Mr Brad Miller

Honorary Senior Lecturer

MFA UNSW
BA (Visual Arts) University of Sydney

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Art & Design

Brad Miller is an artist, educator, researcher and curator he lives and works between Sydney and Beijing. His artistic practice bridges the fields of media arts, experimental design studio, participatory urban media architecture, software development and expanded photography. Typically, his large-scale responsive installations explore the emergent relationships between art + technology with a focus on the social balance between observation and surveillance.

Structured by code, the content of his installations have interrogated photographic images: augment_me (2009); data_shadow (2011); Journey through Dashilar (2016) and—separately—crowd-sourced images and audio that explore a specific city or natural world: mediated_moments (2012); #capillary (2013); le_temps (2013) and being watched (2018).  The random and conscious associations created by the works, I believe are the subject as it are these that have a complex and subtle effect on self in an age of social media and photography as a real-time mediated aesthetic experience. His recent works: plasma_flow (2012) and starry_night (2014) use algorithms to simulate natural. Starry_night has most recently showcased in the 5th Art and Science International Exhibition and Symposium at The National Museum of China, Beijing.

Miller has written on the nature of self in the age of ubiquitous networks and the mediation of memories.  He has presented his research at: ‘Somatic Embodiment, Agency & Mediation in Digital Mediated Environments’ Sydney (2010) and ISEA Istanbul (2011). While working with collaborators, Miller has presented his contributions at: ICDHS San Paulo (2012), ISEA Sydney (2013), Media-Arts History Conference Riga (2013) and Digital Arts Forum, Copenhagen (2013) and a member of both the Interactive Media and Creative Robotics Labs at UNSW Art & Design.

Since 2012, Miller, has been active internationally as an exhibiting artist and curator in the field of experimental media arts. He has delivered projects for Beijing Design Week (2012); Design HOP in Beijing (2015); the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade-supported MAD.LAB@Beijing Design Week (2016); and Beijing Media Arts Biennale at Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum Beijing (2018), Hanshan Art Museum Suzhou (2018) and Shanghai Sky Contemporary Art Space Shanghai (2019).

Miller has been invited to join the curatorium for Being Artificial - Beijing Art + Technology Biennale in 2020 as co-curator and visiting scholar, other members are drawn from institutions and networks across the world such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Art Institute of Chicago and Next Nature Network. Miller's ongoing participation in the Curatorium and the inclusion of Australian practitioners in the exhibition is an exceptional opportunity to undertake sustained purposeful cultural engagement. In 2020-21, BATB will have its first regional tour and its touring partners - Hua Art Museum Shenzhen, Hanshan Art Museum Suzhou, Academy of Fine Arts Guangzhou and Sichuan Conservatory of Music, Chengdu.

