CURRICULUM VITAE: DIN HEAGNEY

EDUCATION

2023–present, PhD candidate, School of Design & non/fictionLab, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
2018, Master of Fine Arts (Community Cultural Development). Thesis: Bridging The Unseen in Art Writing, VCA & MCM, University of Melbourne (First Class Honours).
2003, Studies in Visual Art (New Media), Swinburne, Prahran.
2000, Bachelor of Arts (Journalism), RMIT University, Melbourne.

GRANTS & AWARDS

2023–2026, RTP Research Stipend Scholarship, RMIT University, Melbourne.
2015–17, Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship, University of Melbourne. 
2015, iC2 Vislan Pilot, with Geoff Munck and Phebe Parisia, Arts Projects, City of Melbourne.
2011, Foreign Art Office, solo international project, Skills and Arts Development, Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney.
2010, Stranger Than Fiction, art fiction project, Arts Projects, City of Melbourne.

MEDIA APPEARANCES

ABC Radio National: Artworks (listen), ABC-TV Sunday Arts , SBS Radio, 3AW, Joy FM, 3RRR, The Age, The Herald-Sun, Qantas Inflight.

BOARD MEMBERSHIP & CONSULTANCY

2012–13, Consultant, Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney.
2008–12, Board member, un Projects, Melbourne.
2009–10, Selection Panel, Arts Development, Arts Victoria, Melbourne.
2009, Advisory Panel, Art Censorship Guide, NAVA, Sydney.
2008, Advisory Panel, Protocol on Artworks, City of Melbourne.
2004–06, Editorial Committee member, un Magazine, un Projects, Melbourne.

RESEARCH

2022–23, Research assistance for Prof Jules Moloney, College of Design and Social Context, RMIT University, Melbourne, Vic.
2019–21, Research, field work and book development for Kelly Koumalatsos and Museums Victoria Publishing, Carlton, Vic.
2018–19, Research assistance, design and copy editing for Dr Lily Hibberd, Parragirls, ARC DECRA, UNSW Sydney.
2016–18, Research assistance, development and copy editing for Dr James Oliver (ed.), Associations: Creative Practice and Research, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic.
2015, Research assistance for Dr Mick Douglas (ed.), Performing Mobilities – PSi#21 Fluid States, RMIT University, Melbourne, Vic.
2012, Research and field work for Simryn Gill, Eyes and Storms, NSW, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania, Australia.

EDITING & PUBLISHING

2024, Designer, PIER-A, Anonymous Migrant [AM BY DESIGN], with text by Dr Sabina Andron. Artist book.
2024, Designer, NEU KONSTRUKT 01, with texts by Dr Lachlan MacDowall, Dr Harald Hinz and Richard Keville. Artist book.
2022–23, Consultant, Garden Gathered: floral design & rural life at Riverdale Farm by Helen Leighton, Melbourne: The Flower Press.
2021–22, Consultant, Parallel City: Flash Forward: 40 Artists/40 Acts/40 Laneways, Melbourne: City of Melbourne.
2018, Designer, Tony Harold Nicholson, The Place That Had No Heart, edited by Lily Hibberd, Sydney: Parragirls.
2016, Editor, with Allison Fogarty and Ewan McEoin, Melbourne Street Art Guide, Melbourne: Thames & Hudson Australia.
2013, Managing Editor, Simryn Gill: Here art grows on trees, Catherine de Zegher (ed.), for the Australian Pavilion, 55th Biennale of Art Venice, Ghent: MER.Paper Kunsthalle.
2012, Guest Editor, Artlink: Experiment, Contemporary Art of Australia and the Asia Pacific, vol. 32 no. 3, Adelaide: Artlink.
2012, Managing Editor, all our relations: 18th Biennale of Sydney, Gerald McMaster and Catherine de Zegher (eds.), Sydney: Biennale of Sydney.
2010, Guest Editor, un Magazine, vol. 4 no. 1, with Brad Haylock, Melbourne: un Projects.
2009, Editor, Portraits From a Land Without People: A Pictorial Anthology of Indigenous Australia 1847–2008, John Ogden, Sydney: Cyclops Press.
2006–07, Editor, Making Space: Artist Run Initiatives in Victoria, Melbourne: Victorian Initiatives of Artists Network.
2000–05, Editor & Contributing Editor, Desktop: Australian Design | Digital Culture, with Glenn Moffatt, Keely Atkins and Gillian Bartlett, Melbourne: Niche Media.

