Sarah Minney - experimental artist |
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| Born in 1972 in Adelaide, South Australia, Sarah Minney has been practicing installation and performance art for six years years. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| In 2002 she was resident at the Computer Science Department of Loughborough University UK. During this residency she worked on developing a mobile digital art work: The Hand Held Best Friend, into a working prototype. She demonstrated this prototype at the ACM conference Creativity and Cognition 2002. In August 2002 she took part in South Australia Living Artists week, and in collaboration with Gareth Barnes and Ngapartji produced an interactive digital sound installation on Rundle Street. In 2002 she won a Ngapartji scholarship to attend an introductory course into Java programming. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| In 2000 Minney presented two performances and an installation at HOMEGALLERY in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Additionally in 2000 she performed and presented an individual exhibition at The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand, and an individual exhibition at 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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In 1999 Minney held individual exhibitions at SOApBOx, Brisbane and Nexus window, Adelaide. She also performed at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide and in Rundle Mall, Adelaide as part of South Australian Living Artists Week. |
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| In 1998 Minney held individual exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, Stripp, Melbourne and The Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, where she also performed, an excerpt of which was published in Broadsheet. In 1998 her work was included in the exhibition EAT! at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and she received the Emerging Visual Artists sculpture prize. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| As well as being an artist, Minney is also a writer and has essays, reviews and poetry published in various Australian magazines including Broadsheet, Real Time and Eyeline. Minney has an ongoing interest in human behaviour, emotions and artificial intelligence. In 2000 she attended the workshops Learning to Behave: Interacting Agents CevoLE 1 held in the Netherlands, and Learning to Behave: Internalising Knowledge, CevoLE 2 held in Belgium. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Her life as a visual artist is intermingled with part-time administrative work, gardening, gossiping with neighbours, walking her dog, playing with her cat, frolicking in the sea and occasionally going on hikes. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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