Dr. Ian Haig
Senior Lecturer
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College: School of Art
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Department: School of Art
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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ian.haig@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0001-6523-7672
About
Dr Ian Haig is a senior lecturer at the School of Art at RMIT University.
Industry Experience:
Recent exhibitions-
UNCO, Torrance art museum, Los Angeles, 2013
ISEA (19th International Symposium of Electronic Art) Verge Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2013
National new media art award, Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 2012
International Symposium of Electronic Art, Cumhuriyet Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011
New media, sex and culture in the 21st century, Museum of new art, Detroit, USA, 2010
Chronicles of the new human organism, (solo show), Institute of modern art, Brisbane, Australia, 2010
Shilo Project, Ian Potter museum of art, Melbourne, Australia, 2009
Body, Project space gallery - RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, 2009
The Bon Scott Project, Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle, Australia, 2008
ZOSO (collaboration with Philip Samartzis and Darren Tofts)', Project Space gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 2007
'The Dirt Factory', (solo show). Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, 2005
'Bimbo laboratory', (solo Show), CAST Gallery (Contemporary Art Services, Tasmania), Hobart, Tasmania, 2005
'Futurotic', Sexpo, Melbourne exhibition centre, Melbourne, Australia, 2003
'Human aquatic breeding centre', (solo show) Perth Institute for contemporary art, Perth, Australia, 2003
Industry Experience:
Recent exhibitions-
UNCO, Torrance art museum, Los Angeles, 2013
ISEA (19th International Symposium of Electronic Art) Verge Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2013
National new media art award, Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 2012
International Symposium of Electronic Art, Cumhuriyet Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011
New media, sex and culture in the 21st century, Museum of new art, Detroit, USA, 2010
Chronicles of the new human organism, (solo show), Institute of modern art, Brisbane, Australia, 2010
Shilo Project, Ian Potter museum of art, Melbourne, Australia, 2009
Body, Project space gallery - RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, 2009
The Bon Scott Project, Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle, Australia, 2008
ZOSO (collaboration with Philip Samartzis and Darren Tofts)', Project Space gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 2007
'The Dirt Factory', (solo show). Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, 2005
'Bimbo laboratory', (solo Show), CAST Gallery (Contemporary Art Services, Tasmania), Hobart, Tasmania, 2005
'Futurotic', Sexpo, Melbourne exhibition centre, Melbourne, Australia, 2003
'Human aquatic breeding centre', (solo show) Perth Institute for contemporary art, Perth, Australia, 2003
Research fields
- 3601 Art history, theory and criticism
- 4702 Cultural studies
- 5003 Philosophy
- 3602 Creative and professional writing
- 3605 Screen and digital media
- 4701 Communication and media studies
Non-academic positions
- Curator
- Unco
- Torrance art museum
- , Los Angeles
- 2013 – 2013
- Curator
- RMIT University
- Sleeper, a public art video project, in collaboration with City of greater Dandenong, Arts Victoria, and Public Art, School of art
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2009 – 2009
- Artist in residence
- Australia Council
- Visual arts board, studio residency
- , Los Angeles
- 2008 – 2008
- Artist in residence
- Asialink Studio residency
- Ssamzie space
- , South Korea
- 2006 – 2006
- Curator
- Treasury Theatre
- Wet and Dry, (Co-Curator) International Video Art Screening program, in association with The Centre For Contemporary Photography
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2001 – 2001
- Artist in residence
- Australia Council
- Visual Arts/Craft board, studio residency
- , Japan
- 1999 – 1999
- Curator
- Mousetrap
- animation and video screenings: as part of the 47th International Melbourne Film Festival
- , Australia
- 1998 – 1998
Supervisor projects
- The ElectroPoetics : performing co-created being-hoods in the electronic world
- 11 Jan 2022
- Network Gestures Critical and Creative Responses to the Networked Body
- 1 Feb 2018
- Smartphonocentrism: The Voice as Detritus in Video Art
- 9 Aug 2016
- Meta Culture: Branding, Semiology and the Language of Display
- 2 Mar 2015
Teaching interests
Media art technologies, low culture, cinema, hybridity, pop and trash culture, video art, disease, the abject body, the psychopathological relationship to technology, web art, sex, death, body horror, the uncanny, disgust
Research interests
Visual Arts and Crafts, Film, Television and Digital Media, Art Theory and Criticism, Cultural Studies, Other Studies in Creative Arts and Writing
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
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
