Dr Vince Dziekan
Vince Dziekan is an academic and practitioner-researcher whose work engages with the transformation of contemporary curatorial practices at the intersection of design, creative technology and museum culture.
The scope of this interdisciplinary investigation has been outlined previously in his book, Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition: Curatorial Design for the Multimedial Museum (Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 2012). He has published widely in traditional, scholarly as well as non-traditional modes through his independent curatorial practice. He is associate editor of Curator: The Museum Journal (Wiley) and curator of MWX, the exhibition initiative of Museums and the Web (USA). He is Director of Programme, Graduate Research in Design, at Monash Art Design & Architecture (MADA), Monash University, Australia.
Graduate research opportunities
We look favourably on applications to study a graduate research degree that align with our research labs, focus areas, and the expertise of our supervisors, and encourage you to explore the list of opportunities below.
AI as cultural practice
We invite proposals for self-initiated research projects that will stimulate debate about the ways AI might augment human creativity and open transdisciplinary dialogue between cultural production and data science by testing modes of expression, forms of experience and social intelligence… (in other words) how we see and feel, as much as think.
- Scholarship may be available
- Open call
- Supervisors: Dr Vince Dziekan and Professor Jon McCormack
The multisensory museum
This research strand is open to speculative as well as applied investigations that explore the fullest range of multisensory and immersive experiences that museums and their collections can offer. We are particularly interested in supporting proposals that seek to extend the palette of media, design and communications beyond the visual to other senses (haptic, aural) and sensibilities.
- Scholarship may be available
- Open call
- Supervisors: Dr Vince Dziekan and Professor Jon McCormack
Speculative design
We invite proposals for self-initiated research projects that will stimulate debate about new and emerging, near-future technologies, especially their role in promoting forms of knowledge – including embodied and experiential processes – that engage and involve people in thinking differently about the future.
- Scholarship may be available
- Open call
- Supervisors: Dr Vince Dziekan and Professor Jon McCormack
VR as cultural practice
We invite creative practitioners (media artists, creative technologists, content producers) wishing to extend their studio practice by engaging deeply and experimentally with immersive image technologies – such as Augmented and Virtual Reality – to propose projects that will be undertaken through practice-based research resulting in creative outcomes (artworks, film screenings, installations) that seek to define the language of these media forms and stretch their narrative and experiential parameters beyond the cinematic frame to cinematographic space.
- Scholarship may be available
- Open call
- Supervisors: Dr Vince Dziekan, Professor Jon McCormack and Dr Tom Chandler
Additional research
Dr Vince Dziekan, Demonstration exhibition – The Ammonite Order, Or Objectiles for an (Un) Natural History
2008
Faculty Gallery: Melbourne, 2008
Digital prints, Laser cut Perspex, Digital media, Customized iPod interface, Room brochure, Wall-mounted and table display. Variable installation.
Dr Vince Dziekan, Installation view of Demonstration exhibition – The Ammonite Order, Or Objectiles for an (Un) Natural History
2008
Faculty Gallery: Melbourne, 2008
Digital prints, Laser cut Perspex, Digital media, Customized iPod interface, Room brochure, Wall-mounted and table display. Variable installation.
Dr Vince Dziekan, Carte-de-visite from Demonstration exhibition – The Ammonite Order, Or Objectiles for an (Un) Natural History
2008
Faculty Gallery: Melbourne, 2008
Digital prints, Laser cut Perspex, Digital media, Customized iPod interface, Room brochure, Wall-mounted and table display. Variable installation.
Dr Vince Dziekan, The Ammonight Ardor, Or Objectiles from a Waking Dream
2009
Cube 37 – Frankston Arts Centre: Melbourne, 2009
Digital prints, Laser cut Perspex, Digital media, Table displays. Variable installation. Video remixing and projection mapping: Gavin Pert.
Dr Vince Dziekan, The Ammonite Order, Or Objectiles for an (Un) Natural History (2008-09)
Digital prints, Laser cut Perspex, Digital media, Customized iPod interface, Room brochure, Wall-mounted and table display. Variable installation.
Dr Vince Dziekan, The Ammonite Order, Or Objectiles for an (Un) Natural History (2008-09)
Digital prints, Laser cut Perspex, Digital media, Customized iPod interface, Room brochure, Wall-mounted and table display. Variable installation.
