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Alex Gibson is a visual artist and computer programmer researching online artistic collaboration. He has exhibited his work at various galleries in Melbourne and Tokyo including the National Gallery of Victoria (2003), Conical Gallery (2002), The VCA Gallery (2004), The Tokyo International Exhibition Center: Bigsite (2005), fortyfivedownstairs (2006), Craft Victoria (2006), Seventh ARI (2007), Counterpoint ARI (2007) and Bus ARI (2007). He was recently nominated for a Green Room Award in the category of Outstanding Video Scenography - New Form (2007). He has also received the Stoll Trust Award (2001), Friends of the VCA Award (2003), George Hicks Prize (2004), LWL Award (2006), Orloff Family Trust Award (2006) and the Australian Postgraduate Award (2007-2008).
Michael John Meneghetti
Born 14th July 1980, Melbourne
Michael Meneghetti completed his undergraduate degree in 2002 at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne.
Majoring in Sculpture, Michael developed an interest in producing video and performance-based work quite early on in his studies. Carrying a strong influence from Science Fiction and popular culture, it was in 2001 that Michael’s love of comic books would spawn his own superhero alter ego ORI-ON. The chronicles of ORI-ON mixed performance, installation and video that continued over three consecutive years.
Michael exhibited ORI-ON work in Niagara Galleries’ Unsigned Artists 2003 as well as Hatched 2003 at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA).
Between 2003 and 2004, Michael continued his practice at Adrian Doyle’s Franklin Street initiative Blender Studios.
At the 2004 Nextwave Festival, Michael collaborated and co-produced Scratch Video Project. The exhibition was a selection of Melbourne’s emerging and established video artists’ work at Kings ARI.
In 2006, Michael undertook Honours back at the VCA. Over the year he produced a platform of academic research and work under the project title Gunslinger and Whore.
A pastiche of Spaghetti westerns, masculinity and Australian identity, the Gunslinger and Whore project is ongoing.
Michael is currently working alongside director/performer Olivia Crang and visual artist Alex Gibson in their projects X:machine and Polyopticon.
Olivia is currently undertaking a professional mentorship with David Pledger (NYID), supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, to develop three new works for company x:machine. She recently worked as an Assistant Director on NYID's studio work 'apoliticaldance'. She has a graduate Diploma in Animateuring VCA and Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) the University of Melbourne, VCA. Her theatre practice integrates Japanese performance styles; other forms of physical theatre; cultural and performance theory; virtual space; computer programming; film projection and “noise”. Olivia is trained in Butoh in Australia and Japan with Diarakudakan, Butoh-sha Tenkei, Zen Zen Zo, Tadashi Okamura and Yoshito Ohno. Whilst in Tokyo she also trained and worked with Gekidan Kaitaisha in 'Dream Regime' (2005). She has worked extensively with visual artist Alex Gibson in A Dream of Rigamortis (2003), Amaterasu (2004), Trialect (2004), Gaikokujin Experimenta, Tokyo (2005) and Senseless (2006). Olivia’s theatre credits also include performances staged at the Artland - Tokyo, Tokyo Big Site, fourtyfivedownsatris, the Abottsford Convent, the VCA, La Mama, the Carlton Courthouse, the Open Stage, the Adelaide and Melbourne Fringe Festivals and the Fairfax Studio of the Victorian Arts Centre. Olivia also teaches drama at the National Theatre and Performing Arts Headquarters.
Lighting Designer. Graduated from Victorian College of the Arts in 2005. Currently freelancing. Works mainly in new works and visual and image based theatre.
Pierre Proske is an Australian electronic artist intrigued by the pervasiveness of technology in culture and its relationship to nature.
Proske's work involves exposing the unspoken relationships we have with technology and harnessing machines into exploring new aesthetics. He has exhibited or performed in Australia, Sweden, Brazil, Japan, the US and the Netherlands.
Graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2005, majoring in Sound Design. Film: The Tragedy of Hamlet - Prince of Denmark directed by Oscar Redding; The Sandcastle directed by Robbie McEwen. Theatre: Senseless by Olivia Crang; Spring Awakening directed by Simon Stone; Ashes To Ashes directed by Sam Strong. Installation: Contagion by Gina Czarnecki; ...Or Nothing, Top 100, The Wanderer Meets The Pioneer, Return To Point and Universal Language - Alternate Reality by Arlo Mountford. Rob is also a 35mm and digital projectionist.
Jarrod is a recent graduate of the prestigious 3 year bachelor of film degree at the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and Television. As part of his final year, Jarrod just completed a 15 minute short film 'Insignia'. The photo above is Jarrod obnoxiously posing with his Best Sound Design Award, recently presented to him at St Kilda Film Festival for his work on Lily Coate's The Cat And Claudia. In 2005, Jarrod took leave from VCA to complete his Bachelor of Creative Arts at Melbourne University. During this time he created Virtual Spaces, a multimedia installation utilising video, surround sound and automated lighting. Jarrod was a guest at the Fresh Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic for the screening of his films Holding On, and A Short Portrait of Obsession. Holding On was also screened at the Trenton Film Festival and Method Fest in the USA, and St Kilda Film Festival in Melbourne. During 2005 Jarrod worked on two VCA Graduating productions, designing the opening title sequence for Sasha Whitehouse's The City Eats Its Weak, and the Sound Design for Lily Coates' The Cat And Claudia. Earlier this year Jarrod was Editor on Invisible, which recently came second at In Realm of the Senses. Just for a laugh, Jarrod created Cinema Verite - a 'micro movie' (a short film shot on a mobile phone) which screened at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. In 2004 A Short Portrait of Zora Zakowski screened at the St Kilda Film Festival, Over The Fence Comedy Film Festival, and was a finalist in the Student Film & Video Competition. Inversion has screened at Revolver & Gertrudes as part of In The Realm of the Senses, as well as at Fresh Film Festival in Karlovy Vary. Before studying at VCA, Jarrod has been involved in acting, writing and directing for theatre, as well as lighting design, sound design and composing music for film. Jarrod writes and performs all the music for his films, and is skilled in 3D graphics, title design and DVD authoring. In 2000 Jarrod established The Factor Cinema Files, a website devoted to the understanding of cinema technology, which also reviews Melbourne cinemas for audio-visual performance. Back in another lifetime, Jarrod was a child actor, appearing in the MTC productions of Grapes of Wrath and Assassins, as well as The Bell Shakespeare Company's 1994 production of Richard III and the telemovie The Feds: Abduction. And if you look really closely, you can see him playing drums in the band in The Dish. More information about Jarrod can be found at his site: www.factorfiles.com or imdb.com
Fanny Hanusin is an Indonesian performer and singer, who has been involved in Australian theatre since 1999. She held a Graduate Diploma in Animateuring (2005) and Bachelor of Creative Arts (1999-2001) from the Victorian College of the Arts. Her work utilises various skills ranging from clowning, vocal improvisations to Viewpoints performance technique. In 2003, she received Green Room Award for her performance in Hospital of the Lost Coin and the Vanishing Box (La Mama).
Her past productions include Transit (2004), The True Adventures of A Soul Lost At Sea (2004), Beyond the Gate of Heavenly Peace (2001), and a bilingual solo, Pempek in 2003 Indonesian Arts Festival.
In 2005, she devised Mapping Malin that interweaved an Indonesian folktale with Australian migrant stories. She has also performed with The Torch Project in Faith (2006) and The Con (2007), where she worked closely with Wesley Church community (Big Issue, Lifeline) and Laverton Community Centre.
Upcoming production is a return season of 2005 Wal Cherry Play of the Year, Asylum (2008 VCE Playlist). Currently, she is developing Serial Blogger, a digital storytelling and performance installation, with x:machine artists’ ensemble.
