Tracey Meziane

Tracey Meziane (nee Benson) is a cross media artist, writer and curator residing in Canberra, Australia. Since 1993 she has had 10 solo shows and she has participated in over 70 group exhibitions. Her work has been presented in the USA, Taiwan, England, Russia, Germany and Ireland as well as local and interstate exhibitions. She is currently in the final stages of a PhD project at the Centre for New Media Arts at the Australian National University.

Since 1995, she has been working creatively with the World Wide Web, focusing on developing hypertextual works and digital animations. Her digital work has been presented in many online galleries and projects including: Indahaus, Canberra Contemporary Art Space; BORDERPANIC online exhibition, The Performance Space, Sydney; Highway of Shame, CTHEORY Multimedia Issue #3: Wired Ruins, www.ctheory.net; Micromuseum, Mediaterra travelling festival 2002, www.mediaterra.org; Graffiti,www.virtual-museum.org; Experimenta media arts on-line gallery and Sciart'99. In 2001, her work toured regional galleries around Australia as part of the www.cowgrrls.com project initiated by Cooloola Shire Gallery. Her web site www.byte-time.net has been listed on the National Library of Australia's, Pandora_Archive since 2000.

Tracey has written for a range of publications and events including: Eyeline, Fine Art Forum, Mesh, BORDERPANIC reader, N5M4 and Muse. She has also been a moderator on the internationally recognised Empyre list since 2005.

In 2004, she presented a paper as part of ISEA2004, in Tallinn, Estonia and has been selected to participate in a number of international digital media events including: BOOM! Art and New Media Taiwan-Australia; AOIR 2006; Siggraph 2001; N5M4, Amsterdam 2003; MAAP’99 and MAAP2000.

In addition, Tracey also works in the Australian Government Department of Environment and Water Resources as a Web Manager and IT Project Manager.