Contact: xanthe.dobbie@gmail.com
Xanthe Dobbie is an Australian artist and filmmaker based in Naarm, Melbourne. Working across on- and offline modes of making, their practice aims to capture the experience of contemporaneity as reflected through queer and feminist ideologies. Drawing on humour, pop, sex, history and iconography, they develop shrines to a post-truth era.
Education:
2024 | PhD (School of Design), RMIT University, (Commenced 2021 - Current), Melbourne VIC
2019 | Master of Arts Screen (Film Editing), Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), Sydney NSW
2013 | Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), RMIT University, Melbourne VIC
2012 | Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing), RMIT University, Melbourne VIC
2019 | Master of Arts Screen (Film Editing), Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), Sydney NSW
2013 | Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), RMIT University, Melbourne VIC
2012 | Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing), RMIT University, Melbourne VIC
Selected Exhibitions:
2024 | Image, Interrupted, Curated by Eleanor Zeichner, UTS Gallery, Ultimo NSW
2023 | Steamed Hams, Curated by Chelsea Nichols, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
2023 | EIDOLON, Solo Exhibition curated by Brie Trennery, Video Space, MARS Gallery, Windsor VIC
2023 | Substation Art Sale, Fundraising Exhbition, Substation, Newport VIC
2023 | Incinerator Art Award, Prize Exhibition, Incinerator Gallery, Aberfeldie VIC
2023 | Matrix Re-Loaded, Solo Exhibition, RMIT First Site Gallery, Melbourne VIC
2023 | Playroom, Group Show curated by Dae Knight and Zoë Sydney, BLINDSDIE, Melbourne VIC
2023 | Cloud Copy, Solo Exhibition, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore NSW
2022 | The Long Now, Commission for Gallery 5 (online), ACMI, Melbourne VIC
2022 | Viral Bodies, Curated by Ian Sinclair, The Bearded Tit, Sydney NSW
2022 | Risographomania, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville QLD
2021 | Don’t Be Evil, Curated by Anna Briers, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
2021 | EIDOLON, Commissioned for Shortwave (Online), Sydney Opera House, Sydney NSW
2021 | Illuminating and Ultimate Gray, AR Project Commissioned by City of Parramatta, Parrammata Lanes NSW
2021 | Real Things, Commissioned for CADS #3: Queer Desires (Online), Curated by Vilde M. Horvei & Ilavenil Vasuky Jayapalan, Munch Museum, Oslo Norway
2021 | The Multiverse, Curated by Charlotte Christie, Bundoora Homestead, Bundoora VIC
2020 | Conflict in My Outlook_We Met Online, Curated by Anna Briers (Online), UQ Art Museum, Brisbane QLD
2020 | PLEASUREDOME, or, A vision in a Dream. A Fragment. Performed online for interactive livestream, created with Harriet Gillies in collaboration with Marcus Whale and Solomon Thomas, Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney NSW
2020 | A Network of Gestures, Curated by Mary Louise Carbone (Online), GPG Project Spaces, Melbourne VIC
2020 | For Your Pleasure, Curated by ellen.gif & mck3nz, TikTok Exhibition (Online), Sydney NSW
2020 | Desktop Holiday, Curated by Claire Anna Watson (Online), NETS Victoria Touring Program, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Mornington VIC
2020 | Double Adapter, Curated by Louise Meuwissen, MARS Gallery, NGV Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne VIC
2019 | Potential Space, Curated by Kathleen Linn and Sarah Hibbs, Kennards Self Storage Ultimo, Sydney NSW
2019 | Finding Cntrl, 'Living Coral', online interactive publication for Nesta, London UK
2019 | Widgets and Doohickies from a Camp toolbox, Curated by Dr Alison Bennet & Dr Ray Cook, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne VIC
2019 | ARTBAR February 2019, Curated by Lara Merrett, Contribution to Claire Field's FavourEconomy, MCA, Sydney NSW
2019 | Black Box Experiment, Performance experiment with QueerTech.io, Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC
2018 | Yeah/Nah, curated by Miranda Jill Millen, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne VIC
2018 | Artivisms Now, curated by Brigid Hansen, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo VIC
2018 | Black Box Experiment, WebGL Installation for QueerTech.io, Testing Grounds and Online for Experimenta Social, Melbourne VIC
2018 | B-Side, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne VIC
2018 | 2Q18, curated by The Wandering Room, Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC
