Kathy Cleland is a curator, writer and lecturer specialising in new media art and digital culture. She has lectured in the Digital Cultures Program at The University of Sydney since 2001. Kathy writes for a number of arts and cultural publications and was guest editor of a special new media issue of Artlink magazine, "e-volution of new media" (Vol 21, No.3, 2001). Kathy was president of the Sydney-based dLux media arts organisation from 1997 to 2002.

Her curatorial projects include “ARTificial LIFE” at Artspace, Auckland, NZ (1998), the “Cyber Cultures” exhibition series which toured to over 20 venues in Australia and New Zealand from 2000 – 2003 and the Australian component of the St@rt Up exhibition at Te Papa Museum in Wellington, NZ (2002-2003).

In 2008 she co-curated the “Mirror States” exhibition (MIC Toi Rerehiko, Auckland, NZ and Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney). She is currently curating “Face to Face: portraiture in a digital age” with d/Lux/MediaArts, a digital portraiture exhibition that will tour throughout Australia from 2008-2011. Her PhD thesis “Image Avatars: self-other encounters in a mediated world” investigated avatars, digital portraiture, virtual characters and representations of the self in virtual environments.

• New media art and culture
• New media curation
• User-generated content and participatory media
• Online identity
• Mixed reality
• Virtual worlds
• Virtual personas and robots
• The affective dimensions of human-computer interaction

• Publications
• Cleland, Kathy (2009) Face-to-face: Avatars and Mobile Identities” in Goggin, G and Hjorth, L. (Eds.) Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media, New York: Routledge.
• Cleland, Kathy (2008) Interactive art: digital entities and the audience experience in IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 4-7, Oct.-Dec. 2008, doi:10.1109/MMUL.2008.92 http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MMUL.2008.92
• Cleland, Kathy (2008) Image Avatars: self-other encounters in a mediated world, PhD thesis, Sydney: UTS. http://www.kathycleland.com/KathyCleland/Thesis.html
• Cleland, Kathy (2008) The New Face of Portraiture in a Digital Age in Face to Face: portraiture in a digital age. Sydney: d/Lux/MediaArts, available: http://www.dlux.org.au/face2face/Cleland_essay.htm
• Cleland, Kathy (2008) Projected Others (catalogue essay) in Cleland, Kathy and Muller, Lizzie (eds.) Mirror States catalogue, Campbelltown and Auckland: Campbelltown Arts Centre in association with Moving Image Centre Toi Rerehiko.. Available: www.mirrorstates.com
• Cleland, Kathy and Muller, Lizzie (eds.) (2008) Mirror States catalogue, Campbelltown and Auckland: Campbelltown Arts Centre in association with Moving Image Centre Toi Rerehiko.
• Chesher, Chris, Cleland, Kathy and Marks, Peter (eds.) (2008) Screenscapes, special issue of Scan Journal, Macquarie University. http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display_synopsis?j_id=13
• Cleland, Kathy (Sept, 2007) Entering the Screen in Artlink Vol 27 no 3, pp.22-27.
• Cleland, Kathy (2007) Face-to-face: Avatars and Mobile Identities in Mobile Media (Conference proceedings) Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth (eds.), University of Sydney, 2-4 July 2007.
• Cleland, Kathy (2006) Image Avatars and Media Mirrors in Engage: audience, art and interaction (Conference proceedings) Lizzie Muller, Ernest Edmonds and Deborah Turnbill (eds.), University of Technology, Sydney, 27-29 Nov 2006.

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