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		Safety of Skin, chapter in re:skin, Ed Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth, MIT Press, Cambridge and London, 2007, p 51-79 Data Trash commissioned article in Photofile, The Archive Issue, No 78, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 2006, p 80 Wonderland: A Manifesto for 21st Century Immersive Works commissioned for Mesh#18 Experimenta Vanishing Point, Ed Lisa Gye, Experimenta Media Arts Inc, 2005, p13-15. Building and Australian Networked Future article in Realtime #67 2005, Au Screenfull.net article commissioned for Rhizome.org, USA Virtuous Networks, article in Artlink: Hybrid World, December 2004, Vol 24 No 4, Australia, p 55-58 Networked Soft Space, chapter in Art and New Media, eds Yu Wei-Cheng and Phillip George, Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan, 2004. Mandarin p 112-119, English, p 209-214 Reader: Lab3D and Web3D Art, co-editor with Taylor Nuttall, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2003, ISBN 094879773 8 the dimensional internet: Web3D-empyre-lab3D, article in Intelligent Agent, 2003, vol. 3 no. 2 carrier - becoming symborg, reproduced in Eingreifen, Viren, Modelle, Tricks, Ed Sick et al, Thealit, Hamburg, 2003, p 53-63 locate.au, article in Simultaneita: New Media Arts Magazine, Italy, 2003, Vol 1, p 49-53 Wesen und Konstruktion des virtuellen raums in Webfictions - Zerstreute Anwesenheiten in elektroischen Netzen, eds Faßler/Hentschläger/Weiner, Springer-Verlag Wien NewYork, 2002 p128-133 Carrier: Forever Bound, Artist page, Leonardo, Vol. 36, No. 2, MIT Press, US, p 103-104 BEAP: interactions, intersections -article in Realtime 53, 2003, Au Empyrean - soft_skinned_escape chapter in Politics of a Digital Present: An inventory of Australian net culture, criticism and theory, (Eds) Brown, Hugh ; Lovink, Geert ; Merrick, Helen Fibreculture Publications, Melbourne, 2001 ISBN 0-9579978-0-9 carrier - becoming symborg chapter in Contagion - Cultural and Historical Studies, Eds Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker, Routledge, London, UK, 2001 carrier - becoming symborg refereed article in Culture Machine 3 : Virologies: Culture and Contamination, Eds Dave Boothroyd & Diane Morgan, University of Teesside, UK Superfluous Sex at Ars Electronica, article in Realtime 40, 2000, Au Werri Patch in Noon Quilt Book, eds. Teri Hoskin and Sue Thomas, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, 1999, ISBN 1 903229 0 6. p Finnish Shortcuts article in Realtime 28, 1998, Au Infectious Agent -artist pages in Tug Magazine 1998, Norway Line - Speechless in Cyberspace, article in Media and Culture Review, June 1998, Griffith University, Au
		conferences papers
		Into the Internet - precursors to internet art Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (MAAP) Out of the Internet Symposium. November 2006, Brisbane, Au. Networks and Residencies Pacific Rim New Media Summit, ISEA 2006, August 2006, San Jose, USA. Curating New Media - An International Expert Panel Cultural Futures: Place, Ground and Practice in Asia Pacific New Media Arts December 2005, Hoani Waititi, Auckland / Tamaki Makaurau, New Zealand Local/Global - Developing Networks ADA - Aotearoa Digital Arts _emerge_Symposium November 2005, Dunedin, New Zealand Artist Projects and Digital Futures Masterclass, Museums and Galleries NSW Leading from the Edge 2005 Public Galleries Summit, November 2005, Wagga Wagga, Au Vital Signs = Vital Networks - Keynote Presentation at Vital Signs, ACMI, September 2005, Melbourne, Au -empyre- : Building online communities paper @ OZeCulture 2005: Magic, Money and Myth, April 2005, Byron Bay Au. The art of the network paper @ Archiving Web Resources, National Library of Australia, October 2004, Canberra, Au The List - the mailing list phenomenon panel convenor & presenter @ isea2004 Baltic Sea, August 2004, Finland Soft Skinned Species paper @ Virtual Minds, February 2004, Bremen, Germany The Impact of Digital Cultural Interaction in Our Daily Lives panel @ Graphite, S.E.Asian Siggraph, February 2003, ACMI, Melbourne, Au Soft Skinned Species given @ ISEA2002, Orai, October, 2002, Nagoya, Japan. Empyrean - virtually local. given @ Consciouness Reframed @ Biennale of Electronic Art Perth, August, 2002 Au . Empyrean - soft skinned space, Spatial Cultures - University of Newcastle, June 2001, NSW, Au Empyrean \| soft e_scape. empyrean video presented @ cast01 - Living in Mixed Realities, September 2001, Schloss Birlinghoven, Bonn, Germany Empyrean - soft skinned space. given @ Consciousness Reframed, August 2000, Newport, Wales, UK. Empyrean given @ UK VR -Sig 2000, September 2000, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Art on the Internet given @ SPARC2000, Waikato Polytech, Hamilton, New Zealand Carrier - slimey, sick, deadly, ugly. given @ Invencao- Thinking the Next Millenium, August 1999, San Paulo, Brazil. Carrier - viral romance. given @ Contagion international interdisciplinary conference, April 1999, Sydney University, Au. Line - Mute Subjects of the Cyberpolis given @ Cultural Crossroads: Ownership, Access & Identity Conference, Sydney 1997, Au.