Phone
+61 2 8936 0622
  • Book Chapters | 2018
    McArthur I; Priestman M; Miller B, 2018, 'Collaborative mapping as a new urban design pedagogy', in McArthur I; Bamford R; Xu ; Miller B (ed.), Investigating the visual as a transformative pedagogy in the Asia Region, Common Ground Research Networks, Champaign, IL, pp. 121 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/978-1-86335-027-3/CGP
    Book Chapters | 2018
    McArthur IW; Bamford R, 2018, 'Emergent Visual Pedagogies: Complexity, Culture, and Collaboration', in McArthur I; Bamford R; Xu F; Miller B (ed.), Investigating the Visual as a Transformative Pedagogy in the Asia Region, edn. Transformative Pedagogies in the Visual Domain, Common Ground Publishing, Champaign, Illinois, USA, pp. 9 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/978-1-86335-027-3/CGP
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Williamson LB, 2018, 'Cultural Textiles: design, engagement and transformation', in McArthur I; Bamford R; Miller B; Xu F (ed.), Investigating the visual as a transformative pedagogy in the Asia Region, pp. 49 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/978-1-86335-027-3/CGP
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Miller B, 2017, 'The Heap and Digital Diffraction: The Place of Digital Placemaking', in HESPANHOL L; HAEUSLER MH; TOMITSCH M; TSCHERTEU G (ed.), Media Architecture Compendium Digital Placemaking, Avedition Gmbh,Csi, Stuttgart Germany, pp. 92 - 94
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Rees VD; Rourke, AJ, 2017, 'Curators' Essay', in McArthur I; Bamford R; Fang X; Miller B (ed.), Investigating the Visual as a Transformative Pedagogy in the Asia Region, Common Ground Network, Champaign, Illinois, USA
  • Edited Books | 2018
    McArthur IW; Bamford R; Xu F; Miller B, (eds.), 2018, Investigating the Visual as a Transformative Pedagogy in the Asia Region, Common Ground Publishing, Champaign, Illinois, USA, http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/978-1-86335-027-3/CGP.
  • Journal articles | 2014
    Brain T; Miller B, 2014, 'le_temps: Visualising Phenology from Public Image Databases', Techno-Ecologies II. Acoustic Space #12, 2, http://rixc.lv/
  • Conference Abstracts | 2019
    Davies A; Miller B; Bagattini B, 2019, 'Machine Learning for Performative Spaces', in Machine Learning for Performative Spaces, City University Of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, presented at International Symposium on Computational Media Art (ISCMA) 2019, City University Of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 04 January 2019 - 07 February 2019, https://iscma.scm.cityu.edu.hk/openconf/modules/request.php?module=oc_program&action=view.php&id=44&file=1/44.pdf
    Curatorial Outputs | 2019
    Flanagan P; Miller B; Bown O, 2019, MOVE Symposium, exhibited at: UNSW Art & Design, Sydney, 09 March 2019 - 09 March 2019
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2019
    Miller B, 2019, starry_night, 5th Art and Science International Exhibition and Symposium, National Museum of China, Beijing, 02 November 2019 - 30 November 2020, medium: custom software, Media Art Installation, Interactive Media Arts, at: http://www.enad.tsinghua.edu.cn/art_science/tasies_2019/index.htm
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2018
    Miller B, 2018, Being Watched: moments from a culture of surveillance., Post Life: Beijing Media Arts Biennale, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China, 05 September 2018 - 24 September 2018, medium: Digital media, at: http://www.bmab.co/
    Curatorial Outputs | 2018
    Xinping S; Zikang Z; Xiewei S; Zhijie Q; Xiaowen C; Jun F; Wei J; Miller B; Wenchao Z; Tianchong X, 2018, Post Life: Beijing Media Arts Biennale, exhibited at: Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, 05 September 2018 - 24 September 2018, Post Life: Beijing Media Arts Biennale, http://www.bmab.co/
    Curatorial Outputs | 2016
    Miller B; Erickson A; McArthur IW, 2016, The Future of Cities Forum, exhibited at: Red Room Lecture Theatre, Building 7, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 05 October 2016 - 05 October 2016, The Future of Cities Forum
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2016
    Miller B; Hinshaw A, 2016, A journey through Dashilar, Being Design Week - Design Hop, The Factory, 8 Da Wai Lang Ying Hutong, Dashilar, Beijing, 27 September 2016 - 07 October 2016, medium: Electronic Media Arts, at: http://www.dashilar.org/en/D/BDW_2016_77.html
    Curatorial Outputs | 2016
    Miller B; Mcarthur I; Priestman M, 2016, MAD.LAB @ Beijing Design Week, exhibited at: The Factory, 8 Da Wai Lang Ying Hutong, Dashilar, Beijing, 28 September 2016 - 07 October 2016, MAD.LAB @ Beijing Design Week, http://dashilar.org/en/A/A4a/t1246.html
    Reports | 2015
    Tomitsch M; Haeusler MH; Hespanol L; McArthur I; Murphie A; Foth M; Miller B, 2015, Enabling Audience Participation and Collective Content Generation Through Urban Media as a Diagnostic Method in Urban Planning, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, http://sydney.edu.au/halloran/resources/urban-media-report_lowres.pdf
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2014
    Miller B; McArthur I; HInshaw A; Bateman P, 2014, starry_night, VIVID Sydney 2014, Pier 8/9, 23 May 2014 - 10 June 2014, medium: Media Arts Installation, at: http://www.vividsydney.com/events/starrynight
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Bateman PJ; Miller B; McArthur I, 2013, 'Art in the age of imaging data: mediated moments and plasma flow', in Nadarajan G; Graugaard L (ed.), re-new 2013 proceedings, Renew Digital Arts Forum, Denmark, pp. 306 - 311, presented at Re-new Digital Arts Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark, 30 October 2013 - 02 November 2013, http://re-new.org/
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Brain T; Miller B, 2013, 'le_temps: Visualising Phenology from Public Image Databases.', in Smits R; Smite R (ed.), re-new media arts history conference proceedings 2013, media arts history, Latvia, presented at media arts history, Latvia, 09 October 2013 - 11 October 2013, http://www.mediaarthistory.org/mah-conf-series/renew
    Conference Papers | 2013
    McArthur IW; Miller B; Murphie A, 2013, 'augmented_studio: Collaboration, Interactive Media and Urban Space', in Charitos D; Theona I; Dragona D; Rizopoulos C; Meimaris M (eds.), Hybrid City 2013 Subtle Revolutions, The University Research Institute of Applied Communications (URIAC), Athens, Greece, pp. 379 - 386, presented at Hybrid City 2013 Subtle Revolutions, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 23 May 2013 - 25 May 2013
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2013
    Miller B; Brain T; Hinshaw A, 2013, le_temps (re-new version), re-new Digital Arts Forum, P 43 Prags Boulevard 43 Copenhagen, 30 October 2013 - 03 November 2013, medium: Media Arts Installation, at: http://re-new.org/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2013
