Artist's CV

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011       
A Biology of Cognition, BREENSPACE, Sydney

2005        
45. Vinculum, Artspace, Sydney
Strange Weather (v1.0 beta), Sherman Galleries, Sydney
these are the days, Sherman Artbox, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

2003       
Strange Weather (prototype v0.1), Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

2002       
meniscus, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
these are the days, Frankston Arts Centre – Cube 37, Victoria

2001       
Personal Eugenics, Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland
Personal Eugenics, Centenary of Faces, Queensland Art Gallery

2000       
Personal Eugenics, Artspace, Sydney 
Personal Eugenics, Experimenta, Linden Gallery, Melbourne

1999       
Personal Eugenics, Metis – National Science Week, Canberra Contemporary Art Space

1997       
Elective Physiognomies, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Elective Physiognomies, The Performance Space, Sydney

1995      
Elective Physiognomies, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
these are the days, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010       
Nightshifters, Performance Space, Sydney, NSW
group show, BREENSPACE, Sydney

2009       
Face To Face, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, NSW
Loop Space, Newcastle, NSW

2008       
Mirror States, Moving Image Centre, Auckland NZ & Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW
Face To Face, Newcastle Regional Gallery, NSW
National New Media Art Award Exhibition, Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) QLD

2007      
Workin' Down Under, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh USA
The Trouble with the Weather: a southern response, UTS Gallery Sydney
MOVE: Video Art in Schools, Kaldor Art Projects

2006       
Interactive Cities, International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) San Jose, USA
Art Movement, UTS Gallery, UTS Gallery Sydney
locate.au, online exhibition curated by Melinda Rackham

2005       
Open Letter, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, gallery 4a, Sydney

2004       
Digital Sublime - New Masters of Universe, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
One Of, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Cardio Morphologies (with George Khut) Performance Space, Sydney

2003       
Ozone, Pompidou Center, Paris
Cyborganic, MOP Sydney
Wild Boys, Phat Space, Sydney

2002       
Moist, MAAP (Multimedia Art Asia Pacific), Beijing
Media City Seoul - 2nd Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
Vidarte Festival, Mexico
Converge – Archive Project, Adelaide Festival of Arts, SA Art Gallery
Elastic Planet, Country Arts SA touring program
curator, All Star Data Mappers, Artspace, as part of data-terra, a dLux Media Arts event

2000–02   
Cyber Cultures Touring Program, Casula, Adelaide, Brisbane, Ipswich, Perth, Auckland, Alice Springs, Newcastle

2001       
Under Score, online exhibition for Down Under, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York
Waste, Experimenta Media Lounge @ Blackbox, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne

2000       
Chemistry: Art in South Australia 1990-2000, Art Gallery of South Australia
Memory in the Mirror, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Elastic Masculinities, National Portrait Gallery, online portrait of the month (November)

1999       
Viper Festival, Lucerne Switzerland
sexBot: dirty talk for the terminally shy, Mardi Gras Visual Art Event, Sydney

1998       
Digital Art Award Exhibition, Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane

1997       
ISEA 97, web gallery, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Chicago
Techne, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
Aliens.au, VideoPositive, UK
CyberCultures, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
Pulse Friction, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart

1996       
Perception & Perspective, Next Wave Festival, National Gallery of Victoria, VIC
Out of Adelaide, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Reference Points IV, Queensland Art Gallery, QLD
Re-collection, Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane City Gallery

1995       
ISEA 95, Montreal, Canada

1994       
Bitmap 101, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, VIC
artists thinking about Science, Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT), Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane

1993       
ISEA 93, Minneapolis, USA

1990       
Virtual Landscapes, Artspace, Sydney

SELECTED SCREENINGS
2009  Computer Baroque, Tate Modern, London
2000  Sick and Dizzy, Microwave Festival, Hong Kong
1999  MAAP 99, 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial
1998  Eat Carpet, SBS Television
1997  Elastic Light, Sydney Intermedia Network (SIN) touring program
Altered States, Experimenta touring program
Video Positive, Liverpool UK
Matinaze, SIN, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Rage, ABC Television & touring program
1996  Microwave Video Festival, Hong Kong
St Kilda Film Festival
Elastic Light, SIN, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1995  Videofest 95, Berlin Film Festival
Space & Sound, Electronic Media Arts, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1994  Prix Ars Electronica, Austria, festival screening and international touring program
Experimenta, Modern Image Makers Association (MIMA), Melbourne
1993  Perspecta Film and Video Screening, Art Gallery of NSW
Electronic Theatre, Siggraph 93, USA
Electronic Theatre, ISEA 93, Minneapolis USA
1991  Screen Space, Perspecta film and video screening, Art Gallery of NSW
1990  The Australian Video Festival, Sydney
1989  Attitude - Film and Video Event, Sydney
Recent Animation in Australia, MIMA, Melbourne

COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Griffith Art Works
Kaldor Art Projects
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Private collections

SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2010–2011    Public art commission, Rundle Mall, Adelaide City Council
2008–2009    Public art commission, Southport Broadwater Parklands redevelopment, Gold Coast City Council, QLD
2008            Short-listed, Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Award
2006            University of Sydney travel grant to attend ISEA 06, San Jose
2002            Residency, Returning Artists Scheme, Arts SA
1999 – 2000 Fellowship , New Media Arts Fund, Australia Council
1998             Meniscus, National Digital Art Award, IMA Brisbane
1996             New Work Grant, New Media Arts Fund, Australia Council
                    air, water parts 1, 2 & 3, Achievement in Innovation Award, St Kilda Film Festival
1995            Australian Film Commission travel grant to attend ISEA 95, Montreal, Canada
                   air, water parts 1, 2 & 3, Winner, National Digital Art Award
1994            These are the days , Honourable mention - Prix Ars Electronica, Austria
1992            Production Investment, Australian Film Commission, Film Development
                   SA Dept Arts travel grant to attend Ars Electronica, Austria &     SIGGRAPH USA
1991            Production assistance, Film South, Creative Development Fund
1990             Materials grant, Australian Film Commission, New Image Research
1989             Squares and checks, Winner, AUSGRAPH89 National Computer Animation Competition
1987             Residency at University of Adelaide, Computer Science Department, Australia Council, Artists and New Technology Program
1986             Materials grant, Australian Film Commission, No Frills Fund

