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Dr Amelia Barikin

Senior Lecturer

School of Communication and Arts
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
a.barikin@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 51437

Overview

Amelia Barikin is a Lecturer in Art History in the School of Communication and Arts. Her research often focusses on the relationship between art and time. Amelia completed her art history PhD at the University of Melbourne. Prior to joining UQ, Amelia worked as a Senior Research Associate on the ARC Linkage Project ‘Large Screens and the Transnational Public Sphere’ (University of Melbourne), and has also worked as a lecturer, editor and curator with numerous Australian arts institutions including Liquid Architecture and The Australian Centre for the Moving Image. She is a member of the Research Unit for Public Cultures, University of Melbourne, an editorial advisory board member of the arts journals Discipline and emaj and a board member of Media Art Asia Pacific, Brisbane. Amelia has taught on modern and contemporary art, art theory and curatorship and has published widely. Her book Parallel Presents: The Art of Pierre Huyghe was published by MIT Press in 2012. Her co-edited anthology Making Worlds: Art and Science Fiction was published by Surpllus in 2013. In 2015, she co-curated the major exhibition 'Pierre Huyghe: TarraWarra International 2015' at TarraWarra Museum of Art. She is currently researching the intersection of art and science fiction.

Research Interests

  • Contemporary international and Australian art
  • Science fiction
  • Time-based art and durational media
  • Philosophies of time
  • Historiography
  • Aesthetics

Research Impacts

Recent public engagement activities include:

2016 Stanislaw Lem Reading Group, Biennale of Sydney, Carriageworks 24 April; 'Everywhere all at once: time travel and contemporary art', public lecture Wellington City Gallery, New Zealand 21 June; 'Nicholas Mangan: Limits to Growth', public talk Monash University Museum of Art 12 July; 'Frontier Imaginaries', panel discussion QUT Art Museum, Brisbane 13 August; 'Mineral Volumes', Materials of Sound Sympsosium, Artspace, Sydney 24 August; 'Art in the Time of Colony: conversation with Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll', IMA Brisbane 15 October; 'The Future of ARIs', public panel discussion, BARI Festival Brisbane Powerhouse 20 October; 'ACMI Podcast: Philippe Parreno', October 2016; 'Philippe Parreno: In Conversation', ACMI Melbourne 6 Dec, 'Curating Publics, Curating Spaces', University of Melbourne 8 December.

2015 Museums and Galleries NSW Curator Residency Grant, TarraWarra Museum of Art 2015; Public lecture 'In Dreams: Lynch and Surrealism', GOMA March 2015; Panellist, UQ Art Museum 'The Places You'll Go!' March 2015; Presenter, 'Animism and Material Vitality' conference; Auckland AUT June 2015; Curator's tour, TarraWarra Museum of Art, August 2015; Screening and public talk, 'Pierre Huyghe: Untitled (Human Mask)', Australian Centre for the Moving Image, September 2015; Public lecture, 'Being After Time: Towards a Mineral Ontology of Contemporary Art', Mildura Biennale, October 2015; Public lecture, 'Sound Fossils and Arche-Fossils', Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne October 2015; Presenter and co-convenor, 'Time out of Time', TarraWarra Museum of Art, October 2015; Public lecture for 'Worlds within Worlds', Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, December 9 2015.

2014 AGNSW Residency Scholarship, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, March-May 2014; Invited panellist, 'Draw Me a Discovery: Café Scientifique', Brisbane, 19 June 2014; Invited keynote respondent 'Art Out of Time' symposium, Oxford University UK, 26 June 2014; Continuing Professional Development Seminar for 'The Melancholic Imagination', University of Queensland, 30 August 2014; public exhibition tour of 'Stuart Ringholt: Kraft', Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 20 Sep 2014; public symposium co-convenor and presenter at 'Triple Oh! Symposium: Art and Object Oriented Ontology' UQ Art Museum, 27 Sep 2014; Session Chair, 'The Life of Things', EMSAH WIP Conference, University of Queensland, 29 Sep 2014; Judge, Dr John McCulloch Memorial Prize, Univeristy of Queensland, 30 Sep 2014; conference paper for public symposium 'The Persistence of Melancholia: Melancholia and the Arts 1514-2014', UQ Art Museum, 23-24 October 2014.

