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Julie Clarke

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Researcher/writer/artist

Location

Melbourne, Australia

Interests

Art History and Screen Culture Bioethical and science fiction films also the films of Peter Greenaway David Lynch Jeuno & Caro Joel & Ethan Coen Samira Makhmalbaf.

Julie Joy Clarke was born in Melbourne, Australia.

She has a Phd in Cinema Studies, a Master of Arts (by Research thesis) in Art History and a Postgraduate Diploma in Art History from the University of Melbourne. She undertook her BA in Fine Arts at RMIT.

She is currently Honorary Fellow in Screen Studies in the School of Culture and Communication at The University of Melbourne.

http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/researcher/person6193.html

She is an artist, writer and cultural theorist who has exhibited artwork in Australia, Egypt, Italy, Russia and Texas. Her articles have been published widely in academic books and journals in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Norway and America.

Her creative writing and visual poetry is held in rare book archives in Melbourne, Holland, Italy, Russia and USA.

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EXHIBITIONS


Let’s Shake: Karen Casey I participated in Karen's project that involved shaking the hand of an indigenous Australian. The casts of the handshakes (approximately 300) were installed by Karen at Federation Square in June 2008.

Cracks in the Pavement (Curator: Heather Johnson), Austin, Texas, online art exhibition. My piece was entitled ‘Have you seen this girl?’ 2005. Leonie Cooper and my son Erin Powell assisted me in various ways.

Exquisite Corpse (Curated: Annonda Bell), Bendigo City Art Gallery June/July, 2000

Maxwell Summer Salon Centre for Contemporary Photography, North Fitzroy, 2000. Group exhibition.

Life (Curated: Shaun Wilson), Public Office Stairwell, West Melbourne, August/October, 2000

Lookinglasshouse (Curated: Nik Pappas), RMIT exhibition windows, October, 2000

Lingua Cyberpoetry Webzine, (Curated: Komninos), State Library of Victoria, 1999

Exogenous (Curated: Maggie McCormick) Public Office, Stairwell Gallery, 100 Adderley St., West Melbourne (July), 1999

Mutant Eugenics #1 and #2 Swanston Gallery Space, Union House, Level 8, RMIT, 1998 and Interactive Information Institute, RMIT, 1998.

Flightpaths: Writing Journeys (Curated: Bernie Jannsen), Lovebits - Digital Arts Exposition, Staffordshire, U.K., 1998. See page 6 of AFI News 1998 for information about this project.

Autopsy: The Dissection of Fashion (Curated: Jan Bryant), Melbourne Town Hall, Fringe Festival Melbourne, 1997

Humanetics: Artists Working with the Technological Body Group show (Curated: Shiralee Saul), New Media Network Gallery, Podium Gallery, Southgate, Melbourne, 1995

Bird’s Eye View Group show (Curated:Shiralee.Saul), New Media Network Gallery, Podium Level, Southgate, Melbourne, 1995

Surveillance Installation of artwork in 'Cyberweek' Union House, The University of Melbourne, 1994

Horror Autotoxicus Exhibition of my art at Druids Gallery Restaurant, Swanston Street, Melbourne, 1994.

Academic and artistic affiliations


ACMI Australian Centre for the Moving Image

CINEMA NOVA Best Arthouse films in the heart of Carlton.

NGV National Gallery of Victoria

MALTHOUSE THEATRE Contempory theatre productions.

METRO MAGAZINE Metro magazine is published by the Australian Teachers of Media, (ATOM). ATOM also publishes Screen Education magazine.

Andrew Benthe (aka) Ash Wanders My half-brother who is a musician, writer and producer

Karen Casey Artist

Leonie Joy Cooper Lecturer

Juan Ford Artist

Arthur and Marilouise Kroker Writers

Maggie McCormick Artist

Kyriaki (koula) Maragozidis Artist

Dr Steve Middleton Animator. I supervised Steve's PhD dissertation: 'A Limited Study of Mechanical Intelligence as Media' undertaken at RMIT.

Leonie and Frank Osowski (FnL) Queer culture artists, visual poets, makers of extreme books.

Dr Polona Petek Lecturer in psycho-analytic theory, post-structuralism and feminism

Charles Roberts AIDS activist and friend for life, wherever you are. His book: Infected Queer: notes of an activist, Melbourne: Nosukumo, 1994.

Stelarc Artist and long time friend.

