CONDENSED CV
Lubi Thomas
1990-92 Fine Art Hons, Newport College of Art, Newport, Gwent, UK
2003-06 Fine Art BA - distinction, QUT, Brisbane, QLD.
2010- ongoing Doctorate Creative Industries Candidate, QUT, Brisbane, Qld.
CURRENT PROJECTS
2012
Making the green one red (Virtual Macbeth) - Kerreen Ely-Harper and Andrew Burrell
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
Curatorial Team: Rachael Parsons
Senior Curator - digital media: Lubi Thomas
Parallel Universes: 1970 - 1985
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
Curatorial Team: Rachael Parsons, Olivia Porgand
Senior Curator - digital media: Lubi Thomas
Curatorial Advisory: Prof Mark Pennings (QUT), Matthew Perkins (Monash Uni)
ARI at the block - inbetweenspaces
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
Curatorial Team: Rachael Parsons, Olivia Porgand
Senior Curator - digital media: Lubi Thomas
Parer Place Project
Location: Parer Place Urban Art Screen, Parer Place, Brisbane
Parer Place Project is an on-going nightly curated screening program, that engages in local, national and international spheres via our global screening partners in New York, Australasia and Europe. The 2012 program will focus on the global animation discourse.
Curatorial Team: Sarah Harper (senior intern & PHD candidate)
Senior Curator - digital media: Lubi Thomas
Programming development - access & learning and public engagement
see: http://www.ciprecinct.qut.edu.au for on-going program
Curatorial Team: Olivia Porgand
Senior Curator - digital media: Lubi Thomas
COMPLETED PROJECTS
2011
Making the green one red (Virtual Macbeth) development lab
by Kerreen Ely-Harper and Andrew Burrell
Location: The Loft, QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
Curatorial Team: Rachael Parsons
Curatorial Advisor: Lubi Thomas
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
IDAProjects - The Joy of Loss
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
Curatorial Team: Lubi Thomas & Olivia Porgand
Intern Team: Genine Larkin & Sarah Phelan
ARI Program - Grid North by Boxcopy
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
Curatorial Team: Lubi Thomas
Public Programs: Oliva Porgand
Intern Team: Emily Lush
Remoteness - co-curated by Matthew Perkins & Dr. Elaine Miles
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
Exhibition Design: Lubi Thomas
Public Programs: Oliva Porgand
Intern Team: Amy-Clare McCarthy & Kate Palella
Shape of things to come - Close In
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
Curatorial Team: Maggie McDade & Brittney Ouston
Intern Team: Nicole Loessner
Curatorial Advisor: Lubi Thomas
Big Eye: Aboriginal Animation touring program - curated by CyberTribe Jenny Fraser & Lubi Thomas
Touring 2009-2012 nationally: Pinnacles Gallery, Colourise Festival, On Edge Gallery, Federation Square Urban Screens, Dogwood Crossing at Miles, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Logan Gallery, University of the Sunshine Coast Gallery, Grafton Regional Gallery, Hervery Bay Regional Gallery.
Touring curatorial Team: Brittney Ouston & Elise Wilkinson (2010)
Intern Team: Elise Wilkinson (2009)
Curatorial Advisor: Lubi Thomas
Machinima touring program
Touring curatorial Team: Elise Wilkinson
Curatorial Advisor: Lubi Thomas
Parer Place Project
Location: Parer Place Urban Art Screen, Parer Place, Brisbane
Parer Place Project is an on-going nightly curated screening program, engaging at the local, national and international spheres. The 2011 program was an active partner in the Department of Foreign Affairs year of cultural exchange between Australia and China.
Curatorial Team: Leah Collins (semester one) & Sarah Harper (semester two)
Intern Team: Sarah Harper (semester one)
Curatorial Advisor: Lubi Thomas
2010
Semiotics At Play: the otherness and the togetherness
Location: Tokyo Downtown Media Festival, Tokyo, Japan
Curatorial Team: Lubi Thomas, Sally Denis, Olivia Porgand, Elise Wilkinson.
Les Fresnoy - Panorama
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
Curatorial Team: Pascale Ponnier, Lubi Thomas, Brittney Ouston
Intern Team: Michaela Sophie Chin
Linear Progression
Location: KGUV Screens network and QUT Billboard
Senior Curator
Curatorial Team: Brittney Ouston
Machinima
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
Senior Curator
Curatorial Team: Michalea Hartland, Maggie McDade
Intern Team: Olivia Porgrand, Elise Wilkinson, Kate Palella
Face to Face
d/Lux/MediaArts touring exhibition
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
Exhibition Designer
Intern Team: Sally Dennis
KGUV Screens Network
on-going curated screening program developed for the urban screen network of privately owned public screen spaces
Intern Team: Sally Dennis
Parer Place Project
Location: Parer Place Urban Art Screen, Parer Place, Brisbane
The Parer Place Project is an on-going nightly curated screening program, dedicated to providing a digital canvas for emerging, established and experimental artists.
