biography

 

Lubi Thomas

 

2018

Festival Curation – new festival NSW - development (2018 – 2020) cancelled due to COVID.

Symposium - Digital Publics Symposium, MAB, CAFA Beijing - Advisory Curator

Education, Curation, Exhibition - Ars Electronica Future Lab Academy - presentation @ Ars Electronica Festival

 

2017

Exhibition - Ars Electronica Festival - Ars Electronica Linz - Curatorial Team

Education, Curation, Exhibition - Ars Electronica Future Lab Academy QUT presentation @ Ars Electronica Festival

Exhibition - Experimenta Media Arts - Experimenta Make Sense (2017 - 2020) curation, talks, tours and events.

 

2016

Senior Curator QUT

Exhibition - Femel Fissions: Women Art & Science, QUT

Exhibition - Shape of Things to Come - The Anniversary Show, QUT

 

2015

Senior Curator QUT

Symposium - Digital Publics Series - X Communicate, VIVID ideas.

Residency, Commission, Exhibtion - European Media Artists in Residence Exchange: Landung in Australien, Mathias Jud & Christoph Wachter

Residency Ars Electronica International Residency Network: Friedrich Kirschner, Futurelab Senior Director - Horst Hortner Futurelab and Dr. Claudia Schnugg

Exhibition - A New Aesthetic?

 

2014       

Senior Curator QUT - digital media

The Cube - Project Development, Policy, Partnerships, Public & Education Engagement Program

Creative Industries Precinct - Programming Development, Partnership, Policy, Exhibitions, Screening Program, Public and Education Engagement Programs

Education, Curation, Exhibition - Ars Electronica - Futurelab Academy W Dr. Jared Donovan, Futurelab Senior Director: Prof. Horst Hortner and Veronika Pauser

Residency, Commission, Exhibition -  European Media Artists in Residence Exchange: BuildACode, Monica Riki

Residency, Commission, Exhibition - The Cube Production Residency Program - Digital Writing Residency: Canonical, Jason Nelson

Residency & Commission - Ars Electronica International Residency Network: Resident: Zach Liberman Partnership - Futurelab Senior Director - Horst Hortner

Commissioning - Soul of The Cube - Ars Electronica, Water Engineering - Many Monkeys 

Exhibition - Experimenta Recharge

Exhibition - Antimation

Screening Program Public Space - Parer Place Project (2010 - 2014)

 

2013

Senior Curator QUT - digital media

The Cube- Cube Project Development, Policy, Partnerships, Public & Education Engagement Program

Creative Industries Precinct- Exhibitions, Screening Program, Education & Public Programming, policy

Education, Curation, Exhibition  - Ars Electronica - Futurelab Academy - W Dr. Jared Donovan, Futurelab Senior Director: Prof. Horst Hortner

Residency, Commission, Exhibition - The Cube Production Residency Program - Digital Writing Residency - Robot University, Christy Dena 

Festival Curation – Robotronica – Ars Electronica Spaxels

Exhibition - Sans Faute - IDAProjects

Exhibition - Self-discipline and Speculation, Beijing Film Academy

Exhibition - The Games of Art

Exhibition - Datascape

Screening Program Public Space - Parer Place Project   (2010 - 2014)

Artistic Director - The Planets - Willoughby Symphony - Curator, Produced by UTV & presented by Willoughby City Council

 

2012

Senior Curator QUT - digital media

The Cube: Development of Cube program, Partnerships, Public and education engagement Program, and Policy.

Creative Industries Precinct: Exhibition, Screening Program, Education & Public Programming 

Commissioning - Messages for our Future by Jason Nelson, Tohoku Japan - Senior Curator, in partnership with the Yokohama art project

Exhibition - ARI at the block - inbetweenspaces

Exhibition - Parallel Universes: 1970 - 1985

Exhibition - Making the green one red (Virtual Macbeth) - Kerreen Ely-Harper and Andrew Burrell

Screening Program Public Space - Parer Place Project (2010 - 2014)

Commissioning - QUT Billboard

Public Program streams – Game On, FashionTalks, Mondo Motion, KGSC program, QACI program, exhibition associated programs, special public events, and ABC education program.

 

2011

Senior Curator QUT

Commissioning - Making the green one red (Virtual Macbeth) development lab artists Kerreen Ely-Harper and Andrew Burrell

Residency & Exhibition - The Joy of Loss IDAProjects

Exhibition - ARI Program - Grid North by Boxcopy 

Exhibition - Remoteness - co-curated by Matthew Perkins & Dr. Elaine Miles

Exhibition - Shape of things to come - Close In - Curatorial Advisor

Screening Program Public Space - Parer Place Project (2010 - 2014)

Public Program streams - Game On, FashionTalks, GIRRL, KGSC program, exhibition-associated programs, special public events, and ABC education program.

