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Seminar Abstract

Synapse Art and Science Residency program

Peter E Charuk is an active artist and educator with 25 years experience. He has an extensive career in visual and electronic arts and his experience includes exhibitions in the US, Bulgaria, UK and numerous Australian galleries. He has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes and awards, and his work is collected by many international and Australian museums, libraries and galleries.

Peter is interested in where technologies form the boundaries of cultural reference and researches extensively questions of interactivity, narrativity and audience interface design for digital and non-digital formats. Peter also has a wide ranging teaching background spanning those 25 years. He has taught at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in digital media at the University of Western Sydney, Nepean. He has travelled nationally and internationally to speak about his work.

This short seminar will introduce his diverse art practice to the audience. It will show examples from 3 bodies of work done in the last few years - Men's Work, No Diving, Kustom Kars and his latest published piece AquaLux, a video that was successful in gaining the artist in residence at the CSIRO Marine Research."

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CSIRO = Marine Laboratories Auditorium, Castray Esplanade, Hobart

For further information, or to schedule a seminar, contact:
Peter Oke, (Oceanographic seminars) CSIRO Marine Research (03) 6232 5387
Piers Dunstan, (Biological seminars) CSIRO Marine Research (03) 6232 5382
Katrina Nitschke, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC (03) 6226 2265 & IASOS, University of Tasmania (03) 6226 2509