Wade Marynowsky

Wade Marynowsky is a hybrid media artist working across robotic, immersive and interactive installation, performance, music and video. Since 1998 Marynowsky has exhibited and performed extensively. Highlights in 2009 include The Hosts: A Masquerade Of Improvising Automatons, Performance Space, Sydney and exhibiting in Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. In 2008 he performed The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie Robot at The Institute of Contemporary Art Newtown (I.C.A.N), Sydney and exhibited The ministers are coming!, at the Inter Cross Creative centre, Sapporo, Japan. In 2007 Marynowsky travelled to Montréal, Canada to further research new artistic practice by studying robotic art at Hexagram (Institute for research/creation in media arts and technologies). From this research Marynowsky has developed recent work exploring theories surrounding 'the uncanny automaton'. This year Marynowsky performed at SuperDeluxe, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Artspace, Sydney and is preparing to tour The Hosts, at Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland.

The Hosts
A Masquerade of Improvising Automatons
Performance Space Carriage Works, Sydney

Wade Marynowsky

born 1974, Sydney, Australia

Academic

2007 Visiting researcher, Robotic art, Hexagram Institute for research / creation of media art and technology, Canada.
2006 - Doctor of Creative Arts, University of Western Sydney.
2005 Master of Fine Arts (Research), College of Fine Arts, UNSW.

Solo exhibitions

2012 Universal Remote, UTS Gallery, Sydney

2011 The Hosts, A Masquerade Of Improvising Automatons, John Guckley Gallery, Melbourne
2009 The Hosts, A Masquerade Of Improvising Automatons, Performance Space at The Carriage Works, Sydney.
2008 The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie Robot, The Institute of Contemporary Art Newtown (I.C.A.N), Sydney.
Rococo Vortex, Don't Look Gallery, Sydney.
The ministers are coming, Inter Cross Creative centre, Sapporo, Japan.
2007 Autonomous Improvisation v.1, Artspace Sydney.
Souvenir, Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art Space, Sydney.

Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings

2010 Beyond Mediations Biennale, The 2nd International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Poznan, Poland
2010 Premier of Queensland's National New Media Award 2010, Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane
2009 Primavera, 2009: exhibition by young Australian artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
SMAC Awards, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney.
Art at the Armory 2009, Sydney Olympic Park.
Video killed the radio star, Horus and Deloris, Sydney.
Appear Offline, Albion Place Laneway, Sydney.
2008 Liquid Architecture 9: Festival of sound arts, Screening program, The Performance space, Sydney.
2007 Research: Issues surrounding interdisciplinary, partnership, and engagement, UWS, Sydney.
The sound of failure, Don’t look gallery, Sydney.
Liquid Architecture 8, Installation, Performance space, Sydney.
2006 SynCity, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
Absurdities, Horus and Deloris, Sydney.
2005 Phat ate Video show, Phatspace, Sydney.
Prospectus, Projections in New Media, Blank Space, Sydney.
Gang Festival video art, Pelt, Sydney and Indonesia.
Prax-is, Kudos Gallery, Sydney.
Helen Lempriere Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney.
2004 Work rest play (escape), Imperialslacks artist collective, Artspace Sydney.
2003 Periscope, scanning the digital horizon, Adelaide international Film
Festival, second screening at Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane.
2002 Slackin’ Off, Imperialslacks, Sydney.
Positive Overkill, Imperial Slacks, Sydney.
2001 hybrid<life>forms: Australian New Media Art, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam.
Hatched: National Graduate Show 2001, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth.
Imperial Alliance, Imperialslacks, Sydney.
Period, BLAUGRAU, Sydney.
Diaspora 2000, Grey matter, Sydney.
Waveform, presented by UWS and The Australasian Computer Music Association.
2000 ISEA2000, Pompidou Center, Paris, France.
MTN Digital Art exhibition, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Lovebytes, Digital Arts Festival, Sheffield, UK.
Welcome to Junkiesville, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney.
Helen Lempriere Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney.
Eighteen is Enough, Herringbone Gallery, Sydney.
Scuffstuff, Grey Matter Contemporary Art, Sydney.
1999 D.art99, Artspace, Sydney.
Transfix, Sydney Fringe Festival, Bondi.
Herringbone Fundraiser, Herringbone Gallery, Sydney.
1998 Surveillance, Artspace Sydney.
The Red Room, Multimedia Lounge, IMA, Brisbane.
Media Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany.
Lovebytes Digital Arts Festival, Sheffield, England.
Indahause, Herringbone Gallery, Sydney.
Prepared Keyboards 2.0, Soundtoys.net.
Loud, National Media Festival of Youth Culture and The Arts.
1996 Kahanmoku and beyond (Artists surfing the new wave), Campbeltown City art gallery.
NSW Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, CoFA, Sydney.
Short, Sharp and Very Current, Experimenta, Melbourne.

