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Emerging from the Sydney-based Imperial Slacks artist collective in the late 90's, Marynowsky’s practice combines combines humour, and a host of unnerving thematics that highlight important issues relevant to our ever increasing computer-controlled society. He works interdisciplinary across artforms including sculpture, robotics, immersive and interactive performance and installation, music and video. His work has been presented in major festivals, biennales, and survey exhibitions including, The International Triennial of New Media Art, Beijing, The International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Poland, Siggraph Tokyo, Japan and The Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney. His mid-career survey exhibition was held at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2014. Marynowsky’s work is held in collections of The National Gallery of Victoria, Artbank Australia, UTS art collection, Bundanon Trust, Wollonging Art Gallery and private collections inter-nationally.
Exhibtion and Performance highlights include:
● The Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Sydney.
● The International Triennial of New Media Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing.
● The Beijing Media Arts Biennale, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing.
● The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea.
● The 2nd International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Poznan, Poland.
● The National Performing Arts Centre, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
● 20th Japan Media Arts Festival, NTT, ICC, Tokyo, Japan.
● The International Symposium of Electronic Art, Sydney.
● European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany.
● The Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery.
● The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney.
● Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam.
● Performance Space / Carriageworks, Sydney.
● The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
● Contemporary Art Tasmania / MONA FOMA.
● The National Gallery of Victoria.
● SIGGRAPH Asia, Tokyo, Japan.
● The 17th Biennale of Sydney.
The Crabs Dream
2024
Latent Space
2021
AquaTronics
2021
Roller Disco
2020
Algorithmic Pareidolia 2017
Robot Opera - Taiwan 2016
Moonwalker
2016
Robot Opera
2015
Obsolete Futures
2014
Fish and Chips
2013
Black Casino
2013
The Acconci Robot
2012
Universal Remote 2012
Bricolage Disco
2010
Bourgeois Robot 2
2010
The Hosts
2009
The Ministers
2008
Autonomous Improvisation 2007
The Hood
2000
I know you
1998
Biography
Dr. Wade Marynowsky
Doctor of Creative Arts, University of Western Sydney, 2011
Master of Fine Art, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, 2005
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Crab’s Dream, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery.
2023 Future Relics, Open Field Contemporary Art Festival, Berry Museum.
2022 Experiments in Latent Space, Digital Gallery Rhodes Library, Sydney.
2020 Born on Saturn, The Digital Gallery, The Learning Space, Rhodes, Sydney.
2017 Algorithmic Pareidolia, Incinerator Art Space, Sydney.
2014 Nostalgia for Obsolete Futures, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
2013 Black Casino, MONA FOMA, Contemporary Art Tasmania Gallery, Australia.
2012 Universal Remote, UTS Gallery, University of Technology, Sydney.
2010 Bricolage Disco, ST PAUL St Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.
2009 The Hosts: A Masquerade of Improvising Automatons, Performance Space, Sydney.
2008 The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie Robot, The Institute of Contemporary Art Newtown.
The ministers are coming, Inter Cross Creative center, Sapporo, Japan.
2007 Autonomous Improvisation v.1, Artspace Sydney, Australia.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Seeing Things, Wollongong Art Gallery. 2023 Emanations, Project8, Melbourne.
Realms of Possibility, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery.
SIGGRAPH Asia, ICC Sydney.
2021 SIGGRAPH Asia, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan.
2020 Never odd or eveN, the TEI2020 Arts Track Exhibition, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney.
2019 Future Abstract, Vivid ideas, Art Space on The Concourse, Chatswood.
2018 Post-life-Beijing Media Art Biennale Touring Exhibition, Hanshan Art Museum, Suzhou, China.
Data life, Mechanical life, Synthesize life, The Beijing Media Arts Biennale, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China.
2017 Dream Machines, Hazelhurst Regional gallery, Sydney.
20th Japan Media Arts Festival, NTT, ICC, Tokyo, Japan.
2016 New Romance: art and the posthuman, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
2015 New Romance: Dialogue Between Two Worlds, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea.
Cosmic Love Wonder Lust, The Imperial Slacks Project, Campbelltown Arts Centre and SCA Galleries, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
2014 Thingworld: International Triennial of New Media Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China.
2013 Catching Light, ISEA2013 and Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney. ISEA2013, The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
2012 Speak to Me, Experimenta: 5th International Biennale of Media Art, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.
Like, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Liverpool, Sydney.
2011 John Fries Memorial Prize Finalists 2011, Sydney.
Dorkbot group show, Serial space, Sydney.
2010 Beyond Mediations, The 2nd International biennale of contemporary art, Poznan, Poland.
The Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Award, GOMA, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
The Ghost show, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney.
2009 Primavera 2009, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney.
SMAC Awards, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney.
2008 Liquid Architecture 9: Festival of sound arts, Performance space, Sydney.
2006 SynCity, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
2005 Phat ate Video show, Phatspace, Sydney.
Prospectus, Projections in New Media, Blank Space, Sydney.
Gang Festival video art, Pelt, Sydney and Indonesia.
2004 Work rest play (escape), Imperial Slacks artist collective, Artspace Sydney.
2003 Periscope, scanning the digital horizon, Adelaide international Film Festival, second screening at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
2002 Slackin’ Off, Imperial Slacks, Sydney.
Positive Overkill, Imperial Slacks, Sydney.
2001 hybrid Life forms: Australian New Media Art, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam.
2000 ISEA2000, Pompidou Center, Paris, France.
MTN Digital Art exhibition, Johannesburg, South Africa.
1999 D.art99, Dlux Media Arts, Artspace, Sydney.
Transfix, Sydney Fringe Festival, Bondi, Sydney.
