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Alex works with installation, found images/objects and the moving image that include elements of drawing, video and software. He is particularly interested in the free (as in freedom) software movement and the social construction of an artistic commons.
Alex Gibson is a Melbourne based artist that has exhibited regularly since graduating at the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art; Drawing (2004). He has exhibited in project spaces including Conical ARI (2003 and 2009), The Tokyo International Exhibition Center: Bigsite (2005), Fortyfive Downstairs (2006), Craft Victoria (2006), Seventh ARI (2007), Bus ARI (2007), Michael Koro Galleries (2008 - 2010), Next Wave Festival (2008 and 2010) and The Melbourne International Arts Festival (2008).
He was 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). He lectures at the The University of Melbourne Faculty of Science, Education and at The Victorian College of the Arts in collaboration. He has completed a Masters of Fine Art degree at the Victorian College of the Arts with a project titled 'Towards a Social Media Art'.
Alex continues to exhibit regularly in project spaces and public galleries in Australia and internationally.
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.
