Melinda Rackham

Dr Melinda Rackham is an artist, curator and writer. Her pioneering Australian internet art wove tales of intimacy and identity online, and her scholarly pursuits in virtual worlds saw her founding and producing the international media arts forum -empyre-. With the rise of web 2.0 her engagement shifted to the broader spectrum of media arts, art/science, making and design practices. As a curator and commentator, and director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology, she broadened audiences and access to new artforms. As her early network art finds a new generation of viewers, Melinda occasionally creates playful digital public interventions. She writes poetry, socially informed fictive memoir and continues to interrogate the philosophies and processes of interdisciplinary arts practices. You can find out more at Dr Rackham’s website: www.subtle.net.