PAUL THOMAS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1999 Attended the Computer Art Design and Education Conference (CADE99) Middlesborough UK

Curated and instigated the exhibition ‘Screen_Image’ Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, http://artweb.sea.curtin.edu.au/screen_image

1998 Commencing PhD at the University of Western Australia

Award Australia Council New Media Arts grant for a partnership with Imago Multimedia Centre.

Participated in the Australian Network for Art and Technology summer school.

1997 Curriculum development of Interdisciplinary Studies units, Inter Technology Studies and New Media.

1996 Instigator and founder member of Terminus=

MA Hons (Honors) in visual art at the University of Western Sydney.

1992 Produced and designed various publications and catalogues for PICA Press.

1992 Appointed exam co-ordinator for Fine Art in W.A.

1990 /91 Appointed to advanced skills Lecturer position Western Australian School of Art and Design

Editor and co-designer of Praxis M, WA's contemporary art magazine.

1989 Curriculum development of Interdisciplinary Studies units

Course controller for Fine Art Diploma instigator of Interdisciplinary Studies, Western Australian School of Art and Design

1988 Appointed Study Area Leader for the Foundation.

1986 Curriculum development of Foundation Studies units

Instigator and course controller for Foundation Course Western Australian School of Art and Design

1981 Founder member of Media-Space.

1980 Taught Foundation at Curtin University

Full-time lecturer Western Australian School of Art and Design.

1977 Became permanent resident in Perth, Western Australia.

Taught drawing and Printmaking Western Australian School of Art and Design.

Became a member of the Fine Art Print Work Shop 444 William Street Perth.

1976-77 Postgraduate Teaching qualification, University of London, Goldsmiths’ College

1973-76 B.A. Hons, Camberwell School of Art, London.

1950 Born Lincolnshire, England.

EXHIBITIONS

1999 Participated in ‘Screen_Image’ Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, http://artweb.sea.curtin.edu.au/screen_image

1998 Exhibited CD-ROM ‘Spatial Emergence/Transphysical City’ Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. http://www.visiblespace.com

Exhibited CD-ROM ‘Spatial Emergence/Transphysical City’ Institute of Modern Art, National Digital Art Award, Brisbane.

Exhibited CD-ROM ‘Spatial Emergence/Transphysical City’ Artspace, Sydney.

Exhibited CD-ROM ‘ Poetics of Thresholds’ Art Gallery of Western Australia

Participated in the Australian Network for Art and Technology summer school.

1997 Creator of Thresholds website http://www.visiblespace.com

Experimenta E~Media gallery 'The Poetics of Thresholds'. (CD-ROM) Melbourne. (December)

Creator of Thresholds website http://www.visiblespace.com

Creator of Terminus= website http://www.sea.curtin.edu.au/terminus=

1996 Participated 'Situations Vacant' (Media-Space) retrospective view of art spaces

1995 Participated in 'Pixels' electronic art exhibition Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. As part of the Artrage Festival.

Solo exhibition 'Thresholds', Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Participated in a group exhibition 'Missing' Goddard De-Fibbes. Gallery Installation of Media-Space work

1994 'Thresholds', solo-exhibition YZ Gallery University of Western Sydney

1993 Solo exhibition of paintings at the old Praxis Gallery Fremantle, WA

1991 'Visual Thinking', Solo retrospective exhibition of photo- documentary work at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts spanning 1977 - 1990.

Participated in a group exhibition at the Pittsburgh Centre for the Arts (audio component).

1990 Dis-appearance a fax project around Australia, Exhibited at 200 Gertrude Street Melbourne and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.

1988 Solo exhibition of drawings at the Bridge Gallery, Perth.

Performance 'Interpretation' as part of ARX artist exchange

'I Send You One', project, 8 images created on computer and networked internationally. The results were printed in Praxis M#16

1987 Photo-Document 10 images created on a 3.5 disc for a Macintosh computer disc sent out as a catalogue

'See It Be It ‘ Installation television drawings at Praxis WA.

1986 Participated in the audio section of ANZART, New Zealand

Performance of 'Sound Drawings' Praxis, WA.

