About the artist

Bernadette Flynn is a media artist, curator and researcher.  She has worked in the UK and Australia exploring the language of visual expression and interactivity across multiple screen and projection environments. She was a pioneer of early community video art practice when portable video was first introduced in London and co-founded ‘Women in Sync’ a women’s video resource centre.

In Australia, Bernadette has produced videos and digital media environments and studied production management and lighting at the Australian, Film, Television and Radio School. She has managed a range of projection events and exhibitions with major cultural institutions and museums, and in shop fronts. Until 2009, she worked as a lecturer in media and cultural studies at Griffith University where she helped set up a Bachelor of Multi-Media and was responsible for the creative direction of digital media courses in games, compositing and interactive media.

Bernadette has published extensively on digital culture and interaction media (Routledge, MIT Press, Inderscience) with a focus on embodiment and visitor experience. She developed Spaces of Mnajdra at the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research and in 2012 graduated with a PhD in Cultural Heritage and Media Arts from The University of New South Wales.