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Bonemap

Bonemap is a creative intermedia arts partnership often working with interdisciplinary teams of artists. For over a decade these collaborative projects have focused on decentralized zones in a number of countries including Singapore, Wales, Japan and regional Australia. The Bonemap aesthetic discipline is a hybrid mesh of performance and media arts framed by an overarching ecological philosophy placing the context of their creative practice in the environments we inhabit and often ignore. Bonemap’s hybridisation is a rupture crossing between gallery, theatre and alternative platforms, and is a natural response to engagement in an intermedial creative ecology.

Recent projects and research has included media and performance festivals, audience interactive performance interfaces, computer vision systems for show controls, augmented reality interfaces and mixed reality networked performance.

Rebecca Youdell choreographer and performer
Russell Milledge technologist and scenographer

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On Edge Contemporary Media + Performance (2005 – 09) co-producer House of Falcon, partners JCU, JUTE, KickArts, Centre of Contemporary Art, Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns Civic Theatre, Site-specific. Interdisciplinary festival with local, national and international artists, touring partner of ReelDance (screen) and Liquid Architecture (sound) festivals. <www.OnEdgeArt.com>

Asialink Residency (April - July 2001)  The Substation (Singapore) The first interdisciplinary residency ever awarded through the combined visual arts and performing arts panels of Asialink. ‘One˚ North' performance and gallery installation, 'Spore' video installation, The Substation; 'New Image New Way' visual art exhibition Plastique Kinetic Worms Gallery; 'The Wild Edge' repertoire performance The Australian High Commission. With artists George Chua Khim Ser (Singapore), Misumi Suzaki (Japan), Francis Ng (Singapore) and Lim Tzay Cheun (Singapore), Lee Wen (Singapore)

Festivals: 
Chapter Arts Centre ‘Experimentica 02’, Wales UK; ‘Asia Pacific Next Wave - Choreography Today’ festival; ‘Tokyo International Performing Arts Market’; World Dance Alliance, Japan. Multimedia Arts Asia Pacific and ‘Latitude 27.5’ contemporary dance festival Brisbane Powerhouse; ‘Worms Festival II’ Plastique Kinetic Worms; ‘New Criteria’ The Substation, Singapore; Kick Arts ‘Fed on Arts’ Contemporary Art Festival, Far North Queensland; Ausdance ‘Australian Youth Dance Festival - Creating Performances’, Armidale; ‘Palimpsest #4’ The Mildura Art Centre; ‘See Hear Now 05’ and ‘See Hear Now 07’, Townsville  Residencies: Brisbane Powerhouse, Umbrella Contemporary Arts, The Australian Choreographic Centre, Tanks Arts Centre, The Substation (Singapore)  Sponsors: AN Creative, Japan. Arts Queensland. Asialink, Ausdance – Australia National Dance Council. Australia Council for the Arts. Australian High Commission - Singapore. Australian Network for Art and Technology. Brisbane Powerhouse, Cairns Base Hospital. City of Cairns, Department of Natural Resources. Kick Arts Collective. Lee Foundation. National Arts Council - Singapore. North Queensland X-Ray. Regional Arts Development Fund. Qld Parks and Wildlife. The Artist Village. Townsville City Council, Umbrella Contemporary Arts   Artist Talks: James Cook University. La Salle-SIA College of Fine Arts, Northern Territory University, University of Southern Queensland, Griffith University - School of Arts, Creative Industries – Queensland University of Technology Development: ‘Body Weather Farm’ Hakushucho, Japan, August 1999 – ‘Dance Hakushu festival and workshop’, ‘Time_Place_Space 1’ Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, 2002 - hybrid performance incubator Public Art: Cairns Convention Centre, ‘Habitus/Habitat’ Great Walks Qld Parks & Wildlife

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Russell Milledge

media | image | performance

Interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration and exchange has been a focus of his creative practice for two decades. Having received awards across the fields of performing arts, new media and visual arts, including the first Asialink interdisciplinary residency, art-built-in commissions and a number of grant awards from national, state and local governments and foundations. As a principal artist he has contributed to presentations at: Tokyo Next Wave, Experimentica Wales UK, New Criteria Singapore, the Adelaide Fringe and Adelaide Festival, The Performance Space Sydney, On Edge Media & Performance Cairns. His visual art practice is represented in the collections of The Queensland Art Gallery, Cairns Regional Gallery and KickArts Contemporary Arts amongst others. Russell has a Masters of Fine Arts from Queensland University of Technology 2003, he is a Founder' past Chairperson and previous Deputy Director at KickArts from 2004-08. He is co-director of Bonemap and lectures in media arts at the James Cook University School of Creative Arts.

Rebecca Youdell

choreography | performance

Rebecca Youdell is a choreographer and performer working via site-specific interdisciplinary collaborations involving multimedia, installation, performance and intercultural exchange. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Rebecca studied movement in Australia, USA and UK attending the Royal Ballet School in London, and working with the Royal Swedish Ballet Company in Stockholm. She has a BFA (Dance) - cum laude high honours from Butler University (USA) 1992, and an MA (Visual/Performing Arts) from Charles Sturt University (Aus) 1998. Rebecca has toured and performed work in the USA, UK, Scandinavia, Asia and Europe and received numerous awards both in Australia and overseas. Rebecca has diversified her practice to integrate media through collaborations with the Bureau of Meteorology and the use of medical diagnostic imaging technology, x-ray and ultrasound. Rebecca’s focus on performance and movement language with/for the camera through video and photography sees her involved in screen and sound based works, live art and temporal media. Fellowship at The Australian Choreographic Centre; ANAT’s ‘Alchemy’ workshop; the first Asialink interdisciplinary residency hosted in Singapore in 2001; ‘Time_Place_Space 1 & 2’.