2018 | QUEERTECH.IO = ART (IRV, URL), RMIT Project Space - Spare Room Gallery, Melbourne VIC
2017 | Desktop Holiday, The Ferry Gallery, Bangkok Thailand
2017 | BSIDE, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne VIC
2017 | our selves, Curated by Frances Fleetwood, Ctrl+Shift Collective, Oakland CA USA
2017 | Undergarments, Curated by ellen.gif and Andriana Carney, 107 Projects, Sydney NSW
2017 | Another Space, Curated by Yandell Wanton for The Centre of Projection Art, Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC
2017 | Femmosphere, Curated by Coral Short, Schwules Museum, Berlin Germany
2017 | The Act of Showing, Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC
2017 | Deep Trash: Royal Trash, CUNTemporary, London GB
2017 | Ecosex, Altes Finanzamt, Neukölln, Berlin Germany
2017 | Summer '40, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne VIC
2017 | QueerTech.io, BLINDSIDE's PLAY2, Federation Square Big Screen, Melbourne VIC
2016 | One Million Views, collaboration with Tiyan Baker, Next Wave Festival, North Melbourne VIC
2016 | Arts House Summertime Party, Arts House, North Melbourne VIC
2016 | Heaps Xmasy Carpark Party, Heaps Gay, Sydney NSW
2016 | Bedroom Suckers, Besser Space, Collingwood VIC
2015 | Xanthe Dobbie for Grey Gardens, Grey Gardens, Fitzroy VIC
2015 | One Night Stand 2015, Coalesce ARI, Melbourne VIC
2014 | Heavenly Bodies: Altered Pieces, John Buckley Gallery, Windsor VIC
2014 | Curtain Call: The Rough End of the Pineapple, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne VIC
2014 | Play Me, Project Q.U.A.D, Southgate Cinema, Melbourne VIC
2014 | Future Strategies, Project Space, RMIT University, Carlton VIC
2014 | Launch, Brunswick Arts Space, Brunswick VIC
2013 | Oh, The Spectacular Stupidity Of It All, Kings ARI, Melbourne VIC
2013 | Close to 200; RMIT Honours Graduate Exhibition, RMIT University VIC
2013 | Repeat Offender, Bayside Arts Centre, Bayside VIC
2012 | Drawing, Painting, Media Arts; Expanded Studio Practice Graduate Exhibition, RMIT University, Melbourne VIC
2023 | Queer Powerpoint, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, WA Museum Boola Bardip, Perth WA
2023 | Q-Point, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, presented with Homopleasure for Trans Pride Taiwan, Grey Area, Taipei Taiwan
2023 | Queer Powerpoint, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, Now or Never Festival, Melbourne VIC
2023 | Queer Powerpoint, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, RISING Festival, Melbourne VIC
2023 | Queer Powerpoint, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, Sydney World Pride, UTS, Sydney NSW
2023 | Feminazi, Video Design, Written by Laneikka Denne, Directed by Danielle Maas, Belvoire 25A, Sydney NSW
2022 | Eugene, Video Design an Creative Collaboration, Co-Created by Eliza Scott and Danielle Micich, Force Majeure & NIDA, Sydney NSW
2022 | Queer Powerpoint, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, WA Museum Boola Bardip, Perth WA
2022 | Queer Powerpoint, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, Pleasures Playhouse, Sydney NSW
2022 | RISING, Digtial Interactive Design and Mentorship on ‘8/8/8’ by Harriet Gillies & Marcus McKenzie, Schoolhouse Studios, Melbourne VIC
2022 | Queer Powerpoint, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, Sydney Biennale: Rīvus, MCA, Sydney NSW
2022 | Queerstories, Presenter, Murwillumbah NSW
2021 | Queer Powerpoint, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, 107 Projects, Sydney NSW
2021 | Sydney Festival, ‘PLEASUREDOME’ performed online for interactive livestream, created with Harriet Gillies in collaboration with Marcus Whale and Solomon Thomas, Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney NSW
2020 | ‘Club Blue’ Live Desktop Performance for Club.Art, Melboure Fringe, Melbourne VIC
2019 | The Power of The Holy Spirit, Multi-Media Design for Harriet Gillies, Melbourne Fringe, Melbourne VIC
2023 | Steamed Hams, Curated by Chelsea Nichols, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
2023 | EIDOLON, Solo Exhibition curated by Brie Trennery, Video Space, MARS Gallery, Windsor VIC
2023 | Substation Art Sale, Fundraising Exhbition, Substation, Newport VIC
2023 | Incinerator Art Award, Prize Exhibition, Incinerator Gallery, Aberfeldie VIC
2023 | Matrix Re-Loaded, Solo Exhibition, RMIT First Site Gallery, Melbourne VIC
