Melinda Rackham

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Dr Melinda Rackham is an Australian Networked Media Artist, Writer and Curator who founded and produced the influential -empyre- online media arts forum (MedienKunstNetz).

An early investigator and commentator on the aesthetic, technological and psychological aspects of identity, locality and sexuality in web, 3d multi-user, game and mobile environments her artworks are widely shown - including Beyond Interface, Arco Electronico, transmediale, File, Art Entertainment Network, The Montreal Biennale, European Media Art Festival, MAAP, Perspecta, Biennial of Buenos Aires, lab3D, NTT InterCommunication Center Tokyo, ISEA and documenta 12 magazine project.^{[citation needed]}

Rackham was the first Curator of Networked Media at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image(ACMI) in Melbourne in 2003-04 and received the SoundSpace Award for Virtual Worlds at the 2001 Stuttgart Filmwinter and the Faulding Award for Multimedia at 2000 Adelaide Festival.^{[citation needed]} She was nominated as one of the ten emerging international innovators of new media for the Leonardo Journal 2000 New Horizons Award for Innovation in New Media.(springer|in)^{[citation needed]}

Dr Rackham is currently the Executive Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology, Australia’s peak body for artists working at the convergence of art, science and emerging technologies.^{[citation needed]}