"Windrest" 12 Erith Lane,
Kalorama 3766,
Victoria, Australia
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Academic History:
1994 Master of Visual Art (by
Research) The University of Melbourne .
1982 Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts, Phillip
Institute of Technology, Melbourne
1981 Bachelor of Education (Arts and Crafts)
Melbourne College of Advanced Education
Solo Exhibitions:
1996 Musical Chairs (WWW exhibition)This
link will take you to the exhibition
1995 365 Days Airspace Gallery, Sydney
1995 The Ocular Labyrinth, in collaboration with Alex Riczcallo and Alex
Selentich The Foyer Gallery, Arts Victoria
1994 In Camera Fitzroy Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Destiny The Basement Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Difficulties Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1993 Inner Sanctum in collaboration with Mark Strizic and Noel Flood ;
Doncaster Art Gallery, Melbourne
1993 Schlimme Schmisse in collaboration with Anthony Millman; Gold Street
Gallery
1991 Images from Europe, Paparazzi Gallery, Melbourne
1987 Recent Work Artery Gallery, Geelong
1987 Silent Screams and Whispers Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne
1985 One for Marcel Gallery Quintino, Melbourne
1985 Fimbriated Moments The Printed Image Gallery, Melbourne
1983 Urban and Domestic Icons Gallery 18, Melbourne
1982 On Second Thoughts Gallery 18, Melbourne
1980 Transmogrifications Pentax Brummels Gallery, Melbourne
1979 Photographs and Prints Roen Art Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions :
1996 Myopia, Photographers Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Decadence 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1995 Transapparency Ether Ohnetitel, Melbourne
1995 Oz Art, Australian High Commission,Singapore
1994 John Doe 200 Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Blow-Up 'Next Wave' Exhibition at Southgate, Melbourne
1994 Studio Artists Foyer Gallery, Victorian Ministry for the Arts, Melbourne
1994 Foetus, Fish, Flesh Airspace, Sydney
1994 Read my Lips (Next Wave Festival 1994) Ascent Gallery, Melbourne
1994 It never rains in April Morabbin Arts Centre, Melbourne
1994 Agfa Summer Salon Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
1993 Un/authorized Duplication 200 Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne
1993 City of Footscray Invitation Prize, Melboune
1993 Box Hill InvitationPrize Exhibition, City Of Box Hill Town Hall
1993 Downlands Invitation Art Prize Towoomba
1993 V I T E A ; A.I.P. #7, Fifth Sculpture Triennial, R.M.I.T. Gallery
1993 John Baird Tower Studio Art Award exhibition of finalists at The Steps
Gallery, Melbourne.
1993 Agfa Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
1992 Art Imitating Life with Mark Strizic, Pamela Irving and Noel Flood.
Caulfield Arts Complex, Melbourne
1992 'Small Works - Wide Vision', Downlands Art Exhibition, Toowoomba
1992 'Image and Time' Taipei International Exhibition of Photography 1992
R.O.C.Taiwan Museum of Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum and Chiang Kai - Shek
Culture Center
1991 Art and Architecture The Atrium, Architecture Building, University
of Melbourne
1989 International Invitation Exhibition, Gallery 56, New York, U.S.A.
1988 Art Horizons International Art Competition and Exhibition, Larchmont,
New York, U.S.A.
1988 Salon International de la reserche photographique Royan, France
1987 Survey Exhibition of Australian Art, Linden Galleries, Melbourne
1987 National Photographic Exhibition, Albury Photographic Center, Albury
1984 International Triennial Exhibition of Photography, Friberg, Switzerland
1984 Still Moments Heide Park and Gallery, Melbourne
1983 Primitive Images The Eye Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.
1983 International Postcard Exhibition Photo Factory, Koenigsberg, Oslo,
Norway
1983 3rd Post - Graduate Exhibition Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne
1983 Current Post - Graduate Work , Victorian College of the Arts Gallery,
Melbourne
1982/3 Graduating Photography Traveling Exhibition, all States and Territories
in Australia. Australian Center for Photography, Sydney
1982 The Tyranny of Distance Banque National de Paris, Melbourne
1982 Independent Artists Exhibition A.M.P. Building, Melbourne
1981 A Question on your Plate Gallery 18, Melbourne
1981 Four Melbourne Photographers Real Pictures Gallery, Auckland, New
Zealand
Film and Video Work:
1996 Ladies and Gentlemen, VHS, 3.5 minutes (with Carolyn Deutsher)
1996 Ladies and Gentlemen, 16mm , 3minutes(with Carolyn Deutsher)
1995 365 Days, V.H.S. 174 min
1994 The Red Glove Video, 60 min.
1993 City/Country Video Installation 2 x 60 Minutes
1992 MacDonalds Video, 60 min.
1990 Zero Ozone Conditions Apply (Homage to Charles Burkowsky) in collaboration
with Anthony Millman V.H.S. 97 min.
