Dr Andre Brodyk

Work Phone	(02) 4921 6110
Email	Andre.Brodyk@newcastle.edu.au
Position	Lecturer School of Drama Fine Art and Music The University of Newcastle, Australia
Office	AT 27, At Building

Biography

I have a long and evolving involvement in teaching, research and administration within the University of Newcastle (UoN). This commenced in 1989 when I was originally appointed Lecturer in Painting, Drawing & Art Education, on the Callaghan campus.

I continued my sessional involvement at UoN from1992 until 1995 Lecturing (part-time), in Visual Arts and Art Education during which time I undertook an MFA at UNSW.

I also taught painting part-time at COFA UNSW during 1994.

In 1996 I was appointed full-time in a teaching and research function, jointly charged with the establishment of a new program in Fine Art on the Ourimbah Campus UoN.

From 1996 until 2007 I was Lecturer in Fine Art & Course Co-ordinator 2D/3D studio areas, jointly responsible for the on-going development and maintenance of that BFA program.

In 1999-98 and again in 2003 and 2007 I was appointed Program Convener Bachelor of Fine Art, Ourimbah Campus.

While teaching at Ourimbah I concurrently contributed to RHD supervision over several years on the Callaghan campus. This intercampus involvement was recognised by the university via an adjunct lecturer appointment made concurrently in fine art within the School of Fine Art.

In 2007 I relocated back into the Callaghan BFA program on a full-time basis where I have been on-going Course Co-ordinator in 2D studies.

In addition to these teaching and administrative responsibilities, I successfully completed a PhD in Fine Art at UNSW within the prescribed time limit (2009) while at the same time working full-time as an academic.

I was awarded an APA scholarship in 2000 for study in the PhD program and was also awarded an annual research grant in 2004, being the only fine art RHD award recipients in that year at the College of Fine Arts UNSW .

My research achievements include innovative interdisciplinary research within the life sciences, as models for hybrid and transmedia art practices and research. This has been undertaken via collaborative art based research with scientists. It has entailed working within certified teaching and research laboratories within the life sciences as a new kind of artists studio. This has entailed numerous residencies in labs throughout Australia. These include,

SymbioticA at The University of Western Australia (2001 & 2002).

The Institute for Molecular Bioscience at The University of Queensland (IMB) (2008).

The School of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences at The University of Queensland (2010).

The School of Environmental and Life Sciences at the University of Newcastle (2003-2010).

To date I have been awarded eleven research project grants.

My research is internationally recognised in numerous publications on the emergent genre of new media Biotech art. This includes being cited in the 2008 UoN Annual Research Report of noteworthy research, being the only full-time academic in the FEDUA in 2008 and also publication of my research images in the 2010 RHD Handbook UoN.

My teaching philosophy is centred on student-centred learning and fostering experimental attitudes and individual approaches, through practice-based critical thinking. This means thinking through practice within a contemporary frame of theoretical reference.

My research philosophy encompasses a practice-led model of creative inquiry, via the praxis of practice and theory. This also entails an engagement with transdisciplinary attitudes, materials and processes. My interests here include remediated/extended notions of painting, experimental drawing and installation as agencies of expression.

I have delivered or had published eleven papers/essays on interdisciplinary Biotech art since 2001-2010.

I also maintain an ongoing active internationally recognised practice, having exhibited in six international specifically invitational and curated exhibitions within USA & Europe and seven invitational-curated international exhibitions within Australia since 2002.

I have overseen the successful completion of eight RHD students in Fine Art primarily as co-supervisor.

I was a founding member of the ArtsHealth Research Practice Centre UoN (2006).

Qualifications

PhD, 2009
Master of Fine Art, University of New South Wales
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), South Australian College of Advanced Education
Bachelor of Education, Sturt College of Advanced Education
Diploma of Teaching, Sturt College of Advanced Education

Research

Research keywords

Art and Science
Biotech art
Genetic art
Interdisciplinary art practices
Remediated /extended painting

Research expertise

Practice-led critical research centered on transdisciplinary models.

1. Specifically, interpreting the use of contemporary genetic recombinant DNA technology models to develop new art based on recombinant processes and new transgenic art media .

2.Investigation into a new in between state at a molecular level, a proto-animated condition using inanimate recombinant non-coding DNA as the agency for expression. This includes intron DNA and non -coding RNAs as materials and models for art.

3. Considering art based interpretations of inanimate recombinant non-coding DNA and RNA as new biologically compatible semi-ready mades.

