Associate Professor Lizzie Muller
Lizzie MullerÌýis Director of Research in the School of Art & Design. She is a curator and researcher specialising in audience experience and interdisciplinary collaboration. She researchesÌýthe future of museums as sites of knowledge production. Her recent book Ìý(co-authored with Caroline Seck-Langill) demonstrates how curating drives museum innovation. Lizzie is an elected Councillor of the , and co-founder with Keir Winesmith of the bi-monthly .
Lizzie’s research draws together curatorial practice with theories and methods from participatory design and interaction design. She has developed audience-centred curatorial methodologies and innovative approaches to audience research.ÌýHer work with audience experience extends to the fields of preservation and archiving, particularly experiential documentation and oral histories of media art.Ìý
Major exhibitions
Lizzie's internationalÌýexhibitions celebrate theÌýintersection of art, science and technology. In In 2018/19 she co-curated the exhibition with Katie Dyer at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. The show includes four commissions that speculate onÌýhuman futuresÌýthrough the themes of food, work, sex and belief. Each work explores the entanglement of humans with non human agents and actors, including bees, jelly, data and buildings. The exhibition includes an experimental interactive digital catalogue that maps the interconnection of themes and ideas in the show:Ìý
In 2017/18ÌýLizzie co-curated (with Holly Williams) – an exhibition exploring the role of models in creating and sharing knowledge across all disciplines. The exhibition was staged inÌý»Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ Galleries (May-July 2017), the Sheila C Johnson Design Centre, Parsons, The New School, New York (Sep-Dec 2017) and LifeSpace at the University of Dundee (June-Sep 2018).
Previous curatorial projects include Lively Objects at the Museum of Vancouver with Caroline Langill (2015);ÌýAwfully Wonderful: Science Fiction in Contemporary ArtÌýcurated with Bec Dean at Sydney’s Performance Space (2011); The Art of Participatory Design, with Lian Loke, a programme of creative research projects that accompanied the 2010 International Conference of Participatory Design for which she was Art Chair;ÌýMirror States,Ìýa major exhibition of interactive installations, curated with Kathy Cleland (Campbelltown Art Gallery, Sydney and MIC Toi Rerehiko, Auckland, 2008). In 2008 Lizzie was curator and co-director (with George Khut) of the year-long interdisciplinary research projectÌýfunded by the Australia Council’s ArtLab. Between 2004-2006 Lizzie was founding curator of Beta_space; a dedicated venue for exhibiting “prototypes†of interactive artworks at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Fellowships
In 2013 Lizzie was Visiting Fellow at the University of Westminster, London and in 2009 she was Visiting Fellow at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Media.Art.Research, Linz. In 2007 she was researcher in residence at the Daniel Langlois Foundation in Montreal.
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