		interviews
		a media arts cornucopia machine Keith Gallash talks with ANAT's Melinda Rackham, RealTime + onscreen, 77, Open City Inc, Sydney, February 2007, p25 Immersed in Soft Space: An Interview with Melinda Rackham by John Potts, Scan, 2004 Wesen und Konstruktion des virtuellen raums in Webfictions - Zerstreute Anwesenheiten in elektroischen Netzen, eds Faßler/Hentschläger/Weiner, Springer-Verlag Wien NewYork, 2002 p128-133. The animating fluid of cyberspace - Interview by Mark Amerika, @ Rhizome, February 2002 Art goes online in Australia, CNN investigates Australian net.art - 16 May 2001 ctheory : techflesh Interview by Eugene Thacker, May 2001 Empyrean, New Media Notes Interview by Saoirse Higgins, Art Bulletin, Vol 18 No 98, AAI, Dublin, 2001, p23-25, ISSN 07905858 : online transcript of interview MobileGaze.2 video interview by Valerie Lamontagne from Mobilegaze 2. My viral lover - Mitchell Whitelaw interviews Melinda Rackham - RealTime, OnScreen 37, Open City Inc, Sydney, ISSN 1321-4799, June 2000, p22.
		reviews
		Virtually Beautiful - article by Donnalee Dunne, reviewing 4 net.artists, in Pathways, Vol 3/2, Experta Medica/Novartis, Netherlands, April/June 2002.pp 42-47 3D Multiuser Virtual Reality als kinematographisches Dispositif? by Ulrich Wegenast Wand5 from ZKM <Streaming Media> 2002 Physicalization in Networked space - Yvonne Volkart, springer\|in 1/02: Cartographies, Verein, Vienna, Austria, March 2002 Melinda Rackhams Online Installations- Sean Cubitt, Artlink: e-volution of new media, Vol 21 No 3, Australia, September 2001, p24 -26. Finalist: 2000 Leonardo New Horizons Award for Innovation in New Media commentary by Barbara Lee Williams. Interface - visions of the body and the machine, article by Kathy Cleland in ART AsiaPacific Issue 27, 2000, ISSN10393625, Fine Arts Press Sydney, Au, p 70 - 75. " Rackham's line is a lure into a world..a decidedly nonliner domain.. empowered by the internets most powerful time-bending and space-eating tool -the hyperlink " in "End of the Line: Experimental and Non-Linear Interfaces" by Steven Madoff in Websights: The Future of Business and Design on the Internet, Ed Katherine Nelson, New York, 2000 "particularly moving and beautifully composed web artwork" by Sonya Rapoport - Leonardo Reviews, Leonardo 33, #4, 2000 "These artists understand the code, understand the possibilities, are experimenting with it in ways that the makers of Netscape or the makers of museum Web sites haven't really thought about." arts@large - article on Beyond Interface, including line, Matthew Mirapaul, New York Times, Cybertimes, April 9 1998. "intellectual , engaging and delightful" New World Sites, review of line @ internet.au, October 1997.
		professional affiliations
		Board Member 2003-05 dLux media\|arts - distributed art - innovative film, video, net, mobile & sound art. Editorial Advisory Board Member 2004-05 Fibreculture journal a peer reviewed journal exploring issues of network cultures and their informational logic. Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) International Programming Committee 2006 ArtsPeak member - 2005 Australian Peak Advocacy Bodies focusing on cultural policy and arts education nationally Advisory Board 2006 Australia Council New Media Scoping Study DEST Joint Reference Committee 2006 research between the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and Science, Technology, Engineering and Medical Sectors Programming Committee 2006 Engage - Interaction Art and Audience Experience Editorial Advisory Board 2006 MESH Magazine National Visual Arts and Craft Committee 2005 - developing strategies and responding to Government policy and enquiry initiatives Conference Planning Committee 2005-06 New Constellations: Art Science and Society Arts Advisory Committee 2006 - University of SA, School of Art

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