CURRICULUM VITAE SCOT COTTERELL CONTACT DETAILS >Scot Cotterell 2/242 Bathurst St West Hobart TAS 7000 0423 931 849 03 62 36 93 85 sdc@utas.edu.au EDUCATION 2002-current >Bachelor of Fine Arts University of Tasmania Major: Electronic Media Minor: Art Theory 1998 >Victorian Certificate of Education James Harrison College VIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2005 Contemporary Art Services Tasmania 2005 Emerging Curator Key skills and duties: Organising and administering key exhibition aspects. Reception and handling of works. Gallery layout, installation and maintenance. Negotiate with graphic designer, printer, equipment rental services 2004 CAST Gallery Interlace exhibition Position: Gallery Assitant, Audiovisual Technician Key skills and duties: working within team environment towards the realisation of a major installation of screen-based media Rigging, painting and artwork arrangement following strict gallery layout plan IS Theatre Ltd. ‘Universal Theory of Everything’ Falls Festival, Marion Bay, TAS Position: audiovisual designer, improvising performer Key skills and duties: Creative development/conceptualisation Lighting/sound design Communication with technical assistants and contractors Live performance EAT: Emerging Artist Training Tasmania Position: Tutor ‘multimedia for performance’ Key skills and duties: Generation of 9 hrs course content Tutoring groups of up to 10 students at a time Co-ordination of resource material, equipment and class times IS Theatre Ltd. ‘Boiler Room: national improvisation laboratory’ Backspace Theatre Position: Curator for ‘Technology Drives’ aspect of Boiler Room Key skills and duties: Content generation for workshop given to local and visiting interstate artists Curator of technology driven improvisers for evening performance Improvising audiovisual artist for 5 day duration of laboratory ElectroFringe new media arts festival Newcastle, NSW Position: Guest Speaker Key skills and duties: Presentation of audio, video and still artworks in a forum setting Kickstart Arts Inc. ‘Home Truths’ Carnegie Gallery Position: sound and video artist. Key skills and duties: Working within a creative team environment to consult with a large group of ‘at-risk’ young people including refugee, mental health and drug rehabilitation issues. On-job consideration of cultural issues pertaining to young people from varied backgrounds Collaborative creation of works for Home Truths exhibition at Carnegie Gallery Hobart Joint supervision of exhibition layout and installation in negotiation with project co-ordinator, young artists and service providers Communication and negotiation with workers from mental health and drug rehabilitation services, youth centres and migrant resource centres. IS Theatre Ltd. ‘Universal Theory of Everything’ Salamanca Square, Hobart Position: audiovisual designer, improvising performer Key skills and duties: Collaborative creative design within a team environment to achieve a large-scale audio/video/performance work within the Antarctic Mid-Winter Festival. Consideration of issues regarding public, site-specific work including occupational health and safety, public liability, appropriate content creation. 2003 Plimsoll Gallery ‘Points of Entry’ Hobart Position: Gallery Assistant Key skills and duties: ? aesthetic and functional arrangement of electronic installation ? following tasks set by supervisor ? working effectively within team environment SELECTED EXHIBITION HISTORY SOLO 2004-05 Texture Island Café Hobart, painting/photography Ephemeral Degrading Projection, 16mm projection loop, Alleyway near 171 Elizabeth Street Hobart Visual Sampling, Loft Gallery Salamanca Arts Center Painting, sculpture, sound installation I don’t know art but I know what I like, Republic Bar & Café Hobart Fringe Festival SELECTED GROUP Cinema Solubile, experimental film Melkweg Theatre, Amsterdam Fringe Club,painting, digital prints Hobart Fringe Festival. 2004 Members Show, electronic sculpture/video piece CAST Gallery. Hobart Parallax Error, 8mm film w/ sound UnderGround Film. Hobart Below The Surface, Video CAST upper level. Hobart Sideshow Moderne, site-specific sound installation Kelly’s Garden. Salamanca. Tas Image Makers, painting Gallery 47. Geelong Vic Opening, painting Fig Tree Gallery. Grovedale Vic Student Survey Show, painting Gordon Institute of TAFE. Vic PERFORMANCES 2005 Metal Machines Cluster, improvised sound performance Sirens. Hobart Fringe Cabaret. Audio performance Pacific Crystal Palace. Parliament Lawns Ten Days on the Island Universal Theory of Everything 2 & 3, Audiovisual performance Falls Festival. Marion Bay Tas/ Salamanca Square. Salamanca Tas ‘If you like improvised music…’, sound performance Knott Gallery. Surry Hills NSW ADSR: attack, decay, sustain, release. Sound performance/presentation The Venue. Salamanca Hobart Hilltop Hoods, live video performance Halo Nightclub, Hobart 2003 Time and Space died Yesterday. Translocal audio performance Waag Society for new and old media Theatrum Anatomicum. Amsterdam Make It Up Club. Improvised electronic audio Planet Café. Collingwood Vic Echo Chamber. Collaborative performance OddBall Cabaret. Peacock Theatre. Salamanca Tas. Make It Now: Australia wide festival of improvised music Peacock Theatre. Salamanca Tas. Primary Coloured Music. Durational performance Quantacrib. Newcastle NSW Electrofringe Festival