4. New visualisations /cultural representations of identity using gmo drawing media and installation.

4.Contemporary notions of extended field or remediated painting.

Collaboration

A creative inquiry into the use of contemporary developments and knowledge in genetic science and applied genetic technologies as interdisciplinary models for new art practices, processes and materiality.

The development of specifically practice-led critical practices based on these and other interdisciplinary models.

The investigation of practice as research in theoretical discourses development.

Fields of Research

Code	Description	Percentage
190599	Visual Arts And Crafts Not Elsewhere Classified	100

Memberships

Body relevant to professional practice.

Australian Network for Art and Technology
National Asssociation for the Visual Arts

Awards

Distinction.

1989	Acquisition Natinal Gallery of Australia (Australia) Acquisition for permanent collection
1989	Acquisition University of Newcastle (Australia) Acquisition for permanent collection
1988	Highly Commended - 1988 Alice Prize Alice Springs Art Foundation (Australia) works on paper acquisition
1988	Acquisition Artbank (Australia) Acquisition for permanent collection
1987	Winner 1st Prize Whyalla Art Prize, Arts Council of South Australia (Australia) Painting award and acquisition for permanent collection
1987	Aquistion Art Gallery of South Australia (Australia) Acquisition for permanent collection
1986	Acquisition University of South Australia Art Museum (Australia) Acquisition for permanent collection

Other

2010	Travel grant SDFAM (Australia) Conference paper presentation travel grant ACUADS 2010
2009	Travel Grant Experimental Art Foundation (Australia) Present research in exhibition and deliver research paper at symposium
2004	travel grant Experimental Art Foundation (Australia) Participate in exhibition
2001	ERC Research Grant UoN (Australia) Early career researcher project
2000	APA scholarship PhD program in Fine Art, UNSW UNSW (Australia) For a program of study PhD

Recognition.

2009	SOHR&RTC Project Grant UoN (Australia) Research project
2008	DFA&M IGS Grant UoN (Australia) Research project
2006	FEDA Seeding Grant UoN (Australia) Research investigation
2005	SOHR&RTC Project Assistance Grant UoN (Australia) Research project
2004	Project Research Grant UNSW (Australia) Research project
2003	RMC Travel Grant UoN (Australia) Attend research conference exhibition
2003	SOHRC Conference Grant UoN (Australia) Attend conference to present research
2002	Faculty RHD Student Research Grant UNSW (Australia) Recognition of excellence in research
2002	RMC Travel Grant UoN (Australia) Present research at exhibition/conference
2002	RGC Special Purposes Grant UoN (Australia) Develop research proposal residency
2002	Faculty Research Grant UoN (Australia) Research project
2001	RMC travel Grant UoN (Australia) Research project
2001	FCC Project Initiation Grant UoN (Australia) Project feasibility study
1998	New Developments Joint Grant CCC UoN (Australia) New project development
1997	RMC Research Grant UoN (Australia) Research project development
1997	Sculpture of the month Maitland Region Gallery (Australia) December sculpture of the month
1990	Research Grant South Australian Department for the Arts (Australia) Project development
1988	Project grant South Australian Department for the Arts (Australia) Project development
1986	Project grant South Australian Department for the Arts (Australia) Project development

Research Grant

2010	Research support HRI (Australia) Undertake collaborative transdisciplnary project with UQ researcher

Travel funding

2010	SymbioticA UWA (Australia) Travel funding to attend and publish work in SymbioticA UWA 10th Anniversary exhibition on Biotech art at the Science Gallery Dublin Ireland

Administrative

Administrative expertise

Bachelor of Fine Art Program Convenor

BFA Hons Course Co-ordinator

Course Co-ordinator Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Interdisciplinary Practices & Professional Practices

Teaching

Teaching keywords

Drawing
Installation
Interdisciplinary Art Practices
Painting

Teaching expertise

Painting encompassing old and new technology media and processes.

Drawing encompassing old and new technology and experimental media processes.

Installation art using living, inanimate and semi animated materials and processes.

Interdisciplinary and hybrid media art practices

BFA Hons supervisor

MPhil supervisor Fine Art

PhD supervisor Fine art

Teaching interests

Expanded painting and drawing Interdisciplinary practices
Installation art
Painting paradigms
Drawing paradigms
Biotech art Genetic art
Art & Science intersections
Agencies of materiality
Performative research - practice as research

Programs

PhD Fine Art
MPhil
BFA Hons

The University of Newcastle, Australia