Curatorial Team: Rose Feely
Intern Team: Leah Collins
2009
LAND
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
Artists: Ulf langheinrich + FACT Liverpool UK.
Intern Team: Rose Feely
Mellifera
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
co-curator with the artists: Trish Adams and Andrew Burrell.
Intern Team: Michalea Hartland
IDAProjects: Transverse
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct + Queensland Academy Creative Industries, Kelvin Grove. Touring during 2009-2011 nationally and internationally.
Senior curator, co-curated with director Stephen Danzig
Intern Team: Brooke Ferguson
Big Eye: Aboriginal Animations
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
Curatorial Team: Jenny Fraser
Exhibition Design: Lubi Thomas
Intern Team: Rennae Hopkins
2008
Artist V Hollywood
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct. Co-Curated with Joanna Callaghan. Touring during 2009 nationally and internationally.
Intern Team: Courtney Coombs
IDAprojects (08) – VT2 (team curatorship / exhibition design)
Locations to date: Songzhuang Art Museum Beijing China, The Block QUT Brisbane , Tokyo International Film Festival Japan, Beijing Film Academy Beijing, Frieze Art Festival London, Pinnacles Gallery Qld.
http://www.idaprojects.org
Intern Team: Jacina Leong
IDAprojects (07) The Vernacular Terrain
National touring show: Pinnacles Gallery Thuringowa, Monash University Faculty of Art & Design gallery, Federation Square Urban Screens, Melbourne, Ipswich Art Gallery Ipswich, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery Hervey Bay
http://www.idaprojects.org
Intern Team: Jacina Leong
The SHAPE of things to come Body +.
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct, and the World Wide Web
http://shapeofthingstocome.ci.qut.edu.au
Intern Team: Courtney Coombs
2007
Scope
Location: Kelvin Grove Urban Village
Intern Team: Kate Woodcroft
IDAprojects (07) – The Vernacular Terrain Touring show
Beijing Film Academy, Beijing & Songzhuang Art Museum Beijing China, Monash university, Melbourne
http://www.idaprojects.org
Intern Team: Benjamin Milton Hampe
IDAprojects – The Vernacular Terrain (team curatorship / exhibition design)
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct & QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
http://www.idaprojects.org
Intern Team: Kate Woodcroft
IDAprojects – The Vernacular Terrain preview show (team curatorship / exhibition design)
Location: Zaim Art Centre, Yokohama, Japan
http://www.idaprojects.org
Intern Team: Benjamin Milton Hampe
The SHAPE of things to come
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct, and the World Wide Web
http://shapeofthingstocome.ci.qut.edu.au
2006
Re-Active Co-curated with Simone Jones
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
QUT students (past and present) video works.
Location: QUT Art Museum, George Street, Brisbane, Qld.
Jemima Wyman: survey of video works from the past 10 Years
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
International Digital Art Awards
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
The Harries National Digital Arts Award
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
Fluidity
Location: The Para Ground, Creative Industries Precinct.
IDA Beijing 2006 and the Harries International Digital Arts Award
Location: Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China.
2005
jOurney Co-curated with Simone Jones
Location: The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Crn Musk Ave & Kelvin Grove Rd, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Qld.
PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS
2011
Lecture: UniCA santa cruz. Digital media curatorship.
Co-authored Journeys with Friends panel session: Game Connect Asia Pacific Conference, Melbourne
Presenter, panel discussion: Freeplay 2011 Conference. Session title: Indies, academics, and institutions.
Co-presenter: Freeplay 2011 Conference. Presentation title: That one piece of advice.
2010
Contributing Author: Creative Industries
Game Connect Asia Pacific Conference - presenter
2008
Contributing Author: International Digital Art Projects
ISBN: 978-0-646-48584-3
QUT brisbane Qld. talk title: Introductory talk for Queensland Academy of Creative Industries
QUT brisbane Qld. talk title: Curating and exhibition design
2007
QUT brisbane Qld. talk title: Curating and 'the Shape of things to come'
Queensland Independent School Art and Design Award night - guest speaker. talk title: Creativity of the future
QUT brisbane Qld. Lecture for Communication Design students. talk title: Interactivity off the screen
2006
Beijing Film Academy Beijing China. talk title: Curatorship and collaborative arts practice.
AWARDS & PROFESSIONAL ROLES
2011
Industry consultancy - 87 ArtZone
!Metor Arts Peer Review !Metro Arts, Brisbane
Australian Council for the Arts - Peer advisor
SLQ - research consultancy
2010
!Metor Arts Peer Review !Metro Arts, Brisbane
Australian Council for the Arts - Inter-Arts Peer advisor
2008
Vice - Chancellor's Performance Award
2006
Award for Outstanding Contribution by Professional Staff - Certification of Commendation