Norie Neumark
Norie Neumark is a sound and media artist who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. She is part of the art group Out-of-Sync, an art collaboration with Maria Miranda. Work. Neumark was Professor of Media Art at University of Technology, Sydney, where she was founding Director of the Centre for Media Arts Innovation (CMAI) at UTS. Neumark is founding editor of "Unlikely Journal for Creative Arts", and founding director of the Centre for Creative Arts at La Trobe University in Melbourne. She is Emeritus Professor at La Trobe and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Victorian College  of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Publications. Radio essays and media art. In the 1990s Neumark made a series of audio essays for the "Listening Room", the premier radio arts program of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC Radio National). Several were also broadcast on New American Radio. In 2003 she initiated and collaborated on the radio/internet drama "Checklist for an Armed Robber". This was an ABC/UTS project. From the early 1990s Neumark initiated several significant projects in new media art, understanding immediately the enormous potential for sound in the new medias. Initially she made CDROM art, making one  of the first Australian art CDROMs, the multi-award-winning "Shock in the Ear", with an innovative use of sound. It was one of the first CDROMs to be funded by the Australian Film Commission (1997). "Shock in the Ear" was included in the international CDROM exhibition Contact Zones: the art of CDROM, curated by Timothy Murray. (1999) Awards for "Shock in the Ear". "Shock in the Ear" was also a new media installation shown at Artspace, Sydney (1997) and Artemesia Gallery, Chicago (1997). Other collaborative new media installations. "Dead Centre: the body with organs" at The Performance Space, Sydney  (July 1999) and in the ABC’s online zine "Headspace" "in the making". "Volcano" a new media installation, Artspace, Sydney 2001 and invited to The Virtual Mine Gegenort, 2001, Germany. In 2004 Neumark, in collaboration with Maria Miranda, made "Searching for rue Simon-Crubellier", ostensibly a search through the streets and bureaucracies of Paris for the fictive street written about by Georges Perec in his celebrated novel "Life a User’s Manual". This project began a new series of mobile works, with "searching" acting as the frame and motif for performative encounters with strangers. Other mobile works include: "Talking About  the Weather", 2006 and "In Search of the Inland Sea" (2008) and "Down the Drain" (2011). In 2007 Neumark co-curated the exhibition "Weather Trouble". In 2010 she co-curated Memory Flows at the Armory, Sydney. Neumark is the recipient of numerous artist grants and residencies, including the prestigious MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire and the Cité internationale des arts in Paris.