1998 Surveillance, Artspace Sydney.
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany.
Lovebytes Digital Arts Festival, Sheffield, England.
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2016 Robot Opera, National Performing Arts Center, National Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
2015 Robot Opera, Performance Space and Carriageworks, Sydney.
2013 Macrophonics II, ISEA2013, Bon Marche Studio, UTS, Sydney.
2010 SuperDeluxe, The 17th Biennale of Sydney, Artspace Sydney.
2008 Olympia the sneezing automaton, 24/25, Artspace Sydney.
2007 Nuit Blanche, SHARE and Le Labo, Toronto, Canada.
2006 The Fighting song, with Hannah Furmage Artspace, Sydney.
2005 Big day out, Ear stage, live video, Sydney.
Live @ Lanfranchi’s, Sydney.
e)scapes#1 Into the tumult sent an alien sound, Medium rare gallery, Sydney.
2004 ISEA2004, Aboard the Silja cruise liner, the Baltic Sea, Europe.
Scoring dope for Sally, with Hannah Furmage, Artspace Sydney.
Big day out, Ear stage, live video, Sydney.
2003 Synesthesic headache, Brisbane.
Data Terra, Interalia, Dlux media arts, Future screen, Lanfranci's, Sydney.
2002 Video Combustion, The Performance Space, Sydney.
Radiotopia, Ars electronica, Linz, Austria.
d.ART 02 launch, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
A2d Adelaide Fringe Festival, Adelaide.
Look mum no head, Imperial Slacks, Sydney.
2001 Video stealth ninja, Tilt, Dlux media arts, Sydney.
Walking species, De Quincey Co, Imperial Slacks, Sydney.
1999 D.art 99, Dlux media arts, Artspace Sydney.
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2020 ANAT Ideate Grant 2013 Visiting Fellow, The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America.
2011 Artspace Sydney and Arts NSW International Residency, The Darling Foundry, Montréal, and the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada.
University of Western Sydney, Postgraduate Research Award.
2010 Arts NSW funded residency at CoLab, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.
Bundanon Residency, New South Wales.
2009 FBI 94.5 + Time out Sydney 2009 SMAC (Sydney Music, Arts and Culture Award) Award for Best Artist.
2008 Sapporo Artist in Residence (S-AIR), Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
2007 Artspace Sydney, studio residency, Sydney.
Visiting researcher, Hexagram, Institute for Research - Creation of Media Art and Technologies, Concord University, Montréal, Canada.
2005 Artists’ Camp, Gunbalanya, Arnhem Land, 24HR Art, Darwin.
Australian Postgraduate Award (APA), University of New South Wales.
2002 Solar Circuit, Residency, Hobart and Maria Island, Tasmania.
SELECTED DIRECTORIAL / CURATORIAL ROLES
2016 Exquisite Corpse, MCA ARTBAR, Curator.
2005-2006 Electrofringe, media art festival, co-director.
2000-2002 Imperial Slacks gallery, co-director.
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Victoria
Bundanon Trust, Collection
Wollongong Art Gallery UTS Art Collection
Artbank Australia
National Film and Sound Archives
Inter Cross Creative centre, Hokkaido, Japan
Private collections in Australia and Internationally.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Data life, Mechanical life, Synthesize life, The Beijing Media Arts Biennale, exhibition catalogue, 2018.
Michael Dagostino and Nicholas Tsoutas (ed). Cosmic Love Wanderlust, The Imperial Slacks Project, ex.cat., Campbelltown Arts Centre.
Lawrence Wallen, Report from Sydney, Theatre and Performance Design, 1:4, 321-329, DOI:10.1080/23322551.2015.1122268, 2015.
Anna Davis (ed), New Romance: art and the posthuman, ex.cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2016.
Houngcheol Choi (ed), New Romance, ex.cat., National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, 2015.
Elissa Blake, ‘Automatic for the people: Wade Marynowsky's Robot Opera puts the audience in the hot seat’, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 October 2015.
Andrew Stephens, ‘NGV pays homage to Wade Marynowsky's work’, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 August 2014.
Tim Young, ‘A short circuit to the robot dance’, The Age, 5 August 2014.
Fan Di'an and Zhang Ga (eds), thingworld: International Triennial of New Media Art, ex. cat.,
National Art Museum of China and Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2014.
Elizabeth Fortescue, ‘Robot chips in with tasty artwork’, The Daily Telegraph 14/06/03.
Penny Webb, ‘MONA FOMA’ Art Guide Australia, Issue 78, Pg, 41, Jan / Feb, 2013.
Kane Young, Pg 5, ‘Wheel spins but you never can win’, The Mercury, Tasmania, 17th January.
Jessica Lever, ‘5 weirdest MOFO Gigs’, Warp Magazine, January, 2013.
Abigail Moncreif, Speak to Me, Experimenta: 5th International Biennale of Media Art, ex. cat., Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne, 2012.
Adam Jasper, Universal Remote, ex. cat., UTS Gallery, University of Technology, Sydney, 2012.
Julianne Pierce ‘Making it internationally in media arts’ Realtime, no 101, 2011.
Marta Babsch, Beyond Mediations: 2nd Mediations Biennale, ex. cat., Poland Centrum Kultury, Poznań, 2010.
Francis E Parker, Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Award, ex. cat., Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2009.
Anna Davis in Jeff Khan (ed), Primavera 2009, ex. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2009.
Bec Dean, The Hosts, ex. cat., Performance Space, Sydney, 2009.
Sean Lowry ‘Alien Jukebox: Wade Marynowsky’s Autonomous Improvisation v.1’, Column 1, Artspace Projects, 2008.
hybrid life forms: Australian New Media Art, ex. cat., Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, 2001.