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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OPPORTUNITY

Screengrab7 :: Media Arts Award :: Resistance!


Deadline:
Sun Nov 01, 2015 23:59

Location:
Townsville, Australia


SCREENGRAB is looking for challenging and provocative works by media arts practitioners and theorists working in screen based media on the theme of RESISTANCE. All interpretations of resistance will be considered: the politics of resistance, the physics of resistance, the messiness of resistance, the urgency of resistance - and all its private, political and social connotations, (see the full theme abstract at http://screengrab.info).

SCREENGRAB is now entering its seventh year with an international call out for the AU$10,000 Media Arts Prize and the companion exhibition to be held in December 2015 for short listed applicants.

All forms of screen based media are encouraged, including video art/essay/documentary, media assemblage, media installation, digital animation, interactive and generative media.

We are particularly interested in existing works completed post-December 2010 and those specifically designed for the award that address the theme of RESISTANCE. Only works that address the theme will be eligible for the AU$10,000 Media Arts award.



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Screengrab Media Arts Award


Deadline:
Mon Aug 04, 2014 23:55

Location:
Townsville, Australia

Now in its 6th year the Screengrab International Media Arts Award has doubled its cash prize to AU$10,000.

"Change, at speed, everywhere."

The Screengrab team seek works that explore the theme of VELOCITY – personal, virtual and commercial – and all its private, political and social connotations. Creators, imagineers and explorers of the moving image, of audio/visual collage / translators of data, big and small / trackers of the real and of the imagined and of the virtual and the animated / explorers of augmented reality, interactive media and generative art are all encouraged to submit works that address the theme of VELOCITY.

Existing works (completed post-January 2012) and those specifically designed for the award must address the theme of VELOCITY to be eligible for the Screengrab International Media Arts Award.

The Application Form and Guidelines can be found on the project website: http://screengrab.info

Exhibition of shortlisted works and award announcement: September 20, 2014

Screengrab is a project developed by media artist Mitch Goodwin for the School of Creative Arts at James Cook University and is a co-production between eMerge Gallery and Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville Australia.

Inquiries: screengrab@jcu.edu.au


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Screengrab -:- $5000 New Media Award


Deadline:
Mon Jul 01, 2013 17:05

Location:
Townsville, Australia

Big beautiful data is everywhere. Sounds are everywhere. Images are everywhere. The network sends and receives everything. We capture, post, follow, share and archive. Data becomes us.

This new aesthetic of machine ambience is at once an embodiment of our private present selves but also an ambient beautification of what lies in our wake. We remix our environment by just being present in it. We bring our own signal noise with us wherever we go. We are fast becoming the sample bank of a dense ambient mix of images and sound.

What does this look like? How do we construct our own ambient worlds? How is Big Data constructing it for us? Where does our ambience end and where do that of others begin?

The 5th International Screengrab New Media Arts Award seeks works that explore the theme of ambience – personal, virtual and commercial - and all its private, political and social connotations. Creators, imagineers and explorers of big data, augmented reality, data aesthetics, generative art, audio/visual collage and interactive environments are encouraged to submit works that address the theme of the ambience.


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Call for Artists -:- Screengrab -:- $5000 New Media Arts Award


Deadline:
Mon Jul 02, 2012 17:00

Location:
Townsville, Australia

The 2012 Screengrab New Media Arts Award and associated exhibition is looking for challenging creative works by media arts practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of CONTROL.

DEADLINE: July 2, 2012

ENTRY APP: http://screengrab.info

WEB FLYER: http://screenculture.com/screengrab2012.jpg

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2012 Award Theme

The contemporary media milieu would suggest an evolving devolution of the traditional notion of the "society of control". The boundaries of enclosures and spaces are no longer the rigid and defined perimeters they once were. The browser, the mobile camera/screen are new enabling simulations the user canexploit to navigate alternative pathways, to experience new modes of expression and to participate in global cultural exchange.

This is reflected online and on the street. In our political discourse and our social interactions. And it is most visible when repatriated via the mainstream media and traditional news editorials coupled with wild proclamations of “new freedoms” accompanied by “real change”.

Yet what has really changed? What do these new counter measures look like on the ground? Where do the subversions play out? What new questions are we asking of our environment and of ourselves?

In the same evolving moment new far less visible forms of control are emerging that use these very same technological platforms: surveillance networks, social media, data mining algorithms, privacy interventions, sophisticated image gathering techniques and drone technologies. These aggregators of data and network traffic are rapidly translating our private, public and social lives into valuable sets of relational data – re-writing the notion of identity, weaving new paradigms of control.

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The Call Out

SCREENGRAB is now entering its fourth year with an international call out for the AUS$5000 New Media Arts Prize and the companion exhibition in August 2012 for short listed applicants. We invite digital practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of CONTROL.

All forms of screen based media are encouraged including multi-channel video, digital illustration, audio sculpture, photography, generative media, 2D & 3D animation.

Existing worx and those specifically designed for the award must address the theme of CONTROL to beeligible for the New Media Arts award.

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Prize Money: AUS $5000

Artefact deadline: July 2

Exhibition Opening & Award announcement : August 10

Application Form : http://screengrab.info

Information & Inquiries : screengrab@jcu.edu.au

"Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug."
- John Lithgow

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This project is sponsored by James Cook University's School of Creative Arts and the eMergeMedia Space.

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Call For Artists :: Screengrab 2011 :: Nostalgia


Deadline:
Fri Jul 22, 2011 00:00

Location:
Townsville, Australia

Nostalgia runs deep in the network.
The clean lines and coded purity of interface culture and consumer
electronics belies a deeper yearning for the origins of new media.  8
Bit games, glitch art, stop motion video, audio distortions and retro
stylings are cropping up throughout the networked landscape as artists
unpack, smudge, melt, data-mosh and retrace their steps back to the
early halcyon days of digital media.  Tactile, fluid, fuzzy analogue
aesthetics are emerging in surprising places as the origins of our
streamlined relationship with technology and the world around us is
interrogated, encoded and telegraphed into our livings rooms, browsers
and pockets.
Jaron Lanier in his text, You Are Not A Gadget, calls for a more
humanist approach to the way we participate in network culture and
insists we must seek always to preserve our individuality in such
exchanges.  Retro leanings and nostalgic turns speak to this desire.  It
reveals the human in the electronic interface.  It celebrates the
mistake, the error, the uniqueness and the beauty of the digital
aesthetic at a critical time in the evolution of media arts practice.
The 2011 Screengrab New Media Arts Award and associated exhibition is
looking for challenging creative works by media artists who have a
yearning for the past and seek to examine the future. We invite these
digital practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on
the theme of the Nostalgia.

The Call Out :
SCREENGRAB is now entering its third year with an international call out
for the AUS$2000 New Media Arts Prize and the companion exhibition in
August for short listed applicants. We invite digital practitioners
working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of NOSTALGIA.
All forms of screen based media are encouraged including multi-channel
video, digital illustration, audio sculpture, photography, generative
media, 2D & 3D animation.
Existing worx and those specifically designed for the award must address
the theme of NOSTALGIA to be eligible for the New Media Arts award.
Prize Money:  AUS $2000
Artefact deadline:  22-07-11
Exhibition Opening & Award announcement : 12-08-11
Application Form : http://www.jcu.edu.au/soca/screengrab/

"Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug."
- John Lithgow
This project is sponsored by James Cook University's School of Creative Arts and the eMerge Media Space.