Matthew Gingold’s work in audio/visual installation and performance has largely focused on perception, the body and the various meanings ‘live’ and ‘alive’ can have within these contexts. Usually this is explored through the multiple – it’s differences and repetitions – and through these, our connections to identity, the everyday and the sublime. Gingold is interested in processes, both physical and algorithmic that playfully ‘overcode’ meanings or meta-structures. That is, he likes to create rules, many many rules, that by the very nature of complication become obsolete, renewed, changed, unexpected, beautiful, intuitive and generally unruly.

Working across artforms and media, Gingold’s practice spans installation, exhibition, performance, public and community outcomes. His most recent work, Circuit, a Made by Melbourne Fringe commision that networks and transforms photographs of gallery visitors was simultaneously shown at 8 independent and artist run initiatives across Victoria, including Allen's Walk (Bendigo), Arc Yinnar (Yinnar), Westspace, Seventh, Kings, Yarra Sculpture, Off the Curb and Bus (Melbourne).

Other projects have been presented at CarriageWorks during the Sydney International Festival (2008), Northcote Town Hall 2008, Melbourne University Theatre 2008, Bus Gallery 2006, Tap Seac Square, Macau 2007, BlackBox 2006/07, ACMI Memory Grid 2004/5, the State Library of Victoria 2004 and as part of the Nextwave 2004, Melbourne International 2006, Melbourne Animation 2005, MAPFEST Melaka International 2009, Dance Massive 2009 and Gertrude Street Projections 2009 festivals. 

Gingold was the Director of Seventh Gallery from 2005-2008 and is a founding member of the audio-visual jam collective Outpost. In 2008 he received an ANAT Professional Development grant to attend a masterclass with the founders of openFrameworks at the Yamaguchi Centre for Art and Media, and in 2009 is the inaugural recipient of the Aphids Tactical Media Residency at CIA Studios in Perth.

 

Philippa Campey produced artist Van Sowerwine's short animated film CLARA (2004), which won the Jury Special Mention at Cannes 2005, the Gold Hugo at Chicago Film Festival 2005, and screened in competition at Sundance 2006.  

Since then Philippa has produced a number of award winning documentary films including WORDS FROM THE CITY (Rhys Graham and Natasha Gadd, 2007) which was nominated for 5 AFI Awards including Best Documentary; THE FIBROS AND THE SILVERTAILS (Paul Oliver, 2007) which won the 2008 AWGIE Award for Best Documentary; and BASTARDY (Amiel Courtin-Wilson, 2008) which won the Film Critics’ Circle Jury Prize for Documentary, is nominated for Best Documentary in the 2009 AFI Awards and has had a very successful theatrical release around Australia. Philippa is now in production on MURUNDAK: SONGS OF FREEDOM with Rhys Graham and Natasha Gadd – the story of the Black Arm Band.

As well as her own projects, Philippa has produced work for acclaimed filmmaker John Hughes, including THE ARCHIVE PROJECT (2006, feature documentary); and Betty Churcher's television art series HIDDEN TREASURES AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY (2006) and THE ART OF WAR (2005).

In November 2008 Philippa was awarded the SPAA Independent Documentary Producer of the Year. 

Philippa has also worked with the AFI, ACMI, SBS Independent, FFC, Screen Australia, Melbourne Cinémathèque and Melbourne International Film Festival. While working at ACMI she produced ARTV, 16 video works by some of Australia's leading contemporary visual artists, including Shaun Gladwell and Hossein Valamanesh.

 



Willoh S.Weiland (Grad. Dip. Hons, Performance Making, V.C.A) is an artist/writer/curator concerned with new ways for text to inhabit contemporary art. 

Recent commissions include Antidote (Melbourne Fringe, Highly Commended Best Performance, 6 Green Room award nominations), Underwhere for Lucy Who Productions (APAM, Adelaide Fringe) and The Outside, using machinima puppets with integrated wireless screens for puppetry/new media company Blood Policy. 

Her work Yelling at Stars (www.yellingatstars.com) an ongoing art science project was presented at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl as the closing event of the 2008 Next Wave Festival; the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow and at Less Remote an art/ science symposium running parallel to the 59th International Astronautical Congress. 

In 2009 she undertook a Synapse residency the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology where she developed the work Void Love: A soap opera about Astrophysics starring Kamahl (www.voidlove.tv).

She has two on going live art collaborations with Spat + Loogie (This Is Not Art, Newcastle 2007; Hard Party, Sydney, 2009; Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2009, Blind Disco, Arts House, 2009) and as part of Deadpan with video artist Martyn Coutts, (Electrofringe residency 2008; National Symposium on Live Art, PICA/ Artrage; Asialink residency, Beijing, 2010).

She directs the art lab and presentation space, Head Quarters in Melbourne, is a member of the Greenroom panel for hybrid arts and has undertaken mentorships with Jenny Kemp, Roger Alsop and Scott Rankin. 

Since 2003 Josh Burns has been a freelance director, editor and DOP, producing web based videos and media, documenting theatre, exhibition productions and artists as well as working as a video designer for theatre and making his own short films.

Joshua has designed the audiovisual element for three Melbourne Theatre Company productions: David Williamson’s Scarlett O’Hara at the Crimson Parrot (2008), Tom Stoppard’s Rock and Roll (2008) and Terry Johnson’s Hitchcock Blonde (2005). He is currently in pre-production for Max Gillies and Guy Rundell’s Godzone (2009)

His film, Ruby screened in the Melbourne Underground Film Festival (2005) and Hell’s Hoist and Invoice (2002) were awarded an Openchannel Music and Effects Prize and Student Achievement Award.

Josh has worked on several film and television productions including a directors attachment on the TV series Blue Healers (2003) and was second camera operator on the ABC documentary Just Punishment (2006).

He continues to work on many VCA, RMIT and independent short films and short documentaries as a director, editor, lighting designer and camera operator. He also teaches Digital Story Telling as part of ACMI’s public programs and is currently producing a series of mini-documentaries for the Shrine of Remembrance, in a DPCD and ACMI co-production.