Selected Audio / Visual Performances / Live Soundtracks

2010 Monsta Gras, The red rattler, Marrickville, Sydney.
2009 Trash Temple, Peats ridge music festival, Sydney.
2008 Olympia the sneezing automaton, 24/25, Artspace Sydney.
2007 Nuit Blanche, SHARE & Le Labo, Toronto, Canada.
Demux label launch, Performance space, Sydney.
2006 The Fighting song, Artspace, Sydney.
Aurora festival, Campbeltown art centre, Sydney.
Homo- Sexplotation, 34b, Sydney.
Electrofringe, Newcastle.
2005 Big day out, Ear stage, live video, Sydney.
Live @ Lanfranchi’s, Sydney.
e)scapes#1 Into the tumult sent and alien sound, Medium rare, Gallery, Sydney.
Man Jam; all male revue, Sydney.
2004 ISEA2004, Aboard the Silja cruise liner, Baltic Sea.
Scoring dope for Sally, Artspace Sydney.
Big day out, Ear stage, live video, Sydney.
2003 Synesthesic headache, Brisbane.
Disorientation, with Dave Noyze, Lanfranci’s, Sydney.
Data Terra, Interalia, Dlux future screen, Sydney.
$5 steak night, Hollywood Hotel Sydney.
2002 Video Combustion, The Performance Space, Sydney.
Video Blitz, SOOB, Brisbane.
Electrofringe02, Newcastle.
Utt, Porto, Portugal.
Radiotopia, Ars electronica, Linz, Austria.
d.ART 02 launch, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
B/4 After Experimental AV, Imperialslacks, Sydney.
A2d Adelaide Fringe Festival, Adelaide.
Look mum no head, Imperialslacks, Sydney.
2001 Video stealth ninja, various buildings Sydney.
Electrofringe01, Mission Theatre, Newcastle.
Walking species, De quincy Co, Imperialslacks, Sydney.
2000 Impermanent audio, Hopetown Hotel, Sydney.
1999 D.art 99 Dlux, Artspace Sydney.
Freaky loops, UTS, Sydney.

Discography

2007 Synchresis DVD, Filter #66, ANAT.
Interpretative dance, demux, DVD, (solo).
2005 Prospectus: Projections in New Media, catalogue DVD.
2003 AC/3P Watch me explode, Spasticated recordings (solo).
The ministry of shit, Spasticated records.
Rebirth of fool 2, Compilation, Dual Plover.
2002 A2d, Adelaide Fringe Festival Compilation.
1999 Freaky loops 99, Compilation, Creative vibes.
1998 Food to eat music by, Compilation, Elephant traks.

Selected Bibliography

2011 Inga Walton ‘Wade Marynowsky’s dancing Hosts’, Textile, The Australian Forum for Textile Arts, Vol 30, Issue 2, No 102, pg 32.
2011 Dan Rule "Life and Style, Galleries" The Age 5/3/11
2009 Jeff Khan ‘Primavera, 2009: exhibition by young Australian artists’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Dan Mackinlay ‘Dancing machine’ RealTime issue #93, online exclusive, http://www.realtimearts.net/article/93/9615
Bridie Connell ‘The Hosts: A Masquerade of Improvising Automatons’, The Brag, August.
Talia Linz ‘Primavera 2009’, Runway, Issue 15.
Josephine Skinner ‘new growth, New directions: Primavera
Museum of Contemporary Art’, RealTime issue #93 Katie Preston Toepfer, ‘The Hosts’ Arts Hub, http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news.asp?catId=1069&sc=0&sId=178903
Bec Dean ‘Just what is it that makes today’s robots so different, so appealing? The Hosts, Performance Space catalogue.
Ryszard Dabek ‘On the Edge of the Uncanny Valley’, Art Monthy, July.
Bruce Barber ‘24 Exhibitions 25 years’, Broadsheet, Volume 38.1, pg 71.
Ann Finnegan ‘A quarter century sampler’ RealTime issue #89 Feb-March 2009 pg. 43-44
Edited by Gail Priest ‘Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia’ published by UNSW Press.
Dan Mackinlay ‘The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie Robot’, Realtime online studio, Jan, 09. http://www.realtimearts.net/studioartist/
The_Discreet_Charm_Of_The_Bourgeoisie_Robot 2008 Josephine Tovey, ‘Open Gallery’, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, 13th December, pg 18.
Amelia Groom ‘The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Robot’, http://www.twothousand.com.au
Michael Arnzen ‘Autonomous Improv and the Player Piano Effect’,http://www.gorelets.com/uncanny/artmusic/autonomousimprov-and-the-player-piano-effect/
Kate Carr ‘Robots and art’, Inner West Courier.
Sean Lowry ‘Alien Jukebox: Wade Marynowsky’s Autonomous Improvisation v.1’, Column 1, Artspace Projects.
Jean Poole ‘Interpretative Dance Review’, http://www.skynoise.net/2008/02/25/review-wade-marynowskyinterpretative-dance/
2007 Anna Davis ‘An improvising automaton’ RealTime issue #79 June-July 2007 pg. 24.
Mitchell Whitelaw ‘Monsters and maps’ Filter #66, ANAT.
Gail Priest ‘Sonic extremeties’ Realtime #81, pg. 46.
Mitchell Whitelaw ‘Wade Marynowsky: Interpretive Dance’ The Teeming void, http://teemingvoid.blogspot.com
Abram Powell ‘Demux: Marynowsky and Newman’ Loop #4.
Keith Gallasch ‘All in the process’ RealTime issue #79 June-July 2007 pg. 22
Clara Iaccarino ‘Open Gallery’, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, 24th March, pg 16.
Ann Finegan ‘Not your average cut 'n' paste’ Loop magazine #3, June - July, pg 11.
Ben Falkenmire ‘Sound/art festival stretches knowledge imagination’, The South Sydney Herald, v1, #53, August 07.
Melissa Lesnie ‘Cinema for the Ears, Music for the Eyes’ Resonate, http://www.resonatemagazine.com.au/article.php?id=34
2006 Mark Titmarsh ‘Syncity, catalogue, dlux/Editions/01.
2005 Ella Barclay ‘I link therefore iam’, Real Time + Onscreen.
Dominique Angeloro, ‘Prospectus: Projections in new media', Critic's Pick, Metro Sydney Morning Herald, 21 January 2005 p. 27.
2004 Sean Healy ‘A Brief History of VJing in Australia’ Cyclic defrost Issue #009.
Gail Priest ‘Slippery subject, slow drowning’, RealTime issue #61 June-July 2004 pg. 14.
Tanya Peterson ‘Work rest play (escape)’, Imperialslacks artist collective, Artspace, Sydney, catalogue.
Oyster, World Fashion, issue 52, June–July 2004, p. 55.
2003 Jean Poole ‘Ecology of Oz mutant media', Artlink, Vol 21, no3.
Joni Talyor ‘Analouge 2 Digital, magic mechanics’; RealTime issue #48.
Keith Gallasch ‘New Media, Newcastle, Electrofringe’ Real Time + Onscreen.
Xavier Francis ‘AC-3P reveiw’ Spinach 7. www.spinach7.com/soundsvisuals/rev_ac3p.html
2002 Alex Garonski ‘Imperialslacks’, Broadsheet, vol. 31, no. 4, June–August 2002.
Soon: Media arts, RealTime issue #49 June-July 2002 pg. 22.
2001 hybrid<life>forms: Australian New Media Art, Netherlands
Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, catalogue.
Keith Gallasch ‘Walking species’, RealTime issue #41.
1999 Michael Hill ‘Digital Rules - D-art 99’, RealTime issue #32.
1998 European media arts festival catalogue.
Jackie Cooper ‘Wades World’, Icon/Scan, Sydney Morning herald, January.
1997 Keith Gallasch ‘Marickville echoes of an era’, RealTime issue #21 pg 41.