2013 'Making Worlds', public reading and book launch at Motto Melbourne, 5 Sep 2013; 'The Future is Noise', public panel discussion with Greg Hainge and David Toop, IMA Brisbane 22 Aug 2013; 'Art and Science Fiction', radio interview for 4ZZZ, Brisbane, 14 June 2013; 'Making Worlds: Art and Science Fiction', conference paper, ISEA, University of Sydney, 12 June 2013; 'Large Screens and the Transnational Public Sphere', roundtable with Nikos Papastergiadis, Scott McQuire, Ross Gibson, Cecelia Cmielewski, Audrey Yue and Xin Gu, ISEA, Sydney, 12 June 2013; 'Memories of the Future: On the Time of Art', public lecture, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 11 April 2013; 'The Paper Trail: History and Archives in the Work of Thomas Demand', public lecture, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 15 March 2013.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne
  • Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Melbourne

Publications

  • Journal Article: Robert Smithson: Time Crystals

    Barikin, Amelia and McAuliffe, Chris (2018) Robert Smithson: Time Crystals. Brisbane, Australia and Melbourne, Australia, University of Queensland Art Museum & Monash University Museum of Art.

  • Book: Making worlds: art and science fiction

    Making worlds: art and science fiction. Edited by Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Surpllus, 2013.

  • Book: Parallel presents : the art of Pierre Huyghe

    Barikin, Amelia Parallel presents : the art of Pierre Huyghe. Cambridge, MA., USA: MIT Press, 2012.

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Grants

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Supervision

  • Between visuality and victorian science: aesthetics, epistemology and science in indo-mughal architectural photography 1850 - 1890

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Towards A Nuclear Aesthetics: Maralinga and the Art of Jonathan Kumintjara Brown and Yhonnie Scarce

    Master Philosophy

  • Remaking history in contemporary moving image and installation art

    Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Featured Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • Blindness and figuration: the dialectics of picture-making in the work of Tom Nicholson

    Barikin, Amelia (2018). Blindness and figuration: the dialectics of picture-making in the work of Tom Nicholson. In Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes (Ed.), Tom Nicholson: lines towards another (pp. 39-52) Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press.

  • Robert Smithson: time crystals

    Barikin, Amelia and McAuliffe, Chris (2018). Robert Smithson: time crystals. In Amelia Barikin and Chris McAuliffe (Ed.), Robert Smithson: time crystals (pp. 5-36) Melbourne, Australia: Monash University Publishing in association with Monash University Museum of Art.

  • Towards an impossible summit: the journey as decoy in the work of Pierre Huyghe

    Barikin, Amelia (2018). Towards an impossible summit: the journey as decoy in the work of Pierre Huyghe. In James P. Werner and Rosemary O'Neill (Ed.), Art as adventure: going beyond (pp. 76-93) Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

  • Sound fossils and speaking stones: towards a mineral ontology of contemporary art

    Barikin, Amelia (2017). Sound fossils and speaking stones: towards a mineral ontology of contemporary art. In Christopher Braddock (Ed.), Animism in art and performance (pp. 253-276) London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Chronophobia, presence and presentness in the work of Liam O'Brien

    Barikin, Amelia (2016). Chronophobia, presence and presentness in the work of Liam O'Brien. In Annika Kristensen and Margaret Farmer (Ed.), New16 (pp. 54-55) Melbourne, Australia: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

  • Conclusion: ambient screens

    Papastergiadis, Nikos, Barikin, Amelia and McQuire, Scott (2016). Conclusion: ambient screens. In Nikos Papastergiadis (Ed.), Ambient screens and transnational public spaces (pp. 211-238) Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

  • Introduction: screen cultures and public spaces

    Papastergiadis, Nikos, Barikin, Amelia, McQuire, Scott and Yue, Audrey (2016). Introduction: screen cultures and public spaces. In Nikos Papastergiadis (Ed.), Ambient screens and transnational public spaces (pp. 3-27) Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

  • Mobile methods and large screens

    Papastergiadis, Nikos, Barikin, Amelia, Gu, Xin, McQuire, Scott and Yue, Audrey (2016). Mobile methods and large screens. In Nikos Papastergiadis (Ed.), Ambient screens and transnational public spaces (pp. 131-208) Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

  • Psychotropicalism: A manifesto in search of a manifestation

    Barikin, Amelia (2016). Psychotropicalism: A manifesto in search of a manifestation. In Ulanda Blair, Rosemary Forde and Phip Murray (Ed.), un Anthology 2004 - 2014: A decade of art and ideas (pp. 145-150) Melbourne, Australia: un Projects.

