Lizzie Muller

2011: Awfully Wonderful: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art

Co-curated by Lizzie Muller and Bec Dean. The exhibition is on show at Sydney’s Performance Space from 15 April -14 May, 2011. Awfully Wonderful presents new and existing work by twelve Australian artists including time machines, hand made robots, meteorological instruments, interplanetary communication devices, a mars gravity simulator, wearable technologies and apocalyptic visions.

2010: The Art of Participatory Design

Co-curated by Lizzie Muller and Lian Loke, this was a programme of creative experiments that accompanied the Participatory Design Conference held in Sydney in November 2010. The programme drew together art and design practice in order to consider how we conceptualise, critique and work with participation, and how we engage meaningfully with people, places and situations. It included work by Natalie Jeremijenko, Keith Armstrong, Danielle Wilde and Kristina Anderson.

2008: Mirror States

Co-Curator of two exhibitions of interactive art at the Moving Image Centre, Auckland and Campbeltown Art Centre (with Kathy Cleland)

2007-2009 : Thinking Through the Body

Facilitator of an interdisciplinary research project exploring body-focused human-computer interfaces in art practice (with George Khut)

2007: Experience in the Archive

Researcher in residence at the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, Montreal, Canada.

2006: Engage: Interaction, Art and Audience Experience

Co-Chair of a fully refereed academic symposium (with Ernest Edmonds) at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

2004-2006: Beta_Space

Founding curator and developer of an experimental venue for prototype exhibitions of interactive art at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia.

2006: Contagion (by Gina Czarnecki and co.)

Collaborating curator in large scale interactive artwork

2006: Hard Copy

Convener and organiser of a one-day workshop on publishing interdisciplinary creative work (with ANAT and Fibreculture) at the Adelaide Festival, Australia.

2006: New Constellations: Art, Science and Society

Committee member for a refereed conference at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

2005: Cardiomorphologies (by George Khut and co.)

Collaborating curator in physiologically interactive artwork

2003: Bins and Benches, by Greyworld.

Coordinator of the selection process for an interactive public art project for the Junction Art Centre, Cambridge, UK.

2003: New Technology Arts Fellowship

Initiator and curator of a collaborative research programme joining artists with scientists at Cambridge University, UK.

2003: RESPOND

Co-curator of a multi-sited exhibition and symposium on interactive art in Cambridge, UK (with Future Physical and CUMIS).

2003: MESH

Co-ordinator of a regional showcase of digital art projects and organisations in the East of England

2002-2003: Smart Space

Curator of a presentation and research programme exploring interactive technologies in performance.

2001: Donut, by Mike Stubbs

Facilitator of a residency at Bedford Community Arts Centre, which resulted in the production of an award winning film.

2000-2001: Sonimation

Co-commissioner of a series of new sound and animation works screened in cinemas in the East of England (with Sonic Arts Network).

1999-2003: Digital Arts Network

Facilitator of a regional network of artists working with new technology in the East of England.