1983 Memories Super 8 (Sound) 8 min.
1980 Ode to the decline of the Industrial Era Super
8 (Sound) 12 min.
Interviews
Radio:
Interview
with Andrew Garton on Kiss FM (Net up), Thursday 30.8.1996 (20min)
http://www.peg.apc.org/toysatellite/Space_Junk/netup/
Arts Today with Sian Prior (45 minute special) ABC 18.4.1996 Interview
with Rodger Taylor on RRR, Saturday 30.3.1996 (30min)
Interview with Rodger Taylor on RRR, Saturday 7.4.1996 (30min)
Interview with Hugo Leshin on 3MBS, Thursday 31.8.95 (20min)
Interview on Radio National, Ronald MacDonald April 5, 1994 (16 min)
Review on RRR with Rodger Taylor, July 8.1995
Interview on 3AW April 4th. 1994 (12 min)
Interview on RRR on Sunday April 3, 1994 (28 min)
Interview with Linda Hicks on 'Talbot's Box' 3CR 7.3.1987 (30 min)
Television:
Cyberfringe:Digital Imaging Award, Chanel 31, Monday 14.10.1996
365 Days: CTV1, Sydney, Saturday, February 18, 1995
Still Photography? (Repeat) ABC TV Review, Sunday
April 17, 1994
Still Photography? ABC TV Review, Monday April 11, 1994
Represented:
The University of Melbourne, The University of Oslo, Koenigsberg, Norway, City of Footscray Collection, Private Collections in Australia, Germany, Italy, India, France, England, U.S.A. and New Zealand.
Publications:
Monographs:
W.Hammerstingl, 365 Days Windrest Publications, Melbourne 1995
Hammerstingl, W. Social Politics in Australian Photography
Unpublished Master by Research Thesis, Melbourne University, 1992
Hammerstingl, W.The New Photography Unpublished Thesis. M.C.A.E. 1982
Articles:
Werner Hammerstingl "Urban Exile. On-line Gallery"
MeshNo.8/9 pp29-30
Cataloges:
Rodger Taylor Digital Aesthetics, Ivan Dougherty, Sydney, 1996 Dennis
Chapman Transapparency, Ether Ohnetitel, 1995
Selenitsch, A. The Ocular Labyrinth, Arts Victoria, 1995
Jonathan Nichols, Louise Paramour et.al. (Eds.) Jon Doe 200 Gertrude Street
Artist Spaces, 1994
Daw, Kate and Delaney, Max Untitled Next Wave Festival 1994
Nervegna, Anna and O'Dwyer, Roisin (Un)authoized duplication 200 Gertrude
Street Artist Spaces, 1993
Hammerstingl, W. Two Documentary Photographers The University of Melbourne
1993
Vandam, Jennifer: Art Imitating Life Caulfield Arts Complex, Melbourne,
1982
'Image and Time' Taipei International Exhibition of Photography Art: 1992
R.O.C.
Taiwan Museum of Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum and Chiang Kai - shek Culture
Center, 1992
Mc Culkin, T. (Ed.)Small Works - Wide Visions, Downlands College, Toowoomba,
1992
Tresseder, B. Masters Degree Exhibition, M.C.A.E., 1987
Jenkins, R.( Ed.) Primitive Images, Eye Gallery, San Francisco, 1983
Churcher, B. (Ed.) Third Post - Graduate Exhibition Phillip Institute of
Technology, 1983
Articles/Reviews:
Cindy Lee"Digital Aesthetics-One" MESH Special Issue, Number
8/9, Autumn/Winter 1996
John Conomos "Language and Aesthetics" Cinema Papers Number 111,
August 1996 pp.42-44
Barb Smith "Art in the Age of modern technology" Canberra Times,
Friday, April 26th 1996, page 12
Madeleine Coorey "High-tech muse" The Australian, Higher Education
Supplement, page 26, Wednesday, april 10 1996
Mary Sierra-Hughes "Off the wall" Herald Sun, Wednesday, Febraury
1. 1995
Robert Nelson "Three Themes on the Art of Teamwork", Review and
large photograph, The Age Wednesday, Feb. 1. 1995, Page 19
Gower,R.. "Whatever Happened to...?" Commercial Photography Australia,
SydneyJanuary / February 1995
"Still Photography?" Australian Multimedia Vol. 2, Number 3,
Dec/Jan 94 /95 page 42
Alan Koeninger "Still Photography?" in Photofile (# 42) June
1994, pp 38-39
Steve Rand and Mark T "Still Photography?" (page 30) and "Fresh
New Reality" (page 50)
Beat Magazine, Volume 2, April 1994
Smith, Barbara "Developing Awareness of Digital Technology",
Canberra Times, April 19 1994
Hammerstingl, W. "Culture vs.Technique" Commercial Photography
Australia, Sydney January / February 1994
Irving, P. 'Alienation in Everyday Living' Geelong Advertiser Aug. 16th.
