Gianni Wise 2017

Artist, Curator, Writer, Educator, Designer and Researcher 11 January 2018

Dr Gianni Wise.
Résumé – 2017

M: 0419228464 E: gana@iinet.net.au
Academia sydney.academia.edu/GianniWise.

I am a practicing artist, arts writer, curator and academic. I have received two
national awards and residencies and an international residency. These
included a scholarship (Switzerland) as part of the European Graduate
School; an Australia Council Development Grant. My art practice encompasses
a number of forms and mediums, principally with a focus on drawing as an
experimental medium both in itself and as part of installation art practice.
including photography, video, audio, found object and installation.

Formal Tertiary Education Qualifications and Study

2012-2016 Doctor of Philosophy, Sydney College for the Arts, Faculty of Arts and Social
Sciences (FASS), University of Sydney. Conferred April 2017
PhD title: Paranoid Fixations: art and political discourses since 9/11.
Supervisors: Ass Professor Michael Goldberg & Dr Adam Geczy (FASS,
USYD)
Funding: Australian Postgraduate Award (APA), USYD Research Support
Award (PRSS)

2015 Summer School: European Graduate School (EGS), Division of Philosophy,

Art & Critical Thought. (a cross-disciplinary university– examining the
foundations and significance of decisive currents in modern thought)

2006 Masters of Fine Arts at Sydney College of the Arts (UNSWAD) by research,
drawing, and installation art. Thesis title: Scenario House.

1995-6 Graduate Diploma in Communication, University of Technology. Experimental

cinema & video production, sound design. Cinema theory (French new wave).

1993 Certificate Experimental Drawing, Stroom Den Haag, Netherlands

(association with Rijksakademie)
University Teaching and Related Employment

2008- present Associate lecturer, tutor and course design Digital Media, School of
Education and the Arts, Sydney campus CQUniversity. Course coordination,
studio practice and online supervision: Illustration and Visualisation, Video
and Audio Production fundamentals, advanced digital and audio production,
Foundations of Animation (Photoshop and After Effects), Sessional contract.

2011 Associate lecturer, tutor, University of Notre Dame, Sydney campus: Politics
and the Media, New Media Histories & Practices. Sessional.

2007-14 Associate lecturer, Studio practices (Elective), Faculty of Architecture, The

University of Sydney. Media include drawing, paint and screen print
workshops.
2006-11 Associate lecturer, tutor College of Fine Arts (University of NSW Art &
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Design): Illustration and Media, Photomedia, digital imaging, Screen and

media culture.

2009 Tutor, digital design, hand animation and imaging, University of Technology

2002 Researcher for Water Futures Institute leading to major Literature review

2001 Painting and 2D print studio technician, School of Visual Arts, University of
Western Sydney

Recent related Employment and professional development

2017 Lighting Designer and 3-D post-production for UNESCO. Collaborated with
French design and film crew in visualising UNESCO Women of Science Award 2017.Design
and delivery of multi-layered imaging for projection to create a 3-D interpretation of quantum
computing theory.

2015 Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, Spike Magazine Headquarters, Berlin.

Certificate of Completion.

Research. Presentations and publications

2017 ‘Realism and Truth. Victims of a meta-reality in cinema and video art’.
Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference 2017. To be published 2018.
2017 Presented paper Art and the Politics of Collectivity, Spike Publishing, Berlin.
Keynotes: Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Nicolas Bourriaud, Gerald Raunig, Tiziana Terranova.
2014 – 2016 Committee Member, Graduate School Student Committee, Sydney College of
the Arts, The University of Sydney, Australia.
2016 Representative committee of the postgraduate school student body, our
responsibilities include liaising between the faculty and the student body over site changes,
and grievances in conjunction with provost. Professor Stephen Garton.
2016 Artist talk and paper, New Contemporaries. SCA, USYD
2016: Co-authored essay for the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, Switzerland.
2016: presented a paper, titled Art of Estrangement in Contemporary Discourses on Politics
for the Swiss based journal Oncurating (July 2016).
2016: Aesthetics of Quantum Action at A Distance in Transdisciplinary Art and Theory
2015: Observing realism: the image and Richard Mosse in art production.
2015: Art and the Document - Sydney College of the Arts research cluster. Presented
paper for The Image in Question: The Sceptical Image, USYD.
2014: Transfield and The Biennale: Tainted Money or Benefactor? Festival of Democracy,
University of Sydney, paper and forum, 27/09/14; speakers Gianni Wise, Matt Kiem and Dr
Alana Lentin.
2014: Workshop coordination and paper Post-Truth, Untruth, and Superficial Deception in
the Public Sphere. Festival of Democracy, University of Sydney.
2007: What is Barelife? This contribution to the Documenta Magazine Project
(documenta12, 2006), in which a group of artists and writers collaborating with Documenta
to generate a discussion around a theme Documenta calls “bare life’.
2006-2017: Numerous artist talks

Recent Selected Solo Exhibitions

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2018 The Cook, The Substation, Singapore. Performance and wall drawing installation
(forthcoming)
2016 1st Worldwide Apartment and Studio Biennale (WAS), The SLAB, Sydney. Drawing on
archival paper - transfer print through using acetone to paper.
2015 46° 6’ 40” N, 7° 55’ 45” E, audio work and solo performance, Saas-fee, Switzerland
2015 Data Retention, prints, objects, Fisher Library, University of Sydney
2014 Discomposed: Propaganda Window, Melbourne. Three-part projection using footage
drawn over and re-filmed Federation Square, Melbourne. Screening.
2009 Roundabout II: Installation with sound.
2007 Celluloid: digital print, smaller project room, Raum 5, Ziegrastraße, Berlin
2006 Scenario House: Installation, Chrissie Cottier Gallery, Sydney
2006 Roundabout: Digital photography, LOOSE Projects, Sydney
2006 who's (looking at) who?, installation, MOP Gallery, Sydney