    Miller B; Brain T; Hinshaw A, 2013, le_temps, le_temps: Explorations in phenology, DAB LAB Research Gallery; Lvl 4 UTS DAB 730 Harris St Sydney, 06 March 2013 - 29 March 2013, medium: electronic, at: http://sites.cofa.unsw.edu.au/~z9270907/le_temp.html
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2013
    Miller B; Mcarthur IW; Hinshaw A, 2013, #capillary, Running the city, UNSW Galleries; College of Fine Arts Paddington NSW, 07 June 2013 - 20 July 2013, medium: Media Arts Installation, at: http://www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/electronic-art/running-the-city.html
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Yang L; McArthur IM; Miller B, 2013, 'Expanded urban media: From discretised social collages to corrugated social brain.', in Cleland K; Fisher L; Harley R (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium of Electronic Art, ISEA2013, Sydney., ISEA International, Sydney, Australia, presented at International Symposium of Electronic Arts, 2014, Sydney, 10 June 2013 - 14 June 2013, http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/9752
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Yingying X; Duo J; Yang L; McArthur IW; Miller B, 2013, 'Created in China: China’s Creative and Cultural Future.', in Cleland K; Fisher L; Harley R (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium of Electronic Art, ISEA2013, Sydney, ISEA International, Sydney, Australia, presented at International Symposium of Electronic Arts, 2014, Sydney, Australia, 10 June 2013 - 14 June 2013, http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/9756
    Conference Presentations | 2012
    Mcarthur IW; Miller B, 2012, 'Interactive Media in Smart Cities', presented at GeoCity Smart City Symposium, GeoCity Smart City - International Information Design Exhibition, Beijing Design Week, Beijing, 29 September 2012
    Conference Papers | 2012
    Mcarthur IW; Miller B, 2012, 'Joining Up: Evaluating technologically augmented interdisciplinary cross-cultural collaboration', in Design Frontiers: Territiories, Concepts, Technologies, International Committee for Design History & Design Studies | Blucher, Sao Paulo, Brazil, pp. 347 - 350, presented at ICDHS 2012: Design frontiers: territories, concepts, technologies:, São Paulo Brazil
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2012
    Miller B; Mcarthur IW; Hinshaw A; Adams P, 2012, plasma_flow (Weibo Version), GeoCity SmartCity International Information Design Exhibition, Beijing, China, 28 September 2012 - 14 October 2012, medium: Media Art Installation, at: http://www.bjdw.org/index.php/en/calendar_article/?cid=25&id=177
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2012
    Miller B; Mcarthur IW; Hinshaw A, 2012, mediated_moments, GeoCity SmartCity International Information Design Exhibition, Beijing, China, 28 September 2012 - 14 October 2012, at: http://www.bjdw.org/index.php/en/calendar_article/?cid=25&id=177
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2012
    Miller B; Mcarthur IW; Hinshaw A, 2012, plasma_flow, VIVID Lights ON! Festival, Cleland Bond; 24-33 Playfair St The Rocks Sydney, 23 May 2012 - 11 June 2012, medium: Media Art Installation, at: http://www.vividsydney.com/
    Conference Papers | 2012
    Miller B; Mcarthur IW, 2012, 'Sharing the image: Towards shared vision through the networked image', in Sharing the image: Towards shared vision through the networked image, Beyond Representation: Photography, Humans & Computers, Centre for Media & Culture Research, London South Bank University, presented at Beyond Representation: Photography, Humans & Computers, Centre for Media & Culture Research, London South Bank University, 25 May 2012
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2012
    Miller B; Mcarthur IW, 2012, GeoCity SmartCity International Information Design Exhibition, GeoCity SmartCity International Information Design Exhibition, CMODA; Beijing, 21 September 2012 - 01 October 2012, at: http://sites.cofa.unsw.edu.au/~z9270907/cmoda.html
    Conference Papers | 2012
    Touw M; Miller B, 2012, 'One Road: an engaging multi-touch interface within a museum context', in Proceedings of HCI 2012 The 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction, BISL, UK, presented at HCI2012 People & Computers XXVI, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, 12 September 2012 - 14 September 2012, http://ewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/48774
    Designs / Architecture | 2011
    Miller B; Mcarthur IW, 2011, Rare Earth, publication category: Designs / Architecture, http://sites.cofa.unsw.edu.au/~z9270907/rare_earth.html
    Conference Papers | 2011
    Miller B, 2011, 'augment_me- An algorithmic memory, absence and presence in the cloud', in augment_me- An algorithmic memory, absence and presence in the cloud, ISEA2011, Istanbul, presented at ISEA2011, Istanbul, http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/paper/augmentme-algorithmic-memory-absence-and-presence-cloud
    Conference Presentations | 2011
    Miller B, 2011, 'augment_me: Anthropomorphising the other and augment the self', presented at ISEA2011, Istanbul, 14 September 2011 - 21 September 2011
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2011
    Miller B, 2011, data_shadow, Underbelly Arts, Cockatoo Island, 16 July 2011, medium: visual arts installation, at: http://underbellyarts.com.au/2011/brad-miller-data_shadow/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2010
    Miller B; Andrews IS, 2010, augment_me, SEAM: Somatic Embodiment, Agency & Mediation in Digital Mediated Environments., Drill Hall; Rushcutters Bay Sydney, 30 October 2010 - 31 October 2010, medium: electronic, at: http://seam2010.blogspot.com.au/p/exhibitions.html
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    Miller B, 2010, 'augment_me', presented at Create World 2010, Griffith University, Brisbane, 29 November 2010 - 01 December 2010
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    Miller B, 2010, 'augment_me', presented at SEAM 2010 Public Symposium: AGENCY and ACTION, Sydney, NSW, 13 October 2010 - 16 October 2010, http://seam2010.blogspot.com/p/exhibitions.html
    Conference Presentations | 2009
    Bateman PJ; Miller B, 2009, 'augment_me: A responsive media arts installation', presented at SEAM 2009: Spatial Phases, Sydney, 07 September 2009 - 20 September 2009, http://sites.cofa.unsw.edu.au/~z9270907/augment_me%20seam09%20paper.pdf
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2009
    Miller B; Andrews I; Hinshaw A, 2009, augment_me, augment_me, Artspace, Sydney; 43-51 Cowper Wharf Road Woolloomooloo NSW 2011, 20 November 2009 - 20 December 2009, at: http://www.artspace.org.au/gallery/gallery_exhibition.php?e=116
    Curatorial Outputs | 2007
    Clarke KL; Miller B, 2007, ConnectED 2007 International Conference on Design Education, exhibited at: COFA Exhibition and Performance Space; Sydney, 09 July 2007 - 12 July 2007, ConnecED 2007 International Conference on Design Education