1987
New Zealand Herald, Monday, August 17 th,1982
Hughes, S. 'Youths Exuberance Overwhelms Quality of Art' Melbourne Times,
May 1980
Reference Texts:
"Who's -Who in Australian Art?" Thorpe Publishing, Melbourne , 1996
Kevin Murray "King Solomons Net", pp117 -141 in POST,
Photography Post Photography, Edited by Stuart Koop, Center for Contemporary
Photography, Melbourne 1995
Le Pechoux, J.M.The Australian Photography Yearbook 1983, Thomas Nelson
and Roscope, Melbourne 1983
Diaries: Prendergast, M. (Ed). Australian Art Diary
1984, Prendergast and McGulloch, Melbourne, 1983
Interviews by Werner Hammerstingl
Werner Hammerstingl interviews Prof. William Mitchell, Dean of Architecture
and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Creating in a Digital
Imaging Environment ("Still Photography?" Interview Series #1)
published by the Media Unit , The University of Melbourne (58min VHS),
1994
Werner Hammerstingl interviews Prof. Douglas Ford Rea, Dean of Electronic
Imaging , Rochester Institute of Technology, New York: 5 Years Ahead..("Still
Photography?" Interview Series #2) published by the Media Unit , The
University of Melbourne (45 min VHS), 1994
Boxed Sets:
Hammerstingl, W, Rizkalla A.and Selenitsh A. The Ocular Labyrinth Melbourne
1995
Hammerstingl, W.Domestic Bliss,1994
Hammerstingl, W.Anzac Day 1983
Bennet, T. (Ed.) 8 Post Cards Campaspe. Melbourne 1983
Photographs included in:
Aedon,Vogue, Outrage, Vogue Living, Rolling Stone, Beat, Antithesis, Agenda, Craft Victoria, Craft Art, Track-Bred, The Age, The Sun, The Herald, 100x100 Print Council of Australia, Melbourne 1989. CATfood, The Australian, Professional Photography Australia.
Curatorships:
1996 CAT Digital Imaging Award and National Gallery of Victoria Acquisition
Award, Stop 22 Gallery , Melbourne Digital Aesthetics-One Ivan Dougherty
Gallery, Sydney 1996
CAT Digital Imaging Award and National Gallery of Victoria Acquisition
Award City of Waverley Gallery , Melbourne 1995
Promises made and broken, Paton Gallery, The University of Melbourne, 1994
Still Photography? Digital Imaging Award and National Gallery of Victoria
Acquisition Award Arts Building, Melbourne University,1994
Stelarc and Don't shoot the Messenger, The Open Stage, Melbourne 1994
Two Documentary Photographers, Griffin Gallery, The University of Melbourne,
1993
Image and Form, The Doncaster Gallery, 1992
Work in Progress, Griffin Gallery, The University of Melbourne, 1992
Student work, The University Gallery, The University of Mississippi, Missouri,
U.S.A. 1992
Awards:
City of Footscray Acquisitive Award, 1993
200 Gertrude Street Studio Award, 1993
University of Melbourne Research Grants 1990,1992,1993 and 1994
University of Melbourne Post - Graduate Scholarship , 1989
M.C.A.E. Research Grant 1988
Commonwealth Post - Graduate Scholarship, 1985
Judging:
1996 CAT Digital Imaging Award and National Gallery of Victoria Acquisition
Award, Stop 22 Gallery , Melbourne 1995 CAT Digital Imaging Award and National
Gallery of Victoria Acquisition Award City of Waverley Gallery , Melbourne
1995
1994 Still Photography? Digital Imaging Award and Michaels National Gallery
of Victoria Acquisition Award, Arts Building, Melbourne University
1993 Images of the Orient Oriental Paper Photography Award (Australia-wide)
1986 International Photography Prize, Sydney Town Hall, Sydney
Memberships:
Member, AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art)
Member, AIPP (Australian Institute of Professional Photography)(retired)
Foundation Member, NAVA (National Association for the Visual Arts)
Committee Member, Melbourne University Research Committee(retired)
Committee Member, Doncaster Art Complex Management (retired)
Group Founder of the "Still Photography?" Project (retired)
President,"Still Photography?" Committee (retired)
President, "Contemprary Arts and Technology" Inc.
Employment:
Present:
Teaches at the Photographic Imaging Center , Melbourne
Lecturer at Photographic Studies College
Photographer, Artist, Editor and Writer.
Most recent:
Lecturer in Photography, The Victorian College of the Arts Photographic
Studies College (1995)
H.O.D. Hawthorn Photography Unit (Contract.1995)
Conference Convener (1996)