James Verdon

e-mail:jverdon@alphalink.com.au

James Verdon works primarily with digital video and lighting technologies for gallery and museum installations, and for video within live performance.

His work is currently concerned with formal properties of the electronic viewing screen such as the frame, scale, and the idea of re-presentation, and also with the place of the spectator in creating narratives with screen based installation works.

James is Convenor of Electronic Design and Interactive Media (EDIM) in the Arts Department at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne but this year he is artist in residence at the Australia Council for the Arts Studio in Takadanobaba in Tokyo, and then the artist in residence at the College of Fine Arts, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. This residency is part of a program with Asialink and the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT).

He has a strong interest in Australia's cultural position within Asia, particularly in relation to new and emerging media arts.