Staff Profiles

Research

John Gillies is an artist who works in interdisciplinary forms including moving image, performance, photomedia, installation, and music. The retrospective exhibition John Gillies: Videowork 1982 - 2001, toured Australia 2004-2006. His work has been shown at the Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art, Reina Sophia, National Museum of Korea, Tramway (Glasgow), ACMI (Melbourne), MCA (Sydney) and in the London, Sydney and Melbourne film festivals. He is a former recipient of a Creative Fellowship from the Australia Council an ARC Linkage Grant and was a long term board member of the Performance Space, Sydney.

His video work is held in public collections including the National Gallery of Australia; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane and the Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan.

Collaboration with performers has been central to his video work. Those collaborators have included the Sydney Front, Clare Grant and Tess de Quincey.

As a musician he has recorded and or played with Jon Rose, Great White Noise, Kev Carmody, Stephen Vitiello, Chris Abrahams, Sheriff Lindo, Radical Son and composed scores for performance works by De Quincey & Co and Open City.

He has also curated of a number of video art programs in Australia, Spain and Brazil.

http://www.acmi.net.au/2006/artists/acmi/johngilles.html

http://johngillies.com/

Teaching

John Gillies teaches in and co-ordinates the Time Based Art major of the BFA, BFA/BA and Mart. At COFA he has also taught courses in Performance, Sound Studio, Sound/Performance/Installation, Video Art, History of Video Art and History of Post WWII Cinema. He has also taught for the University of Sydney; University of Newcastle; University of Technology, Sydney and the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Research Supervision (selected completions)

Conversations and Transformations: The Poetics and Politics of Engagement, David MacKenzie MFA 2010

Rendering the Real: Towards a Musical Landscape, Scott Morrison MFA 2010

The Parlyamente of Sprytes: A study of the fantastic and cinema’s relationship
to the real, Simon Trevaks MFA 2009

The Pathology of the Camera: Tracing the path from collaboration to cooperation between camera and performer, Denis Beaubois MFA 2009

Extending beyond technique: an exploration of resonance, mimicry and improvisation on the Harp, Clare M. Cooper MFA 2008

Zero Return: directions in sound and image, Nathan Thompson MFA 2007

Surface and Projection, Louise Curham MFA 2006

After the Skin, Mahmoud Yekta MFA 2005

Composite Perceptions and Reflections: a migrant artist negotiates non-indigenous belonging in Australia, Michael Schiavello MFA 2004

Experimental interfaces: physical placement and participation of the spectator in interactive installation environments, Mari Velonaki  PhD 2003

Our Park: a case study in reflexive documentary, Gillian Leahy MFA 2000

Current Research Supervision

Citing Home: Imaging, Mnemonics and Spaces of Identity, Marina Batanic PhD

Navigating Viewers: Montage, Space and Meta-art in New Media Video Installation, Atanas Djonov PhD

The Sound of the Sun: Soundscapes and Intermediality in Texts of Heiner Müller, Eva Müller Phd

Natural History: Video, Performance and Site, Angelica Mesiti MFA

Identity and Self-Representation explored through the medium of fictional documentary,  Ludwig El Haddad MFA

Real/Ideal: Utopian Narratives in Contemporary Culture, Josephine Skinner MFA

Transforming Vision: A Cultural Response to Contemporary Physics: Caspar Fairhall MFA