Daniel Kojta
New Media Artist

Born Sydney
Lives and works Blue Mountains [AUS]
Australian Polish

dkojta@hotmail.com
0406473807


Education


2007 Masters Secondary Education Contemporary Arts, Design Technology.
2006 BA Hon [1] Fine Arts – New Media, University of Western Sydney. NSW
2004 Diploma Film Production University of Sydney. NSW.
2003 Certificate Video Editing Aus Film Television and Radio School. NSW.


Professional & Residencies


2010 Hazehurst Regional Arts Gallery Residency – group Exh. Nov
2010 New Media Arts Program Coordinator/Casual NSW DET.
2010 Bundanon Artists Residency Arthur Boyd’s Estate NSW
2010 Arts Activated National Conference. Power House Museum. Speaker.
2010 Design Technology Teacher Nepean School Creative Performing Arts.
2010 Casual Teacher Visual Arts – Design Technology NSW DET.
2009 Super Human New Media Arts Conference ANAT Masterclass. VIC.
2009 Curator New Media Art Survey, ‘Showing Off’ Bathurst Regional Arts.
2009 Awarded Peoples Choice Award & Second Vanishing Point Gallery NSW.
2008 Indigenous Community Education Art/Science Teacher. Remote NSW.
2008 Artsmart Professional Development Sem. Parramatta Art Studios. NSW
2007 RESKIN New Media Arts Residency ANAT, ANU ACT.
2007 Awarded Media Art Exhibition of the year, Stills Gallery NSW.
2006 Coding Cultures Lab Residency Cambletown Contemp. Art Gallery NSW.
2006 Hill End Artists Residency, Bathurst Regional Arts Gallery NSW.
2006 Engage University of Technology Sydney, ANAT. NSW.
2005 Rawspace Gallery Residency QLD.
2004 Artstreet Katoomba, Best Evening work.Video Installation 2nd Place.
2003 Screen Me Film Festival, Best Director Stitching Tide Blue Mts NSW.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2010 Into the [B]Voyd Shoalhaven Regional Gallery NSW. (coming July) 2006 AP Handmade Echo First Draft Gallery, Sydney NSW Video Install.
2006 AP Erewhon Seduction Pelt Gallery, Sydney NSW. Interactive Install.
2005 Alien Presence - Lewers Bequest & Penrith Regional Gallery NSW 2004 Entropy 1 - YZ Gallery, University of Western Sydney NSW.
2004 Sirocco - PCL Exhibitionists, Strawberry Hills NSW.


GROUP SHOWS


2010 The Ghost Show Hazelhurst Regional Gallery NSW. (Nov).
2010 First Flush Parramatta Regional Gallery NSW. (Current)
2010 Art Month Sydney Opening Video Exhibition Customs House Sydney NSW.
2010 Hidden Rookwood Cemetery Sculpture Exh. NSW. (Purchased by Rookwood)
2010 One Minute International Film Festival. Daniel Kojta, Kalani Gacon. Shanghai.
2009 I told you it was there At The Vanishing Point Gallery. NSW.
Awarded Second Place & Peoples choice award.
2008 And it started with myth Parramatta Regional Gallery. NSW.
2008 Battle Feel Mori Gallery Sydney. Metholated Spirit I, NSW
2007 F. up, ATVP Winter ’07 Show. Sydney NSW.
2007 Digital Flaneur , Vanishing Point Gallery, Opening Show Sydney NSW 2007 Light Scribe, National Museum of Australia. Wear Now Symposium Exhibition. ACT.
2007 Art Basel Miami - Scope Miami [PAM], Art Video Lounge. Video Installation. USA.
2006 Alien Presence – P. AHROS Contemporary Art gallery DENMARK.
2006 Ctrl+alt+del Dysfunctional Feed, Canberra Contemporary Arts. ACT.
2006 Exquisite Corpse Curator Tracey Clements, Peloton Gallery, NSW.
2006 Telematic Performance, Johannes Birringer Performance Space NSW.
2005 Sedition Exhibition, Casula Powerhouse Contemporary Arts NSW.
2005 Nothing Curated by Nicholas Tsoutas Alien Presence IV ARTSPACE NSW. 2005 Double Blind’ Stelarc. Flesh Vs Machine, Incinerator Gallery VIC.
2005 In shadow of memory, 2nd Place + High Commendation. BMCC ‘Artstreet’ Exhibition Katoomba.