Commissioning - QUT Billboard

 

2010

Curator QUT

Exhibition - Semiotics At Play: the otherness and the togetherness - Tokyo, Japan

Exhibition -Panorama - Les Fresnoy. Curatorial with Pascale Ponnier

Exhibition - Linear Progression KGUV Screens network and QUT Billboard

Exhibition & Touring - Machinima (2010 - 2011)

Presentation & Design - Face to Face- d/Lux/MediaArts touring exhibition.

Screening Program Public Space - KGUV Screens Network

Screening Program Public Space - Parer Place Project (2010 - 2014)

Nightly curated screening program engaging local, national, and international artists (2010 - 2014)

Exhibition - International Media Arts Festival, Beijing Film Academy

Public Program Streams - Game On, FashionTalks, CUR8, KGSC program, exhibition-associated programs & special public/education events.

 

2009

Curator QUT

Exhibition - LAND, Ulf langheinrich in Partnership with FACT Liverpool UK.

Residency & Exhibition - Mellifera, Trish Adams and Andrew Burrell. 

Exhibition - Transverse, IDAProjects

Exhibition & Touring (2009 - 2012) - Big Eye: Aboriginal Animation - curated CyberTribe Jenny Fraser & Lubi Thomas

Public Program streams - Game On, FashionTalks, Write It, the KGSC program, exhibition-associated programs, and special public/education events.

 

2008

Curator QUT

Exhibition & Touring Artist V Hollywood - National and international touring program (2009 - 2011). 

Exhibition & Touring VT2  IDAprojects – 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. (2008 - 2010)

Exhibition - The SHAPE of things to come - Body +. 

Public Program streams - Game On, FashionTalks, Write-it, KGSC program, Studio Game-On, exhibition associated programs & special public/education events.

 

2007

Curator QUT

Exhibition - Scope

Exhibition & Touring The Vernacular Terrain IDAprojects National touring show: Zaim Art Centre, Yokohama, Japan, Beijing Film Academy, Beijing & Song Zhuang Art Museum Beijing China, Pinnacles Gallery Thuringowa, Monash University Faculty of Art & Design Gallery, Federation Square Urban Screens, Melbourne, Ipswich Art Gallery Ipswich, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne (2007 - 2009)

Exhibition - The Shape of Things to come.

Public Program streams - Game On, FashionTalks, KGSC program, exhibition associated programs & special public/education events.

 

2006

Curator QUT

Exhibition - Re-Active

Screening - Video Works – QUT students QUT Art Museum, George Street, Brisbane, Qld.

Exhibition - Jemima Wyman: Survey show

Exhibition - International Digital Art Awards Co-Curator W Creative Director: Stephan Danzig

Exhibition & Touring The Harries Digital Arts Award (2006 Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China) - Co-Curator W Creative Director: Stephan Danzig

Screening - Fluidity – video works

 

2005

Curator QUT

Exhibition - jOurney

 

 

PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS 

2024

Presentation & Panel - ISEA 2024 - Experimental Arts in Public Space

Fireside yarn (self-directed talk) W Vernon Ah Kee & Leesa Watego - The role of Art in innovation - Tropical Innovation Festival

In-conversation - Vernon Ah Kee - Northsite Contemporary Arts Gallery

Chair - Experimenta Social – Drawing on Complexity

 

2023

Co-Chair - Experimenta Life Forms Panel - NERAM

 

2021

Symposium Chair - MAB 2020

Presentation - QUT - Art Thinking

 

2019 

Guest Lecture - QUT Digital/New Media Arts - trends and discourse 

Presentation - NTU Global Digital Art Award symposium presentation

Symposium - Ars Electronica Festival - Ars Electronica Australia Symposium 

Guest lecture - University of Wollongong 

Symposium – institution presentation - Experimenta - ISEA, Gwangju, South Korea

Symposium – paper presentation W Experimenta ISEA, Gwangju, South Korea, ISEA

Pivot Summit presentation - Ars Electronica Australia, Geelong, Victoria 

Presentation - International Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence, ANU

 

2018

Presenter and Chair - Digital Placemaking Institute - Digital Publics symposium series, CAFA, Beijing

Presenter - Jury overview, methodology and reflections - Ars Electronica Prix Awards Interactive + 2018, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria

Chair - Responsive art and interaction design, Botanica, Brisbane 

Panel presentation - Future Festival – Pause Festival, Melbourne 

Presentation Chair - Botanica Panel Chair Responsive art and interaction design, Brisbane 