Participated in the Venice Biennale as part of the Art and Science global link up via ARTEX global computer link up.

1985 'Print as object' exhibition in Melbourne. The work was created on a computer floppy disc and printed out to be displayed in each location.

1984 Performance of audio works in the Media-Space Experimental Soundworks Festival for the Festival of Perth.

Media-Space group 'Mediation', installation at the Darklight Gallery, Praxis, Fremantle, WA.

Media-Space group Installation 'Mediation' at the IMA, Brisbane, QLD

Performance of Audio Works at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.

Group exhibition 'Twenty Six Characters' in Artist Week, as part of the Adelaide Festival Fringe. Also presented the performance 'A Realist View'.

Performance of audio works at 'Art in the Museum', the Festival of Perth.

Performance of 'A Realist View' at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Media-Space group exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia 'REDLINE', installation work part of the Festival of Perth.

Participants for Australia at Zona, Florence, Italy.

1983 Group exhibition Audio Works, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden.

Participation by invitation with Media-Space at ANZART in Hobart, TAS.

Participated Sound Poetry and the Open Sandwich ANZART in Hobart, TAS.

Produced radio program for national ABC radio ACOUSTA-NOVA.

1982 Participated with Media-Space in F-1, invitational exhibition in Wellington, New Zealand.

Performance of 'Slow Sticks' at Praxis Gallery, Fremantle, WA.

Participated with Media-Space in travelling documents exhibition at One Flat, Brisbane and A Space, Sydney.

1981 Founder member of Media-Space, alternative art space in Perth, WA.

1980 Photo Documents exhibition at W.A.I.T., Perth W.A.

1978 Print Council of Australia Travelling exhibition.

1977 Combined exhibition at the Canberra Gallery.

1977 Combined exhibition at the Dusseldorf Gallery (Perth).

Publications

Papers

Lectures/Papers

Reconsideration of Space’ paper, Computer Art Design and Education Conference (CADE99) Middlesborugh UK.

Western Australian School of Art and Design ‘Spatial Emergence’

Fremantle Lecture, 'UNIQUE STATE' Fremantle Arts Foundation 1990

Gwent College of Art 'Media-Space', lecture 1989.

Various Publications

(OFFSET + PHOTOCOPIES)

1980 Journey from Nothing to Nowhere / Waiting for

Nothing / Visible Nothing / Excerpts from Video /

Tangible Space.

1981 Sydney Studio / Media-Space March-May /

Media-Space June / Near Misses September /

Quotations, Interjections, Projection.

1982 Perth: combined publication with Allan Vizents.

PHOTOCOPY PUBLICATIONS

1982 Media-Space Compendium as a participant

Simul / Slow Sticks.

1983 Denial / A Realist View / Putting Things Right.

1984 A Tourist Life.

AUDIO PUBLICATIONS

1981 Subjective/Objective with Allan Vizents.

Slow Sticks performance tape with other tracks by Allan Vizents.

Think Nothing of It and Simul with other tracks by Allan Vizents.

1983 Denial.

This is the Way I See It, I See Land, A Realist View.

1984 Go Home On The Phone, Media Culture, A Tourist Life, We Walked On (with Nigel Helyer). - Mediation tape, Lucky Country, Stunner, Mediation.

1985 Cracked Feet, Performance Art, This Function, Second Coming.

CD-ROM

1995 'Poetics of Thresholds', interactive CD-ROM

1998 ‘Spatial Emergence/Transphysical City’

REFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

Umbrella, Vol 5, No 5, Nov 82, Pg. 113

Art Network, issue 3:4, Pg. 73.

National Gallery Archives

National Library

Franklin Furnace Archives,

Catalogue Audio Modern art Museet, Stockholm.

Dazibao, No 3, May/June 83, France.

Praxis 'M', No 3. No 5. No 15

Twenty Six Characters Catalogue (Artist Week).

Cassette review. Audio Arts.

Among the souvenirs Western Australian Art in the Eighties

Tension magazine