CURATORIAL


2009 Showing Off’New Media Art Survey, Bathurst Regional Gallery. NSW (Curator)
2006 Amerika Mike Parr AGNSW/Performance Space, NSW. (Assistant)
2006 Transitions BMAN Artspace Sculpture Exh. Katoomba. NSW. (Curator) 2005 Emerge, BMAN Artspace Mixed Media Exh. Katoomba NSW. (Curator)
2005 Blue Mountains Sculpture Exhibition Katoomba NSW. (Curator) Judges-Adam Cullen, Richard Perram.



PUBLICATION



2010 ABC Arts, Sculpture Walk Hidden in Graves.
2008 Re:View ATVP Gallery Sydney. First year gallery review publication catalogue.
2007 Loop Magazine, September/October. Exhibition reiview ‘Are we getting hot in here’, ATVP Gallery. Ann Finnegan.
2007 Artlink Magazine, Australia. December Issue. Feature Article, Daniel Kojta. RESKIN.
2007 Australian Financial Review Magazine, ‘Garment Geek’. RESKIN article. April
2007 ArtLife. Exhibition review, Stills Gallery Daniel Kojta, Paul Adair, Peter Volich by Artlife.blogspot.com
2007 Filter Magazine ANAT., Issue 64 Summer 07. ‘The future of wearable technology’ Issue special. Arts review.
2007 SMH Arts Review. Exhibition review, Stills Gallery Daniel Kojta. by Tracey Clement
2007 RESKIN - Workshop residency ANAT - Article, The Australian. ACT. 2006 SCAN New Media Journal Review Catalogue Essay Ann Finnegan ‘Alien Slumber’
2006 Dr. Melinda Rackham Catalogue Essay ‘Alien Presence’. First Draft. Gallery Sydney.
2006 Open Gallery – Alien Presence [handmade echo], Sydney Morning Herald - Spectrum, June 17-18 2006, by Sunanda Creagh.
2006 Real Time Review ‘Crtl+alt+del’ Dysfunctional Feed group Show Video Installation review. Gail Priest. 2006 Review Blue Mountains Gazette / Pelt Show
2005 Open Gallery - Nothing, Sydney Morning Herald - Spectrum December 10-11, 2005 by Sunanda Creagh
2005 Interview, 2BLU FM Katoomba NSW/ Exhibition Review
2005 Nothing - Catalogue Essay, Artspace, by Ann Finnegan
2005 Review, Blue Mountains Gazette / Arts
2005 Interview, Radio 2SER FM NSW / Arts
2005 Published and performed a suite of Poetry and Prose by DHKojta IV International Year of Poetry, Arka Space Sardinia ITALY.




PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
ARTS AND EDUCATION

CONFERENCE SELECTION

2009

Superhuman Conference
Superhuman Masterclass Participant Daniel Kojta

FOR THOSE FEELING THE URGE TO EVOLVE, MELBOURNE IS THE PLACE TO BE IN LATE NOVEMBER AS LEADING MEDIA ARTS MAKERS, COMMENTATORS AND HISTORIANS CONVERGE FOR THE ANAT’S SUPER HUMAN: REVOLUTION OF THE SPECIES. CELEBRATING THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PUBLICATION OF DARWIN’S ORIGIN OF SPECIES, THE EVENT INVOLVES A SYMPOSIUM, MASTER CLASS AND MONTH-LONG EXHIBITION EXPLORING COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN THE SCIENCES AND THE ARTS AND THE IMPACT THESE HAVE ON BEING HUMAN.

Re:live Media History Conference

Media Art history conference - Melbourne. The next iteration of the Media Art History conference is Re:live which is to be held in Melbourne, Victoria in 2009. The event follows the success of the two previous Media Art History conferences, re:fresh (Banff 2005) and re:place (Berlin 2007). The conference series is an initiative of Leonardo / ISAST (International Society for Art, Science and Technology) whose International Advisory Committee will publicise the event and referee papers.

Art Express Workshop for Teachers.

