Interests: aesthetic, technological and philosophical aspects of online identity, locality, sexuality and community, as well as viral symbiosis and trans species relations.
Bio:
Melinda Rackham is an artist, writer, curator and media consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Her practice has investigated the aesthetic, technological and philosophical aspects of online identity, locality, sexuality and community, as well as viral symbiosis and trans species relations. Her PhD explored the nature and construction of, and avatar relations within multi-user Virtual Reality Networked Spaces.
Her writing appears online and in print in arenas like Artlink, Leonardo, Ctheory, Culture Machine, and Realtime, and has chapters in recent Routledge and MIT editions. Her residencies include Polar Circuit, Finland and Banff Center, Canada. Her web works have been shown widely, including Beyond Interface, Arco Electronico, Transmediale, File, Art Entertainment Network, The Montreal Biennale, European Media Art Festival, Hybrid Life Forms, MAAP, Perspecta, Biennial of Buenos Aires, lab3D and ISEA.
Rackham won the SoundSpace Award for Virtual Worlds at the 2001 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, the Faulding Award for Multimedia at the 2000 Adelaide Festival, and Gram 1999 Internet Art Prize in Argentina. She was recently Curator of Networked Media at the Australian Center for Moving Image in Melbourne, and is the producer of -empyre- online media forum.