Residencies, Grants and Awards

2010 Premier of Queensland's National New Media Award 2010, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (Highly Commended)
2010 Bundanon, Shoalhaven River, NSW.
2009 FBI 94.5 + Time out Sydney 2009 SMAC Award for Best Artist.
Australian Council for the Arts, New work.
2008 Australian Council for the Arts, New work initiative.
S-AIR, Artist in Residence, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
Artists at the Armory, Sydney Olympic Park.
2007 Artspace Sydney, studio residency.
2006 Australian Council for the Arts Grant, New work.
Australian Council for the Arts Grant, Presentation and promotion.
UWS Postgraduate Research Award.
Artspace Sydney, studio residency.
2005 Artists’ Camp, Gunbalanya, Arnhem Land, 24HR Art, Darwin.
2004 Australian Council for the Arts, Presentation and promotion.
2002 Australian Council for the Arts Grant, Runway. (Ars
Electronica, Linz, Austria and Utt, Porto, Portugal)
Solar Circuit residency Hobart and Maria Island, Tasmania, supported by the Australian Network for Art and Technology.
2001 Australia Council for the Arts Grant, New work.
1998 Australian Post Graduate Award, COFA, UNSW.

Collections

Bundanon Trust, West Cambewarra, NSW.
ICC, S-AIR, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
National Film and Sound Archive, Sydney office.
College of fine arts, UNSW, library.
National Library of Australia, Canberra. University of Technology Sydney, Library

Art Direction

2007- Co-director, Demux, dvd label, Sydney.
2003 - 2004 Co-director, Electrofringe, media arts festival, Newcastle.
2001 Member of board, Dlux media arts, Sydney.
2000 – 2004 Member of board of directors, Imperialslacks Gallery, Sydney.

Artists talks

2009 The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Electrofringe, Newcastle.
The Performance space, Sydney.
2008 Fullscreen08, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
OYOYO, Sapporo, Japan.
Dorkbot-SYD, ‘Sydney’, Sydney.
2007 Sydney College of the Arts, USYD.
University of Newcastle, Newcastle.
2005 Chewing The Phat: Phatspace, Sydney.
2003 SOOB, Straight out of Brisbane, Brisbane.
2002 d.ART 02, Dlux, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
IMA, Insitute of modern Art, Brisbane.
A2d - Adelaide Fringe Festival.
Electrofringe, Newcastle.
2000 New media and Electronic Music, Metro Screen, Sydney.
1998 Decode, Wagga Wagga city art gallery.