-ness' comes from a sense of adventure, of unfolding possibilities for artist and audience.

The following examples of new media work are readily available for international touring, exhibition and collaboration:

• Arena Theatre Company : Play dirty
• Robyn Backen : The building that speaks
• Ros Bandt : Stack
• Cazerine Barry : SPRUNG
• Peter Callas : Vinculum
• David Chesworth and Sonia Leber : 5000 calls
• Chunky Move : Closer
• Company in Space : The light room
• Justine Cooper : Transformers
• Daniel Crooks : Time slice
• Dennis Del Favero : Pentimento
• Nigel Helyer : Seed
• Joyce Hinterding :The plasma wave instrument: carrier
• Iain Mott and Marc Raszewski : Summoned voices
• rea : gins_leap/dubb_speak
• Jon Rose : Great Fences of Australia
• Jeffrey Shaw : The golden calf
• Amanda Stewart : IT .'. I
• Rachael Swain : proXy
• Christian Bumbarra Thompson : Emotional striptease
• Craig Walsh : Urban tide

In addition to the above artists, the Inter-Arts Board supports leading Australian new media artists through its Fellowship category. You can learn about the work of these artists on the Board's New Media Arts Fellows Online page. The work described in Fellows Online spans a wide range of arts practices, from the combination of conventional arts forms to explore new modes of artistic expression, through to the application of new technologies in the creation of art.

The following artists have received a New Media Arts Fellowship: Ross Gibson, Jon McCormack, Josephine Starrs, Linda Dement, John Gillies, Stephen Jones, Sally Pryor, Francesca da Rimini, John Tonkin, John Conomos, Paul Brown, Patricia Piccinini, Sherre DeLys, Derek Kreckler, Arthur Wicks, Horst Kiechle, Rainer Linz, Deborah Pollard, Michael Buckley, Ian Haig, Deborah Petrovitch, Teresa Crea, Andrish Saint-Clare, Lynette Wallworth.