Regionality and New Media Art
Abstract
This paper is a discussion of our work in new media art and photography since moving to the Wide Bay / Burnett region of South East Queensland – a ‘regional’ area, and one significantly different from the urban environments both of us had inhabited up until our move. As well as outlining some of the issues facing new media art in regional areas, this paper describes our attempt to produce work that reflects our impressions of this region, that responds to and challenges notions of regionality, and that seeks to find a role for new media art in the regional context.
Author Biography
Dea Morgain
Dea Morgain is a new-media artist and photographers based in South-East Queensland. Dea has undertaken a Media Arts degree at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology majoring in photography, and has worked as a commercial and exhibiting photographer. Dea has also held the position of senior officer for a number of large non-profit agencies, including arts agencies, and has managed numerous multimedia projects and arts education programs.
Grayson Cooke
Grayson Cooke is new-media artist and photographers based in South-East Queensland. Grayson holds an interdisciplinary PhD from Concordia University in Montreal, and is employed as a lecturer in Multimedia at CQU Bundaberg Campus. He has exhibited works of interactive art and photography in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.