2019    Professional development opportunity in Beijing, Korea and London. CreateNSW, artist support (round 2), Miller, B. ($3,180)
2019    Curatorial roadmap BMAB 2020, UNSW Faculty Research Grant, Miller, B. ($2,500)
2018    Telstra Southport interactive hub, Davies, A.P. Bown, O. Miller, B. Contract Research, Telstra Corp. ($216,520)
2018    Presenting Australian Artists at Beijing Media Arts Biennale, DFAT ACD, Miller, B. Fenner, F. ($20,000)
2017    Supporting artists development for Beijing Media Arts Biennale, Copyright Agency, Cultural Fund, Miller, B. Fenner, F. ($25,000)
2017    New Colombo Plan, short mobility program, Intra-action Lab CAFA, Beijing. Miller, B ($79,200)
2017    UNSW FRIG Bown, O. Khut, G. Velonaki, M. Davies, A. Miller, B. McGhee, J. Flanagan, P. Kuchelmeister, V. ($82,288)
2016    Building, strengthening and consolidating connections: Australia-China design dialogues, DFAT ACC, Miller, B. McArthur, I. ($20,000)
2016    MAD.LAB @ Beijing Design Week, DFAT ACD Program, Miller, B. McArthur, I. ($14,943)
2015    UNSW Faculty Research Grant, Examining the experiences of flow, Miller, B. ($10,000)
2014    Destination NSW (VIVID) Commission Miller, B. ($30,000)
2014    Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney, McArthur, I. Tomitsch, M. Haeusler, M. Miller, B. Foth, M. Murphie, A. Hespanhol, L. ($47,834)
2013    UNSW GRS Travel Grant. Miller, B. ($3,500)
2013    UNSW Art & Design Travel Grant. Miller, B. ($3,000)
2013    UNSW Art & Design Faculty Research Grant. Interactive media platform. Miller, B. ($15,000)
2013    UNSW Art & Design Travel Grant. Miller, B. ($3,000)
2013    UNSW MREII. Velonaki, M. Barker, M. Fenner, F. Gemeinboeck.P, Harley, R. Miller, B. Munster, A. Pagnucco, M. ($99,738)
2013    Arts NSW, Arts Funding Program, New Project, Miller, B., auspiced by NAVA ($36,000)
2012    Destination NSW (VIVID) Commission Miller, B. ($20,000)
2012    UNSW Art & Design Travel Grant. Miller, B. ($3,000)
2012    Inter-Arts Projects, Australia Council, 'le_temps creative development phenology/crowd sourced. Miller, B. Brain, T. ($12,000)
2012    UNSW Art & Design Faculty Research Grant. Develop a robust video tracking software tools. Miller, B., McArthur, I. ($9,800)
2012    UNSW MREII, Mobile Interactive Media Platform. Miller,B. Kuchelmeister, V. Goodwin, R. Harley,R. ($75,986)
2011    UNSW Staff Travel Grant. Miller, B. ($3,000)
2011     DEEWR Study Overseas Short-term Mobility Program. McArthur, I., Miller, B., Goodwin, R. ($19,800)
2011    UNSW ITIP Wireless interactive exhibition platform. Miller, B., Killen, L. ($77,690)
2010    Faculty Research Grant. Incubating Trust. McArthur, I. Miller, B. Goodwin, R, ($9,098)
2010    UNSW Staff Travel Grant. Miller, B. ($3,000)
2010    UNSW Contestable Funding – International Projects McArthur, I., Miller, B., Goodwin, R. ($18,968)
2009    New Work, Music Board. (with Ian Andrews) ($12,000)
2008    New Work, VACB Australia Council. ($20,000)

