Linda Wallace is a media artist. Recently she was artist-in-residence at the
Netherlands Insitute for MediaArt (Montevideo/Time Based Arts). Her new work
LivingTomorrow launched on March 11 2005 in the Montevideo gallery. It has subsequently shown in Novi Sad, Darwin and Basel, and in early 2007 will be shown in Berlin.
In late 2004 she was awarded a doctorate from the Australian National University (completed on scholarship from the Advanced Computational Systems Co-operative Research Centre).see material media: artefacts from a digital age
She holds a BA Communications from the University of Technology, Sydney; and a Master of Fine Arts (research) from University of New South Wales.
Since 1994 Wallace has curated new media exhibitions in Thailand, India, the UK, Singapore and Malaysia. Recent exhibitions include PROBE at the Australian Embassy, Beijing, China in 1999, hybridlifeforms in Amsterdam in 2000, and ::contagion:: Australian Media Art @ the Centenary of Federation 2001 at the New Zealand Film Archive, Wellington. (link to recent exhibits)
Wallace has exhibited video and installation works in Australia and internationally. entanglements was installed as part of the 2004 Biennial of Australian Art. The video lovehotel (2000) won an honorary mention at the 13º Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, won first prize at the L'immagine leggera festival in Italy and received an honorable mention in the Life .3 competition, Madrid. lovehotel is currently touring the United States, Scotland and England, and has been widely selected for international competition. eurovision (2001) has shown in Australia, New Zealand and Germany and was nominated for the Berlin transmediale image award.
Wallace co-founded the magazine 21C in 1990 as part of the media unit of the Australian Government think tank the Commission for the Future, and has written for The Australian, The Bulletin, Vogue, Art and Text, Perspecta, the Sydney Biennale, Real Time, Artforce, Artlink, Electronic Arts In Australia and Photofile.
Wallace is the director of machine hunger. The company has co-ordinated projects in Sydney, Canberra, Amsterdam, Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Thailand, Austria, Hungary, China and the UK. Clients include: Digital Equipment Corporation, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Australia Council, the Australian Film Commission, CSIRO, and the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing. In February 1998 the company produced a series of marketing tools for the Australia Council, including a video and the publication "embodying the information age".
In 1997 machine hunger curated and co-ordinated one of the largest selections of Australian new media work to ever leave Australia, as part of the Video Positive event in Liverpool and Manchester in the UK, aliens.au.
In 1996 machine hunger produced a video for the Australia India New Horizons event for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, featuring the work of artists working with new technologies and these artists talking about their work.
In 1995 machine hunger co-ordinated Voyage: a journey into the Australian televisual imagination featuring computer graphics, multimedia and video art for the CeBIT Information Technology event in Hannover, Germany, for CSIRO and the IR&D Board.
Wallace has worked in corporate communications for the Commission for the Future, where she conceptualised the magazine 21C; then as communications manager for Ms Susan Ryan, AO, and for the Division of Information Technology, CSIRO.