Julia Burns

Biography

Julia Burns
(b. 1982 in Sydney, Australia. Lives and works in Sydney and Hong Kong.)

Raised as an expatriate in South East Asia and the United States, Julia is especially interested in the demographic and sociological underpinnings of the cities in which she resides. In the past, Julia has made works about issues related to Status Anxiety, Loss of Privacy, and Self-Doubt. These themes are unspoken feelings that she thinks all people, across all countries, battle with. Inspired by her own concerns, she looks at how they apply within a sociological context.

In 2010 she won the Freedman Foundation Traveling Scholarship and the FUSE Videotage Residency Grant. In 2009 she won the Marrickville Culture and Arts Grant. She has shown at the Australia Council of the Arts and her work is currently touring with d/Lux/Media/Arts. Her artwork will tour throughout the AsiaPacific region with the Experimenta/Asialink Touring Exhibition, 'Selectively Revealed' from 2011 - 2013

Curriculum Vitae

Julia Burns
(b. 1982, Sydney, Australia)

Education

1. 2007-2009 Masters of Computer Science by Research, Faculty of Engineering and IT, The University of Technology Sydney
2. 2000-2004 Bachelor of International Studies (Business and Spanish), The University of New South Wales Sydney

Group Exhibitions

1. 2011
   • 'Maximum City: Survive or Escape' Jakarta Biennale
   • 'Selectively Revealed' Experimenta/Asialink touring exhibition, Aram Art Gallery, Seoul
   • 'Humour Me', Brenda May Gallery, Danks Street, Sydney
   • 'genart_sys | A Window on Digital Culture', Australia Council of the Arts
2. 2010
   • 'Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship Exhibition' CofaSpace
3. 2009
   • 'Creativity and Cognition Conference 2009' UC Berkeley California
   • 'Feigned Innocence: We All Look' Para/Site and Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
4. 2007
   • 'The Gaze' First Draft Gallery, Sydney

Solo Exhibitions

1. 2011
   • 'Drifting' Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, d/Lux/Media/Arts
   • 'The Solitude of Jing Hua', Videotage and Osage Gallery Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
2. 2010
   • 'Drifting' and 'Exposed', Griffith Regional Gallery, d/Lux/Media/Arts
   • 'Data Miner' Bondi and Maroubra Beaches, Waverley and Randwick Councils
   • 'Data Miner' Newtown Square, Marrickville Council
3. 2009
   • 'Privacy Online: A Series of 3 Works', Cleveland St Theatre, Sydney
4. 2008
   • 'Drifting' beta_space, Creativity and Cognition Studios, The Powerhouse Museum
5. 2007
   • 'The Musicians' beta_space, CCS, The Powerhouse Museum

Grants and Residencies

1. 2010 Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship
   FUSE Videotage Residency Grant, Hong Kong
2. 2009 Marrickville Arts and Culture Grant
3. 2007 Emerging Artist Studio Residency Program, First Draft Gallery

Publications

1. 2010 Review: Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship, Cofa Blog, Naomi Gall
2. Interview with Julia Burns, Da SuperPaper
3. 2009
   • 'Our House' Julia Burns, Ardrian Hardjono, Alla Bekker, Doreen Ee, October 2009. C&C'09: Proceeding of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and Cognition, ACM Press.
     Paper
   • Dorkbot NYC Presentation at Location One, Soho, New York City
   • Review on ArtLife Blog