Residencies

James Verdon works primarily with digital timebased technologies. He has exhibited at The Centre for Contemporary Photography, Monash Galley, Bendigo Art Gallery, the Home Complex at Leicester Square in London, worked on Opera Australia's production of Cosmonaut and completed a permanent screen based exhibition as curator and co-producer for the new Melbourne Museum. He is Coordinator of Electronic Design and Interactive Media at Swinburne University of Technology and is completing a PhD in Media Arts at RMIT University, Melbourne. While undertaking his 2001 Asialink residency at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, Verdon produced work for public art exhibition titled Shopping at the Siam Discovery Centre, undertook a new digital video work which was screened at both the Bangkok International Film Festival and the 3rd Bangkok Experimental Film Festival and produced a collaborative piece with Michael Shaowanasai as part of the Month of Photography event in Bangkok. Verdon's residency was undertaken in partnership with the Australian Network for Art and Technology and was supported by the Australia Council and the Australian Embassy, Bangkok.