about me
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find me here
http://www.suballard.net.nz
I’m Su Ballard, Principal Lecturer in Electronic Arts and Section Manager of Electronic Arts and Photography at the Dunedin School of Art at Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand.
I am particularly interested in issues of systems aesthetics, noise, the contestations of modernity, the histories of disciplinarity, and the cultural politics of location in the age of digitality. My current research extends these interests to an analysis of art’s contribution to, and critique of utopia, the ongoing construction of the antipodes as an elsewhere space, and the encounter between new media, sound and image in the art gallery.
I currently teach digital media and aesthetics; installation and projection; art historical studies in vision and technology; and studio research methods.
http://www.otagopolytechnic.ac.nz/?id=312
I use delicious for networked research and teaching:
My PhD, Out of Order: Explorations in Digital Materiality, used a discussion of noise drawn from experimental art, music and early information theory to examine materialist tendencies in digital art installation by New Zealand and Australian artists working in international contexts. A full abstract and pdf can be found here:
http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/unsworks:2527
My book The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, co-edited with Stella Brennan was published in July 2008. You can order a copy here:
I’m a founding trustee of the Aoteoroa Digital Arts (ADA) network, and Deputy Chair of the Physics Room Gallery Trust in Christchurch.
http://www.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/
you can also find things I do here:
http://www.isea2008singapore.org/exhibitions/pe_cloudland.html
http://www.fibreculturejournal.org/network/
http://www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/research/centres/ccap/
http://www.junctures.org/
su.ballard(at)gmail.com
