About

Mark Guglielmetti is a Melbourne based artist exploring cultural identity in our rapidly transforming world. Using techniques developed in computer science and machine learning Guglielmetti invites people to have a deeply person al engagement with computer systems by creating work that records the trace of human experience then re-expresses these traces through these systems.

Guglielmetti’s recent works explores the contemporary trend to negotiate our experience of the world through digital media systems that collect our personal data. Ironically, as these media systems become more deeply integrated into our daily lives the more our compassion for life is marginalised and erased. In this, Guglielmetti attempts to capture and illuminate the human condition through the contemporary media-scape. Guglielmetti’s work continues to build on his interests in mapping the human experience and how we record our transient existence through the traces we leave behind.

Guglielmetti earned a PhD in Visual Art in 2012 for his examination of artificial life as a contemporary artefact in image making and not through the domain of computer science. The culmination of this research built on the artists’ studio-led research practice into the digitally mediated reconfiguring human in a Master of Arts degree exploring visual perception, completed in 2004.

Guglielmetti’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including ISEA2011 Istanbul, Ars Electronica 2004 Austria, Biennial of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP) 2004, the Melbourne International Film Festival 2001, and showcased at the Architectural Biennial in Beijing 2004 and in “Australian Screen Culture”, at the Barbican in London 2004 and Centre Pompidou in 2003. 

Guglielmetti is widely published in the journals, Leonardo, Computers in Entertainment (ACM), and the Philosophy of Photography, and has presented at numerous conferences in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia including the SIGGRAPH Asia, Transdiscplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture Conference, Vital Signs at ACMI, Re-live (History of Media, Art Science and Technology) Conference, ISEA2011 Istanbul and SC10 (Super Computing 2010) New Orleans.