Josephine Starrs
Josephine Starrs (b. 1955) is an Australian artist who creates socially-based art around the topics of relationships, technology, and climate change.[1] Her video and new media work has been exhibited in Australia and at international art exhibitions.[2] She is an honorary Senior Lecturer in Media Arts at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.[3]
Background and Education
Starrs grew up in Adelaide, South Australia and was educated at the South Australian School of Art. She has worked in a variety of mediums including photography, animation, video, and new media.[1]
Collaboration with Leon Cmielewski
Starrs has collaborated with artist Leon Cmielewski since 1994 when they were living together in New York.[1] Their collaborative work focuses on incorporating interactivity and play while engaging with contemporary social issues. Their works have appeared in forms such as kiosks, games, card games, dances, films, and maps.[4]
Selected Works
The works below are in collaboration with Leon Cmielewski unless otherwise noted.
- User Unfriendly Interface (1996), first shown at Performance Space, Sydney.[4]
- Fuzzy Love Dating Database (1997), first exhibited at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin.[5]
- Dream Kitchen (2000)[4]
- Trace (2002), commissioned and exhibited by State Records Centre, Sydney.[4]
- Floating Territories (2004), which took place in the form of swipe cards as boarding passes for a ferry that traveled between Helsinki, Finland, Stockholm, Sweden, and Tallin, Estonia. Travelers were assigned tribal allegiances that each had different goals in the game based on locations on the ferry.[4]
- Seeker (2006), which was a map-based game that allowed viewers to track their family migration history and view statistics about natural resources, migration flows, human population, and economics in a visual format.[6] Seeker won an Award of Distinction at the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria in 2007.
- sms_origins (2009), displayed at Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia. sms_origins was an adaptation of Seeker for mobile phones.[1]
- Downstream (2009), exhibited by Novamedia at the "Impact by Degrees" exhibition in Washington, D.C.[7] This work included a large print work called And The River Was Dust, based on text from the poem South of my Days by Australian poet Judith Wright.[1]
- Incompatible Elements (2010), exhibited at Performance Space Carriageworks, Sydney.[8]
- Dancing with Drones (2015), in collaboration with dancer Alison Plevey in the form of a film of a dance competition between a human dancer and a remotely operated drone.[9]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Words in Art: Australian artist Josephine Starrs maps rivers with poetry". Art Radar. 2011-03-14. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- ↑ "Josephine Starrs | Scanlines". scanlines.net. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- ↑ Wilson, Lynn (2015). Promoting Climate Change Awareness through Environmental Education. IGI Global. ISBN 1466687657.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Starrs, Josephine; Cmielewski, Leon (2007). "Please Touch the Art: Private Information, Public Settings". SCAN | journal of media arts culture. 4 (3).
- ↑ Sollfrank, Cornelia (May 1998). "Never Lonely Again: Diagnostic Tools for the New Millennium". BE Magazin. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
- ↑ Finegan, A.; Starrs, J.; Cmielewski, L. (2008-04-01). "Visualizing Data: Seeker's Affective Interaction". IEEE MultiMedia. 15 (2): 16–19. ISSN 1070-986X. doi:10.1109/MMUL.2008.42.
- ↑ Ivanova, Antoanetta; Bačić, Anita; Cmielewski, Leon; Starrs, Josephine; Cooper, Justine; Jeremijenko, Natalie; McCormack, Jon; Starr, Pip; Velonaki, Mari (2009-11-01). Impact by degrees [electronic resource] : Australian perspectives on art and climate change / curator, Antonetta Ivanova ; website designer, Anita Bacic ; a collaboration between the Embassy of Australia, Washington DC, and Novamedia. PANDORA electronic collection. Melbourne, Vic: Novamedia Pty Ltd. ISBN 9780975199831.
- ↑ Randerson, Janine (2011). "critical flows: climates & peoples". RealTime Arts (104). p. 39.
- ↑ Finegan, Ann (2016). "Hunting Ground: Dancing with Drones". Runway: Australian Experimental Art. 28.