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Dr Ian Haig
Dr Ian Haig is a senior lecturer at the School of Art at RMIT University.
Personal Website
Research
Ian Haig works across media, from video, sculpture, drawing, technology based media and installation. Haig’s practice refuses to accept that the low and the base level are devoid of value and cultural meaning. His body obsessed themes can be seen throughout a large body of work over the last twenty years. Previous works have explored the science fiction of sexuality, the degenerative aspects of pervasive new technologies, to cultural forms of fanaticism and cults, to ideas of attraction and repulsion and body horror.
His work has been exhibited in galleries and video/media festivals around the world. Including exhibitions at: The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne; The Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide; The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Artec Biennale – Nagoya, Japan; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Art Museum of China, Beijing. In addition his video work has screened in over 120 Festivals internationally. In 2003 he received a fellowship from the New Media Arts Board of the Australia Council and in 2013 he curated the video art show Unco at The Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles.
His recent PhD explored and researched the abject and visceral body in contemporary media arts culture.
Research supervision
Areas: The body, media art, technology, trash culture, the abject
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Senior Lecturer in Expanded Studio Practice, School of Art
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Co-Coordinator 3rd year, ESP
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Research focus on media art, art and technology and pop and trash culture.
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Senior Lecturer in Expanded Studio Practice, School of Art
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Co-Coordinator 3rd year, ESP
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Research focus on media art, art and technology and pop and trash culture.
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PhD, COFA (University of NSW), 2010–2014
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MA (RMIT), 1998
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Post Graduate Diploma of Art (Philip Institute of Technology), 1990
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Diploma of Art (Philip Institute of Technology), 1987
Fellowship, New media arts board, Australia Council 2003–2004
Artist in residence
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Australia Council, Visual arts board, studio residency, Los Angeles, 2008
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Asialink Studio residency, Ssamzie space, Seoul, Korea, 2006
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Australia Council, Visual Arts/Craft board, studio residency, Tokyo, Japan, 1999
Curator:
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Unco, Torrance art museum, Los Angeles, 2013
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Sleeper, a public art video project, in collaboration with City of greater Dandenong, Arts Victoria, and Public Art, School of art, RMIT, 2009
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Wet and Dry, (Co-Curator) International Video Art Screening program, in association with The Centre For Contemporary Photography, Treasury Theatre, Melbourne, 2001
- Mousetrap, animation and video screenings: as part of the 47th International Melbourne Film Festival, 1998
Recent exhibitions
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UNCO, Torrance art museum, Los Angeles, 2013
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ISEA (19th International Symposium of Electronic Art) Verge Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2013
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National new media art award, Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 2012
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International Symposium of Electronic Art, Cumhuriyet Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011
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New media, sex and culture in the 21st century, Museum of new art, Detroit, USA, 2010
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Chronicles of the new human organism, (solo show), Institute of modern art, Brisbane, Australia, 2010
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Shilo Project, Ian Potter museum of art, Melbourne, Australia, 2009
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Body, Project space gallery - RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, 2009
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The Bon Scott Project, Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle, Australia, 2008
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ZOSO (collaboration with Philip Samartzis and Darren Tofts)', Project Space gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 2007
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'The Dirt Factory', (solo show). Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, 2005
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'Bimbo laboratory', (solo Show), CAST Gallery (Contemporary Art Services, Tasmania), Hobart, Tasmania, 2005
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'Futurotic', Sexpo, Melbourne exhibition centre, Melbourne, Australia, 2003
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'Human aquatic breeding centre', (solo show) Perth Institute for contemporary art, Perth, Australia, 2003
- Haig, I. (2021). On a clear day you can see forever In: 59th Ann Arbor film festival Detroit, USA
- Haig, I. (2019). Hershey Experimental Batch: 113-1916 In: Intercambio, Havana Biennial, Cuba Havana, Cuba
- Haig, I. (2019). Untitled Syndrome In: Other Suns Fremantle, Australia
- Haig, I.,Verhagen, D. (2019). The Video Hole In: Abyss Brisbane, Australia
- Haig, I.,Verhagen, D. (2019). Meatspace In: Meatspace Melbourne
- Haig, I. (2018). Body Horror 2.0 In: Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts, , 1 - 2
- Haig, I. (2018). Video art (The Foaming Node) In: Revelation International film festival Perth, Australia
- Haig, I. (2018). Against Realism: The badly rendered potential of VR In: Artlink: Virtual Reality Ways of Seeing Issue 38:4, December 2018 Australia
- Haig, I. (2017). Body Horror 2.0 In: Flesh on Flesh Berlin, Germany
- Haig, I. (2016). Impossible and incompatible bodies In: Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Conference, Corfu Greece, 20-22 May 2016
2 PhD Completions and 2 Masters by Research Completions
- Borderlands. Funded by: City of Melbourne Arts Grant from (2019 to 2019)
- Bienal de la Habana - Intercambio - a conversation between two trains. Funded by: VicArts Grants 2018 from (2018 to 2019)
- International Exhibition: Carnal Desire, Museum Villa Rot, Germany (APP/2015-0035). Funded by: Creative Victoria Grant pre-2014 from (2015 to 2016)
- The screen of flesh. Funded by: Australia Council for the Arts Grant pre-2014 from (2014 to 2015)