Dr Vince Dziekan, Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition: Curatorial Design for the Multimedial Museum
2012
Intellect Books: Bristol, UK. ISBN 9781841504766
Dr Vince Dziekan, Installation view of The Ammonite Order, Or Objectiles for an (Un) Natural History
2009
ISEA2009 Ormeau Baths Gallery: Belfast, 2009
Digital prints, Laser cut Perspex, Digital media, Customized iPod interface, Room brochure, Wall-mounted and table display. Variable installation.
Dr Vince Dziekan, Installation views of The Ammonite Order, Or Objectiles for an (Un) Natural History
2009
ISEA2009 Ormeau Baths Gallery: Belfast, 2009
Digital prints, Laser cut Perspex, Digital media, Customized iPod interface, Room brochure, Wall-mounted and table display. Variable installation.
Dr Vince Dziekan, Installation view of The Ammonite Order, Or Objectiles for an (Un) Natural History
2009
ISEA2009 Ormeau Baths Gallery: Belfast, 2009
Digital prints, Laser cut Perspex, Digital media, Customized iPod interface, Room brochure, Wall-mounted and table display. Variable installation.
Dr Vince Dziekan, Installation view of (Mirabilia from) The Ammonite Order, Or Objectiles for an (Un) Natural History
2009
fortyfivedownstairs: Melbourne, 2009
Digital prints, Laser cut Perspex, QR-Codes and network-accessed digital content, Wall-mounted display. Variable installation.
Dr Vince Dziekan, (Mirabilia from) The Ammonite Order, Or Objectiles for an (Un) Natural History
2009
fortyfivedownstairs: Melbourne, 2009
Digital print, Laser cut Perspex, QR-Codes and network-accessed digital content, Wall-mounted display. Variable installation.
Dr Vince Dziekan, Offprint of ‘Notes on Demonstration Exhibition: The Ammonite Order, Or, Objectiles For An (Un) Natural History'
2010
Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 17 Issue 1 – Mish Mash, Fall 2010
www.leoalmanac.org/index.php/lea/entry/the_ammonite_order/
Dr Vince Dziekan, Offprint of ‘Notes on Demonstration Exhibition: The Ammonite Order, Or, Objectiles For An (Un) Natural History'
2010
Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 17 Issue 1 – Mish Mash, Fall 2010
www.leoalmanac.org/index.php/lea/entry/the_ammonite_order/
Dr Vince Dziekan, Leonardo Electronic Almanac – Digital Media Exhibition Platform (2010-12)
Exhibition listing 2010-12
Curatoriate: Vince Dziekan, Lanfranco Aceti & Christiane Paul
(Chronological order, from Top Left): (1) Paul Catanese, Visible from Space. September 2010; (2) Jane Prophet, Explorations of Structure. October 2010; (3) ASCI, Planet Earth, Co-curated with Cynthia Pannucci. January 2011; (4) Karen Casey, The Global Mind Project. February 2011; (5) Judit Hersko, Annas's Cabinet of Curiosities. March 2011; (6) The Southern Ocean Studies. May 2011; (7) United Visual Artists, High Arctic. July-August 2011; (8) Scenocosme, Interactive relationships. October 2011; (9) The Body Is A Big Place. November 2011; (10) Ken Rinaldo, Parasitism to Symbiosis. January 2012; (11) Biotopia Revisted. Co-curated with Morten Sondergaard. February 2012; and (12) Walczak & Wattenberg, SEETIME. March-April 2012.
Dr Vince Dziekan, The World Is Everything That Is The Case
2011
Uncontainable, Cumhuriyet Art Gallery, Maksem, Istanbul, Turkey (14 September – 7 October 2011). Australian representation at ISEA2011 Istanbul and part of the parallel program of the 12th Istanbul Biennial.
Curatoriate: Sean Cubitt, Vince Dziekan & Paul Thomas; Exhibition Manager: Chris Malcolm.
Istanbul Panorama, with featured work: Karen Casey, Meditation Wall 2011. Video projection. Variable dimensions.
Dr Vince Dziekan, The World Is Everything That Is The Case
2011
Uncontainable, Cumhuriyet Art Gallery, Maksem, Istanbul, Turkey (14 September – 7 October 2011). Australian representation at ISEA2011 Istanbul and part of the parallel program of the 12th Istanbul Biennial.