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017 Defenestration, EDACC. MAP Project, Drawing on aluminium and hand printing
2017 Spectres of Spectrum III, New Contemporaries 2017, SCA Galleries (with Barbara
Campbell, Consuelo Cavaniglia, Sylvia Griffin, Dan Hollier, Yeliz Kocaballi, Paul Mumme).
Drawings rendered out of self-induced dream-wake commentary in social media. Print on
archival paper. Transfer print through application of acetone to paper.
2014-6 Spectres of Spectrum II, HD digital video. MAP project, Eco Spirit (2014); Light &
Wire Gallery, Miami, USA (2014), MAP at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
2016 Obsession Dada: Gianni Motti: «Paradigm Shifts», Cabaret Voltaire, Geneva
2015 Loco Live Action collective: Performance with street drawing, Unattended baggage
2015 rock rock rock a rock, performance and street drawing, Saas-fee Switzerland
2014 Eco Spirit, Morton House Woodford, NSW, Modern Art Projects (MAP) (with Alex
Wisser, Fiona Davies, Locust Jones, Vicky Browne.)
2014 24/7 Window space, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2013 Brainrain, Alaska Projects, with J. Drinkall & W. Armstrong
Spectres of the Spectrum, Marrickville Garage, Sydney
Malintent, Galerie Neues Problem Berlin-mitte, with Eva Bols
fivepointnine for One hundred and twenty seconds, Digital video adapting hand
drawn sequences, Federation Square Big Screen, Melbourne; Cheng Gallery,
Beijing; Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin.
2012 Entfremdeter Burger (trans: alienated citizen): Galerie Neues Problemes, Berlin-
mitte, Germany; photography and object
2012 Exploratory projects: heaD-Warper , Eyebeam New York;
2008 Ausländer (outsider), Galerie Kunstverein Friedrich e.V., Berlin, digital imagery drawn
over with hand printing.
2005 Situation Collaborations: Artist Networks, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Regeneration: 50 photographers for tomorrow, Museum of Elysée, Switzerland

Curatorial projects

2014-16 Art and the Document Research Cluster, SCA, University of Sydney
2015 rock rock rock rock a rock, Saas-fee, Switzerland
2014 Transfield and The Biennale: Tainted Money or Benefactor? Festival of Democracy,
University of Sydney, paper and forum, 27/09/14; speakers Gianni Wise, Dr Jacqueline
Drinkall, Matt Kiem and Alana Lentin.
2013 Braindrain, Alaska Projects, Sydney
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2012 drawn apart: Paper Plane Gallery, Sydney

2009 Wrathful Compassion: Curation 30 artists, Marrickville Festival, Sydney
2008 Photomedia Student graduating exhibition: Ivan Dougherty Gallery
2006 Site specific collaboration: Seventh Gallery, Melbourne.

Residencies and related education

2017 Mentored by curatorial panel (Tony Bond OBE, Sabrina Roesner and Lizzie Marshal) as
artist for 3x6 Kiosk Project, Modern Art Projects Blue Mountains, NSW.
2017 Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, Spike Magazine Headquarters, Berlin. Founded
by artist and theorist Warren Neidich, and art critic Barry Schwabsky. Engaged selection of
contemporary artists in political, socio-economic, philosophical and historical discourses
concerning the power of art. (theorists: Armen Avanessian, Franco Berardi, Mathieu
Copeland, Anselm Franke, Charles Gaines, Anke Hennig, Suzana Milevska, John
Rajchman, Gerald Raunig)
2015 Masterclass with Andrés Mario Zervigón (Associate Professor of the History of
Photography at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey). John Heartfield and the
Agitated Image: Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-Garde Photomontage
2015 European Graduate School, Switzerland. Combined residency and theoretical
engagement – leading to writing and works on paper - as site-specific installations.
2005 Intercambiador ACART. 2005, Madrid region, Spain. Artist-In-Residence as an
exchange with local artist - open studio presentation and exhibition. Large format drawings
and installed scenes.

Awards, Grants, Scholarships and Residencies

1. 2017 MAP (Mountain Art Projects) Artist fee and residency funding for site
project/workshop. Create NSW.
2. 2016, 2014 Postgraduate research grants towards PhD research.
3. European Graduate School summer school part Scholarship (USA/Germany)
4. 2015 Goethe-Institut funding. Art and academia.
5. 2014 Award and fee, University of Sydney, Fisher Library
6. 2012-15 Australian Postgraduate Award (APA)
7. 2013 National Association of Visual Artists, Grants 2012, 2013, 2014,
8. 2016 USYD Research Support Award (PRSS)
9. 2012 New Work Grant, (major award) Australia Council
10. 2012 Photographic work: part of collection of Museum of Elysée, Switzerland.
11. 2010 NAVA Janet Holmes a Court Artists Grant (National Award)
12. 2005 Intercambiador ACART., Madrid region, Spain. Residency.
13. 2000 Faber Castell Drawing Award (finalist) Sydney.
14. 1990, 95 Conodrito-saporio: Short experimental film shown at Festival de Cine de
Viña del Mar, "Viña Del Mar Film Festival," Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes

Professional Memberships

2017 Member of Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy

2013-current Member of the College Art Association, NYC.
2010-current Member of the National Association of Visual Artists