Mitch Goodwin
Since 2010
oldmateo@gmail.com
Works in Portland Australia

BIO
Dr Mitch Goodwin is an independent media artist and academic. He is the Founding Director of the Screengrab International Media Arts Award and Curator of the associated exhibition program. As a practitioner his work has toured widely throughout Australia, Europe and the United States and in 2014 he was shortlisted for both the MADATAC video art award and the prestigious Lumen Digital Arts Prize for his film Mineral Machine Music. In 2015 Mitch was invited to attend SXSW Interactive in Austin Texas where he presented on his research into Liquid Ambient Futures and most recently at ACMI in Melbourne for the David Bowie Symposium.

Mitch has facilitated numerous community programs for young people with private and government sponsored initiatives for emerging artists in Australia and the UK and was the founding Director of the Renew Townsville project based on the successful Newcastle model.

As an academic Mitch is has 15 years of experience in which time he has developed a profile as a coordinator of interdisciplinary capstones and as a degree coordinator at both undergraduate and graduate level in the areas of Digital TV Production, Interactive Media, Film Production Technology and New Media Arts. As an academic consultant Mitch has provided a variety of expert services to the tertiary sector including MOOC course development for James Cook University (Townsville, Aus), design and implementation of digital media curriculum for the Griffith Film School (Brisbane, Australia), authored and validated a film production program at Birmingham City University (UK), provided external validation and bench marking services for the Screen Production program at Staffordshire University (UK) and produced a feasibility study into Media Lab infrastructure for the University of Melbourne (Aus).

Mitch currently resides in Portland Victoria where he is writing a monograph based on his PhD research, Dark Euphoria: The Neo-Gothic Narrative of Millennial Technoculture.
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EVENT

Screengrab New Media Arts Prize 2010


Dates:
Mon Oct 25, 2010 00:00 - Mon Oct 25, 2010

Location:
Australia

SCREENGRAB 2010 : "The Network will be visualised"

On Friday night (15.10.10) at James Cook University’s eMerge Media Space the 2010 winner of the Screengrab New Media Arts Prize was awarded to Italian artists, Juliana Gotilla and Izabel Rainer Harbach.

The Italian duo’s video art piece, Fluid Network, captured the judge’s attention for the $2000 award with its intriguing execution and quirky interpretation of this year’s theme - the Network. A strangely nostalgic construction, Fluid Network torments and seduces the viewer with the familiar sound bites of network communication technolgies - Skype, IM, modems, ICQ chat alerts and the dystopian bleeps of distance - as pools of liquid with an uncanny resemblance to a map of the earth is slowly flooded by drops of liquid.

Judges Bernadette Ashley, Jak Henson and Dr Steven Campbell awarded this year’s prize to Gotilla and Harbach after a lengthy deliberation which saw several other works factoring heavily in the discussions, including :

Golden Shield Music by Marco Donnarumma (UK) http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/the-invisible-suns-project/
Spam : The Musical by Boris Eldagsen (Germany) http://www.youtube.com/spamthemusical
SILICA-ESC by Vladimir Todorovic (Singapore) http://vimeo.com/10154340
PRESS + by Benjamin Ducroz (Australia) http://ducroz.com/\_html/press+.html

Several other Australian artists also feature prominently including Benjamin Forster http://vimeo.com/6993958 and renowned Flash artist Jason Nelson http://www.secrettechnology.com/sydney/sibera.html. A full list of all the short listed artists whose work is now on show in the 2010 Screengrab exhibition can be found here : http://www.jcu.edu.au/soca/JCUPRD1\_066890.html

The 2010 Screengrab exhibition will be on show at the School of Creative Art’s eMerge Media Space at James Cook University, Townsville, until Friday 19th December. Entry is free.

Link to winning artist's blog site : http://rapadurastudio.wordpress.com/

Link to winning work on Vimeo : http://vimeo.com/15953531

All media inquiries : screengrab@jcu.edu.au | +61 74781 3142

eMerge Media Space opening hours and events calender : www.jcu.edu.au/soca/gallery/

This project is sponsored by James Cook University's School of Creative Arts and the eMerge Media Space, Townsville, Australia.

MG-EM-RG-20-10-2010

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