Margie Medlin
Year of birth, place
1962
United Kingdom
Role at the ZKM
- Guest Artist
Institute / Department
- Institute for Visual Media
Biography
For 20 years Margie Medlin’s art practice has combined visual art, with lighting and spatial design for both her own installations and dance performances produced in collaboration with choreographers. Since 2003 her art works has been exploring expanded cinema, through interactive systems design, focusing on software, hardware and engineering developments to interpolate data. She has received numerous design awards and residencies in Australia and Internationally.
| 1987-1988 | Film making and New Art studies in Sydney (BA Visual Arts 1988) | |
| 1989 | Studies in Lighting design at the Yale School of Drama, New Haven, Ct, USA | |
| 1991 | Scenography, Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London | |
| 1992 | Advanced Computer Applications for Theatre Design, Central School of Speech and Drama, London | |
| 1999 | MA Interior design, Faculty of Environmental Design and Construction, Royal Institute of Technology, Melbourne | |
| Teaching (selected) | ||
| 2001 | Reel Dance Workshop, One Extra Dance with the Theatre, Film and Dance Department of the University of New South Wales [AUS] | |
| 2002-2003 | Time_Place_Space 1 & 2, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW [AUS] | |
| 2004 | Residential International Choreography Laboratory Facets Bangalore [IND] | |
| Grants and Awards (selected) | ||
| 1997 | »Bessie Award for Lighting design« New York Dance and Performance Awards | |
| 1989/1992 | Grant from the Dance Board of the Australian Council | |
| 1998-1999 | Asialink Performing Arts Residency, Australia (Artist in Residence 1988 Seoul Arts Center The Republic of Korea and 1999 Malaysia) | |
| 1999-2001 | Artist in Residence at the ZKM⎢Institute for Visual Media Karlsruhe and Professional Development Grant New Media Arts Fund, The Australian Council for the Arts and Arts Victoria, Arts Victoria Comission, Australia | |
| 2000 | Reel Dance Award [AUS] for »In The Heart of the Eye« [Film] | |
| 2002 | John Truscott Foundation Award for Design [AUS] | |
| 2003 | Hangar, Centre de Producció d'Arts Visuals i Multimèdia, Barcelona [E] | |
| 2003/2004 | ZKM⎢Institute for Visual Media, Karlsruhe [D] | |
| 2004 | STEIM [Studio for ElectroInstrumental Music], Amsterdam [NL] | |
| 2005 | Science and Art Production Award, Wellcome Trust London [UK] | |
| 2006 | Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund [D] | |
| ZKM⎢Institute for Visual Media, Karlsruhe [D] | ||
| Exhibitions/Festivals/Performances (selected) | ||
| 1996 | »Festival 96«, Adelaide | |
| 1997 | Artspace Sydney; Pica Perth Centre for Contemporary Art, Perth; The Asian Contemporary Dance Festival, New York City | |
| 1998 | Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne (group exhibition); »Pour une écologie des media«, Troisièmes Reconcontres Internationales Art cinéma/vidéo/ ordinateur, Paris | |
| 1999 | »Antistatic« Performance Space, Sydney | |
| 2000 | »Orbital«, The Lux Centre, London; Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (group exhibition) | |
| 2002/2003 | »Future Cinema. The Cinematic Imaginary after Film«, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe [D] | |
| 2003/2004 | »tanzmedial«, SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne [D] | |
| 2004 | »Future Cinema. The Cinematic Imaginary after Film«, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki [FIN] | |
| Works (selected): | ||
| »W.W.M.C.*.*«, 1994 (Film, 3 min, 16mm, b/w) | ||
| »Behaviour«, 1994 (Video, 12min, in collaboration with Shelly Lascia, Choreography/Dance) | ||
| »90% Yield Before Breakage«, 1996 (Film, 3 min, 16mm, b/w, in collaboration with Desoxy Theatre) | ||
| »Mobility in an Artificial City«, 1997 (Video installation) | ||
| »Choreography of Space«, 1998 (Film/Video installation part of the project »Elasticity and Volume«, Films/installations in collaboration with Ben Anderson, Stephen Bram, Jacqueline Everritt) | ||
| »Time Line Democracy / Development Time Lapse«, 1999 (work in progress) | ||
| »Estate«, 2000 (Video installation) | ||
| »In Absentia«, 2001 [3min, 16mm], produced by Margie Medlin and Dance Works | ||
| »A Double Face«, 2001, choreography: John Jaspers, Lyon Opera House [F] | ||
| »The Light Room«, 2002, concept, direction and choreography: Hellen Sky | ||
| »SWIFT«, 2003, choreography and performance: Ros Warby | ||
| »Sandakan Trenody«, 2004, directed by Ong Keng Sen, TheatreWorks, Singapore | ||
| »The View From Here«, 2005, Dance Works, Sophiensäle, Berlin [D] | ||
| »Swift«, 2006 [15min, 16mm/video], produced by Margie Medlin, Ros Warby & ABC TV | ||
| Works in connection with the ZKM: | ||
| »In the Heart of the Eye«, 2000 (Video, 10.40 min) | ||
| »Miss World«, 2002 [three channel computergraphics and video installation] | ||
| »Quartet«, 2003- [interactive dance performance] | ||
| [2006] | ||