Joyce Hinterding

Biography

Joyce Hinterding is an artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and is recognised for her work across a range of discipline areas, including sculpture,
object arts, sound art and digital arts. Originally trained in gold and silver smithing, she worked professionally in the industry while developing an expanded and experimental relationship to the field of object arts. Her postgraduate research into acoustics and musical instrument design led her to do further study in electronics, alchemy and web design, and develop an ongoing learning relationship with the digital and analogue arts, including 3D computer graphics, sound and video. Her work is currently included on the NSW HSC Art Curricula and she often collaborates with artist David Haines to produce large-scale immersive video and sound works. She is represented by Breenspace, Sydney, and her recorded audio work has been released by Antiopic NYC and Sigma Editions.

Hinterding has taught in varying capacities at the three major university art schools in NSW since 1990: UNSW COFA (College of Fine Arts), UWS (School of Contemporary Arts) and currently at USyd SCA. During this time she has designed and taught a range of undergraduate Visual Arts, Object Arts and Media Arts units pitched at varying levels within different discipline areas, and supervised postgraduate research students.

Research

Hinterding’s practice and research opens up the world of objects and materials through physical and virtual dynamics. Her interest in energy and resonance has been a platform for investigating and extending notions of form and function to explore both analogue and digital modes of expression. Working specifically with custom-built field recording and monitoring technologies, her explorations into acoustic and electromagnetic phenomena have produced large sculptural antenna works, video and sound-producing installations and experimental audio works for performance. Her interest in the VLF (Very Low Frequency) part of the radio spectrum is ongoing, and has continued to open up new relationships as spectrum politics and concern for the environment have changed. Her recent investigations into drawings and stencilling have opened up an expanded investigation into graphic antenna, fractal mathematics, and energy scavenging. The art and science axis in her work has placed her in productive dialogue with various scientists and communities from disciplines such as solar research, antenna design and high-energy physics. Her collaborations with artist and SCA Photomedia Lecturer David Haines have produced large-scale immersive video and sound works that explore the tension between the fictive and the phenomenal. These collaborative works have gained international recognition and are continuing to explore the possibilities for 3D visualisation, animation and real-time technologies in the art context.

Recent Exhibitions

Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts - WINNER, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, 2011

TRUST – ISEA (International symposium for electronic arts), U–Centre for Art and Creativity, Dortmund, Germany, July 2010

Cyber Arts 09, OK Centrum, Linz, Austria, July 2009

Aura, Breenspace, Sydney, November 2009

Telepathy, Performance Space, Sydney, November 2008

Superlight, 2nd Biennial 01SJ Art on the Edge, San Jose Museum Art, California, US, 2008

(in)visible sounds, Dutch Institute for Time-based Art, the Netherlands, June 2008

Waves, 8th International Festival for New Media Culture ART+COMMUNICATION, RIXC, Riga, Latvia, 2006

Image Smugglers in a free Territory (National Representation, Australia),26th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2004

Deep Space, Immersion and Sensation, ACMI, Melbourne, 2002

The World (May Be) Fantastic, 13th Biennale of Sydney, MCA, Sydney, 2002

Publications

'The immaterial’s molecules – language – vibration', Current 08: Sculpture Projects in the River City, Parramatta City Council and Parramatta Artists Studio, 2008

Aeritis, Ideal Australia, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, 2006, ISBN 0949836370

The Oscillators, Sensitive systems and Abstract machines, the experience of, Leonardo Music Journal, MIT Press, 1997, ISBN 0646 305670

Des Funkin Sprunklin Globus, Essays in Sound 3: Diffractions, Contemporary Sound Arts, 1996, ISBN 0646305670

Research Supervision

Bernadette Knight, MFA, 'How bodies transform when they encounter objects'

Rosita Holmes, MFA, 'Lip-Sink'

Pia Van Gelder, MFA

Awards & Grants

Prix Ars Electronica: Award of Distinction in the Hybrid Art category, EARTH STAR, 2009

Australia Council: Promotion and Presentation, Telepathy, Performance Space, Sydney, 2008

Australia Council: Promotion and Presentation, Participation in (in)visible sounds, Purple Rain, Dutch Institute for Time-based Art, the Netherlands, 2007

ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology): Professional Development Travel Grant, Purple rain, Waves: The 8th International Festival for New Media Culture ART+COMMUNICATION, Riga, Latvia, 2006

Australia Council: Fellowship, 2005

Australia Council, Participation in Sao Paulo Bienal, 2004

NSW Ministry for the Arts, Participation in Sao Paulo Bienal, 2004

Australia Council, New Media Artists Board: New Work, The Blinds and the Shutters (for AGNSW), 2001

Australia Council, New Media Fund: Project Grant, Nervous objects internet project, 1998

Professional Membership

Culture at work, Research board member, 2010

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