CURRICULM VITAE - Svenja Kratz

[email protected] // 0418 771 258 // P.O. Box 487, Mt Ommaney, QLD, 4074

EDUCATION 2007 - Current PhD Candidate (Creative Industries & Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation) Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane 2002-04 Bachelor of Arts Honours (New Media - First Class) Griffith University Gold Coast Campus, Gold Coast 1997 – 2000 Bachelor of Creative Arts (Majors: Contemporary Art and Creative Writing) Griffith University Gold Coast Campus, Gold Coast

EMPLOYMENT 2012 (Upcoming) Catalyst - Fringes The Edge Digital Cultural Centre, Southbank, Brisbane 2009 - 2012 Laboratory Assistant Microbiology and Biochemistry Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, Brisbane 2011 Sessional Staff (Creative Industries - Interdisciplinarity in Practice) Creative Industries Faculty, QUT Research Assistant Biogeoscience/Microbiology QUT, Gardens Point 2000 - 2007 Sessional Staff (Cyberstudies, Digital Writing, Contemporary Art) Griffith University Gold Coast Campus, Gold Coast SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2011 The Absence of Alice and the Bone Gardens The Block, Creative Industries Precinct, QUT 2010 THE ABSENCE OF ALICE and the elasticity of the almost Metro Arts Gallery, Brisbane THE ABSENCE OF ALICE and the things that open their wings and are otherwise not noticeable QACI Gallery, Kelvin Grove 2009 The Absence of Alice: Lines of Flight and Self-Assemblage H Block Gallery, QUT, Brisbane 2008 The Absence of Alice: Alice Ants and the Armyworm Tom Heath Space, QUT Art Museum The Absence of Alice H Block Gallery, QUT, Brisbane 2003 META-Evolution Whitebox Gallery, Gold Coast

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2012 Creatures of the Future Garden Spectrum Project Space, Edith Cowan University, Perth

1 2011 Visceral: The Living Art Experiment SymbioticA 10 Year Anniversary Show Science Museum, Dublin 2010 Broadcast Level ARI, Newstead, Brisbane 2008 Stendahl Syndrome George Petelin Gallery, Southport, Gold Coast Ignite08! The Block Gallery, QUT, Kelvin Grove Campus TinyGold 19 Karen Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast 2007 Not Quite White Flipbook Gallery, West End, Brisbane Albury National Photography Prize Albury Regional Art Gallery, Albury NSW 2006 Art of the Animal Griffith University Art of the Animal Symposium, Sea World Nara Resort, Gold Coast, http://www.eagleandowl.com/exhibit/artofanimal.html Technobiography Field Contemporary Art Space, Newcastle Outvideo - Video Art Festival Touring: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Volgograd, Voronezh, Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Riazan', Samara, Sochi, Ufa, Yaroslavl', Yekaterinburg and Surgut [Russia] 2004 Tronicphosis Wollongong University, Wollongong Queensland Performing Arts Centre Exhibitions Program Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane Fresh Cut Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

SELECTED COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES 2010 MONA FOMA Festival Live video performance as part of Edge of Colour ( Michelle Xen and John Teh) MONA FOMA Festival, Hobart 2007 Where Whispers Walk, Interactive video installation in collaboration with Sarah-Mace Dennis and Archie Moore, InfoZone, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane Di.O.ram.a: Constructing a Virtual Memory Hypermedia literature in collaboration with Sarah-Mace Dennis, Electro-Online, Electrofringe Festival, Newcastle Crash Paper Music for Robots Audio/visual collaboration with Mariam Arcilla and Cristina Smart, Bowerbird 3, Substation, Brisbane 2006 The 34th Alice Art Prize

2 Photomedia in collaboration with Sarah-Mace Dennis, Auraluen Centre for the Arts and Entertainment, Alice Springs 2005 Frames of Reference Photomedia in collaboration with Sarah-Mace Dennis, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst Art in the Park Public art exhibition of works developed for the Secrets of the City: Gumbramorra Swamp Thing! In collaboration with Sarah-Mace Dennis, Graham Chalcroft and workshop participants, Mackey Park, Sydney 2004 Luminus Prime Audio/visual collaboration with Michelle Oxenham and ‘Taki’, The Rev, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane Luminus Prime : Sensitive Automation Audio/visual collaboration with Michelle Oxenham, Straight Out Of Brisbane Festival, Brisbane The Reabsorbtion Method Audio/visual collaboration with Sarah-Mace Dennis and Michelle Oxenham, Quantacrib, Electrofringe Festival 2004, Newcastle To Rose (My Love) Interactive video installation in collaboration with Sarah-Mace Dennis, Whitebox Gallery, Gold Coast

COMMUNITY PROJECTS 2005 Secrets of the City: Gumbramorra Swamp Thing! Public art installation as part of the Marrickville Council Residency Program, Marrickville, Sydney

GRANTS/ PRIZES/AWARDS 2012 QLD New Media Art Scholarship (GOMA) 2011 Arts Queensland Professional Development Grant 2010 Metro Arts Galleries Program ACID Internship 2007 Australian Postgraduate Award 2006 Art of the Animal: Jury Commended Net-art award Griffith University Art of the Animal Symposium, Sea World Nara Resort, Gold Coast Write in Your Face Grant (in collaboration with Sarah-Mace Dennis) from the Literature Board, Australia Council for the Arts. 2003 Griffith University Medal for Academic Excellence Griffith University Award for Academic Excellence Arts Queensland Small Grants recipient (for the group project optiChiasma with Michelle Oxenham and Lucille Korponay) 2000 Creative Arts Medal for Achievement in the Bachelor’s Degree. RESIDENCIES 2011 Kelvin Grove High School: Artist in Residence, Kelvin Grove High School, October 2011 2010 Artist in Residence, SymbioticA, University of Western Australia

3 February - May 2010 2005 Artist in Residence, Marrickville (in collaboration with Sarah-Mace Dennis) February – March 2005. Part of the Marrickville Council Residency Program. 2004 Artist in Residence, Murray’s Cottage, Hill End (in collaboration with Sarah-Mace Dennis). June – July 2004. Part of the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Residency Program.

