About me
Bob
Georgeson
Bob Georgeson is a digital artist, experimental film maker and sound artist, writer, curator and facilitator. He is host and curator of the anonymous waves Gallery, artist and curator at The Wrong Biennale, founding member of dadaland collective:, artist at SPAMM, Noemata, Homeostasis Lab, Fu:bar Glitch Art Festival, Peripheral Forms, One Minute Artist Films, DATASHOW, Aisthesis Lab and member of the Glitch Artists Collective, Free the Pixels and The Perfect Users. His work deals with the themes of alienation, isolation and loneliness and the impact of new technologies on communications and society. He exhibits and collaborates around the globe from his home in a remote location in south eastern Australia.
Exhibitions:
2024
- One Minute Volumes 10 and 11, Close Up Film Centre, London, 2024 (video)
- Television. The Wrong TV, curated by David Quilles Guillo as part of The Wrong Biennale No 6, Online, 2024 (video)
2023
- AI/AI, Preistman Gallery, Sunderland, UK curated by James Hutchinson as part of The Wrong Biennale No 6, 2023/24 (digital art)
- One-Off Moving Image Festival 2023, presented by Noemata as part of The Wrong Biennale No 6, Online, 2023/24 (video)
- Metatopia, hosted by Aisthesis Lab as part of The Wrong Biennale No 6, Online, 2023/24 (video)
- /'fu:bar/ 2023 Glitch Art Festival, Zagreb, Croatia and online, 2023 (digital art)
- One Minute Volume 10, curated by Kerry Baldry, Wolf & Galentz Gallery, Berlin, 2023 (video)
- One Minute Volume 11, curated by Kerry Baldry, 20 21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, UK, 2023 (video)
- The Unmoving Show - a psychogeographical drift in the matrix, ELO 2023 Conference, Coimbra, Portugal, 2023 (digital art)
- One Minute Volume 11, curated by Kerry Baldry, Streaming on VisualcontainerTV International Videoart Channel, 2023 (video)
- I fell in love too young, retrospective of experimental films 2012-2023, The Wrong TV, Online, 2023 (video) (solo)
2022
- Forbidden, a collusion with Castell Lanko, New Art City, Virtual reality 3D exhibition, Online, 2022 (digital art)
- #biennale.NO 2022 hosted by noemata.net, Online 2022 (digital art)
- One-Off Moving Image Festival 2022, presented by Noemata, Valencia, Spain; Copenhagen, Denmark and online, 2022 (video)
- /'fu:bar/ 2022 Glitch Art Festival, Zagreb, Croatia and online, 2022 (video)
- Pivilion/EXEno1, as part of the "Parasites" exhibition, Meštrović pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia, 2022, (digital art)
- Transmutation, Virtual reality 3D exhibition, Online, 2022, (digital art) (solo)
- Spiral 25+, Spiral Gallery, Bega and Basil Sellers Exhibition Centre, Moruya, NSW, 2022 (photomedia)
- One Minute Volume 10, 303 Projects, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK, 2022 (video)
2021
- The Unmoving, presented by Noemata as part of The Wrong Biennale No5, Online, 2021/22 (mixed media)
- One-Off Moving Image Festival 2021, presented by Noemata as part of The Wrong Biennale No5, Online, 2021/22 (video)
- Encounters with Incomprehension, curated by Justice Alexander Hager as part of The Wrong Biennale No5, Online, 2021/22 (mixed media)
- “Objeto Virtual Não Identificado” ("Unidentified Virtual Object"), presented by DATASHOW as part of The Wrong Biennale No5, Brazil and online, 2021/22 (video)
- Contemporary Art Ruhr, Innovative Art Fair, presented by Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany, 2021 (video)
- Onda Mediale 2021, 11th edition, Art Web Gallery, Italy and online, 2021 (video)
- /'fu:bar/ 2021 Glitch Art Festival, Zagreb, Croatia and online, 2021 (video)
- Eye Scape 2, Virtual reality 3D exhibition, Online, 2021 (video) (solo)
- Eye Scape, Virtual reality 3D exhibition, Online, 2021 (digital art) (solo)
- Homestasis Lab, A democratic database for digital arts 2013-2021, Online (based in São Paulo, Brazil) , 2021 (digital art)
- Weird Shit presented by anonymous waves Gallery, Online, 2021 (curator)
- Pure Abstract FTP, curated by DC Spensley, New Art City, Online, 2021 (digital art)
- Return of the GIF! presented by anonymous waves Gallery, Online, 2021 (curator)
- The Other Side, VisualcontainerTV International Videoart Channel, Milan, Italy, 2021 (curator)
2020
- Unseen: recent works by Bob Georgeson, OhmZutt Gallery, Online, 2020 (digital art) (solo)
- the node to nowhere: a collaborative node of the #biennale.NO hosted by Noemata.net and anonymous waves White Page Gallery, Online, 2020 (curator)
- Undocumented events and object permanence, Autumn Collection, Noemata.net, 2020 (video and writing)