Brecon Walsh Cultural commentator

Book list


Spectacle of the Mind by Julie Clarke Catalogue essay for the 'Spectacle of the Mind' event (performances by Jill Orr, Stelarc and Domenico de Clario) for the launch of the Global Mind Project (Karen Casey & Harry Sokol), Federation Square, Melbourne, 10 December, 2009

Paradox of the Posthuman in Science Fiction/Techno-Horror Films and Visual Media by Julie Clarke VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG Germany, May, 2009

Samira Makhmalbaf's: Darkness and Light by Julie Clarke Article on the Iranian film-maker Samira Makhmalbaf, in particular her use of darkness and light in 'Apple', 'Blackboards' and 'At Four in the Afternoon'. Metro Magazine, ATOM, Australia, #161, July, 2009.

Stelarc's Extra Ear: Ear on the Arm by Julie Clarke 'Performing the Posthuman Body - Stelarc' in my book: The Paradox of the Posthuman addresses Stelarc's Extra Ear: Ear on the Arm

Simulated Talking Machines: Stelarc's Prosthetic Head by Julie Clarke Critical Digital Studies: A Reader, University of Toronto Press, Canada, (eds.) Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, October, 2008. Chapter 32, pgs. 489-498. Originally published in cTheory in 2005. http://criticaldigitalstudies.net

All Too Human: Edward Scissorhands by Julie Clarke 'Film as Text' article for Australian Screen Education, ATOM, Melbourne, Australia, May 2008. Argues that Edward may be read as both abled and disabled by his prosthetic scissorhands.

Doubly Monstrous? Female and Disabled by Julie Clarke Essays in Philosophy, Humboldt State Uni, Califormia, USA, Vol 9, No 1, Jan 2008. In this article I consider instances in visual culture in which artists and filmmakers aestheticize women with damaged, missing or anomalous limbs.

Analysis of Cynthia Verspaget and Adam Fiannacca's IncuBra by Julie Clarke Short review of IncuBra performance at the Meat Market Craft Centre, North Melbourne, written in 2007

Human By Design: GATTACA by Julie Clarke 'Film as Text' article on the bioethical film GATTACA published in Australian Screen Education, ATOM, Australia, July 2007

Review of Michael Richardson's book: Surrealism and Cinema by Julie Clarke Published in Metro Magazine: ATOM, Melbourne, Australia, June 2007

Corporeal Melange: Aesthetics and Ethics of Biomaterials in Stelarc and Nina Sellars's Blender by Julie Clarke Leonardo: Art Science and Technology Journal, MIT, USA, 2006

Aesthetic Emergence + Self by Julie Clarke Article commissioned by Heide Museum of Modern Art, Templestowe, Victoria on Stelarc's work for the Imagine Exhibition, July 2006

Stelarc's Prosthetic Head by Julie Clarke cTheory.net article, published in a Thousand Days of Theory on 19 October 2005

A Sensorial Act of Replication by Julie Clarke Article on Stelarc published in: Stelarc: The Monograph (ed. Marquard Smith), MIT, USA, 2005.

Face-Off, Stelarc Interview by Julie Clarke Meanjin: New Writing in Australia, Portraits of the Artist, (ed Ian Britain), Melbourne University Press, Vol. 64, No. 1 & 2, p166, 2005.

'Enduring Love', 'Rock School ' and 'Dirty Pretty Things'. by Julie Clarke Three separate film reviews for Teaching English Australia. 2005. (Members only site).

pros+thesis by Julie Clarke Article on Stelarc's work for the book: Live Art Performance and the Contemporary, Tate Publications, UK, September 2004.

Karen Casey's Art of Mind by Julie Clarke Catalogue essay for her exhibition at RMIT Storey Hall, 2004

Case for Future Existence or Mutate Now and Live Forever (on the art of Korean artist Lee Bull) by Julie Clarke House of Tomorrow Catalogue, MESH #16, Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne, September 2003.

Waste Culture: GATTACA by Julie Clarke WASTE, MESH On-line Journal, #15, Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne, 2002. When page opens, click on my name

Only Healthy Seed Must Be Sown: GATTACA by Julie Clarke 'Film as text' article published in Australian Screen Education, ATOM, Melbourne, #30, November 2002.

The Human/not human in the work of Orlan and Stelarc by Julie Clarke The Cyborg Experiments: extensions of the body in the media age, (ed. Dr. Joanna Zyslinka), London and New York, Continuum, 2002.

Essay for Steve Middleton's 'youRobot' installation 2002 by Julie Clarke I take a Baudrillardian view of Steve's installation.

