Cara-Ann Simpson
Australien (Australia)
http://www.caraannsimpson.com
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Ölmalerei
Stil: Abstrakt
Statement:
Cara-Ann Simpson (b. 1985) is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on sculpture, sound, space and the participant. Cara-Ann is concerned with modes of listening/hearing in social situations and how people interact with sound.
In 2011, Cara-Ann has received a New Work (Media Arts) Music Board Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts and an International Program: Cultural Exchange Grant from Arts Victoria. She presented at Subtle Technologies Festival & Symposium in Toronto, Canada, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2011 in Istabul, Turkey, and will publish a paper with Eva Cheng in the International Journal of Art & Technology.
In 2010, Cara-Ann received a Young Artists' Grant from the City of Melbourne to support the exhibition of Geo Sound Helmets at Kings ARI in Melbourne, Australia. In 2010 she also received an ArtStart grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to attend the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME2010, Singapore) where she presented a paper with collaborator Eva Cheng (research engineer) on an interactive sound installation. The Janet Holmes á Court Artists’ Grant Scheme supported the development of this installation in 2009, and Cara-Ann was subsequently featured in Real Time Magazine’s online Studio section.
She graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts First Class Honours from the University of Southern Queensland in 2008, and received the University of Southern Queensland Faculty of Art – Visual Arts medal in 2007. Simpson was the recipient of the Hobday and Hingston Bursary from the Queensland Art Gallery in 2007 for being the most promising undergraduate student from a Queensland tertiary art course. Cara-Ann also received the Asia-Pacific Golden Key International Honours Society Visual & Performing Arts Sculpture Award (2008), and was short-listed in the Wilson HTM National Art Prize (2009), and Agendo (2009).
Simpson has had a number of solo exhibitions, sound releases and been involved in numerous performances and group shows within Australia, New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates. Cara-Ann is the Co-Director & Co-Producer of Electrofringe Ltd, which hosts an annual electronic arts festival and year-round programming in Australia. She is currently working on several collaborative and solo projects in Melbourne, Australia. Cara-Ann recently became the curator for Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, the public art gallery of the City of Darebin, Melbourne.
Cara-Ann is currently raising money to continue working on Geo Sound Helmets - to contribute, through a rewards based program, please visit:http://www.caraannsimpson.com/gshelmets.
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Vita / Lebenslauf:
CURRICULUM VITAE
Key Achievements
Upcoming: Simpson, CA. & Cheng, E., Noise Cancellation: disrupting audio perception,
International Journal of Arts and Technology, Inderscience Publishers, Bucks, UK
2011 New Work (Media Arts) Grant, Music Board, Australia Council for the Arts
International Program: Cultural Exchange Grant, Arts Victoria
Presenter at Subtle Technologies Symposium (and festival), Toronto, Canada
Co-producer of Electrofringe Ltd (2011-2012)
2010 Young Artists’ Grant, City of Melbourne
ArtStart Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
Co-presenter (with Eva Cheng), Noise Cancellation: disrupting audio perception, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Singapore
2009 Janet Holmes a Court Artists Grant, National Association of Visual Arts
2008 Asia-Pacific Golden Key International Honours Society Visual and Performing Arts Sculpture Scholarship
2007 University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Art Medal, Visual Arts
Hobday and Hingston Bursary, Queensland Art Gallery
Education
2008 Bachelor of Visual Arts First Class Honours, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
2005-2007 Bachelor of Visual Arts with Distinction, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
Installations
Upcoming: Geo Sound Helmets, with technical team Eva Cheng, James Laird & Ben Landau, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2011 Geo Sound Helmets, with technical team Eva Cheng, James Laird & Ben Landau, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand
Stabilisers (Jasmin Coleman) & Transitioning, immersive sound for Jasmin Coleman’s installation, FELT Space, Adelaide, and inbetweenspaces, Brisbane
2009 Noise Cancellation: disrupting audio perception, with Eva Cheng (engineer), Conical Inc, Melbourne
2008 Deconstructed Matter, Australasian Computer Music Conference 2008 (sound:space), Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Bundoora Homestead: a sonic landscape, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
2009 Sound Project: Cara-Ann Simpson, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney
2007 Yellow & White Gallery, Big Small Gallery, USQ, Toowoomba
White Square, Whyte Project Space, Toowoomba
sound:white, Rosalie Gallery, Goombungee
Type White & Silver #1, USQ Foyer Gallery, USQ, Toowoomba
Selected Performances & Sound Production
2008 Audio Aware: Lawrence English & Cara-Ann Simpson, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane
Archi Live, with Kyle Jenkins, Hotel Norville, Toowoomba
2007 Inter-Reflex, Empire Theatre Studio, Toowoomba, collaboration
Chance Composition Series, performances and recordings, USQ Concert Hall Studios
2006 Performance Art Evening, USQ Concert Hall, Toowoomba
Sound Releases
Upcoming: Pretty Young, Archi (with Kyle Jenkins)
4 phases, Archi (with Kyle Jenkins)
2008 12 x 12 x 12, edition of 12 cds, independent release
2007 tracking field, edition of 30 cds, independent release
2006/2007 B.R.E.A.T.H.E., edition of 30 mini-cds, Sponge:Theory Records
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 The River, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
InterScapes, Jugglers Art Space, Brisbane
Black and White: kalós + eidos, Made. creative space, Toowoomba
2010 Darebin Art Show, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
Culture Shock Art Exhibition, Young Street Gallery, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