Visual arts teachers to assist ‘behind the scenes’ in the development of ARTEXPRESS exhibitions for 2010. This initiative is designed to support teachers and schools in developing students’ Visual Arts performance. The role will include providing assistance to the ARTEXPRESS coordinator in preparing works for exhibition, developing exhibition materials and assisting the ARTEXPRESS photographer.

Super Human Conference ANAT Australia.

Super Human Revolution of the Species is an international event comprising a symposium, exhibition, masterclass and public talk investigating collaborative art and science practices and their relationship with the human body. Taking place in Melbourne on 22 - 25 November 2009, the Super Human symposium will present an invigorating and inspiring mix of keynote speakers and collaborative research projects engaging with one or more of the symposium themes: Augmentation, Cognition and Nanoscale Interventions.

2008

Artsmart Parramatta Artists Studios.

artSMART: building sustainable creative industries will provide the creative industries sector and artists with the necessary skills to increase the sustainability of running their small business. artSMART will deliver a free integrated package of skills through a series of 18 workshops run over 15 days. The practical workshops will be hands on, one on one and group sessions depending on the subject presented. artSMART will commence in Feb 2008.

2007

Coding Cultures DLux Media, Cambletown Center for Contemporary Art. March.

The Coding Cultures Symposium was designed to get people up to speed and networked into the latest in community based media practices and cultures.
Leading international artists from the UK, Canada and Jamaica joined us together with some of Australia's most inspiring and innovative practitioners to showcase a range of new projects and discuss how communications and media technologies are playing a central role in shaping cultural expression and community development in Australia and internationally.

Reskin Australian Network Art Technology, Australian National University. Feb.

In Summer 2007 we intertwine the practices of media arts and sound design, textile and weaving, jewellery, object and fashion design to produce the reSkin Wearable Technology Lab. This collaborative project of ANAT, the Australian National University School of Art, the Centre for New Media Arts (CNMA) and Craft Australia places jewellers and fashion designers with new media artists in an intensive three week research and development lab.

2006

Engage University of Technology Sydney, ANAT. Nov.

Engaging the senses with new technology art
The audience experience of art made with digital technology will be the focus of ENGAGE, a three-day symposium being held from next Sunday (26 November) until Tuesday (28 November) at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Among the artists attending will be Daniel Kojta, who was awarded a free ENGAGE pass through a competition run by the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT).

"Interactive art is the focus of my work as an artist and a paraplegic," Daniel said. "Interactive art offers incredible possibilities to the senses and as an evolutionary adaptation it will no doubt be embedded into the lives of all in some way.

"The technology offers a seventh sense for creative exploration, in my case with the development of phenomena and the experience of senses I no longer have in use. The situation of paraplegia becomes a host to unending possibilities when explored through interactivity."

Semi – Permanent Design Graphics Inst. Darling Harbour Sydney. Jul.

Now in its fifth year Semi-Permanent has become a premier event for the graphic arts community. Hosted over two days, Semi-Permanent’s main focus will be the conferences, featuring speakers from around the globe, presenting cutting edge developments in Design graphics and technology. July

2005

EYE-SITE: Situating Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts University of Sydney. Power Inst. Art Theory. Nov.

The conference aims to address the state of the art medium in art history and into the twenty-first century. With an eye on Rosalind Krauss’ recent critique of the ‘post-medium condition’ – in which the medium is ‘outmoded, cashiered, washed-up, finished’ – and another on the extravaganza of photo-based art and digital media, the conference encourages critical responses which address some or all of the following, in relation to Australian, New Zealand and international art
Australasia's benchmark conference for art historians, curators, artists, critics and postgraduates

VITAL SIGNS RMIT University. School of Creative Media, National Conference. The Australian Centre for the Moving Image . Sep.

Widespread access to digital media, the Internet, mobile phones and the continual expansion of computing power and parallel miniaturisation of media technologies has led to profound changes in social interactions from the interpersonal to the global. Artists, filmmakers and new media practitioners have grasped these technologies as they have become
available and, in doing so, have transformed the films, performances, music, visual art and literature that make up contemporary culture.
Some have gone further. Through the development of individual skills and creative collaborations, they have influenced the ongoing transformation of technology itself. Others have utilized a range of new media across the art forms, creating a complex, interdisciplinary practice. School of Creative Media.