Sequence of images from 24hr Coverage Tim Plaisted 2001

PERSONAL DETAILS

Name: Tim Plaisted
Email: tim.plaisted@boxc.net
Website: http://www.boxc.net/
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Tim Plaisted is an artist living in Brisbane, Australia working with digital and traditional media. In 2000 Plaisted attended the ANAT International New Media Artists and Curators Masterclass. His work has been included in the Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Festivals, exhibited in Australia, South Korea, Mexico, Singapore, Thailand and the United States and reviewed in Artforum. Recent works include River's End, Hand Held, I Saw Two Things Happening and Surface Browser (UK commission).

Plaisted's practice developed concurrently with a career in electronic media, print and post production. As such, it is influenced by graphic design, media theory and motion graphics and their developing relationship with rapid changes in accessibility to technology. This has lead to diverse outcomes in net.art, video and software art. A shared strategy across the works has been to relate generation of meaning or experience to intervention with the work's underlying medium. Areas of investigation include: realtime 3d, game tools in media art installation, immersion using accessible technology and play.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Jul 2008 Careful Messenger, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (Residency)
Sep 2006 New TV, RawSpace, Brisbane, Australia (Supported by Australia Council)
Jul 2004 Surface Browser, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Jun 2004 Hand Held, No. 12, Brisbane, Australia


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Aug 2007 HMAS Diamantina, Brisbane, Australia
Jun 2007 Arte Nuevo, InteractivA 07, Mérida Biennale, Yucatán, México
Mar 2006 Reactive, The Block, Brisbane, Australia
Jun 2005 Peer to Peer, vuspace, Melbourne, Australia
Jun 2004 2004: Australian Culture Now, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
Apr 2004 SWITCH MEDIA, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Dec 2003 The NeoContre, (Curator) Straight Out of Brisbane Festival, Brisbane, Australia
Mar 2003 re.code, The Farm Space, Brisbane, Australia
Feb 2002 Flaming Muses, The Performance Space, Sydney, Australia (with Jose Da Silva)
Oct 2001 Multimedia Arts Asia Pacific Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane, Australia
Apr 2001 TELEVISION, San Mateo, USA
Mar 2001 INTERACTIVA01, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Ateneo de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico
Aug 1999 Virtual Triennial, Multimedia Arts Asia Pacific Festival/Asia Pacific Triennial 3, Brisbane, Australia
Aug 1998 National Digital Art Awards (finalist), Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Jul 1998 Queer Collaborations, Long Gallery , Hobart, Australia
Jan 1998 Loud (Australia Council) eworks grant recipient (with Damon Black)
May 1997 iEnzo (internet based) Korea


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Oct 2006 Rhizome.org, "Art in Motion"
Jul 2005 Machine, 1, "In the Grip of a Worldwide War Machine"
Dec 2004 RealTime, RT64 "MAAP in Singapore 2004 – Gravity"
Jul 2004 IMA, "Surface Browser" (ex. cat. essay revised for IMA and ACMI from NESTA)
Jul 2004 Courier Mail, July 5, "Click to a new perception"
Jul 2004 ACMI, 2004: Australian Culture Now (ex.cat. for ACMI and NGV)
Jun 2004 Australian Art Collector, Issue 28
Jun 2004 PhotoFile, Issue 71
Jun 2004 Summer, (Limited edition publication by SOOB 03 Vis Arts Directors)
Jun 2004 BAM: Courier Mail, June 5, BAM Best (Weekend Highlights)
Feb 2004 Realtime, RT59 "SOOB 2003: alive and mutating"
Oct 2003 RealTime, RT57 Scan 2003
Jun 2003 ArtLink, Vol.23 No 2. "Net Art in Brisbane"
Jun 2003 ABC Arts Online, "Inside The Digital Snake - Tim Plaisted's Surface Browser"
Mar 2003 re.code (DVD and ex.cat.)
Nov 2002 Straight Out of Brisbane Festival Visual Arts Program (cover), Brisbane, Australia
Mar 2002 Ideation, stills from 24hr Coverage
Feb 2002 Flaming Muses (ex.cat.) (online copy)
Oct 2001 "Monster 24 Hour Coverage" (ex. cat.)
Oct 2001 Profile - National Association of Visual Artists/noise festival Artist a Day initiative Oct 17
Sept 2001 Artworker, Profile, Queensland Artworkers Alliance
Apr 2001 Artforum, "INTERACTIVA '01" BRINGS DIGITAL ART TO MEXICO, Newswire


EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Tertiary:  
2006 - M Learning Innovation (part-time)
Queensland University of Technology
1997-2000 B Multimedia (part-time 1999-2000)
Griffith University
1995-1996 B Microelectronic Engineering/B Information Technology (transferred)
Griffith University
Courses:  
2002 Developing Web Applications with Servlets and JSPS
Software Engineering Australia (SEA)
2000 Alchemy International Masterclass for New Media Artists + Curators
(Technical Assistant)
Australian Network for Artists and Technology (ANAT)
1999 Cross Cultural Awareness
North Queensland Rural Health Training Unit
1998 2D Visual Effects and Compositing (ASSTC Scholarship)
Queensland and Northern Territory Cooperative Multimedia Centre (QANTM)


WORK EXPERIENCE

7/04 - Learning Designer and Sessional Academic, Queensland University of Technolgy
7/06 - Sessional Academic, Griffith University
11/00 - 2/04 Creative, ActiveSky
2/99-2/00 Multimedia Designer, AECgroup
1/98-6/98 Co-Editor, Querelle, National Student Anthology ISSN1440-9208
11/96-1/99 Multimedia Producer/Editor, McGirvanmedia
6/96-11/96 Assistant Editor, Gravity, Griffith Uni Student Rep Council paper


UNIVERSITY WORK PLACEMENT

Aug 2000 Web Designer, Holland Park State High School
Sept 1999 Instructional Designer for Remote Training of Indigenous Health Workers, North Queensland Rural Health Training Unit, Cairns, Queensland Health


CURRENT ASSOCIATIONS

Artworkers, Institute of Modern Art, Rhizome


COMPETENCIES

Project Management, Client Liaison, Needs Assessment and Costing
Learning Design and Multimedia Development
Web app design and implementation
Graphic design, image prep, pre-press and layout
Broadcast video production and post-production
At home in most professional creative software: Mac+PC


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