Image Credit: Mitch Goodwin w/ Midjourney, Edition 05-A3C2 from the series "Project(ed) Everywhere", 2024. AI image generated on the occasion of the publication of the Project Anywhere archive.
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MITCH GOODWIN is an interdisciplinary academic, media artist and curator from Melbourne, Australia. His artistic research activities intersect with digital aesthetics, techno-ethics, media ecologies, digital literacy and cultures of automation.
Author
His publication profile is diverse in both genre and discipline, having outputs in the fields of cultural studies, immersive media, drone studies, performance studies and connected learning pedagogies. He has contributed feature essays to M/C Journal, Rolling Stone and Frankie magazine. When time permits he writes on film and music for The Conversation.
Mitch has appeared in a variety of frontier academic and cultural venues including SXSW Interactive (Austin, USA), EVA (Berlin, Germany), IEEE (Baltimore, USA) RIXC Open Fields (Riga, Latvia) and ISEA (Brisbane, Australia).
Maker
His creative work has screened widely including the IEEE VISAP (Baltimore, USA), Prism16 (Sheffield, UK), Blindside (Melbourne, Australia) and by invitation at the 16th WRO Media Arts Biennale in Wroclaw (Poland) for the European Union’s 2015 City of Culture program. He has been shortlisted for both the MADATAC06 video art award and the prestigious Lumen Prize for digital art. Back in the millennial rush his live performance multimedia work Impermanence toured the national alternative media art circuit including Electrofringe (2000, Newcastle), Adelaide Fringe (1999) and the Brisbane Writers Festival (2000). In 1991Mitch won the Jean Trundle Memorial trophy for his performance in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger and was voted Queensland’s Best Young Actor.
Curator
Mitch was the founding curator of Screengrab International (2009-15) which interrogated the political and technical infrastructures of network culture. Mitch was an active peer assessor for the Visual Arts assessment panels for the Australia Council for the Arts (2014-16) and was the principle Artistic Director of the Renew Townsville Project (2010-12) based on the successful Newcastle model. Mitch has won the North Queensland Arts Award for Best Exhibition twice (2009 & 2015).
His most recent curatorial project, the online archive Slow Down Time, is a conceptual dialogue between Mitch and an international network of authors, artists and academic researchers and the text-to-image service Midjourney.
Educator
As an education specialist, Mitch has been engaged by leading HE providers - including the Griffith Film School, the University of Melbourne and the Technology Innovation Centre in the UK - to design and implement curricula that exploit the possibilities of technology and industry engagement in Humanities, Social Sciences and Creative Arts disciplines. He has extensive expertise in the design and delivery of blended and wholly online programs, the scaffolding of WIL strategies and embedding interdisciplinary project pathways for both students and staff.
Prior to his role at the University of Melbourne, Mitch was the Program Director for the undergraduate degree in Media Arts at James Cook University (2009-14) and the School’s Director of Teaching & Learning (2010-12). At Birmingham City University in the UK, Mitch authored and validated a new undergraduate degree program in Digital Film Production and was the Course Director of two MSc programs in Interactive Media and Digital Television Production (2005-08).
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Mitch’s screen based work has been shown across Australia and overseas including Amsterdam, Athens, Auckland, Berlin, Birmingham, Cardiff, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, New York, Sheffield (UK) and Vermont (USA).
Image credit: Mitch Goodwin (2010) “Network” installation assemblage. Screengrab2, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia.