Vince Dziekan

Position title

Deputy Head (Academic), Multimedia & Digital Arts
Senior Lecturer

Qualifications

• DipFA EMICA
• GrapDip (Education), Hawthorn
• MA Monash

Statement

Vince Dziekan is Senior Lecturer in Digital Imaging, and Deputy Head (Academic) of the Department of Multimedia & Digital Arts, at Monash University in Melbourne.

Over the years, Vince has used photography as a basis for his interdisciplinary practice and towards negotiating the impact of digital technologies on art practice. He has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions and is represented in a number of public collections in Australia.

Complementing his own artistic practice, Vince has also curated exhibitions such as Archival Permanence: Time and Timelessness in 100 years of Australian Photography, The Synthetic Image: Digital Technologies and The Image and Small Worlds: A Romance.

He is currently engaged in an ongoing interdisciplinary PhD project into the implications of virtuality and the art of exhibition. He has published on this research activity in   peer-reviewed journals and through national and international conferences.

Research/Professional activities

Exhibitions

(Selected exhibitions since 1996)

• 2003
  • Small Worlds: A Romance
    UTS Gallery, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW (artist, curator)
  • Zero Light
    Canberra School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
• 2002
  • The Synthetic Image: Digital technologies and The Image
    Faculty Gallery Monash University, Melbourne (artist, curator)
  • Digital Art Awards/Exhibition
    Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Qld
• 1998
  • National Digital Art Awards/Exhibition
    Institute of Modern Art
    Brisbane, Qld
  • Show: Objects and Accessories for Interior Perspectives
    Platform, Melbourne
• 1997
  • Multiplication: the multiple object in art
    Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
  • Show: Linden Contemporary Art Space
    Melbourne
  • How It Is
    Horsham Art Gallery, Horsham, Vic
  • Archival Permanence: Time and Timelessness in 100 years of Australian Photography
    Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Vic,
    Horsham Art Gallery, Horsham, Vic,
    Waverley City Gallery, Melbourne
    Albury Regional Art Centre, Albury, NSW (curator)
• 1996
  • work-in-progress
    Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne

Publications

(Selected Publications since 2002)

• 2004
  • 'Angle of View: Perspective on an Interdisciplinary Investigation of Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition',
    The Yet Unseen: Rendering Stories, Image, Text & Sound Conference
    RMIT, Melbourne, September 21-22, 2004
  • 'A Present Absence: On Art, and the interrelationship between its Physical and Virtual Spaces'
    PixelRaiders2 Conference
    Sheffield, England, April 6-8, 2004
• 2003
  • 'Beyond the Museum Walls: the Situation of Art in Virtual Space',
    AoIR 4.0: Broadening the Band Conference
    Toronto, Canada, October 16-19, 2003
  • 'Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition' DCITA/OzeCulture Conference
    Brisbane, July 30-31, 2003
• 2002
  • 'The Synthetic Image'
    Media-Culture , Loop edition
    www.media-culture.org.au

Others

Examples of work

Image 1. Nature-History, 2003 (storyboard visualization of motion graphic component of 'multi-modal' artwork

Image 2. Nature-History, 2003 (image panels; recto and verso)

Image 3. from Catalogue-Museum, 2002.