SELECTED ARTIST TALKS/LECTURES/PANEL PRESENTATIONS 2012 Bioscience: Other Nature Presentation: Ethics in Contemporary Bioart and Science, The Edge Digital Culture Centre, South Bank, Brisbane 2011 Virtual Anatomies Symposium Conference Presentation: Transformative Encounters and Uncanny Intimacies: Cell Culture, Tissue Engineering and Contemporary Art, UQ Science Gallery Artist talk and overview of creative works for Visceral exhibition, Dublin Arts Brunch; Art and Science Debate Art and Science - Symbiotic or Synonymic The Centre, Beaudesert 2010 Metro Arts - Galleries Program Artist talk and overview of creative works produced for the Metro Arts Galleries Program 2010 Art Conference Conference Paper: Body Narratives and Ethics: Biotechnology and Contemporary Art , Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney SymbtioticA Artist talk as part of the SymbioticA residency program 2010, University of Western Australia, Perth Art Gallery of Western Australia Artist talk, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Scitech Centre Artist talk and introduction to Bioart Practice, Scitech Centre, Perth 2009 ANAT SuperHuman: Revolution of the Species Symposium Conference Paper: Translations and Transgressions: Biotechnology, experience, ethics and art, Federation Square, Melbourne Creative Margins Postgraduate Conference Conference Paper: Lines of Flight: Cell Culture, Tissue Therapies and Contemporary Art, Curtin University, Perth University of Newcastle ArtsHealth Symposium #2 Conference Paper: Skin Jewellery: Body Narratives and Ethics, Town Hall, Newcastle IHBI Inspires 2009 Conference Poster Presentation and Sculpture, Holiday Inn, Brisbane 2008 University of Newcastle ArtsHealth Symposium #1 Conference Paper: Becomings: Rhizome Methodologies and the Body in Process in collaboration with Haya Cohen, Town Hall, Newcastle IHBI Inspires 2008 Conference Conference Paper Presentation: Evolutionary Transgressions: Mapping Becoming Through Contemporary Arts Practice, Royal on the Park Hotel, Brisbane 2007 IHBI Inspires 2007 Conference

4 Poster Presentation: Evolutionary Transgressions, Royal on the Park Hotel, Brisbane PixelSquared Conference Conference Paper presented in collaboration with Sarah-Mace Dennis, Mechanics School of Art, Sydney 2006 Isolation, Disconnection, Solitude and Seclusion in a Connected World Conference Conference Paper: Into the Interfold: History, Representation and the Reconstruction of Time in collaboration with Sarah-Mace Dennis, University of Tasmania, Hobart TINA (This is Not Art) Critical Animals – Beyond Ones and Zeros Panel presentation in collaboration with Sarah-Mace Dennis, Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle Electrofringe Festival Di.O.ram.a: Constructing a Virtual Memory, artist talk in collaboration with Sarah-Mace Dennis, TAFE Gallery, Newcastle 2005 Secrets of the City: Gumbramorra Swamp Thing! Artist Talk with Sarah-Mace Dennis, Addison Centre, Marrickville, Sydney 2004 AIAE (Australian Institute of Art Educators) Conference To Rose (My Love), Conference Paper in collaboration with Sarah-Mace Dennis, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus Electrofringe Festival Re-mediating Spaces -To Rose (My Love) Panel presentation in collaboration with Sarah Dennis, Project Lab, Electrofringe Festival, Newcastle Guided by Voices Artist talk and ‘Guided by Voices’ project overview (in collaboration with Sarah-Mace Dennis) Bathurst Institute of Tafe

PUBLICATIONS (Peer-Reviewed) 2012 Transformative Encounters and Uncanny Intimacies: Biotechnology and Contemporary Art – A Practitioner’s Approach and Perspective Somatechnics Journal, Volume 2, No 2, 2012 2010 Transformative Transgressions: Biotechnology, Personal Experience, Ethics and Art Second Nature, International Journal of Creative Media, Volume 2, No 1, 2010 2009 Becomings: Rhizome methadologies and the body-in-process, Haya Cohen and Svenja Kratz, Australasian Journal of Artshealth, Volume 1, 2009

WORKSHOPS FACILITATED 2012 DNA Isolation Workshop The Edge, Brisbane Cultural Precinct, Brisbane 2011 DNA Isolation Workshop - Year 9 and 10 Kelvin Grove High School, Kelvin Grove Bioart Workshop 2011 - Postgraduate Institute of Art and Technology and Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna 2009 & 2010 Creative Science Workshops - Year 9 and 10 Kenmore High School, Kenmore, Brisbane 2005 Secrets of the City: Gumbramorra Swamp Thing! - Community Workshops Community Workshops as part of the Marrickville Residency Program

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