Troy Innocent
EDUCATION
2008 PhD (Animation/Interactive Media), RMIT University, Melbourne
1992 Post Graduate Diploma (Animation/Interactive Multimedia), Swinburne University, Melbourne
1991 Diploma of Graphic Design, Swinburne School of Design, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
New Abstraction, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2013
Asemic Writing 1, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
2012
Nine Signs for Ogaki, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
2011
Tokyo Pop // Ludean Play, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne
Nine Signs for Ogaki, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
2009
World Machine, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
2006
Scenes from Ludea, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
Ludea, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Transitional Forms, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2002
Iconica; Trans’forms, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
2001
Artefact, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
Catching Light, with Ben Kolaitis, ISEA2013, Cambelltown Art Centre, Sydney
Transreal Topologies, ISMAR2013, RIAus, Adelaide
MODERN RUIN: 100 markers distributed throughout the Substation, Melbourne
2012
Cyber Data Retrospective, New Low Gallery, Melbourne
2011
Terra Virtualis: noemaflux, ISEA2011: Uncontainable, Nova Ziya Suites, Istanbul
Ncode, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
2010
Noemaflux, Ogaki Biennale, Ogaki City, Gifu, Japan
Autograf, Dream Worlds, Embassy District, Beijing
2009
Design After Nature, Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Rock, Paper, Lasers!!!, Kick Gallery, Melbourne
Convergence: ‘Stealing Space’ State of Design Festival, Yarra Lane, Melbourne
Biotope, Cube 37 @ Frankston Arts Centre, Melbourne
2007
Animated: Self Portraits Online, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2004
Reactivate!, Experimedia Centre, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Preview 2004: Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
2003
+Playengines+, Experimedia Centre, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Graphite2003, Span Galleries, Melbourne
Plaything, FirstDraft Gallery, Sydney
Brilliant Refractions, Cube 37 @ Frankston Arts Centre, Melbourne
2002
Artefact: ISEA2002, Nagoya, Japan
ATM: Glen Eira Art Gallery, Melbourne
The Synthetic Image, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
2000
Artificial Intelligence, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Process Philosophies, conference on Generative Systems in the Electronic Arts, Monash University, Melbourne
SciART99: Queensland ScienceCentre, Brisbane
1997
Altered States, “MemeSpace” experimenta media arts INTERACT 97, Melbourne
Techne, Perth
1996
Burning the Interface, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (toured to Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane)
Cyber Cultures, The Performance Space, Sydney
1995
Digital Salon, New York
Toybox project, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
Escape, CeBIT, Hanover, Germany
1994
Memento, New Media Network, Melbourne
Flavoured Bi-products, West Space Gallery, Melbourne
Still Photography?, Argyle Street Studios/Doncaster Art Gallery, Australia
1992
Cyberdada Manifesto, TISEA, Sydney
Crash Course, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Artech, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
New Religion, CUB Malthouse, Melbourne
Bindu, The Lounge, Melbourne
We Go Beyond, The Lounge, Melbourne
1991
Cy-mish Mash World, Ealaine Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
Siggraph ’91, exhibited poster graphics for “cyber”
El Art, computer graphics exhibition, Finland
1990
Siggraph ’90, Dallas, Dallas
Virtual Landscape, Artspace, Sydney
Ausgraph ’90, ART SHOW – World Congress Centre, Melbourne
PUBLIC ART
2013 Zydnei, City of Sydney as part of ISEA2013, Sydney
2010 Urban Codemakers, Guildford Lane Complex and surrounds, Laneway Commissions, Melbourne
2008 Colony, Life.lab, Digital Harbour, Melbourne Docklands, Melbourne
2007 Field of Play, Port 1010, Digital Harbour, Melbourne Docklands, Melbourne
INSTALLATIONS
2008
x-milieu: Urbanscreens08 multimedia program, Atrium, Federation Square, Melbourne
neome, Melbourne Art Fair / City of Melbourne, Melbourne
2004
lifeSigns: an eco-system of signs and symbols, 2004: Australian Culture Now, ACMI, Melbourne, Australia
Unnatural Selection, Ars Electronica 2004, Linz, Austria
LAB.3000 Digital Design Biennale, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne
2000
Artificial Intelligence, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
1999
Artificial Life, Artspace, Auckland
Byte Me, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Australia
1998
Siggraph ’98: Touchware, Orlando, Florida
1997
Cyber Cultures, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
Screen, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1995
Perspecta, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
ARS 95: Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
1994
Galerie Patrick Martin, Lyons
Experimenta94: Melbourne
ISEA ’94, Helsinki, Finland
The Edge: Siggraph ‘94, Orlando, Florida
Nintendo Killed the Video Star, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1993
Ozchi, Australian National University, Canberra
Fresh New Reality – Melbourne Entertainment Centre, Melbourne
Great Australian Science Show, Melbourne Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
1992
Techno Garden, 10 day media event as part of MIMA’s Experimenta 92, Australia
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2013 Noemaflux:AI, Magic Vision Lab, University of South Australia, Adelaide
2010 Tokyo Pop // Ludean Play, An Exchange, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
2009 Perspective Glitch, Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Design After Nature: 3 year ARC Discovery grant
2001 Cinemedia Digital Media Fund Interactive Screen Arts grant
2000 Cinemedia Digital Media Fund Research & Experimentation grant
1999 Honourable mention in LIFE 2.0: Artficial life in art event, Madrid
1998 Foreign Title Award in MMCA Multimedia Grand Prix, Tokyo, Japan
1995 1st Prize in the National Digital Art Awards – Noosa Regional Galleries, Australia
1995 Multimedia Production Grant from Australian Film Commission for “Reality”
SELECTED MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
2009
Innocent, T. “Colony: an urban art environment”, Second Nature: International journal of creative media
Whitelaw, M., Guglielmetti, M., Innocent, T., “Strange Ontologies in Digital Culture”, ACM Computers in Entertainment
2008
Innocent, T., “Blending realities in game space”, Computers in Entertainment (CIE), Vol. 6, No. 3, USA
2007
Innocent, T. & Haines, S., “Nonverbal communication in multiplayer game worlds”, in Proceedings of IE2007 Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, Melbourne
2005
Innocent, T. C, Iconica & Semiomorph: creating identities for game spaces through visual style and digital aesthetics, The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment ,Creativity & Cognition Studios Press, Broadway NSW Australia
Innocent, T. C, Remapping the city: locative media practice, Selected Papers from the International Symposium on Design in Urban Spaces, Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao China
Innocent, T. C., Shifting Realms, Vital Signs: Creative Practice & New Media Now, 7/9/05 to 9/9/05, RMIT Publishing, Melbourne
lifeSigns: eco-system of signs & symbols. Paper presented at COSIGN2004: the fourth international conference on Computational
2004
Semiotics for Games and New Media, Split, Croatia
2003
Visual essay in Digital Creativity
Exploring the nature of electronic space through semiotic morphism: streaming wor(l)ds: MelbourneDAC, the 5th International Digital Arts and Culture Conference, Melbourne
Language of Iconica: Paper published in Leonardo, Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, 2003
Innocent icons explore a new computer world: Jenny Sinclair, The Age
1996
Travelling to Iconica: The Virtual Worlds of Troy Innocent – Chapter 5. Parallax: Essays on Art, Culture and Technology, Darren Tofts
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