TIM BUCHANAN 

 

Artist Bio

 

At the core of my practice sits an intense desire for exploration. I’m intensely interested in the interaction between human and landscape in both an actual and digitally layered sense. How does the experience of a single point of reference change when it considers itself as WITHIN larger systems, instead of at the apex of them?
I relate this to ideas of the ‘post human’ experience in which we have already accepted digital technologies as an extension of our bodies and minds, and from this viewpoint I investigate new ways of being human, while perhaps extending the constructs of humanity itself.

Technically, there is a focus on finding ways to dissolve the traditional boundaries between embodied human experience and disembodied experience through using media systems such as virtual reality and interactive installation based artworks.
 

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

           

 

Email:                 tim.buchanan@uon.edu.au

 

 

Education

 

 

2014                            BFA (pending), Sculpture/Photomedia, University of Newcastle (expected September 2015)

2013                            Bauhaus University, Weimar,Germany, German language courses

2009-2010        Diploma of Furniture Design (2 of 4 semesters completed), Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour

2008-2009        Bachelor of Applied Computing (3 of 6 semesters completed), Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour

2007                            Diploma of I.T - Systems Analysis and Design

2004                   HSC – Camden Haven High School

 

 

Awards/Grants/Fellowships/Scholarships

 

2014               2014 Uon Services Ltd. Annual Student Art Prize, BLOOM– 2nd place for work ‘Abbott Speaks’

2013               DAAD German study Scholarship for acceptance of exchange studies, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany

 

Exhibitions

2015               Art Bender, group show, The Lockup, Newcastle NSW

2015               One Door Closes, group show, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle NSW

2015               H E A D A C H E, group show, Diamant Artspace, Newcastle NSW

 

2014               (Create 2308) - Shorts, Interactive media, projection and performance installation, The University of Newcastle

2014               Electrolapse BYOB at Vivid Festival, group show, Sydney NSW

2014               We are the stories we tell ourselves, Four Point Gallery, Newcastle NSW

2014               Street Stories (Solo Exhibition), Watt Space student gallery, Newcastle NSW

2013               Summary Exhibition, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany

2012               The Garage Sale Open Show, Watt Space student gallery, Newcastle NSW 

2011               Bricks Beats & Pockets, Donkey Wheel House, Melbourne VIC

 

 

Print Media

 

                        Keep Newcastle Weird - Autumn 2013  ‘Light Centre’, page 11

 

 

Curatorial/Directorship Roles

 

2015               Technical Director and co-creative collaborator, No One Cares About Your Cat, in partnership with Tantrum       Youth Arts and The Paper Cut Collective
(http://www.tantrum.org.au/projects/noonecaresaboutyourcat.html)

2015               Co-Director at Diamant Artspace, Contemporary gallery focusing on experimental practices (http://www.diamantartspace.com/), Newcastle NSW (ongoing)

2015               H E A D A C H E, group show, Diamant Artspace, Newcastle NSW

2015               Head Curator, Hunter Building Interactive Projection Space, The University of Newcastle (ongoing)

2015               Head Curator, Student Photomedia Video Space, The University of Newcastle (ongoing)

2014               Co-Curator ‘Multiple worlds in a preschool: Children’s place making in a globalising world project’  The Senta Taft-Hendry Museum, The University Gallery, Callaghan campus, University of Newcastle (https://www.newcastle.edu.au/events/faculty-of-education-and-arts/exhibition-multiple-worlds-in-a-preschool)

2014               (Create 2308) - Shorts, Interactive media, projection and performance installation at the University of Newcastle, NSW

2013               Endlich/Unendlich, Watt Space student gallery, Newcastle NSW

 

Seminars/Discussion Panels/Workshops

 

2014               Critical Animals 2014 - ‘The transference of self into digital realities: artistic slippage into realms of data’