Greg Giannis

Position title

• Lecturer, Digital Media, Gippsland Centre for Art & Design
  Greg teaches in the Digital Media Stream of the Bachelor of Visual and Media Arts at Gippsland Centre for Art and Design and supervises students in the Master of Visual Arts program.
  

Qualifications

• BElecEng with Distinction Chisholm
• MA by research (Media Arts),  RMIT
• Currently candidate for PhD (Multimedia/Performance Studies), Victoria University

Statement

Greg Giannis has a background in software design engineering, but moved away from this in the mid 90’s to pursue his interest in art practice. Since then, he has exhibited and presented papers at many media art exhibitions and several festivals in Australia and overseas. He has a diverse practice, experimenting with many mediums and in many contexts. His current project, which is part of his PhD candidature, involves walking as performance, collaboration, subjective mapping and software writing.

Past projects include photographic based work, interactive installations, public projections, net.art, collaborations with living creatures and generative art. Greg has also worked in a range of commercial environments as a software design engineer, web designer, usability consultant and technical consultant.

Research/ Professional Activities

• 2008/9 Mapping Public Spaces, Portable Worlds II, ANAT, Various galleries around Australia, ISEA Singapore 2008, Presentation of PeripatoTelematikos.
• 2007 reconfigure, (with Jude Walton), 24HrArt, Darwin, Australia.
• 2006 APA Scholarship Recipient.
• 2005 VitalSigns Conference, Melbourne, Opening night presentation of Façade.
• 2004 Facade at Federation Square, Melbourne, Film Victoria -DMFund for presentation of Facade, Australia Council New Media Grant (with J. Walton), VU Grant, presentation at Ciber@rt Bilbao, Spain.
• 2002 AFC Travel Grant, Presentation and exhibit at IV Salon Y Coloquio de Arte Digital, Cuba.
• 2001 ANAT Travel Grant, Present at SPIE, USA.
• 2000 Cinemedia Travel Grant, Present at NEXT 1.0 Conference, Sweden.