Ella Barclay will provide an overview of her current research, including her recent institutional solo exhibition Unkempt Cognition at Canberra Contemporary Art Space and her research as a 2024 fellow at ZK/U: The Centre of Art and Urbanistics, Berlin.

Dr Ella Barclay is a Senior Lecturer at ANU’s School of Art and Design on unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, Australia. Her written, curatorial and contemporary art practices engage with network aesthetics and the politics of technological development. Recent exhibitions include Unknempt Cognition, Canberra Contemporary Art Space (2024), Openhaus, ZK/U, Berlin (2024), No Easy Answers, MAMA, Albury (2023), The Ramsay Art Prize, Art Gallery of South Australia (2021), Stacks and Sleeves: a PostHuman Landscape, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney (2019), Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media Art (2017-2020), Curious and Curiouser, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (2018-19), Soft Centre, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Western Sydney (2018), Light Geist, Fremantle Art Centre (2016-17), Bodies Go Wrong, Orgy Park, NY (2016), That Which Cannot Not Be, Vox Populi, Philadelphia (2016), Almost, Instant 42, Taipei (2016), I Had to Do It, UTS Art, Sydney (2016) and Elemental Phenomena, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane(2015). Her work resides in numerous government, institutional, corporate and private collections and she has been the recipient of several commissions, residencies, scholarships and awards.

Photo: Prue Hazelgrove

This event will be held both on-campus and online via Zoom (a link to the online stream will be sent to registered attendees).

The School of Art & Design Seminar series will continue weekly on Tuesdays from 1-2pm, between 16 July and 29 October 2024.
The School of Art & Design Seminar Series is co-convened by Dr Alex Burchmore, Alia Parker, and Elisa Crossing.