  • Ambient aesthetics: altered subjectivities in the new museum

    Barikin, Amelia, Papastergiadis, Nikos, Radywyl, Natalia and McQuire, Scott (2015). Ambient aesthetics: altered subjectivities in the new museum. In Sharon Macdonald and Helen Rees Leahy (Ed.), The international handbooks of museum studies (pp. 417-436) Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: John Wiley &​ Sons. doi:10.1002/9781118829059.wbihms120

  • Ambient perspective and the citizen's moving eyes

    Barikin, Amelia and Papastergiadis, Nikos (2015). Ambient perspective and the citizen's moving eyes. In Maria Hlavajova and Ranjit Hoskote (Ed.), Future publics (the rest can and should be done by the people): a critical reader in contemporary art (pp. 90-115) Utrecht, Netherlands: BAK: base for active knowledge.

  • Quantum entanglements and the construction of time: do we need a science-fictional history of art?

    Barikin, Amelia (2015). Quantum entanglements and the construction of time: do we need a science-fictional history of art?. In era-unavailable (Ed.), Soleil double (pp. 17-24) Paris, France: Editions Dilecta.

  • The museum in hiding: framing conflict

    Barikin, Amelia, Green, Charles and Brown, Lyndell (2015). The museum in hiding: framing conflict. In Sharon Macdonald and Helen Rees Leahy (Ed.), International handbooks of museum studies (pp. 485-510) Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: John Wiley &​ Sons. doi:10.1002/9781118829059.wbihms123

  • Arche-fossils and future fossils: the speculative paleontology of Julian Charrière

    Barikin, Amelia (2014). Arche-fossils and future fossils: the speculative paleontology of Julian Charrière. In Nicole Schweizer (Ed.), Julian Charrière: future fossil spaces (pp. 18-29) Milan, Italy: Mousse Publishing.

  • Bill Henson, untitled sequence, image no. 11

    Barikin, Amelia (2014). Bill Henson, untitled sequence, image no. 11. In Andrea Bubenik (Ed.), Five Centuries of Melancholia: Exhibition Catalogue (pp. 63-63) St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.

  • Bill Henson, untitled sequence, image no. 5

    Barikin, Amelia (2014). Bill Henson, untitled sequence, image no. 5. In Andrea Bubenik (Ed.), Five Centuries of Melancholia: Exhibition Catalogue (pp. 61-61) St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.

  • Public screens and participatory public space

    Barikin, Amelia, Papastergiadis, Nikos, McQuire, Scott and Yue, Audrey (2014). Public screens and participatory public space. In Larissa Hjorth, Natalie King and Mami Kataoka (Ed.), Art in the Asia-Pacific Intimate Publics (pp. 161-172) New York, NY, USA: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315858104

  • Since we last spoke

    Barikin, Amelia (2014). Since we last spoke. In Vikki McInnes and Laura Castagnini (Ed.), Bureau 2 (pp. 89-90) Melbourne, Australia: University of Melbourne; Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts.

  • Super mechanical super organical: Emily Floyd's science fiction

    Barikin, Amelia (2014). Super mechanical super organical: Emily Floyd's science fiction. In Linda Michael (Ed.), Emily Floyd: Far Rainbow (pp. 59-67) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Heide Museum of Modern Art.

  • Tim Silver, untitled (Bust) (Mahogany Timbermate Woodfiller)

    Barikin, Amelia (2014). Tim Silver, untitled (Bust) (Mahogany Timbermate Woodfiller). In Andrea Bubenik (Ed.), Five Centuries of Melancholia: Exhibition Catalogue (pp. 93-93) St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.

  • Time outside of time: Stuart Ringholt's Club Purple and Untitled (Clock)

    Barikin, Amelia (2014). Time outside of time: Stuart Ringholt's Club Purple and Untitled (Clock). In Charlotte Day and Robert Leonard (Ed.), Stuart Ringholt: Kraft (pp. 31-37) Melbourne, Australia: Monash University Museum of Art and Institute of Modern Art.

