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Rebecca Cannon

Melbourne, Australia.

Rebecca Cannon is a Cultural Business software developer and consultant, with over a decade's experience delivering and advising projects for the creative and entertainment digital media industries. A creative Media Artist with Computer Science and Business Management qualifications, she has an in depth knowledge of creative content delivery processes from the ground up, with experience advising and delivering digital, online and mobile projects from grassroots and community clients to Federal Government and transnational corporations. Her clients include Telstra, Ericsson, Mobile Aware, and Federation Square. Rebecca has also written extensively for the arts as a journalist and academic, with work published by MIT Press.

Rebecca is Founder and Executive Director of Artabase - a Social Networking website for Fine Artists.

Consultation services can be provided to Australian arts organisations requiring assistance with the planning of multi-user, online, media-delivery platforms.


Websites
Artabase - because people love art. Founder, Executive-Director. 2004 - ongoing.
Selectparks - Art Defining Games. Art blogger. 2002 - 2008.


Mobile Sites
Sharing Is Caring - Artwork for your mobile. Founder, Developer. 2005.
 

Books
Reskin. Chapter author. MIT Press. 2007.
Videogames and Art. Academic paper author. Intellect Books. 2007.
Game Scenes. Artwork review author. 2007.


Video Compilations
Neopoetry DVD. Producer, programmer. (Funding: Australia Council). 2004.
Some Underground Machine. Producer.


Mobile Phone Game
Kill Yourself. Game designer, illustrator, animator. 2005.


Exhibitions
Stranger of the Month. Artist (Krush Klub). 2008.
Cult Classic. Curator. 2004.
Unfiction. Co-Curator. 2004.
Homepage. Guest Curator for Experimenta Media Arts. 2003
Trigger: Game Art. Curator. (Funding: City of Melbourne). 2002.
Prototype. Selection Panelist for Experimenta Media Arts. 2002


Awards
Webby Honorree Artabase.net 2008
Peer Assessed Prize (Victoria). Mobile Entertainment Growth Alliance. 2008.
Semi-Finalist. Australian Small Scale Offerings Board Vic Pitch 08. 2008.
New Zealand Open Source Award for Creativity Selectparks.net 2007.
Best Experimental Video (Forbidden). RMIT Student Film Awards. 2000

Grants
Dlux Media Arts. Mobile Journeys commissioned artist. (Kill Yourself Game).
City of Melbourne. Young Artist Grant.
City of Melbourne. Arts Grant (Trigger: Game Art Exhibition).
Next Wave Festival. Emerging Curator (Cult Classic Exhibition).
Australia Council. Writer's Grant. Neopoetry DVD.


Animation
The Buff And The Brutal (Machinima). 2002.
I Emitt. 2001
Anna's Adventures In Doctrine Land. 2001


Interaction Design
Culture Victoria for Federation Square. 2006
Mobile Aware for Telstra. 2006
Ericsson for Telstra. 2004 - 2006


Education
BA Media Arts, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
Cert IV Small Business Management, RMIT
Computing Fundamentals, RMIT


Speaker
Go Girl 2008, Vic ICT for women.


Memberships
Australian Interactive Media Industry Association
Australian Network for Art and Technology







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