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Ross Rudesch Harley

Layer: DAOO Artists with known birth places and birth years
Type: Other

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Latitude: -33.867778
Longitude: 151.21
Start Date: 1961-01-01
End Date: 1961-01-01

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DAAO URL: https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ross-harley
Birth Place: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Biography: Ross Rudesch Harley is an artist, writer, and educator in the field of new media and popular culture. His work crosses the bounds of cinema, music, art, design, architecture and media art practice. He first started working with video in the late 1970s, making music video for Brisbane/Sydney power-pop bands The Riptides and his own bands The Myth, Phollowers, and Catchcry (with ex-Riptide Andrew Leitch and Michael Gorman; and Screaming Tribesmendrummer Murray Shepherd. During the Eighties, his experimental work and found-footage videos and installations have been exhibited in many festivals, galleries and exhibitions including Australian Perspecta, Montbeliard Video Festival, Roslyn9 Oxley Gallery, Ars Electronica and New York MoMA’s Video Viewpoints series. In 1986 he curated the Know Your Product exhibition on local post-punk culture for the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane. From 1986-91 he was managing editor then editor of the art theory journal Art + Text, which had considerable impact upon the contemporary art scene in Australia. He was the director of the Third International Symposium on Electronic Art, TISEA in 1992. A couple of years later, together with Peter Callas and Alessio Cavallaro, he produced and toured An Eccentric Orbit: Electronic Media Art in Australia for audiences in the US and Europe. Since 1996 he has been responsible for the Cardoso Flea Circus audio/video with Colombian-born artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso. Their video-tent installation was recently acquired by the Tate in London as part of its permanent collection. Between 2000 and 2005 he collaborated (with Gillian Fuller) on the Aviopolis multimedia project (book, website, CD-ROM, DVD) about airports. The book was published by Black Dog Publications, London, 2004. Between 2005 and 2012 his research and art projects include: “Video Art Online: from Ubu to Imperial Slacks” a critical history of video art in Sydney together with video artist John Gillies; “My Own Private Airspace”, a multichannel video of personal airflights and itineraries (with Leo Martyn animator and Lawrence English sound); and “The Incredible VHS Video Remix Machine“, the working title of a collaborative project with Elvis Richardson based on archives of VHS tapes and VJ presentation tools. Writers: fulleg Date written: 2012 Last updated: 2012
Born: b. 1961
Summary: Ross Rudesch Harley is an artist, writer, curator and educator in the field of new media and popular culture.
Gender: Male
Died: None listed
Age at death: None listed