Please don’t let me be misunderstood, Waterside Pavilion, Hobart
2009 A New Internationale, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney
2008 Canaan 2008 Music Festival (December), Takaka, New Zealand
New Release, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba
Vincente Butron, Aaron Hill, Cara-Ann Simpson, ie. Contemporary art projects, Toowoomba
Sound of Failure 08, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney
12 x 12 x 12, Thorn Street Studios, Toowoomba
Inside Out, ie. Contemporary art projects, Toowoomba
A strong sense of the fabrication of things, Rewak – The Art Gallery, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2007 Graduart 07, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba
USQ Exchange Exhibition, Massey University, New Zealand
Sound of Failure, Don’t Look Gallery, Sydney
Crates on Wheels, travelling exhibition, Queensland
2006 Interlinking Cultures, Rosalie Gallery, Goombungee
Flash Trash, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba
Collaboration
2011 Geodesic Sound Helmets, research papers, prototype and installations with Eva Cheng (Melbourne), James Laird (Sydney) and Ben Landau (Melbourne / The Netherlands)
2010 Noise Cancellation: disrupting audio perception, research papers and installation with Eva Cheng
Archi, collaborative sound and video projects with Kyle Jenkins
2009 chiaroscuro, dance film, Kirsty Lee (choreographer) and Carly Woods (film)
Archi, collaborative sound and video projects with Kyle Jenkins
2008 Archi, sound performances and projects with Kyle Jenkins
2007 Inter-Reflex, inter-arts performance with Katey Aspin, Shannon Cook (Upsilon Arts), Kyle Jenkins and Steven Harris, Empire Theatre Studio
Untitled, installation with Ibraheim Swaid (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates), USQ
Selected Artist Led Activities
2011 Curator, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre (City of Darebin), Bundoora, Melbourne
Presenter, International Symposium on Electronic Art 2011 (ISEA), Istanbul, Turkey
Presenter, poster & demonstration, Subtle Technologies Symposium, Toronto, Canada
Guest lecturer, School of Industrial Design, RMIT University, Melbourne
Guest lecturer, School of Visual Arts, La Trobe University, Bendigo
Invited presenter, Entrepreneurs Gala Challenge, Melbourne
Guest lecturer, School of Creative Arts, James Cook University, Townsville
Co-Director, Electrofringe Ltd, electronic arts organisation, Australia
Co-Producer, Electrofringe, electronic arts festival based in Newcastle, NSW
Curator, Electrofringe Regional Events Program, eMerge Media Space, James Cook University, Townsville
2010 Co-presenter (with Eva Cheng), Noise Cancellation: disrupting audio perception, for the Interactive Multimedia Installation and Digital Art workshop, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Singapore
2008 Curator and coordinator, Audio Aware, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane
Coordinator, New Release, USQ and Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Sounding Paper Cityscapes, concept and production of two children’s art and sound workshops, Sunday at the Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2007 Coordinator and co-curator, Graduart07, USQ and Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Co-curator, Massey Student Exchange Exhibition, USQ Foyer Gallery, Toowoomba
2007/2006 Graphic designer, Rosalie Gallery, Goombungee
2006 Curator and coordinator, Performance Art Evening, USQ Concert Hall, Toowoomba
Selected Prizes, Grants and Awards
2011 Finalist, The Fleurieu Art Prize – Youth Scholarship, Wirra Wirra Winery, McLaren Vale
Finalist, Agendo 2011, St Heliers Street Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Finalist, Wilson HTM National Art Prize 2009, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
Finalist, Agendo 2009, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne
Finalist, Port Jackson Press Graduate Printmaking Award 2009, Port Jackson Press Centre for Australian Printmaking, Melbourne
2008 Finalist, Emerging Artists Awards, Shalom College, Bundaberg
Commended, Picture This 08, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2007 RADF grant – Graduart07 (Coordinator)
2006 RADF grant – to attend VERGE2006
2002 ZONTA Young Women in Public Affairs Regional Award, Toowoomba
2001 Dalcroze Level 1 (Foundation) Certificate, Dalcroze Australia
Publications
Upcoming: Simpson, CA. & Cheng, E., Noise Cancellation: disrupting audio perception, International Journal of Arts and Technology, Inderscience Publishers, Bucks, United Kingdom
2011 Simpson, CA., Landau, B., Laird, J. & Cheng, E., Geo Sound Helmets: breath-controlled interactive installation, International Symposium on Electronic Arts 2011, Turkey, Istanbul
Simpson, CA., Electrofringe in Townsville: Discerning Time, Space and Tension, catalogue essay for exhibition at eMerge Media Space, James Cook University, Townsville
Simpson, CA., Black and White: kalós + eidos, catalogue essay for exhibition at Made. creative space, Toowoomba
2010 Simpson, CA. & Cheng, E., Noise Cancellation: disrupting audio perception, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Installations and Digital Art (ISBN: 978-1-4244-7492-9)
2009 Simpson, CA., Noise Cancellation: disrupting audio perception, catalogue essay for installation at Conical Inc., Melbourne
2007 Simpson, CA., sound:white, catalogue essay for exhibition at Rosalie Gallery, Goombungee
Selected Bibliography
2009 Jenkins, K., The Act of Things That Aren’t There, catalogue essay for “Noise Cancellation: disrupting audio perception” at Conical Inc., Melbourne
Byrne, B., if walls had ears, review and interview, Real Time Arts Online Studio. Available: http://www.realtimearts.net/studio-artist/Noise-cancellation-disrupting-audio-perception
2008 Hill, A. & Shafran, T., New Release exhibition catalogue, USQ Printery
Emerging Artists Awards exhibition catalogue, Shalom College
2007 Graduart 07 exhibition catalogue, USQ Printery
2006 Flash Trash exhibition catalogue, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Collections
Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Alroe Solicitors
Private Collections in Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and United Arab Emirates
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