- Linea Festiva, Ruvo di Puglia, Italy featuring White Page Gallery Network, 2020 (curator)
- /̲’͠fu:b͏̠ar/ Glitch Art Festiva᷂l 2̌020, galerija Siva, Zagreb, Croatia, 2020 (video)
- The Other Side presented by anonymous waves Gallery, Online, 2020 (curator)
- Featured Artist ANCA (Australian National Capital Artists), Canberra, 2020 (digital art)
- One Minute Volume 10 curated by Kerry Baldry, Streaming on VisualcontainerTV International Videoart Channel, 2020 (video)
- Homeostasis Lab, 2020 ARTISTS on the run on the theme of DIGITAL Decolonization, Online (based in São Paulo, Brazil) , 2020 (digital art)
- Press Refresh, The Wrong Biennale, Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana, Valencia, Spain, 2019/2020 (video/sound)
- Video 03, Epicentre, The Wrong Biennale, Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana, Valencia, Spain, 2019/2020 (video)
- Transitory Encounter - an exploration into generative systems, Offline router project for The Wrong Biennale, 2019/2020 (digital art)
- The PopGen Project, PERFECTUSERS.ONLINE as part of The Wrong Biennale 2019/2020 (digital art)
- yes, yes by dadaland collective:, Pavilion for The Wrong Biennale, 2019/2020 (curator)
- dadaland collective:, Embassy for The Wrong Biennale, Sugar Sounds, Bega 2019 (curator, video and digital art)
- /͗’fu:bar/ Glitchͪ ̯A̲r͛t̸᷉͡ Festiva͚l̰ 2019, AKC Attack, Zagreb, Croatia, 2019 (video)
- Moscow International Typomania Festival, Museum of Moscow, Russia, 2019 (video)
- SPEAK! presented by dadaland collective:, Global, 2019 (video)
- The Porous Body presented by Peripheral Forms, Portland, Oregon, 2019 (video)
- Magmart XI - video under volcano, International Videoart Festival, Salerno, Italy, 2019 (video)
- Monumenta - international archive for the contemporary anti-monument, Puerto Rica, 2019 (photomedia)
- Five Points of a Circle, M16 Artspace, Canberra, 2019 (video) (solo)
- Experimental Video, Exchange Gallery, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, 2018 (video)
- SPAMM (SuPer Art Modern Museum), curated by Michael Borras AKA Systaime, France, 2018 (video)
- dadabloge, an international dada event organised by the Mobius Group, Boston, 2018 (video and poetry)
- TYPOMANIA International Festival 2018, Museum of Moscow, Russia, 2018 (video)
- SPAMM FUTURE ft. Perfect Users: Your Vision About Spam Messages In The Future (curated by Adrian Pickett (UK), Michael Borras AKA Systaime (France) and William Wolfgang Wunderbar), 2018 (video)
- One Minute Artists Moving Image Festival, North Wales, 2018 (video)
- The Perfect Users: a group of artists on Facebook that came together as part of The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale 2017/18 (ongoing) (video & digital art)
- Contributor to We Invented Nothing - a film by Julija Paskeviciute and Lisa Kovalenko as part of Bierumer Art Movie, Bierumer School, Netherlands 2017/18 (video)
- Prosthetic Pavilion: The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale (curated by Darko Vukic, Belgrade, Serbia) 2017/18 (video)
- Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series, Hsinchu City, Taiwan 2017(video)
- Precipice: redefining print media, Spiral Gallery, Bega 2017(photomedia)
- Spiral Gallery 20th Anniversary, Spiral Gallery, Bega and The Q Exhibition Space, Queanbeyan 2017 (photomedia)
- Your Voice, in conjunction with International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, As-Suwayda, Syria 2016 (photomedia)
- Road to the Absolute, curated and presented experimental film program for Batemans Bay International Fringe Festival 2016 (video)
- Peepshow, Interactive online environment for Artlands Dubbo 2016 (photomedia)
- LonDada, International Dada Festival, The Cinema Museum, London 2016 (video)
- ReArtVision, Bega 2014 (as part of Festival of the Face) (video)
- Love & Desire, Spiral Gallery, Bega 2014 (plus curating) (video)
- anonymous waves, Shop 7 Art Space, Bermagui 2013 (as part of Sculpture on the Edge) (video & photomedia) (solo)
- Past and Present, Spiral Gallery, Bega 2012 (photomedia)
- G1, Spiral Gallery, Bega 2011 (plus curating) (photomedia)
- Brides of Christ, Ivy Hill Gallery, Wapengo, 2010 (photomedia) (solo)
- Blokes, Spiral Gallery, Bega 2009 (photomedia)
- Construct: sculpture in the house, Bega Valley Regional Gallery 2009 (photomedia & sculpture)
- An Exhibition of Erotic Art, Wolfgang's Art Gallery, Cobargo 2009 (photomedia)
- On the Edge – towards Postmodernism, Bega Valley Regional Gallery 2009 (Awarded First Prize) (photomedia)