Curatoriate: Sean Cubitt, Vince Dziekan & Paul Thomas; Exhibition Manager: Chris Malcolm
Istanbul Panorama, with featured work: Mark Cypher, Propositions 2.0 2011. Suitcase containing sand, Kinect camera, projector, games engine software. Variable dimensions.
Dr Vince Dziekan, The World Is Everything That Is The Case
2011
Uncontainable, Cumhuriyet Art Gallery, Maksem, Istanbul, Turkey (14 September – 7 October 2011). Australian representation at ISEA2011 Istanbul and part of the parallel program of the 12th Istanbul Biennial.
Curatoriate: Sean Cubitt, Vince Dziekan & Paul Thomas; Exhibition Manager: Chris Malcolm.
Istanbul Panorama, with featured work: Tina Gonsalves, Chameleon 2008-10. Emotionally interactive video project exploring emotional contagion. Variable dimensions.
Dr Vince Dziekan, The World Is Everything That Is The Case
2011
Uncontainable, Cumhuriyet Art Gallery, Maksem, Istanbul, Turkey (14 September – 7 October 2011). Australian representation at ISEA2011 Istanbul and part of the parallel program of the 12th Istanbul Biennial.
Curatoriate: Sean Cubitt, Vince Dziekan & Paul Thomas; Exhibition Manager: Chris Malcolm.
Istanbul Panorama, with featured work: Mark Guglielmetti, Travelogue: a recording of minute expressions 2011. Digital media installation, electronic components, LCD displays, software, code. Variable dimensions.
Dr Vince Dziekan, The World Is Everything That Is The Case
2011
Uncontainable, Cumhuriyet Art Gallery, Maksem, Istanbul, Turkey (14 September – 7 October 2011). Australian representation at ISEA2011 Istanbul and part of the parallel program of the 12th Istanbul Biennial.
Curatoriate: Sean Cubitt, Vince Dziekan & Paul Thomas; Exhibition Manager: Chris Malcolm.
Istanbul Panorama, with featured work: Nigel Helyer, Weeping Willow 2011. Mixed media and audio. 250cm (w) 130cm (d).
Dr Vince Dziekan, The World Is Everything That Is The Case
2011
Uncontainable, Cumhuriyet Art Gallery, Maksem, Istanbul, Turkey (14 September – 7 October 2011). Australian representation at ISEA2011 Istanbul and part of the parallel program of the 12th Istanbul Biennial.
Curatoriate: Sean Cubitt, Vince Dziekan & Paul Thomas; Exhibition Manager: Chris Malcolm.
Istanbul Panorama, with featured work: Mitchell Whitelaw, Local Colour 2011. Cardboard, vinyl. Variable dimensions.
Dr Vince Dziekan, The World Is Everything That Is The Case
2011
Communication design, including graphic identity, publication, posters.
Art Direction: Vince Dziekan; Graphic Design and Prepress: Shannon Collins. Left: Sheet, featuring Karen Casey, Meditation Wall 2011 and Mark Cypher, Propositions 2.0 2011. A2, double-sided. Set of 4, Limited edition series (ISEA2011); Right: Sheet, featuring Tina Gonsalves, Chameleon 2008-10 and Mark Guglielmetti, Travelogue: a recording of minute expressions 2011. A2, double-sided. Set of 4, Limited edition series (ISEA2011).
Dr Vince Dziekan, The World Is Everything That Is The Case
2011
Communication design, including graphic identity, publication, posters.
Art Direction: Vince Dziekan; Graphic Design and Prepress: Shannon Collins. Left: Sheet, featuring Nigel Helyer, Weeping Willow 2011 and Mitchell Whitelaw, Local Colour 2011. A2, double-sided. Set of 4, Limited edition series (ISEA2011); Right: Sheet, Titling for The World Is Everything That Is The Case – Australian Representation at ISEA2011/Istanbul, and the Official Parallel Program of the 12th Istanbul Biennial. A2, double-sided. Set of 4, Limited edition series (ISEA2011).
Dr Vince Dziekan, The World Is Everything That Is The Case
2011
John Curtin Gallery, Perth, WA (1 June – 5 August 2012).
