Lisa Cianci

Blackaeonium 2009

This Website has been developed as part of a PhD by Project at the Animation and Interactive Media Centre, School of Creative Media, RMIT University
http://www.rmit.edu.au/aim/

TITLE OF THESIS/PROJECT:
The Blackaeonium Project: examining continuums and life-cycles of digital creative content using archival constructs and methods


SUMMARY OF THESIS/PROJECT:

This project will involve research into content, structures, methods, technologies and interfaces for creating and presenting recombinant, database driven artwork with a focus on extending and manipulating the life-cycle of multimedia elements and creative content. The research will investigate existing archival theory and constructs for preservation of digital media using structured data and metadata, looking at ways of working these elements into the artist's creative processes for the development of digital multimedia artworks and the creation of a keeping-place for creative content developed through new media arts practices.

Research will inform the development of digital multimedia systems and artworks on a web server using structured data (database) and metadata with multimedia content objects (including text, audio, video, image and application specific files in various formats).

BIO

Lisa Cianci is an artist from Melbourne, Australia. She produces work in both analogue and digital formats, with her current focus on Internet-based dynamic, interactive art projects.

Lisa is examining the personal, memory & veracity, keeping & loss, and the abstracted and extended body in her work. She also examines what it means to create "digitally hand-made" works where all elements of her projects from code and database to visual and audio content have been closely handled, manipulated and produced by her. She is not a programmer despite attempting all of her own coding (self taught), has aspirations to one day be a true geek-girl and hopes her coding will become more elegant.

Lisa has exhibited her art work both locally and internationally. Lisa also works as a teacher in multimedia and games development (Victoria University), is a professional archivist and a database / web systems developer.


lisa's homepage - www.blackaeonium.net

lisa's PhD blog - www.blackaeonium.net/phdblog

lisa's PhD project prototype - www.blackaeonium.net/wskp