About the Artist
Tina Gonsalves is a prolific Australian multimedia artist, filmmaker, illustrator, web designer, and lecturer in the media arts. She won first prize at the Animation F1 Digital Film Festival in 1999, the Moet Chandon Art Award in 1998, the first prize Toshiba International Digital Art Award in 1997, and the first prize Victorian National Gallery Award for Digital Art in 1996.
In 1999, Ms. Gonsalves was the artist-in-residence at the Open Channel Multimedia Center as well as a lecturer in computer art at the Melbourne School of Art and the Victoria University of Technology. She also heads the multimedia company, Virago Design – whose clients include the Royal Australian Air Force, the Melbourne Theatre Company, 21C Magazine, the Swinburne School of Design, and Reed Books. In 1998, she created promotional animations for MTV in New York.
Ms. Gonsalves has played a pivotal role in the continued exploration of art and new technologies as part of both PaperVeins and her production company, Inhale Productions. She has produced literally thousands of digital art pieces that have been shown in dozens of solo and group exhibitions throughout the world.
Her experimental animation and video works have been screeneed in venues such as the Pan Pacifica Festival in Amsterdam, the 1999/1998 Melbourne and Sydney Film Festivals, the 1998 Montevideo Festival, MAAP 1998, ArtRage 1998, the 1998 LOUD Short Film Festival, the 1999 European Media Arts Festival, and the 1999 Independent Exposure World Tour. Ms. Gonsalves' work is also included in the Global Multimedia Interface, which will be screened throughout 1999/2000 on a four-story LED video screen in Leicester Square, right in the heart of London.
Ms. Gonsalves' animations and films have been televised on ABC, SBS and Channel 9 and Channel 31 in Australia.
Her work is showcased regularly in print applications such as Panorama Magazine, Artlink, Mesh, Black and White, The Age, and The Herald.
TinaGonsalves.com [web site]
tinagonsalves@hotmail.com [e-mail]