Curatoriate: Sean Cubitt, Vince Dziekan & Paul Thomas; Exhibition Manager: Chris Malcolm; Participating Artists: Karen Casey, Mark Cypher, Tina Gonsalves, Mark Guglielmetti, Nigel Helyer and Mitchell Whitelaw.
From Top Left: (1) Tina Gonsalves, Chameleon 2008-10. Emotionally interactive video project exploring emotional contagion. Variable dimensions; (2) Mark Cypher, Propositions 2.0 2011. Suitcase containing sand, Kinect camera, projector, games engine software. Variable dimensions; (3) Nigel Helyer, Weeping Willow 2011. Mixed media and audio. 250cm (w) 130cm (d); (4 & 8) Mitchell Whitelaw, Local Colour 2011. Cardboard, vinyl. Variable dimensions; (5 & 9) Karen Casey, Meditation Wall 2011. Video projection. Variable dimensions; (6) Mitchell Whitelaw, Local Colour 2011. Cardboard, vinyl. Variable dimensions; (7) Mark Guglielmetti, Travelogue: a recording of minute expressions 2011. Digital media installation, electronic components, LCD displays, software, code. Variable dimensions; (10) Nigel Helyer, Weeping Willow 2011. Mixed media and audio. 250cm (w) 130cm (d); (11) Installation view with Karen Casey, Meditation Wall 2011 and Nigel Helyer, Weeping Willow 2011; and (12) Mark Guglielmetti, Travelogue: a recording of minute expressions 2011. Digital media installation, electronic components, LCD displays, software, code. Variable dimensions.
Dr Vince Dziekan, The World Is Everything That Is The Case
2011
Communication design, including graphic identity, publication, posters. Art Direction: Vince Dziekan; Graphic Design and Prepress: Shannon Collins.
Left: Sheet, featuring Karen Casey, Meditation Wall 2011 and Mark Cypher, Propositions 2.0 2011. A2, double-sided. Set of 4, Limited edition series (John Curtin Gallery); Right: Sheet, featuring Tina Gonsalves, Chameleon 2008-10 and Mark Guglielmetti, Travelogue: a recording of minute expressions 2011. A2, double-sided. Set of 4, Limited edition series (John Curtin Gallery).
Dr Vince Dziekan, The World Is Everything That Is The Case
2011
Communication design, including graphic identity, publication, posters.
Art Direction: Vince Dziekan; Graphic Design and Prepress: Shannon Collins.
Left: heet, featuring Nigel Helyer, Weeping Willow 2011 and Mitchell Whitelaw, Local Colour 2011. A2, double-sided. Set of 4, Limited edition series (John Curtin Gallery); Right: Sheet, Titling for The World Is Everything That Is The Case, John Curtin Gallery, Perth. A2, double-sided. Set of 4, Limited edition series (John Curtin Gallery).
Dr Vince Dziekan, exUrban Screens
Communication design.
Art Direction: Vince Dziekan; Graphic Design: Shannon Collins. Layar augmented reality guide: Yun Tae Nam.
Dr Vince Dziekan, exUrban Screens: Is There Light In Outer Space?
2012
Cube 37, Peninsula Building and various site-specific locations in the City of Frankston (23 June – 7 July 2012)
Curatoriate: Vince Dziekan & Matthew Perkins; Project Manager: Merryn Tinkler
Participating Artists: ACAB Collective (AUS), Brian Alfred (USA), Heba Amin (EGY/GER), Ahmed Basiony (EGY), Paul Catanese (USA), Sophie Clements (UK), Ian de Gruchy (AUS), Nicolas Feldmeyer (SWI), Christopher Handran (AUS), Chris Howlett (AUS), Sigalit Landau (ISR), Karl Lemieux (CAN), David Rosetzky (AUS), Darren Sylvester (AUS), John Warwicker (UK/AUS), Kit Wise (AUS).
Dr Vince Dziekan, exUrban Screens: Is There Light In Outer Space?