  • Zombie history: contemporary art in the jungles of cosmic time

    Barikin, Amelia (2014). Zombie history: contemporary art in the jungles of cosmic time. In Helen Hughes and Nicholas Croggon (Ed.), Three Reflections on Contemporary Art History (pp. 55-74) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Discipline.

  • Making worlds in art and science fiction

    Barikin, Amelia (2013). Making worlds in art and science fiction. In Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes (Ed.), Making worlds: art and science fiction (pp. 7-13) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Surpllus.

  • Selatangents: Snawklor (Nathan Gray and Dylan Martorell) in discussion with Amelia Barikin and Ferdiansyah Thajib

    Gray, Nathan, Martorell, Dylan, Barikin, Amelia and Thajib, Ferdiansyah (2013). Selatangents: Snawklor (Nathan Gray and Dylan Martorell) in discussion with Amelia Barikin and Ferdiansyah Thajib. In Anthony Gardner (Ed.), Mapping south: journeys in south-south cultural relations (pp. 349-368) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: The South Project.

  • Souvenirs du futur: du temps de l'art

    Barikin, Amelia (2013). Souvenirs du futur: du temps de l'art. In Emma Lavigne and Pierre Huyghe (Ed.), Pierre Huyghe (pp. 213-216) Paris, France: Centre Georges Pompidou.

  • Tales of the fourth dimension

    Barikin, Amelia (2013). Tales of the fourth dimension. In Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes (Ed.), Making worlds: art and science fiction (pp. 234-240) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Surpllus.

  • A short flight in a black cube

    Barikin, Amelia (2012). A short flight in a black cube. In Ishak Raafat, Tom Nicholson, Danny Lacy, Nikos Papastergiadis and Amelia Barikin (Ed.), Raafat Ishak and Tom Nicholson: proposition for a banner march and a black cube hot air balloon (pp. 13-20) Shepparton, Vic., Australia: Shepparton Art Museum.

  • Diasportal: travels in space and time

    Barikin, Amelia (2011). Diasportal: travels in space and time. In Dylan Martorell : soundtracks (pp. 1-5) Parkville, Vic., Australia: Asialink.

  • Killing time

    Douglas, Amelia (2010). Killing time. In Christopher Köller: killing time. A video retrospective (pp. 10-11) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Kings Artist Run Initiative.

  • Pierre Huyghe's science fictions

    Douglas, Amelia (2010). Pierre Huyghe's science fictions. In Centre for Contemporary Photography (Ed.), Event Horizon: Moon Souvenir Edition (pp. 3-3) Fitzroy, VIC, Australia: Centre for Contemporary Photography.

  • Wonderlands: experiencing experience. A conversation between Amelia Douglas and Tim Webster

    Douglas, Amelia (2009). Wonderlands: experiencing experience. A conversation between Amelia Douglas and Tim Webster. In Amelia Douglas (Ed.), Wonderlands: Cristo redentor (pp. 3-11) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Blindside Artist Run Space.

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • Large screens and the transnational public sphere

    Papastergiadis, Nikos, McQuire, Scott, Barikin, Amelia, Cmielewski, Cecelia, Yue, Audrey, Gibson, Ross, Cmielewski, Leon, Jones, Matt and Gu, Xin (2013). Large screens and the transnational public sphere. In: Kathy Cleland, Laura Fisher and Ross Harley, Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium of Electronic Art. ISEA2013: The 19th International Symposium of Electronic Art. Resistance is Futile, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (1-6). 7-16 June, 2013.

  • Making worlds in art and science fiction

    Barikin, Amelia (2013). Making worlds in art and science fiction. In: Kathy Cleland, Laura Fisher and Ross Harley, Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium of Electronic Art. ISEA2013: The 19th International Symposium of Electronic Art. Resistance is Futile, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (1-3). 7-16 June, 2013.

Other Outputs

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Between visuality and victorian science: aesthetics, epistemology and science in indo-mughal architectural photography 1850 - 1890

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Towards A Nuclear Aesthetics: Maralinga and the Art of Jonathan Kumintjara Brown and Yhonnie Scarce

    Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Remaking history in contemporary moving image and installation art

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • There is No Outside: How Artists Engage with Science to Collaborate with Nonhumans in the Anthropocene

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • The Working Class Illustrated Weekly: A Photojournalistic Model for the European Left

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Image of culture and self-appropriation in the art of Gordon Bennett

    Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Contemporary Aesthetics of Bark Painting

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

Completed Supervision

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