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keynote speakers
Yukiko Shikata
Yukiko Shikata is an independent media art curator & critic based in Tokyo, currently working as a curator of NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], specially-assigned professor at Tokyo Zokei University, guest professor at Tama Art University and Kyoto University of Art and Design, and International Advisory Board member of transmediale (Berlin). Besides working as a co-curator of Canon ARTLAB (1991-2001), guest curator of Shiseido CyGnet (1997-2003), associate curator of Mori Art Museum (2002-2004), she has produced many projects including Mischa Kuball Power of Codes – Space for Speech(Tokyo National Museum, 1999), Kingdom of
Piracy(online, co-curated, 2001-), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Amodal Suspension (launch project of YCAM, 2003), SonarSound Extra (sonarsound tokyo, 2004), EnigmaAnagma – the evening of Yukiko Shikata(DEAF04, Rotterdam). Her main works for this year are open nature (NTT ICC, 2005), and the coming project MobLab – Japan/German Media Camp 2005as a project director. She has served as jury member of many international competitions and many curated works have been awarded and shown internationally.
Melinda Rackham
Dr Melinda Rackham is a successful artist, curator and writer whose award winning web projects have been widely shown in exhibitions and festivals including Arco Electronico, Madrid, Transmediale, Berlin, Beyond interface, Toronto, the Montreal Biennale, European Media Art Festival, Perspecta ’99 in Sydney, the Istanbul Web Biennale, the Biennale of Buenos Aires, at ACMI in Melbourne, ICA In London and
ICC in Tokyo.
In 2001 she received the SoundSpace Award for Virtual Worldsat the Stuttgart Filmwinter, the Faulding award for Multimedia at the 2000 Adelaide Festival and was listed as one of the ten emerging innovators of new media in the world for the Leonardo 2000 New Horizons Award for Innovation in New Media. She is also the producer of the influential ~empyre~online media forum.
Melinda has recently been appointed Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT).
Adrian Martin
Adrian Martin is widely regarded as Australia’s leading film critic, and one of the few to be recognised internationally. He is the critic for The Age(Melbourne); author of Raul Ruiz: Magnificent Obsessions (Altamira, 2004), The Mad Max Movies(Currency, 2003), Once Upon A Time In America (BFI, 1998), and Phantasms(Penguin, 1994). He is co-editor of Movie Mutations (BFI, 2003), Raul Ruiz: Images Of Passage (Rouge Press, 2004) and the Internet film magazine Rouge (www.rouge.com.au); and winner of the Byron Kennedy Award
(AFI, 1993) and the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing (1997).
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