The Screen of Flesh/Meat Friends on the Internet/Another Brutally Satisfying Video/Fleshify the World

Research Background This exhibition emerged out of a recent PhD which explored the relationship of the contemporary media environment and the visceral human body. (The work was not part of the PhD) The exhibition resulted in a peer reviewed solo show featuring a range of new video based works. The exhibition was selected from a peer review selection panel at Strange Neighbour Gallery Research Contribution The project seeks to highlight the unique relationship of the changing definitions of the human body and its relationship to the screen. Many of the works in the show explored the notion of the video screen as an extension of the body. The show and the works in it reflecting the contemporary condition of the body and screen; as we increasingly spend more and more time in mediated environments, our bodies is augmented by various screen technologies; from television, cinema, the computer and mobile phone. The exhibition and its works have also led to the development of new works with a similar theme. In addition the exhibition has been submitted for an exhibition at UTS gallery/University of Technology, Sydney (outcome is still to be advised) Research Significance The Research Significance resulted in the work 'The Screen of Flesh' the main body of work in the Video Nasty exhibition receive funding from Australia Council, Experimental and Emerging arts fund for $25,000, this was selected by a national group of peers. In addition a printed catalogue essay was written by well know film/cultural critic Adrian Martin entitled 'Body Dysmorphic Order'. This catalogue essay is also available on Strange Neighbour's website and will also feature in a forthcoming artist book.