Curriculum Vitæ

Alex Gibson

b. 1978
Albury, NSW

EDUCATION

2008 Master of Fine Art (Research), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2006 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2001 Diploma of Visual Arts, Box Hill Intitute of TAFE

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 'Anémic Cinèma Rótatòr', Blender Projekt, curator: Alex Gibson
2009 'Frankston Blogs', White Street Project, Frankston, curator: Mark Themann
2008 'We Are What We Want', Loop Project Space, Melbourne, curator Alex Gibson
2007 'Hyperspace', Counterpoint ARI (formerly MIR 11), Melbourne, curator Kirsten Rann

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 'Hoist', Federation Square, Melbourne, Not Yet It's Difficult, curator: David Pledger
2010 'A Tradigital Survey', Level 17 Artspace, curators: Kirsten Rann & Gina Kalabishis
2010 'Heterodoxia', 1000 £ Bend, Next Wave Festival, curator: Michael Meneghetti
2010 'The Drawing Machine', Melbourne Affordable Art Fair, Michael Koro Gallery, curators: Adrian Doyle & Joel Gailer
2010 'Heterodoxia', Kyabram Rodeo, curator: Michael Meneghetti 
2009 'Electundra Festival', Loop Project Space and Melbourne Propaganda Window, curator: Michael Meneghetti
2009 'Langscapes', Conical inc., curator: Kirsten Rann
2008 'The Meaning of Moorabbin', Melb. Int. Arts Festival, Moorabbin, Not Yet It's Difficult
2008 'Serial Blogger', Next Wave Festival, Meat Market, Nth. Melb., X:MACHINE
2008 'Resist, Collaborate, Destroy', Melbourne Propaganda Window, Melbourne, curator: Michael Meneghetti
2007 'Senseless', Fringe Festival, Fortyfive Downstairs, Melb., X:MACHINE
2007 'Apropos: Human Rights in Art', Bus ARI, Melb. curator Romy Sedman
2007 'We Are The Web', Seventh ARI, Fitzroy, curator Alex Gibson
2007 'Geek Chic 2.0', Loop Project Space, Melb. curator: Alex Gibson
2007 'Geek Chic', Loop Project Space, Melb. curator: Alex Gibson
2006 'Fresh', Craft Victoria, Melb. curator Kate Rhodes
2005 'Gaikokujin Experimenta', Tokyo International Big Site, Design Festa, Tokyo
2004 'The Pathetic Head', VCA Graduate Exhibition, The Black Hole, curator: Bernhard Sachs
2003 'Common Vernacular Workshop', Conical Inc., curators: Masato Takasaka & Katherine Huang 

PROFESSIONAL

2010 Tutor, Drawing Department, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2010 Artist, Arts Victoria, Bendigo South East Secondary College
2010 Research Assistant, 'Genealogies of Digital Light', University of Melbourne
2010 Lecturer, 'Technology and Creativity in the Arts', Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne
2009 Research Assistant, 'Re:live: Media Art History', Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2008 Research Assistant, 'Museum Management and Curatorship Literature Review', Swinburne University
2007 Lecturer, 'Internet Meets Society', Information Systems, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne
2007-2009 Subject Coordinator, 'Collaboration Contract', Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2006 Tutor, 'Collaboration Contract', Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne

AWARDS

2011 Residency at Red Gate Studios, Beijing, China
2010 Residency at Blender Studios, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Arts Victoria: Artists in Schools, Residency at Bendigo South East Secondary College 
2008 Australian Post Graduate Award
2007 Nominated for a Green Room Award in Outstanding Video Scenography – New Form
2006 Shortlisted for an Experimenta New Visions Commission
2006 Orloff Family Trust Award for Technical excellence
2006 LWL Award for an Oustanding Performance
2005 Shortlisted for the Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Prize

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Brendan Shanahan, 'Beijing Calling', The Australian Newspaper, Review, 2011, p.5
Jane Button, 'Review: A Tradigital Survey', Artlink, Vol.30, No.3, 2010, p.96
Kirsten Rann, 'A Tradigital Survey', Level 17 Artspace exhibition catalogue, 2010
Kirsten Rann, 'Langscapes', Conical Exhibition Catalogue, 2009
Kate Furlonger, 'Serial Blogger', Text Camp Reader: Serial Blogger, Next Wave Festival, 2008, p.6 
Jeff Khan, 'Big, Intimate and Fearless', Realtime, Issue 84, 2008, p.8, 
Daniel Ziffer, 'Melbourne's next wave of artists set to crash through', The Age (newspaper), 2008, p.28
Edward Colless, 'Bricoleurs and bluetooth', Artlink, Vol.27 No.3, 2007, p.69
Rachael Watts, 'Geek Chic: a digital ontology', Un Magazine, Issue 2.1, 2007, p.67
Liz Gooch, 'Starts in their Eyes', The Age (newspaper), 2004, p.9