2023 | Playroom, Group Show curated by Dae Knight and Zoë Sydney, BLINDSDIE, Melbourne VIC
2023 | Cloud Copy, Solo Exhibition, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore NSW
2022 | The Long Now, Commission for Gallery 5 (online), ACMI, Melbourne VIC
2022 | Viral Bodies, Curated by Ian Sinclair, The Bearded Tit, Sydney NSW
2022 | Risographomania, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville QLD
2021 | Don’t Be Evil, Curated by Anna Briers, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
2021 | EIDOLON, Commissioned for Shortwave (Online), Sydney Opera House, Sydney NSW
2021 | Illuminating and Ultimate Gray, AR Project Commissioned by City of Parramatta, Parrammata Lanes NSW
2021 | Real Things, Commissioned for CADS #3: Queer Desires (Online), Curated by Vilde M. Horvei & Ilavenil Vasuky Jayapalan, Munch Museum, Oslo Norway
2021 | The Multiverse, Curated by Charlotte Christie, Bundoora Homestead, Bundoora VIC
2020 | Conflict in My Outlook_We Met Online, Curated by Anna Briers (Online), UQ Art Museum, Brisbane QLD
2020 | PLEASUREDOME, or, A vision in a Dream. A Fragment. Performed online for interactive livestream, created with Harriet Gillies in collaboration with Marcus Whale and Solomon Thomas, Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney NSW
2020 | A Network of Gestures, Curated by Mary Louise Carbone (Online), GPG Project Spaces, Melbourne VIC
2020 | For Your Pleasure, Curated by ellen.gif & mck3nz, TikTok Exhibition (Online), Sydney NSW
2020 | Desktop Holiday, Curated by Claire Anna Watson (Online), NETS Victoria Touring Program, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Mornington VIC
2020 | Double Adapter, Curated by Louise Meuwissen, MARS Gallery, NGV Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne VIC
2019 | Potential Space, Curated by Kathleen Linn and Sarah Hibbs, Kennards Self Storage Ultimo, Sydney NSW
2019 | Finding Cntrl, 'Living Coral', online interactive publication for Nesta, London UK
2019 | Widgets and Doohickies from a Camp toolbox, Curated by Dr Alison Bennet & Dr Ray Cook, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne VIC
2019 | ARTBAR February 2019, Curated by Lara Merrett, Contribution to Claire Field's FavourEconomy, MCA, Sydney NSW
2019 | Black Box Experiment, Performance experiment with QueerTech.io, Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC
2018 | Yeah/Nah, curated by Miranda Jill Millen, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne VIC
2018 | Artivisms Now, curated by Brigid Hansen, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo VIC
2018 | Black Box Experiment, WebGL Installation for QueerTech.io, Testing Grounds and Online for Experimenta Social, Melbourne VIC
2018 | B-Side, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne VIC
2018 | 2Q18, curated by The Wandering Room, Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC
2018 | QUEERTECH.IO = ART (IRV, URL), RMIT Project Space - Spare Room Gallery, Melbourne VIC
2017 | Desktop Holiday, The Ferry Gallery, Bangkok Thailand
2017 | BSIDE, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne VIC
2017 | our selves, Curated by Frances Fleetwood, Ctrl+Shift Collective, Oakland CA USA
2017 | Undergarments, Curated by ellen.gif and Andriana Carney, 107 Projects, Sydney NSW
2017 | Another Space, Curated by Yandell Wanton for The Centre of Projection Art, Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC
2017 | Femmosphere, Curated by Coral Short, Schwules Museum, Berlin Germany
2017 | The Act of Showing, Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC
2017 | Deep Trash: Royal Trash, CUNTemporary, London GB
2017 | Ecosex, Altes Finanzamt, Neukölln, Berlin Germany
2017 | Summer '40, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne VIC
2017 | QueerTech.io, BLINDSIDE's PLAY2, Federation Square Big Screen, Melbourne VIC
2016 | One Million Views, collaboration with Tiyan Baker, Next Wave Festival, North Melbourne VIC
2016 | Arts House Summertime Party, Arts House, North Melbourne VIC
2016 | Heaps Xmasy Carpark Party, Heaps Gay, Sydney NSW
2016 | Bedroom Suckers, Besser Space, Collingwood VIC
2015 | Xanthe Dobbie for Grey Gardens, Grey Gardens, Fitzroy VIC
2015 | One Night Stand 2015, Coalesce ARI, Melbourne VIC
2014 | Heavenly Bodies: Altered Pieces, John Buckley Gallery, Windsor VIC
2014 | Curtain Call: The Rough End of the Pineapple, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne VIC
2014 | Play Me, Project Q.U.A.D, Southgate Cinema, Melbourne VIC