 

2017

Panel presentation and discussion - Future models for trans-disciplinary education, Ars Electronica Festival, Austria

Chair - Critical Connections: Art, Design, and STEM symposium. Panel: Cultural Engagement at the Nexus

 

2016 

Guest lecture - curating: ideas to exhibition, Queensland Academy of Creative Industries, Brisbane

Exhibition opening presentation - The Shape of Things to Come - 10th Anniversary with Prof Suzi Vaugh

Guest lecture - Queensland University of Technology – Design School, Brisbane

Panel discussion – CreateX, Brisbane

 

2015

Conference presentation - Move-On: European Media Artists in Residence Exchange, Halle Germany.

Panel discussion - Experimenta Recharge

Chair – New Aesthetic opening event panel discussion 

Keynote - Beijing International Media Architecture Summit. Digital Placemaking @ the intersect of Art, Culture & Community. 

 

2014

Conference presentation: International Teaching Artists Conference—Thinking outside the box whilst inside the Cube: public and education engagement programming.

Symposium presentation – Xcommunicate: Thinking Inside the Cube

Contributing Author: Sans Faute Catalogue published by IDAProjects

Conference presentation - Ars Electronica Festival: What it takes to Change conference – Residency and open pathways.

Conference presentation - Ars Electronica Festival: What it takes to Change conference – Ars Electronica Academy & Trans-disciplinary projects.

Contributing Author - Exhibition Floor Brochure: Antimation (co-author)

 

2013

Conference presentation - TEDXQUT: Cooking with STEAM

Conference presentation - Ars Electronica - A Worldwide Residency Network - The Cube 

Conference presentation - ISEA - Resistance is Futile (panel): Curating and collecting the new 

Contributing Author - Exhibition Floor Brochures: DataScape, The Games of Art, Sans Faute, Shape of Things to Come 7UP (co-author)

 

2012

Plenary Keynote - TechNet 2012 Conference: Art is a language of Ideas

Conference presentation - Freeplay 2012 Conference: Games and Art 

Contributing Author: The Sixth 48 Hour Game Making Challenge - Turner, Jane & Thomas, Lubi 

Exhibition Floor Brochure: Making the red one green, I’m Yours Be Mine

 

2011

Lecture - UniCA Santa Cruz. Digital media curatorship

Panel presentation - Game Connect Asia Pacific Conference, Melbourne - Journeys with Friends

Conference presentation - Freeplay 2011 Conference (panel): Indies, academics, and institutions

Conference presentation - Freeplay 2011 Conference: That one piece of advice - Turner, Jane & Thomas, Lubi 

Contributing Author: Jams, Jelly Beans & the Fruits of Passion - art book - Turner, Jane & Thomas, Lubi 

Contributing Author: IGDA Perspective May 2011: Apres le deluge - The Brisbane [Briz-lantis] story - Turner, Jane & Thomas, Lubi 

Contributing Author: The Fifth 48 Hour Game Making Challenge - Turner, Jane (& Thomas, Lubi 

 

2010

Contributing Author: Creative Industries - published by QUT 

Conference presentation - Game Connect Asia Pacific Conference: Jams, jellybeans and the fruits of passion - Turner, Jane (Truna) & Thomas, Lubi

Contributing Author: The 48-hour game-making challenge: Jams, jellybeans and the Fruits of Passion (paper)

Contributing Author: 48 Hour Game Making Challenge - In Progress [Four Episodes] - Turner, Jane (Truna), Thomas, Lubi, & Owen, Cameron  

Contributing Author: The vernacular terrain: Songzhang Art Museum, Beijing, China. Thomas, Lubi, Danzig, Stephen, Milton Hampe, Benjamin, & Li, Xian Ting 

 

2009

Contributing Author: 48-hour game-making challenge - Turner, Jane & Thomas, Lubi

Contributing Author: Studio Game On - Turner, Jane & Thomas, Lubi

 

2008

Contributing Author: International Digital Art Projects ISBN: 978-0-646-48584-3 

Guest Speaker - Queensland Academy of Creative Industries Curating in the 21st Century

Presentation - Curating and Exhibition Design - QUT Brisbane Qld

Contributing Author: Subtext: Anything but Run of the Mill - McKelvey, Bridgette, Thomas, Lubi, & Klaebe, Helen 

 

2007

Lecture - QUT Brisbane Qld Curating and 'The Shape of things to come'

Keynote - Queensland Independent School Art and Design Award night – Creativity of the Future

Lecture - QUT Brisbane Qld Interactivity off the screen

Contributing Author: In Interaction - Thomas, Lubi & Danzig, Stephen 

 

2006

Lecture - Beijing Film Academy Beijing China - Curatorship and collaborative arts practice.

