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Shortlisted
Peter Alwast won the inaugural Premier of Queensland’s National New
Media Art Award, the most significant prize for new media in the country.
Alwast’s winning entry, Everything 2008, is a three-channel video
installation in which the artist interweaves elements of painting, drawing,
video, 3-D modelling and digital animation. The Award exhibition
showed the winning work by Alwast, a work by David Haines and Joyce
Hinterding (NSW) that was highly commended by the judges, and works
by seven other short-listed artists: Julie Dowling (WA), Anita Fontaine
(Qld/NL), Natalie Jeremijenko (Qld/USA), Adam Nash (VIC), Sam Smith
(NSW), John Tonkin (NSW), and Mari Velonaki (NSW).
The Award was announced by the Honourable Anna Bligh, MP, Premier
of Queensland. The $75 000 biennial acquisitive Award recognises
artists working in areas such as video, digital animation, gaming,
computer-based art and artificial intelligence. The inaugural $25 000
Premier’s New Media Art Scholarship was awarded to Leah Barclay,
a Queensland Conservatorium of Music graduate, whose new media
sound compositions draw on environmental and political themes.
Background: The Honourable Anna Bligh, MP, Premier of Queensland, and Peter Alwast, winner of the Premier of Queensland’s
National New Media Art Award, October 2008.
Above: Guests discuss Natalie Jeremijenko’s installation GreenLight system 2007.
Photographs: Ray Fulton
Top: Anita Fontaine / CuteXdoom II (production still) 2008.