Josephine Starrs | |
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Born | 1955 ![]() |
Occupation | Visual artist, video artist ![]() |
Josephine Starrs (born 1955) is an Australian artist who creates socially engaged art focusing on human relationships to new technologies, nature and climate change. [1] Her video and new media work has been exhibited in Australia and at international art exhibitions. [2] She was a Senior Lecturer in Media Arts at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney until 2016. [3]
Starrs grew up in Adelaide, South Australia and was educated at the South Australian School of Arts. She has worked in a variety of mediums including photography, animation, video, and new media. [1]
She is a founding member of the cyberfeminist group VNS Matrix. [4] In the early 1990s the group explored the role of women in technology and art, contributing to the development of Cyberfeminism. [5] [6]
Starrs has collaborated with artist Leon Cmielewski since 1994 when they were living together in New York. [1] Their collaborative work focuses on incorporating interactivity and play while engaging with contemporary social issues. Their works have appeared in forms such as kiosks, games, card games, dances, films, and mapping installations. [7]
In 1999, Starrs worked with Leon Cmielewski to develop a game mod titled “Bio-Tek Kitchen”, based on the first-person shooter game Marathon Infinity. Bio-tek Kitchen was part of the art exhibition Cracking the Maze, curated by Anne-marie Schleiner. In an interview with online magazine Gamescenes, Starrs said ″Digital gaming has become as much of a cultural force in our world as cinema. In the same way that experimental film and video has grown alongside the mainstream film industry, game art has emerged in the past two decades, often drawing on digital game concepts, formats and narrative structure.″ [8]
The works below are in collaboration with Leon Cmielewski unless otherwise noted.