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BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY
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New South Wales, Australia/ *UK 1956
University of Queensland
1977, B.A. (Hons)
Poly. Central, London
1981, Postgraduate Diploma of Film Studies
King's College, London
1981, AKC, Philosophy & Theology
1982, Ph.D.
Writer and teacher who also makes film and multi-media programs. Main interests are the history of space and everyday consciousness in colonial cultures, particularly in Australia and the Pacific. Has written regularly for Filmnews, Art & Text, Art-Network, Editions, Cultural Studies, Meanjin and Photofile. In 1983, founding co-editor and publisher of 'On The Beach', a magazine of cultural analysis published with the assistance of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council.
Book publications: "The Diminishing Paradise: Changing Literary Perceptions of Australia", publ. by Angus & Robertson, 1984. Clement Semmler suggested that the chapter on the images of Aborigines "should be compulsory reading for all Australians from adolescence on". A collection of his more recent essays was issued as: "South of the West: Postcolonialism and the Narrative Construction of Australia", Indiana University Press, 1992. "The Bond Store Tales", a montage of historical fiction and documentary fragments, was published in Oct. 1996 by the Historic Houses Trust Press. Also in 1996, he edited and contributed a chapter to a book of scholarly essays, "Exchanges: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Australia and the Pacific", issued by HHT Press.
In the early '80s, Gibson became involved in filmmaking as a founding member of the Sydney Super-8 Film Group and as co-organiser of the Third Sydney Super-8 Film Festival. Then, in 1985, he and John Cruthers made "Camera Natura". This film on the history of white Australian landscape has won several awards and been acquired for dozens of public and private collections in Asia, the U.S., Europe and Australia. It was described in the American Historical Review as a "breakthrough film of considerable importance" and a "window into the future with vastly expanded concepts of scholarly 'publication' ". Gibson's first feature-film, "Dead To The World" (1990), for Huzzah Productions, Sydney has been included, along with "Camera Natura", in the Museum Of Modern Art collection of 100 films celebrating 100 years of cinema in Australia. In 1993, he completed the film-essay "WILD", based on the writings of Eric Rolls. The film has been invited to many film festivals around the world, including the competitive shortlists at Hawaii, Seoul, Vermont, Bombay, Melbourne, Sydney and San Francisco, where it won the 1994 Golden Gate Award.
In 1993, ABC Radio National bought and produced a series of Gibson's dramatic monologues, entitled "The Ancient Mariner Tales". He began to work in a new range of media and institutions. Extending this cross-disciplinary experimentation, he became a senior public programs consultant and multi-media producer for the Museum of Sydney. This involved policy-formation, conference-organisation, research, scriptwriting, directing and producing in computer-generated sound and image programs. The best-known result of this work is "The Bond Store", a story-telling gallery with more than four hours of endlessly reconfigurable dramatic narrative stored on laser disc and aural CD.
During 1997 and 1998, Gibson was the Australia Council's inaugural Fellow in New Media. Upon completing a range of research and production projects in this capacity, Gibson accepted the position of Creative Director of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, which is presently being completed in Melbourne. In this role, he continues to research, create and foster work in a range of media. His recent personal projects include: the CD-ROM, "Life After WarTime"; the museum installation "CRIME SCENE"; the art-gallery installation, "Darkness Loiters"; and a live media-music performance with the Necks, to be premiered at the upcoming Adelaide Festival (the latter three projects were co-curated with Kate Richards).
In June 2001, Gibson was appointed Adjunct Professor in Interactive Cinema and Art Theory at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.
(Fall 2001)
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