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bec Dean, 'The Cloak of Darkness', Nightshifters Catalogue, Performance Space 2010
Tanya Petersen, 'somnambulant sensing', realtime 100, Dec–Jan 2010
Richard Wright, 'Computer Baroque: Computer animation 1982–1995', 2009
Amanda Slack-Smith, 'Playful gestures, ghostly remains', catalogue essay for National New Media Art Award, 2008
Alison Kubler, ‘Premier's National New Media Art Award winners on show’, Courier Mail, November 4, 2008
Keith Gallasch, ‘The name of the game: media arts now', Realtime No. 87, Oct-Nov 2008
Tony Bond, Kathy Cleland, Madeline K Snow, catalogue essays for 'Face to Face', 2008
Tania Doropoulos, catalogue essay for 'Mirror States', 2008
Lisa Slade & Sean O'Keeffe, booklet for 'Move, Video Art in Schools', Kaldor Art Projects, 2007
Ann Finegan, ‘Databases: Recombinant Interactives’, Artlink, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2007
George Khut, 'Development and Evaluation of Participant-Centred Biofeedback Artworks', UWS, 2006
Michelle Stockley, 'Art Detective', 2nd Edition (2006), Pearson Heinemann (Australia)
Mike Leggett, ‘Time sliced, perception shifted’, Realtime, No. 75, Oct-Nov 2006
Gabrielle Finnane, ‘River Sections’, catalogue essay for Art Movement, 2006
The Art Life, review of Art Movement 
Laura Murray Cree, 'Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986-2006', Craftsman House, 2006
Ann Finnegan, catalogue essay for 'Vinculum', Artspace, November 2005
Darren Tofts, 'Interzone', Thames & Hudson, Australia, 2005
Ann Finnegan, catalogue essay for 'Strange Weather', Sherman Galleries, July 2005
David Gauntlett and Ross Horsley (eds), 'Web.Studies', 2nd edition (2004), Arnold Publication
Ross Gibson, 'Painting by numbers', Pol Oxygen, vol. 6, 2003–04
Richard Vine, 'Cyber City ... a report from Seoul', Art in America, February 2003
Teri Hoskin, 'da Rimini and Tonkin: the viewer at work', RealTime, vol. 54, April – May 2003
Mike Leggett, 'Software Imaging Synthesis', Photofile, vol. 68, Futures, April 2003
Julianne Pierce, 'John Tonkin: www.johnt.org', Broadsheet, vol. 31, no. 2, 2002
Stephen Wilson, 'Information Arts', MIT Press, 2002
Kim Machan, 'MAAP', Beijing, 2002, exhibition catalogue
'Mirror with a Memory; Photographic Portraiture in Australia', National Portrait Gallery, 2002, exhibtion catalogue
Cormack, J., & Dorin, A., 'Art, emergence, and the computational sublime', Monash University, 2001
Linda Carroli, ‘Working the Screen: special issue for BAM's Under_score’ RealTime, 2001
Anna Munster, ‘Collaboration, Intersection or Hybridisation? Interfacing Art, Science and New Media’, Artlink, vol. 21, no. 3, 2001
Linda Carroli, 'John Tonkin: identity Tourism' RealTime vol 43, June - July 2001
Jennifer Sexton, 'screengems.com', Review | Arts, The Weekend Australian, 9-10 September 2000
Keith Gallasch, 'Positively Infectious' interview with curator Kathy Cleland, RealTime, vol. 38, 2000
Jaqueline Milner, 'Fooling Around with Evolution' catalogue essay, Artspace, 2000
Kathy Cleland, 'John Tonkin: Personal Eugenics' Photofile, Vol. 60, Tekhne, August, 2000
Nikee Seah, ‘Review of Personal Eugenics’, Fine Art Forum, December, 2000
Bruce James, 'Pope Alice overcomes strong penis challenge', Sydney Morning Herald, 4 March 1999
Clare Williamson, 'Digitalis Australis : The Recent Hybrid in Australian Photography', History of Photography, Summer 1999
Elizabeth Wilson, 'Disreputable science', 1999, catalogue essay
Anna Johnson, 'Art's new wave, 20 young artists to watch', Sydney Morning Herald Magazine, 26 April 1997
Zara Stanhope, ‘Mapping The Code – Artists Conceiving Data-Bodies’, Mesh, no. 10, 1996
John McConchie, 'Review', FilmNews 1994
Cecelia Cmielewski, 'Review', Broadsheet, 1994

PUBLICATIONS
Crowe, C., Tonkin, J., ‘Fifteen megabytes of fame: blogging, learning and assessment’, Synergy, no. 24, Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Sydney, 2006
Crowe, C., Tonkin, J., ‘Blogging, learning and assessment. Best Practice in Assessment and Student Feedback Forum’, The University of Sydney, Sydney, 2005
Tonkin J., Grycewicz L. (eds), ‘The Art of Cartography, data terra future’, Screen02
conference, dLux Media Arts, Sydney, pp. 10–12
Sluczanowski, P.R.W., Lewis, R.K., Prince, J.D., Tonkin, J., ‘Interactive graphics computer models for fisheries management’, World Fisheries Congress, Athens, 3 – 8 May 1992
Day, R., McNaught, C., Tonkin, J. & Sluczanowski, P., ‘Teaching population dynamics at tertiary level in China’, in B, Pennell, R. & Sims, R. (eds) ASCILITE 92: A promised future, Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education conference, Sydney, 1992, pp. 53–63
Prince, J.D., Sluczanowski, P.R.W., Tonkin, J., AbaSim: A graphic fishery. South Australian Department of Fisheries, Adelaide, 1991
Sluczanowski, P.R.W., T.I. Walker, H. Stankovic, S.Forbes, J. Tonkin, N.H. Schenk, J.D. Prince and R. Pickering, ‘Sharksim: a computer graphics model of a shark fishery’ in Pepperell, J., West, J. and Woon, P. (eds), Shark Conservation, Sydney, Zoological Parks Board of NSW, pp. 45–47