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Dr onacloV

Title: Dr
Name: onacloV
Position: Lecturer in Electronic Art
Location: Room 280, Wilkinson Building (G04), 148 City Road, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006
Phone: +61 2 9351 4031
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Website: www.onaclov.com.au

onacloV’s research explores technology within the context of installation in museum, gallery and architectural space. onacloV’s interests in supervising include practice-based research and research, in the following research areas: Electronic Art, Design, Interactive Installation Art, Environmental Art, Art and Science, Interaction Design, Art and Technology, Gestural Interaction, Video Art, Sensor-based Art and Visual Culture.

onacloV did a practice-based PhD in New Media from the University of Canberra. Her other degrees include a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) with Honours from the Australian National University and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France and a Post Graduate Diploma in Video Art & Contemporary Theory and Philosophy from the École des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, France.

onacloV is leading a research project entitled InterANTARCTICA: www.interantarctica.com InterANTARCTICA is a permanent interactive museum installation. This research pursues climate change in an interactive context, thus reinventing museum installation art in an experiential multi-modal context (sight, sound, touch). The aim of this research project is to produce and evaluate a cross-media platform suited to gestural
interactions.

Her artworks have been exhibited extensively, nationally in Australia and internationally in France and the USA. onacloV has directed and produced a number of documentaries which have been aired on television and displayed in multiple-channel video installation environments in art galleries and museums.

Publications:

Articles in Refereed Journals / Conference Proceedings

Wall, C., & Wang, X., InterANTARCTICA: Tangible User Interface for Museum Based Interaction, The International Journal of Virtual Reality, 2009, 8(1): 17-26, 2009

Wall, C & Wang X., InterANTARCTICA: Tangible User Interface for Museum Based Interaction, 4th International Conference of Digital Media and its Application in Museum and Heritage, Shandong University of Science and Technology, peer-reviewed published conference proceedings, Qingdao, China, 2009

Wall, C. InterANTARCTICA: Augmented Reality Installation Art, VRIC09 11e Recontres Internationales de la Réalité Virtuelle, Ècole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers Laboratoire Presence & Innovation, peer-reviewed published conference proceedings, Laval, France, 2009

Wall, C. Interactive Antarcticia, 7th Annual International Conference on Arts and Humanities, published peer-reviewed published conference proceedings, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2009

Wall, C. & Wang X., Interactive Antarcticia: A Museum Installation based on an Augmented Reality System, Third International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment, published peer-reviewed conference proceedings, Athens Information Technonlogy (AIT) Centre for Excellence for Research, Athens, Greece, 2008

Wall, C. Hijacking Documentary into Installation Art, Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, Hyperrhiz is the new media/ interactive media section of Rhizomes, an academic journal specialising in nontraditional and experimental theoretical scholarship, Vancouver, Canada, Issue 3, Summer, 2007
www.hyperrhiz.net/issue03/onaclov/essay.html

Wall, C Islamic Intertext, Video Installation, Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, Vancouver, Canada, Issue 3, Summer, 2007 www.hyperrhiz.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=97&Itemid=59

Wall, C. Hijacking the UnAustralian: Islamic Intertext, Continuum: The Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Vol. 21, No. 4, p. 517-519, December, 2007

Wall, C. & Riddell, A. The Artist and the Audience in an Experimental Augmented Reality Performance, (re) Actor: The Second International Conference on Digital Live Art, Leeds Metropolitan University and Leeds University, England, published peer-viewed conference proceedings, 2007

Wall, C & Riddell, A. Engaging the Audience in Augmented Reality Performance, Second International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment, published peer-reviewed conference proceedings, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, 2007

Personal Exhibitions

  • Islamic Intertext, Video Installation, ANCA (Australian National Capital Artists) gallery, Canberra, Australia, 2007
  • Islamic Intertext, Video Installation, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Australia, 2006
  • Killing Snow Women, Video Installation, Commencement Art Gallery, Tacoma, Washington State, United States of America, 2001
  • The Fluid Gene, Electric Shadows, Canberra, Australia, 2000
  • The Fluid Gene, Video Installation, École Supérieure de Beaux-Arts Gallery, Marseille, France, 1999
  • L’intérieur du site, Photographic and Sculptural Installation, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia, 1997
  • Externalising the Internal, Sculptural Installation, Canberra Institute of the Arts Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1996
  • Microcosms, Photo-Space, Painting and Photographic works, Canberra Institute of the Arts, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1995