ACADEMIC EDITING

2017–present, Academic Staff, MADA, Monash Art Design and Architecture, Monash University, Caulfield, Vic.
2023, Gena Lida Riess, Thesis: The Big Brother Retrospective – Unveiling Reality, Truth Claims, and the Self in Documentary Filmmaking, VCA Film & Television, University of Melbourne, Southbank, Vic.
2023, Dr Melisa Duque, PhD: Designing Homeliness: Everyday Practices of Care, Monash University, Caulfield. (Published by Routledge in 2024).
2023, Dr Enira Arvanda, PhD: Situating Intimacy: Design Framework for a Breastfeeding-Friendly City, Monash University, Caulfield.
2023, Dr Shannon Owen, PhD: Documentary Futures: harnessing hope to create alternative futures through ethically engaged documentary filmmaking encounters, Monash University, Caulfield.
2022, Dr Kate McEntee, PhD: Shifting: Ontological Orientations and Wrestling with Dominant Positionalities and Worldviews in Social Design Practices, Monash University, Caulfield.
2021–22, Dr Juliana Luna Mora, PhD: The Commodification and Cosmetification of Western Yoga As Aspirational Conscious Luxury, Monash University, Caulfield.
2017–23, Simone LeAmon, Contemporary Design and Architecture Department, NGV, Melbourne.
2016, Dr Steve Thomas, PhD: Freedom Stories: Reflexivity, collaboration & ethical documentary filmmaking, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic.
2014, Dr Andrew Goodman, PhD: Parasitic Relations/Gathering Ecologies: Thinking beyond interactivity, Monash University, Caulfield, Vic.

SELECTED WRITING

2021, Spectrum: an exploration of colour, curated by Danielle Brustman, online course essay, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
2020, Female Computers Les Calculatrices, Lily Hibberd, NIRIN: 22nd Biennale of Sydney with Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
2019, Doubleplusungood, Channels Festival: International Biennial of Video Art, festival catalogue, Melbourne.
2015–16, Gallery Magazine, features and interviews, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
2015, Designer Profiles in Rigg Design Prize 2015, Simone LeAmon (ed.), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
2015, Nature Waits For No-one, Selected Works 2005–2015, Ash Keating, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, Vic.
2015, Selected Video Works 2006–2014, Ash Keating, CACSA, Adelaide, SA.
2012-14, Artlink Magazine, features and reviews, Adelaide, SA.
2014, Natural System Response, Ash Keating, Chalk Horse, Darlinghurst, NSW.
2014, The Other Side, Kubota Fumikazu, Five Walls Projects, Footscray, Vic.
2013, The Lies of Light: Pandarosa, Andrea Pedrini, Rachel de Joode, Ash Keating, Ry David Bradley, MADA Gallery, Caulfield, Vic.
2013, Painting The West Park Proposition, Ash Keating, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne.
2013, Secrets and Surfaces: Tanja and Ben Milbourne in Urban AU II: street/art/architecture, Stattbad, Berlin, Germany, Claudia Perren and Miriam Mlecek (eds.), Carbon8, Sydney.
2013, Omnipresent Incarnate: Selby Ginn, in Personal Structures: Culture, Mind, Becoming, 55th Venice Biennale of Art, Global Art Affairs Foundation, Venice.
2012, We're All In This Together, Carly Fischer, Helen Gory Galerie, Prahran, Vic.
2002–12, Inside, Monument and Nylon design magazines, features, Melbourne & Sydney, Australia.
2010–11, The Art Life, articles and reviews, Sydney.
2011, Art21 Magazine, feature interviews, NYC, USA.
2011, Shanghai Expat, guest reviews, Shanghai, China.
2011,  Down To The Well, Simon O'Carrigan, Daine Singer, Melbourne.
2010, Rise and Fall of Street Stencils in Space Invaders, Jaklyn Babington (ed.), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
2010, Endgame, Christina Hayes, Anna Pappas Gallery, South Yarra, Vic.
2006, Art in the Melbourne Design Guide, Vivianne Stappmanns and Ewan McEoin (eds.), lab3000, Melbourne.
2005–07, Pages Digital, articles and reviews, Sydney.
2005, The Art of Nepotism in Selekta – The Real & The Unreal, Simon Maidment (ed.), West Space, Melbourne.
2004, SCAB, James Dodd, Kings ARI, Melbourne.
2003, Continuum Sombrous, Pandarosa, Organic, Kongzilla, Moth & Abattoir, Gertrude, Fitzroy, Vic.
2001–05, Desktop: Australian Design | Digital Culture, feature and profiles, Niche Media, Melbourne.
1997–00, Arts Alive, news and features, Producer: Vincent O’Donnell, Independent Media Foundation, Melbourne.

CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

2019, Talk and slideshow, Post Truth in Art, Writing and Concepts X Channels Festival, ACMI X, Southbank, Vic.
2015, Paper and walk, iC2 (VISLAN), with Geoff Munck, Performing Mobilities Conference, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, Vic.
2011, Paper and panel, ARIs: A History of Success?, We Are Here Conference, NAVA and FirstDraft Gallery, Darlinghurst, NSW.
2007–08, Workshop series, Artists in Practice, ABAF/Creative Partnerships Australia, Melbourne, Vic.
2006, Workshop and panel, RunArtistRun, Artists' Week, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Adelaide, SA.
2004, Paper and panel, Stencils of Urban Displacement, with Andy Mac and James Dodd, Fifth Australian Print Symposium, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

COURSE DESIGN & IMPLEMENTATION

Monash University, (MADA) Monash Art, Design and Architecture – Master of Design
2018–20, Unit Coordinator, TAD5500 Exegesis
2017–19, Unit Coordinator, TAD4523 Design Research Methods

RMIT University, School of Architecture and Urban Design – Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours)
2017, Tutor, ARCH1289 Specialisation: Representing Space

RMIT University, School of Design – Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours)
2014–18, Lecturer, GRAP1041 Design in Society: Gender in Design – Masculinities
2015–16, Coordinator, GRAP1040 Industrial Design Honours: Exposition
2015, Design Studio, GRAP1034 The Herbarium, studio with Sophie Gaur
2014, Design Studio, GRAP1034 Design as Narrative, studio with Simone LeAmon

TUTORING & SUPERVISING

Monash University, Monash Art, Design and Architecture – Bachelor of Design
2017–18, Tutor, TDN2001 Sociologies of Design
2017, Tutor, TAD2214 Critical Issues in Design.

University of Melbourne – Bachelor of Arts (general elective)
2016, Assessor, CCDP20001 Street Art Studies.

RMIT University, School of Architecture and Design – Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours)
2016, Supervisor, GRAP2290 Industrial Design (Honours) Major Project.

RMIT University, School of Art – Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours)
2007–09, Guest lecturer, VART3620 Professional Practice.

CURATORIAL

2017–18, Curator, Centenary 1918–2018, Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia, The Langham, Melbourne.
2006–10, Co-Director with Anita King, Platform Artists Group Inc., operations, annual program, residencies and projects, various partnerships with festivals including Melbourne Fringe, Next Wave and Melbourne Fashion. 
2009, Curator, Underground Gardens, Melbourne Food & Wine Festival, Platform, Melbourne
2009, Curator, UQ, Midsumma Festival, Platform, Melbourne.
2008, Curator, Artist-Run Initiatives in the City of Melbourne, with Phip Murray and Mark Feary, Art Melbourne, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, Vic.
2005–07, Curator, BOX Art Space, Floate Design Partners, Melbourne. 

EXHIBITION & PERFORMANCE

2017, Group exhibition, Waiting Room, with Ivana Kasic, First Site 21st Anniversary Exhibition, curated by Simon Pericich, First Site Gallery, Melbourne.
2013, Poetry readings with mezzo soprano Anna Pangalou & curator Adonis Volanakis, Mykonos Biennale: Crisis and Paganism, Venieri Mansion, Mykonos, Greece.
2011, Art fiction readings, The Things I Never Told You, City of Melbourne Arts Projects, West Space, Melbourne.
2007, Installation, AUSTRALIEN, PB Gallery, Prahran, Vic.
2003–05, Set design, various productions, Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre, St Kilda, Vic.
2004, Installation, Hardcore Foamcore, with Luke Warm & Amy Leeworthy, PB Gallery, Prahran, Vic. 
2004–05, Installer, various exhibitions, PB Gallery, Swinburne, Prahran, Vic.
2003–05, Installer, invigilator & events for various exhibitions, ACCA, Melbourne.
2000, Performance, ‘Lewis’ in Cosi by Louis Nowra, Directed by Camille Heagney, Northcote, Vic.
1997, Installation, White Room, RMIT First Site, Melbourne.
1996, Performance, Phallocentury, with sculpture by Gigi Panapoulos, RMIT, Melbourne.
1995, Performance, ‘Fred’ in Saved by Edward Bond, Directed by Lynne Ellis, Kaleide, RMIT, Melbourne.