Martine Corompt
Biography
1968 Born Jersey Channel Island, lives and works in Melbourne
Employment
Lecturer and Co-ordinator Media Arts, School of Art, RMIT.
Education
1986-9 Degree of Fine Art, Philip Institute of Technology (now RMIT University)
1994-6 Master of Art, RMIT, Melbourne
Solo & Collaborative Exhibitions
2005
Crowd Pleasers Spacement gallery Melbourne
2004
Land of the Lost, Martine Corompt & Natasha Johns Messenger, Project Space RMIT
2003
Premonition, collaboration with Ian Haig & Chris Langton, Span Gallery Melbourne
2001
This is my world - First Floor gallery Melbourne
2000
Wildboy - Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Dodg¹em collaboration with Philip Samartzis, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art and tour to: Institute of Modern Art,Brisbane and Cybercultures: Sustained Release - Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
Household Names - First Floor Gallery, Melbourne
1999
Dodg¹em - collaboration with Philip Samartzis, 101 Collins Street Melbourne
1998
Pet Shop - First Floor Gallery, Melbourne
1997
The Cute Machine, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1995
SORRY! - The Basement Gallery, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2005
Pitch your own Tent, Monash University Museum of Art, Curatored by Max Delany & Hanna Matthew
A Short Ride in a Fast Machine 200 Gertrude Street
Shanghai Festival of Art & Technology, Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower Zero Meter Hall, Pudong, China
Squared, curated by Martine Corompt & Dominic Redfern, site specific screening at Federation Square courtyard.
2004
Immersion, curated by Philip Samartzis, Westspace Gallery Melbourne
The Pretendlings, curated by James Bewley New Langton Arts San Fransisco
2002
Gloss - Bi-ligual magazine and exhibition, Nadif gallery Tokyo, CCP Melbourne, & CAC Adelaide, curated by Larissa Hjorth
Happiness PICA, WA, curated by Charlotte Day.
Love Stories, curated by David Rozetsky First Floor Gallery
Elastic Planet Riddoch Gallery, Mt Gambier, Riverland Gallery Berri, Fountain Gallery, Pt Augusta, Walter Nichols Mermorial Gallery, Pt Lincoln - curated by Samara Mitchell
2001
Happiness - Adam Art Gallery Wellington, curated by Charlotte Day.
Pizza Surprise - National mail order exhibition curated by Michelle Glaser and Katie Major
Animation Playground - Cybercultures national tour to Perth, Adelaide, Ipswich, Hobart & Melbourne, curated by Kathy Cleland
2000
Liberty Artists, Story Hall Gallery RMIT, curated by Terry Batt
1999
Basement Series #1 - (Curated by Noëllie Roussel and Martine Corompt), Los Angeles
Blockbuster 99 - Video Compilation UKS Gallery Oslo, curated by Ricky Swallow
Fluffy, Curated by Anthony Kiendl, Dunlop Art Gallery Saskatchuan, Canada
Chunky Move Live Acts # 1 at Revolver, curated by Stuart Koop for ACCA
National Digital Art Award Show, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1998
LoveBytes. Sheffield, UK
Aliens au. Video Positive festival, Liverpool, UK.
1997
Trick or Treat - a collaborative installation, 200 Gertrude Street
Cybercultures, (curators David Cranswick and Kathy Cleland), Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
Technè - Perth
1996
Domestic Disturbances, (curator Shiralee Saul), National Gallery of Victoria, Noosa Regional Gallery & National Tour
Short Sharp and Very Current, (curator Shiralee Saul), Experimenta, The Old Powerhouse Melbourne
ISEA 96, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Nothing Natural, (curator Helen Stuckey), The Basement Gallery Melbourne and regional gallery tour
Cybercultures, (curator David Cranswick and Kathy Cleland), Performance Space Sydney
1995
Glitter Gulch, (curator Martine Corompt) Ether Ohnetitel Melbourne
Humanetics - New Media Network Gallery
Ada¹s Spawn New Media Network Gallery
Virtualities - Scienceworks Museum Melbourne
Steam - Melbourne Fringe Salon
1993
The Sideshow - Idiomas gallery Melbourne
Gasworks outdoor sculpture show
Screenings
2004
Descore, curated by Philip Brophy, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
Ozone, curated by Alessio Cavallaro & Anoanetta Ivanova, The Barbican Centre London
2003
Ozone, curated by Alessio Cavallaro & Anoanetta Ivanova, Georges Pompidou Centre Paris
Another Planet curated by Keely Macarow, Chicago & New York
2001
Third Bangkok Experimental Film Festival & EUKABUEK,Chiangmai Art Museum
1999
The Cute Machine - Seoul Digital Film Festival, Korea
1998
Petshop - ArtRage ABC, and National tour (curated by Kim Machan)
1996
ŒVerts¹, Channel 10 in association with Experimenta
1994
E- topia New Media Network
Grants, Awards, Residencies & Commissions
2003
VACB Studio residency Cité Internationale Des Arts, Paris
2001
Victoria Commissions, State Library of Victoria Experimedia Courtyard, collaboration with Ian Haig opened April 2004.
Cinemedia Creative Commissions, digital Media Fund, collaboration with Chris Langton and Ian Haig
1999
1st Prize, National Digital Art Award
200 Gertrude Street/Pasadena, California, Studio Exchange Program
1998
Arts 21 Grant - Arts Victoria
1997
New Media Arts Grant - Australia Council
1995
New Image Research Grant - The Australian Film Commission
Selected Bibliography
2002
Shiralee Saul, This is my world ABC Arts Online www.abc.net.au/arts/digital/stories/s474111.htm
2001
Larissa Hjorth, The A-Gender of Cute Capital, Artlink volume 21 # 3
Penny Trotter Monster Politics - theories of transformation for freaks animals and superheroes. Like autumn 2001
Charlotte Day, Happiness, catalogue for "Parallel Worlds"
Darren Tofts interview Don't Call me Baby, Baby Realtime #422000
Adrian Martin Transformations Every Thing for Itself and God Against All(Catalogue)
Peter Hill Interview with Charlotte Day Photofile # 59
1999
Shiralee Saul Manual: a user's baedeker (catalogue for Dodg'em)
Darren Tofts Driving into the Interior Onscreen, Realtime October
1997
Darren Tofts Between Media Living & The Dead¹ Onscreen, Realtime October
Dominic Redfern, Trick or Treat Mesh, Spring
1996
Helen Stuckey Martine Corompt¹s Cute Machines, Mesh No.10
1995
Ross Moore Digital Wombs, Male Phantasms and Female Embodiment, MESH # 6
1991
Kristina Hampel Experimenta - A Major Survey of Film and Video Art, Pg. 46 The Interior Volume 1