 

Beijing Media Arts Biennale (2018)

Curatorial research background: Throughout the pass twenty years Beijing has seen a number of high-profile media arts survey exhibitions exhaustively presented significant works in the fields of data art, bio art and creative robotics. While this research has contextualised various technological practises seen in the creative arts, it has under-developed a robust curatorial peer review or jury process leading to potential risks of under representative or overly didactic exhibitions which have difficult making claims of originality.

Research Contribution: The Post-Life Beijing Media Arts Biennale invited artists, designers, scientists and theorists to discuss art & technology in society, and through in-depth discussion, generate new knowledge that can be shared with our society. The exhibition presented an impressive group of artists who are contributing, experimenting and articulating challenging questions relating to the philosophy, ethics, morals and aesthetics of art and its relationship to frontiers of science in the Asian Century and plays an important role in re-imagining and re-framing questions about the ineffable; by exploring the equality of sentient life forms, traversing the hard-line objectivity of science and binary categorisation of beings.

Research Significance: The project contributed to a robust curatorial framework and the inclusion of 13 noted Australian media artists. Exhibited at Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Gallery, a 2nd tier public institution, a published catalogue, a three-gallery national tour at 2nd and 3rd tier public institutions and a number of public forums and keynote presentations. Its value is attested by support by; China National Arts Fund, an Australian Cultural Diplomacy Grant, Copyright Agency Cultural Fund grant; The Telstra Southport Interactive Hub research contract.