2012
Frankston Arts Centre, Cube 37, Peninsula Building and various site-specific locations in the City of Frankston. 23 June – 7 July 2012
Curatoriate: Vince Dziekan & Matthew Perkins; Project Manager: Merryn Tinkler
(Clockwise, from Top Left): (1) ACAB Collective (Based in Melbourne), Fauxtopia, 2012 (installation view, (Outer) Spaces program); (2) Brian Alfred (USA, Lives and works New York), It’s already the end of the world, 2009 (installation view, Media façade, Cube 37). Animation. 6:58 min. Courtesy the artist and Haunch of Venison Gallery; (3) Paul Catanese (USA, Lives and works Chicago), Visible from Space, 2010-present. Series of digital images, Video “field tests”. Various durations; and (4) Boxcopy (Brisbane) represented by Chris Howlett, Metropolis: Part I-III, 2009 (installation view, (Outer) Spaces program). Also presented: Christopher Handran, Instamatic, 2012. Video. 11:55min.
Dr Vince Dziekan, exUrban Screens: Is There Light In Outer Space?
2012
Frankston Arts Centre, Cube 37, Peninsula Building and various site-specific locations in the City of Frankston. 23 June – 7 July 2012
Curatoriate: Vince Dziekan & Matthew Perkins; Project Manager: Merryn Tinkler
(Clockwise, from Top Left): (1) Heba Amin (Egypt, Lives and works Berlin), My love for you, Egypt, increases by the day, 2012 (installation view, Cube 37). 8mm film digitized/Speak2Tweet messages. 6:18 min. Arabic (English subtitles). Heba Amin, sound by Marc Fantini; (2) Ahmed Basiony (Egypt, 1978-2011). Thirty says running in the place, 2012 (installation view, Cube 37). 2 screen video audio installation. 14:00 min. Arabic (English subtitles). Special thanks to Shady El Noshokaty and the family of Ahmed Basiony; (3) Ian de Gruchy (Australia. Lives and works in Melbourne), Night Beacon, 2012 (installation view, (Outer) Spaces program). Digital media, projection mapped onto Peninsula Building, Frankston; and (4) Sophie Clements (UK, Lives and works London), How We Fall, 2012 (installation view, (Outer) Spaces program). Video. Loop. Stereo sound. Film by Sophie Clements. Sound by Sophie Clements and Jo Wills.
Dr Vince Dziekan, exUrban Screens: Is There Light In Outer Space?
2012
Frankston Arts Centre, Cube 37, Peninsula Building and various site-specific locations in the City of Frankston. 23 June – 7 July 2012
Curatoriate: Vince Dziekan & Matthew Perkins; Project Manager: Merryn Tinkler
(Clockwise, from Top Left): (1) Nicolas Feldmeyer (Switzerland. Lives and works in London), Untitled (Wasteland), 2012. Video. 1:51 minutes; (2) Sigalit Landau (Israel, Lives and works Tel Aviv), Azkelon, 2011 (installation view, Cube 37). HD-Video, 16:32 min. Courtesy the artist and Kamel Mennour, Paris; (3) John Warwicker (UK, Lives and works Melbourne), The Colours in the World are not the Colours that I see (Colour Code), 2012. Digital media. Variable. Produced in collaboration with Indae Hwang and Yun Tae Nam; and (4) Darren Sylvester (Australian, Lives and works Melbourne), I Was The Last In The Carpenters’ Garden, 2008. Digital video. 13:14 min. Courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney.
Dr Vince Dziekan, exUrban Screens: Is There Light In Outer Space?
2012
Frankston Arts Centre, Cube 37, Peninsula Building and various site-specific locations in the City of Frankston. 23 June – 7 July 2012
Curatoriate: Vince Dziekan & Matthew Perkins; Project Manager: Merryn Tinkler
(Clockwise, from Top Left): (1) Karl Lemieux (Canada, Lives and works Montreal), Mamori, 2010. Film (digitized). 8 minutes; (2) David Rosetzky (Australia, Lives and works Melbourne), ♥ forever, 2010 (installation view, (Outer) Spaces program). Single channel HD digital video, colour, sound. 20:46 minutes. Courtesy the artist and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne; (3) Brian Alfred, Special Edition content for augmented reality exhibition. Produced in collaboration with Vince Dziekan and Yun Tae Nam; and (4) Kit Wise (Aus/UK, Lives and works in Melbourne), Disaster (tsunami trilogy) 1-3, 2012 (installation view, (Outer) Spaces program). Digital print. Courtesy Sarah Scout, Melbourne.