University of Tasmania, Australia

Flesh Blood Tech Art

Bodies and technology, aggression and trauma, the corporeal and the digital, Linda Dement will discuss a range of her work from the photographic to electronic.

Linda Dement is a Sydney based artist who has worked in arts computing since the late ‘80s, with a background in photography, film, and video. She works with issues of disturbance, commingling psycho sexual violent corporeality with the digital and electronic.

Her interactive and still image work has been widely exhibited internationally and locally, including at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Ars Electronica in Austria, the International Symposia of Electronic Art in Sydney and Montreal and the Impakt Media Arts Festival in Europe. She is twice winner of the Australian National Digital Art Award (the Harries), has been awarded a New Media Arts Fellowship by the Australia Council for the Arts.

“Dement’s gift is to turn polymorphous perversity to aesthetic ends, let it run free and enjoy itself. The sacred and the savage, sexuality and abuse, are her private square of opposition.” – George Alexander