Vince Dziekan is Acting Head Multimedia & Digital Arts in the Faculty of Art & Design at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. In addition, he is affiliated with the Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT) in Liverpool, UK as a FACT Associate and Adjunct Programme Advisor for FACT ATELIER: an initiative for knowledge production and multilateral research collaboration.
His current research focus concentrates on the impact of digital technologies on curatorial design and the implications of virtuality on exhibition-based practices. This interdisciplinary investigation was articulated recently in his PhD thesis (Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition)
He has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions in Australia and his independent curatorial practice is represented by exhibitions such as Archival Permanence: Time and Timelessness in 100 Years of Australian Photography, The Synthetic Image: Digital Technologies and the Image, Small Worlds: A Romance and Remote. In August 2008, his demonstration exhibition, The Ammonite Order, Or Objectiles for an (Un) Natural History was selected as part of the juried exhibition of ISEA2009 and exhibited at Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
He has published in relation to related topics in various peer-reviewed journals and presented at numerous refereed conferences, both nationally and internationally. He has received invitations to participate in the Tate‘s online forum program (Liquid Architectures, 2006), symposia hosted by the National Gallery of Victoria (Sites of Communication, 2007), ISEA (2006, 2008) and delivered a keynote presentation at NODEM 06 Digital Interpretation in Art and Science Museums and Heritage sites in Oslo, Norway.
He is research leader of the Photography and Video Research Network at Monash University, a research associate with the Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT, Liverpool) and a member of the steering committee of the Virtual NGV (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne). During 2008, he was a Visiting Research Fellow with the Slade School of Fine Art (University College London). He is currently involved in collaborative research with the National Organization of Media Arts (NOMA) and the Omnium Research Group (University of New South Wales, Sydney). Most recently he was awarded a British Council Design Researcher Award to support his research into emerging programme architectures.