Clones—Juan Ford Paintings by Julie Clarke Article for Juan Ford exhibition at Dianne Tanzer GalIery, Melbourne, 2002

Review of Company in Space Performance – Capital Theatre by Julie Clarke Body, Space and Technology Journal, United Kingdom, 2001. To find article, click on REVIEWS

The Sacrificial Body of Orlan by Julie Clarke Body Modification, Body and Society, Special issue, (ed. Mike Featherstone & Bryan S. Turner), United Kingdom, Nottingham Trent University, Vol. 5, 2-3, June to September, 1999. Review in Culture Machine

My family, my face: mutant identities by Julie Clarke Article about my PhD research and influences from my own artwork, published in the 'Campus Review', Vol. 10, Number 16, May 3-9, 2000, p.13

Byte me : art + culture + technology by Julie Clarke, Kevin Murray, Darren Tofts Exhibition curator: Anonda Bell. Artists: Linda Dement, Pat Hoffie, Troy Innocent, Jon McCormack, Patricia Piccinini, Josephine Starrs, Leon Cmielewski, James Verdon. Bendigo, Vic. : Bendigo Art Gallery, 1999.

Technological Women by Julie Clarke Article about women working with technology, published in Openline Magazine, RMIT University, Melbourne, June, 1999.

Being and Non-Being in Cyberspace by Julie Clarke Published in New Stimuli, TUG, The Undercover Girl Magazine, Norway, 1998. http://home.powertech.no/tug/tugma7.htm

Body Status by Julie Clarke (error, I'm listed as Judy Clarke) Article published in MESH, Experimenta, Media Arts, Melbourne, Game Theory Issue 1998. Includes information on Marina Abromovic, Survival Research Laboratories, etc.

Transhuman Aesthetics: Performance Artists and Cyberculture, MA Thesis. by Julie Clarke Unpublished MA Thesis available to read at the University of Melbourne Library, 1997

Endtime by Julie Clarke Email response for the Fleshfactor, Ars Electronica Symposium, 1997. http://www.aec.at/fleshfactor/arch/msg00182.html

Indulge by Julie Clarke Essay for Exhibition catalogue, Fringe Festival, Melbourne, 1997.

Challenge of the Space by Julie Clarke Essay for exhibition catalogue, postgraduate association, The University of Melbourne, 1997

Zibniev Karkowski at the Continental by Julie Clarke Review of performance of Zibniev Karkowski, with Stelarc and Geoffrey Hales at the Continental, Prahran, 1997, commissioned by Karkowski for his Paris and Tokyo performance flyers.

Cyb(erotic) Transformations by Julie Clarke Article published in Artlink: Art in the Electronic Landscape, South Australia, Vol 16, Nos 2 and 3, 1996.

Would you make love to a stick figure? by Julie Clarke Interview with Allucquere Rosanne Stone, transgendered performance artist in MESH magazine, #6, 1995.

The Virtual Scholar Symposium/Interview with research scholar, Matthew Riddle by Julie Clarke Postgraduate Review, The University of Melbourne, 1995

White Woman Variation No.1. by Julie Clarke Review of Linda Sproul performance at ACCA. CATfood Newsletter, July, 1995.

Pollination by Julie Clarke Essay commissioned by MESH Magazine, #3, Autumn, 1993 for an exhibition by Moira Corby, Jacinta LePlaistrier and Heather Fernon.

Love Equals Money by Julie Clarke Review of Michael Cook's performance at Autopsy Bandwagon, Carlton in Clubtractor, No. 1, 1993.

Echo, Mind, Fall by Julie Clarke Poetic prose, self published, Melbourne, 1984. Published under my former name Clarke-Powell. Held in Matheson Library Rare Books, Monash University.

Veils by Julie Clarke Poetic prose. Chapbook published by Post Neo Books, Elwood, Victoria, Australia, 1985. Held at The University of Melbourne Library.

Poems by Julie Clarke Mayblooms, 1984 & 1985

Skywriter by Julie Clarke Poetic prose. Published by Neo Books, Victoria, Australia, 1984. Published under my former name Julie Clarke-Powell. Held in Matheson Library Rare Books, Monash University.

In Our Own Words: Six Melbourne Writers on Tape by Julie Clarke (one of many) Produced by Marcus Breen and Steve Warne, Verbal Graphics, 1984. Included: Chris Barnett, Julie Clarke, Kris Hemensly, Valerie Kirwin, Ania Walwicz. Cassette tape x three tapes.

Up From Below : Poems of the 80s by ed.Irene Coates, Nancy J. Corbett and Barbara Petrie. Published by Redress Press, Sydney My poem: 'I lock my door'

Poem by Julie Clarke Going Down Swinging, No. 1 (edited by Kevin Brophy & Myron Lysenko, 1980.

Poems by Julie Clarke The Merri Creek or Nero (edited by Kris Hemensley, 1979, 1980, 1981

Poetic prose by Julie Clarke Magic Sam, Sydney, 1979.

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