- Wyndham Art Exhibition 2007 (Winner of Opening Night Award) (photomedia)
- Photomontages at Farewell to Jim Mollison, Director National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Yacht Club 1989 (photomedia)
- Winner of Frank & David Bulbeck Memorial Art Prize 1967 (painting)
Collaboration:
Curator and host anonymous waves Gallery. Founding member of dadaland collective: 2018 [dadaland collective: is Tim Tsang (USA), Anthony Washburn (aka The Implicit Order) (USA), Elle Thorkveld (USA), Milica Raicevic (Serbia), Sava Zolog (aka Darko Vukic) (Serbia), Gabriela Green Olea (Australia), Jose Ramon Alcala (Spain), Kerry Baldry (UK), Parch Es (USA), Stefan Ljumov (Serbia), Yvana Samandova (France), Michael Szpakowski (UK), Borjan Zarevski (France), Miloš Bojović (Serbia), Yartn Saloan (Mexico), Michael Borras aka Systaime (France), Andrew Stys (UK) and myself]. Video
production for projects with sound artists Sheer Zed (UK), Hyaena Fierling (Portugal
& UK), The Implicit Order (USA), emptywhale (UK), Calling Sister
Midnight (USA), Hidden Tribe (Russia), Inert Project (Italy & USA), Ann Key (Netherlands), aPatch ofNettles (Australia), David M Paganin (Australia) and visual and performance
artists Milica Raicevic (Serbia), Griet Menschaert (Netherlands), Deniza Dikova (Bulgaria & Spain), Jamie Forbes (Australia),
Alina Stefan (Romania), Gabriela Green Olea (Australia), Marwen Ben Cheikh (Tunisia), Castell Lanko (Egypt) et al.
Publications and Collections:
- DreamZine3, Internet Archive, 2022 (e-zine)
- DreamZine2, Internet Archive, 2022 (e-zine)
- DreamZine, Internet Archive, 2022 (e-zine)
- Appealinna Death Trip, Internet Archive, 2022 (photographs and essay)
- dis-embodied, Internet Archive, 2021 (visual poetry)
- Matapoem, Internet Archive, 2021 (concrete/visual poetry)
- Poem for the Dead, Internet Archive, 2021 (concrete/visual poetry)
- BLESSED/CURSED, compilation album by Glitch Artists Collective released by EK4T3 Collective, Italy, 2021
- Homestasis Lab, A democratic database for digital arts 2013-2021, Online (based in São Paulo, Brazil) , 2021 (digital art)
- the node to nowhere, Internet Archive, 2021 (artists book)
- Unseen: recent works by Bob Georgeson, Internet Archive, 2020 (catalogue)
- One Minute Volume 10 curated by Kerry Baldry, Streaming on VisualcontainerTV International Videoart Channel, 2020 (video)
- The Best Friend You'll Ever Have, 5 track album released by Mirror Melt Records, San Jose 2020
- Homeostasis Lab, 2020 ARTISTS on the run on the theme of DIGITAL Decolonization, Online (based in São Paulo, Brazil), 2020 (photomedia)
- The PopGen Project, PERFECTUSERS.ONLINE as part of The Wrong Biennale 2019/2020 (photomedia)
- yes, yes by dadaland collective:, Pavilion for The Wrong Biennale, 2019/2020 (curator) SPEAK! presented by dadaland collective:, Online, 2019 (video)
- The Porous Body presented by Peripheral Forms, Portland, Oregon, 2019 (video)
- Monumenta - international archive for the contemporary anti-monument, Puerto Rica, 2019 (photomedia)
- SPAMM (SuPer Art Modern Museum), France, 2018 (video)
- Videodrome 2 Collection as part of VIDÉOTHÈQUE Images Contre Nature, Marseille, France, 2018 (video)
- dadabloge, an event organised by the Mobius Group, Boston, 2018 (video and poetry)
- Bega Valley Regional Gallery Featured Artist 2018 - 2020
- Co-Meta Remix Artists Collective Newsletter #13 2018 (featured artist)
- Contemporary Literary Horizons Nr.3 (47) May-June 2015. (3 poems published in English & translated into Romanian)
Online
channels:
Website:
www.anonymouswaves.org
Experimental film on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFIUJanIqLDQfYoL7xoP0KQ
Experimental sound on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/anonymous-waves
The complete video archive on the Internet Archive: http://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22bob%20georgeson%22&sort=-publicdate
Experimental sound on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/anonymous-waves
The complete video archive on the Internet Archive: http://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22bob%20georgeson%22&sort=-publicdate
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anonymouswaves/
Born:
Adelaide South Australia 1950
Art
education: Melbourne
State College, Victorian College of the Arts, Deakin University.
Art
related occupations: Set
design, display artist, art teacher, graphic, web and information
design, visualization consultant.
Contact:
Bob
Georgeson
e-mail:
surrealdada@gmail.com