 

 

 

CONSULTANCY & PROFESSIONAL ROLES:

 

2024

Judge - The Place Leaders Awards 2024

Peer advisor – Queensland Arts Grants and funding

Consultancy – IM

 

2023

Curatorial advisor - Digital Placemaking Institute

Principal Public Art Officer - Brisbane City Council (2020 – 2024)

 

2022

Advisory Board Member - Ars Electronica Prix Awards - Digital Communities

Industry Advisor - Australia Council for the Arts 

 

2021

Industry Advisor - Australia Council for the Arts 

Curatorial Advisor - Siggraph Asia Tokyo - Art Gallery Committee Advisory

Curatorial Advisor - Commission Public Art - Digital Placemaking Institute - International

Curatorial Advisor - MAB 2020 - Digital Publics Panel

 

2020

Curator - Symposium - Digital Placemaking Institute - Digital Publics Symposium, Amsterdam 2021

Advisory Board Member - Ars Electronica Prix Awards - Digital Communities

Advisor – Exhibition – Ars Electronica Festival Garden Brisbane – Museum of Brisbane – Man & Wah – Advisory

Masters Philosophy Industry Supervisor – QUT

Ars Electronica Representative Australia & New Zealand 2019 - 2020

Consultancy: Bowerbird Creative

 

2019

Judge - NTU Global Digital Art Award – NTU Singapore

Curatorial Advisor - Siggraph Asia Brisbane - Art Gallery Committee member 

Advisor - Ars Electronica Australia

Industry Supervisor Masters - QUT

 

2018

Mentor - Anne Wilson - Australia Council for the Arts Professional Development grant, Brisbane & Melbourne  

Consultancy: Bowerbird Creative Programs; UTV, Digital Placemaking Institute, QUT CLab

Curatorial Advisor - Museum of Brisbane BAD Curatorium

Academic review committee - Spectra Festival, ANAT Adelaide

PhD External Examiner - Swinburn University of Technology, Melbourne

Juror - Ars Electronica Prix Awards Juror Interactive +   Ars Electronica Linz Austria

Panel moderator - Ars Electronica Prix Awards Interactive + 2018, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria

 

2017

Consultancies clients: Bowerbird Creative Programs; BrIDGA (Game On Program); UTV; Digital Placemaking Institute.  

Project management - Iconoclast, Mike Riddle, McClelland Sculpture Commission

Curatorial Advisor - Australian Virtual Reality Film Festival

Curatorial Advisor - Brisbane Street Art Festival - ReForm Program

Curatorial Advisor - Digital Placemaking Institute - early development 2017/18 projects

Curatorial advisor - QUT Creative Lab 

 

2016

Consultancies clients: Bowerbird Creative Programs; TV, Digital Placemaking Institute. 

 

2012

Program Curatorial Advisor - Metro Arts, Brisbane.

Consultancy - Translational Research Institute, Brisbane.

 

2011

Consultancy - State Library Queensland.

Consultancy - 87 Art Zone Gold Coast.

Program Curatorial Advisor - Metro Arts, Brisbane.

Peer advisor - Australian Council for the Arts. 

Board Member - Flying arts Inc.  

 

2010

Consultancy - Art Mapping, Brisbane City Council.

Peer Reviewer - Metro Arts, Brisbane.

Peer advisor Australian Council for the Arts - Inter-Arts.

Board Member - Flying Arts Inc.  

 

2009

Consultancy - Burnett Lane: Curatorial Rationale & Scoping Report - Thomas, Lubi, & Klaebe, Helen 

 

2008

Board Member - Flying Arts Inc.  

 

2007

Curator Public Art - Transition in flow, Jon McCormack & Gold Coast Convention Centre

 

 

AWARDS

2024

Place Leaders Award – Asia Pacific – Leadership – Botanica Projects (BCC) – highly commendation.

 

2023

Brisbane City Council - Lord Mayor's Award for Excellence - Working Together

Brisbane City Council - Lord Mayor's Award for Excellence - Innovation

 

2021

Brisbane City Council - CPED Reward and Recognition Award

 

2014

QUT Engagement Innovation Grant – Off the Shelf – Thomas, Lubi & Leong Jacina  

 

2013

QUT Engagement Innovation Grant - Cube Jam - Thomas, Lubi & Turner, Jane

 

2008

QUT Vice-Chancellor's Performance Award QUT

 

2006

QIT Award for Outstanding Contribution - Professional Staff