Staff Profiles

Areas of Expertise

New Media Arts and Theory; Media Arts and Theory; Network Cultures, Theory and Arts; Contemporary Visual Culture, Contemporary Science and Art collaborations; Baroque Visual Culture; Baroque Science and Arts.

Teaching Areas

Screen Culture, Digital Theory and Aesthetics, Art, Technology New Media, Netcultures, Web Authoring.

Current Research Activity

Anna Munster's current research focuses on developments in theory and art in a 'post-digital' culture. We can now take it for granted that computing is ubiquitous and that most contemporary artists use aspects of computer technologies in their work processes. Hence we are not dealing so much with digital or computer-based art per se but with artists more generally working with and confronting information culture. Anna concentrates on two strands developing in this environment: artists working with biotechnologies and bioinformatics and artists using wireless, mobile and distributed technologies.

Publications

Books

Munster, A. , 2006 , Materializing New Media: Embodiment and Information Aesthetics , Hanover, NH , University Press of New England .

Book Chapters

Munster, A. (2004). Digitality - approximate aesthetics. The Ctheory Reader. ( - ). Canada, New World Perspectives/Ctheory Books.

Munster, A. (2002). Returns of the Diminishing Body, Future Bodies. Visualisierung von Körper in Science und Fiction. ( - ). Wien, New York, Springer Verlag.

Published Articles

Munster, A. (2003). This Fanciful and Colourful Image: The Image of New Media within the Contemporary Art-Science Nexus. Culture Machine, (5). ( - ).

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2005, Wundernet. Online Project, Online.

Projects

Distributed aesthetics: investigating frameworks for art practice and art theory in networked culture  (2006 (current project))
A symposium organised in collaboration with Professor Geert Lovink, Institute for Network Cultures, Hogeschool van Amsterdam in Berlin

Grants

Australian Film Commission, Interactive Programs Grant, wundernet. (2000-2004),

Australian Research Council, Discovery Project, The body-computer interface in new media art from 1984 to the present. (2003-2005),

Professional Associations

Fibreculture
Facilitator for online discussion list 'fibreculture' on Australian Internet policy, theory, arts and education. Also member of editorial committee 'fibreculture journal'

NSW Australian and New Zealand Art Association
Conference organisation for 2003 and 2005

Culture Machine, online journal for contemporary culture and theory
Editorial Board

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