[spectre] Melentie Pandilovski - Executive Director of Experimenta in Melbourne

Fri Aug 13 20:16:13 CEST 2021

Dragi Melentie,
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13.08.2021 02:21, je Melentie Pandilovski napisal
> Dear friends,
> 
> I would like to advise you that I have accepted a role as Executive
> Director at _Experimenta _in Melbourne and that my last day with the
> Riddoch and Council will be 27 August 2021.
> I start with Experimenta on 30 August 2021.
> 
> Warmest regards,
> 
> Melentie Pandilovski
> 
> EXPERIMENTA WELCOMES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
> 
> Experimenta is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Melentie
> Pandilovski as Executive Director of Experimenta. Melentie will be
> joining the Experimenta team from 30 August 2021.
> 
> Experimenta is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Melentie
> Pandilovski as Executive Director of Experimenta. Melentie will be
> joining the Experimenta team from 30 August 2021.
> 
> Melentie has over twenty-five years of experience working in the arts
> in Australia and internationally having led successful operations and
> managed multidisciplinary teams in Australia, Canada and Europe. Most
> recently he has been the Director of the Riddoch Art Gallery and
> Manager of Arts and Cultural Development at the City of Mount Gambier,
> SA, since August 2016. His knowledge of international as well as
> Australia’s art milieu including incorporated, state, and regional
> art galleries will bring highly valued experience to the national
> reach of Experimenta’s programs.
> 
> Melentie brings a wealth of leadership experience in the arts; before
> taking up his position at Riddoch Art Gallery he was Director of Video
> Pool Media Arts Centre in Winnipeg, Canada (2011-16). Previous to that
> he was Director of the Visual Cultural Research Centre, Euro-Balkan
> Institute in Skopje, Macedonia (2009-11); Director of the Experimental
> Art Foundation in Adelaide, Australia (2003-2009), and the
> Contemporary Arts Centre in Skopje, Macedonia (1998-2003). He has
> organised and curated more than 200 projects including exhibitions,
> symposia, conferences and workshops, in Europe, Australia, Canada, and
> the U.S., such as: “International Limestone Coast Video Art
> Festival”, in 2018 and 2020, “Contestable Bodies” STELARC, in
> 2018/2019, Silent Cave|Bell, Olya Dubatova and Greg Niemeyer in 2018,
> “The Rise of Bio-Society” in 2017, “Future – Future?” Keith
> Armstrong, in 2017, "The Institute of Fungus", Ian Haig, “Age of
> Catastrophe” in 2015; “Toxicity” in 2013-14, “Marshall McLuhan
> & Vilém Flusser Communication & Aesthetics Theories Revisited”, in
> 2012; “Biotech Art – Revisited” in 2009, “SEAFair” (Skopje
> Electronic Art Fair) 1997 – 2011.
> 
> Melentie said of his appointment, “I am thrilled and honoured to be
> joining Experimenta at this pivotal time, an organisation with a
> strong international reputation for venturing in unique and uncharted
> territories. Some of the things that attracted me to Experimenta are
> its deep commitment to the development of the future of art, a culture
> of risk-taking, the perseverance in supporting media artists, and the
> belief in the transformative power of creativity. It is my great
> honour to work with Experimenta's board, staff, volunteers, and
> collaborators”.
> 
> Victoria Lynn, Experimenta Chair, said, “We are looking forward to
> Melentie bringing his extensive experience and enthusiasm to build on
> the successes we have enjoyed over thirty-five years. We are very
> pleased that Melentie will be leading the organisation in partnership
> with our Artistic Director, Jonathan Parsons as Experimenta continues
> to support the work of artists driven by technology, and lead the
> national dialogue about the impact of technology on creativity
> today”.
> 
> Melentie is also an art theorist, historian, and writer. He was Editor
> of _Art in the Biotech Era_ (2008); _Energy, Biopolitics, Resistance
> Strategies and Cultural Subversion_ (2012); _The Apparatus of Life and
> Death_ (2012). He was Consultant Editor of Artlink’s _Bio Art: Life
> in the Anthropocene_ and wrote the essay “The Biotech Species”
> (2014); he was Co-Editor of _Marshall McLuhan & Vilém Flusser
> Communication & Aesthetics Theories Revisited_ (2015). He has
> published the chapters: “Arts & Science – the Intersection
> (re)engineered” in _A Companion to Curation_, Brad Buckley and John
> Conomos (eds.), Wiley Blackwell (2019); “The Phenomenology of
> (Non)Habitual Spaces for the Bioarts” in: _Naturally
> Postnatural—Catalyst: Jennifer Willet_, Ted Hiebert (ed), Catalyst
> Book Series; “Perspectives on Living and Thinking Vectors of the
> Anthropocene” _Found Sci_ (2021) as well as “What lies behind
> modern technology? The approaches of Marshall McLuhan and Vilém
> Flusser”, _Fine Print_, Adelaide, South Australia (2018).
> 
>  Palgrave MacMillan will publish his book _The Rise of the
> Bio-Society_ in 2022.
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> _______________________
> 
> Dr Melentie Pandilovski
> Director, Riddoch Arts & Cultural Centre
> 
> Manager of Arts & Cultural Development, City of Mount Gambier
> 
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