Norie Neumark facts for kids

Norie Neumark is an artist from Melbourne, Australia. She creates art using sound and different types of media, like computers and videos. She is also part of an art group called Out-of-Sync with another artist, Maria Miranda.

Norie Neumark's Work

Norie Neumark used to be a Professor of Media Art at the University of Technology, Sydney. This means she taught students about creating art with technology. She also helped start the Centre for Media Arts Innovation (CMAI) at that university.

She also helped start the Unlikely Journal for Creative Arts, which is like a magazine for creative art ideas. She also started the Centre for Creative Arts at La Trobe University in Melbourne. Now, she is an Emeritus Professor at La Trobe, which means she is a retired professor who still keeps her title. She is also an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, which is part of the University of Melbourne.

Awards for Shock in the Ear

Norie Neumark's project called Shock in the Ear won many awards:

• First Prize for multimedia at VideoFormes 2000 (in France, 2000)
• First Prize for experimental CD-ROM at the ATOM awards (in Melbourne, 1999)
• First Prize, CD-ROM award at COMTECart (in Germany, 1998)
• Silver Medal at Invision 98 (in San Francisco, 1998)
• Third Prize in the National Digital Art Awards (in Brisbane, 1998) – she won first place in the CD-ROM section.
• Special mention at Videobrasil (in Brazil, 1998)

Shock in the Ear was also shown as a new media installation, which is an art display that uses technology. It was shown at Artspace, Sydney (1997) and Artemesia Gallery, Chicago (1997).

Other Art Projects and Exhibitions

Norie Neumark has created other art installations with different artists:

• Dead Centre: the body with organs was shown at The Performance Space in Sydney (July 1999). It was also featured online in ABC’s Headspace.
• Volcano was another new media installation shown at Artspace, Sydney in 2001. It was also invited to an exhibition in Germany called "Gegenort - The Virtual Mine" in 2001.

In 2004, Norie Neumark worked with Maria Miranda on a project called Searching for rue Simon-Crubellier. This project was about searching for a made-up street in Paris that was written about in a famous book by Georges Perec called Life: A User’s Manual. This project started a new series of "mobile works," where they would search for things and meet new people as part of the art. Other mobile works include:

• Talking About the Weather (2006)
• In Search of the Inland Sea (2008)
• Down the Drain (2011)

In 2007, Norie Neumark helped organize an art show called Weather Trouble. In 2010, she also helped organize another show called Memory Flows at the Armory in Sydney.

Besides her awards, Norie Neumark was invited to stay and work at special art places. These are called residencies. She had residencies at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire in 2006 and at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris in 2006.