The Video Artist:
Ian Haig works at the intersection of visual arts and media arts. He works predominantly in hybrid installation art and video. Recently he completed a long form video work ‘Chronicles of the new human organism’ (50 mins) on the theme of human transformation.
His work has been exhibited in galleries and video/media festivals around the world. Including exhibitions at: The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; The Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide; The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Artec Biennale – Nagoya, Japan; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Art Museum of China, Beijing, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne and The Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles. In addition his animation and video work have screened in over 120 Festivals internationally. In 2003 he received a fellowship from the New Media Arts Board of the Australia Council. He is currently undertaking a PHD on the topic of disgust, abjection and the uncanny in media art practice.
The Video Art:
Paul McCarthy Wiki – Paul McCarthy entry on Wikipedia
Paul McCarthy Ubu – Paul McCarthy entry on Ubu.net
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Next week on AAVA: Jessie Scott, editor of this blog (and coincidentally, Video Artist), talks Double Dutch and the Democratization of Media.
Picture Skew 
very relieved to find it wasn’t the Paul McCarthy I first pictured.
loved the talk
this guy? http://paulmccarthy.com.au/ He’s pretty great too, in his own special way 😉