Group Exhibitions

  • InterANTARCTICA, Beginning Middle End Exhibition, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, 2009
  • InterANTARCTICA, Tin Sheds Gallery, The University of Sydney, Australia, 2009
  • Hijacking the UnAustralian, Annual Australasian Cultural Studies Conference, UnAustralia National Museum of Australia, Garden of Australian Dreams, Canberra, Australia, 2006
  • Islamic Intertext, Documentary Video Installation, M16 Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia, 2006
  • The Consumers (Eat the Audience), Liquid Architecture 6 – Sound Arts Festival, New Media Performance Artwork, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia, 2005
  • Killing Snow Women, Installation, New Media Artists, Axiom Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2002
  • Return to the White Palace, Graduating exhibition, Canberra Institute of the Arts, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1996.
  • Portes Ouvertes, (Quin, is the title singular or plural?) open door exhibition of international student artworks, Ecole National Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, 1995
  • Portes Ouvertes, open door exhibition of international student artworks, Ecole National Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, 1994.
  • Cells, Photo-Space, Installation and photographic artworks, Canberra Institute of the Arts, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1993

Reviews and Interviews about her Artwork

  • Treadgold, J Look into the Muslim mind, Review for exhibition Islamic Intertext, The Canberra Times, Panorama The Arts Section, September 2, 2006, p.22

    Treadgold, J Islamic Intertext, Review for exhibition, BMA Magazine, Reviews, September 7th, 2006, p.33
  • Stark, S and Wall, C. 2XX radio interview, discussing doctoral research, Canberra, Aug 28th, 9.30am, 2006
  • Internet, www.liquidarchtecture.com.au, see: Onaclov, Biography for the Liquid Architecture Sound Art Festival 6 for the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, 2005.
  • Artonview, Liquid Architecture, National Gallery of Australia, 2005, p. 55.
  • Internet, www.anu.au/ITA/CSA/Telstra,
    2002, Awarded travelling scholarship to study L’École National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
  • Gunter, L. Killing Snow Woman Tacoma Reporter, Review for exhibition, Commencement Art Gallery, Video Art Installation, May/June Edition, Tacoma,
    Washington State, United States of America, June, 23rd, 2000.
  • Gane, S. A Scientific approach to artistic creativity, Canberra Times, April 7th, 1997, p.11
  • Australian National University Maps and Modernism, Exhibition Catalogue, Canberra Institute of the Arts, Canberra, Australia, 1996.
  • Australian National University Return to the White Palace, Exhibition Catalogue, Canberra Institute of the Arts, Canberra, Australia, 1996.
  • Turnick, S. Interview, Video documentary and photographic stills, self-portrait series, École National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, 1994.

Public Presentations and Conferences

  • Wall, C. Interactive Antarcticia: A Museum Installation based on an Augmented Reality System, Third International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment, published peer-reviewed conference proceedings, Athens Information Technonlogy (AIT) Centre for Excellence for Research, Athens, Greece, 2008
  • Islamic Intertext, presentation, Key Centre for Design and Cognition, University of Sydney, 2008
  • Wall, C. & Riddell, A. The Artist and the Audience in an Experimental Augmented Reality Performance, (re) Actor: The Second International Conference on Digital Live Art, Leeds Metropolitan University and Leeds University, England, published peer-viewed conference proceedings, 2007
  • Not Another Hijab Row, paper presented, presentation of video for creative
    component of PhD in Communications New Media, University of Technology
    Sydney, 2006
  • UnAustralia, refereed paper presented, presentation of video for creative
    component of PhD in Communications New Media, Australasian Annual Cultural
    Studies Conference, University of Canberra, 2006
  • Transformation of documentary into art: installation and performance art,
    Cultural Studies Seminar, paper and screening of PhD installation creative
    component, University of Canberra, 2006
  • CRTL conference, paper presented for the Racially Marked Bodies Section, presentation of video for creative component of PhD in Communications New Media, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2004
  • Cultural Studies Seminar, paper and screening of PhD work in Creative Communications, University of Canberra, 2004
  • Witnessing to Silence: Art and Human Rights, A Humanities Centre Research Project, The Australian National University, 2003
  • Cultural Studies Seminar, paper and video presented for my post-doctoral studies in Creative Communications, New Media, University of Canberra, This paper was assessed and enabled continuation of research, 2003

Awards

  • Excellence in Teaching and Community Award” from the Co-Op Bookshop and the University of Sydney for her Unit: Digital Video Design and Production (DVDP), 2008
  • The Fluid Gene, Best Contemporary Art Film, Ronin Films, Electric Shadows Cinema, Canberra, Australia, 2000.

Commissions

  • Masterworks in Glass, Commission to create a 30 min television documentary for Dale Chihuly Inc., Seattle, USA and the Australian National Gallery, 1999.
  • Design for Logo, Bossa Nova, Film Publicity Company, Paris, France, 1997

Scholarships Awarded

  • Australian Postgraduate Award (Awarded PhD place and full scholarship) 2003-2006
  • Ian Potter Foundation Travelling Scholarship (to study at the Beaux-Arts in Marseille, France) 1999
  • Fondi and Telstra Travelling Scholarship (to study at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, France) 1993-1994