2014 | Future Strategies, Project Space, RMIT University, Carlton VIC
2014 | Launch, Brunswick Arts Space, Brunswick VIC
2013 | Oh, The Spectacular Stupidity Of It All, Kings ARI, Melbourne VIC
2013 | Close to 200; RMIT Honours Graduate Exhibition, RMIT University VIC
2013 | Repeat Offender, Bayside Arts Centre, Bayside VIC
2012 | Drawing, Painting, Media Arts; Expanded Studio Practice Graduate Exhibition, RMIT University, Melbourne VIC
Expanded Theatre & Performance:
2023 | Queer Powerpoint Ft. Jack Halberstam, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, in partnership with The Power Institute and Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Seymour Centre, Sydney NSW2023 | Queer Powerpoint, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, WA Museum Boola Bardip, Perth WA
2023 | Q-Point, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, presented with Homopleasure for Trans Pride Taiwan, Grey Area, Taipei Taiwan
2023 | Queer Powerpoint, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, Now or Never Festival, Melbourne VIC
2023 | Queer Powerpoint, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, RISING Festival, Melbourne VIC
2023 | Queer Powerpoint, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, Sydney World Pride, UTS, Sydney NSW
2023 | Feminazi, Video Design, Written by Laneikka Denne, Directed by Danielle Maas, Belvoire 25A, Sydney NSW
2022 | Eugene, Video Design an Creative Collaboration, Co-Created by Eliza Scott and Danielle Micich, Force Majeure & NIDA, Sydney NSW
2022 | Queer Powerpoint, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, WA Museum Boola Bardip, Perth WA
2022 | Queer Powerpoint, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, Pleasures Playhouse, Sydney NSW
2022 | RISING, Digtial Interactive Design and Mentorship on ‘8/8/8’ by Harriet Gillies & Marcus McKenzie, Schoolhouse Studios, Melbourne VIC
2022 | Queer Powerpoint, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, Sydney Biennale: Rīvus, MCA, Sydney NSW
2022 | Queerstories, Presenter, Murwillumbah NSW
2021 | Queer Powerpoint, Host and Presenter, Co-Created with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth, 107 Projects, Sydney NSW
2021 | Sydney Festival, ‘PLEASUREDOME’ performed online for interactive livestream, created with Harriet Gillies in collaboration with Marcus Whale and Solomon Thomas, Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney NSW
2020 | ‘Club Blue’ Live Desktop Performance for Club.Art, Melboure Fringe, Melbourne VIC
2019 | The Power of The Holy Spirit, Multi-Media Design for Harriet Gillies, Melbourne Fringe, Melbourne VIC
Festival Installations:
2021 | Brunswick Music Festival, commissioned site-specific projection ‘Polyptych of Becoming’, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Brunswick VIC
2019 | Midsumma Festival, QueerTech.io, IRL/URL exhibition, Melbourne VIC
2018 | Midsumma Festival QueerTech.io, IRL/URL exhibition, launched at Midsumma Carnival, Melbourne VIC
2017 | Channels Festival Autofiction, Substation, Newport VIC
2017 | GLOW Festival, Curated by the Centre for Projection Art, City of Stonnington, Prahran VIC
2017 | For Films Sake, One Million Views at FFS Festival, Sydney NSW
2017 | Queeriot, Selection of QueerTech works for Festival, Graz Austria
2017 | Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, QueerTech.io Installation, Heaps Gay, Sydney NSW
2017 | MELT Festival, QueerTech.io Installation Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane QLD
2017 | Midsumma Festival, QueerTech.io Installation, Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC
2016 | Paradise Music Festival, Lake Mountain Alpine Resort, Marysville VIC
2016 | Emerging Writers Festival 2016, Lifted Brow Art Show, Melbourne VIC
2016 | MMW16: Heaps Gay Heaps Yummy, Melbourne Music Week, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne VIC
2015 | Channels Festival, Proxemics, Online Exhbition, Melbourne VIC
2014 | Next Wave 2014, Reality Codes, Next Wave Festival Club, Melbourne VIC
2013 | Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Kansas Anymore, GSPF Hub, Fitzroy VIC
2023 | Conflict of Interest, Co-Curated with Sidney McMahon, Artbank, Sydney NSW
2023 | Queer PowerPoint, Co-Curated and Co-Founded with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth (since 2021), 107 Projects, MCA, Pleasures Playhouss, WA Museum Boola Bardip, Perth WA, RISING Festival
2019 | QueerTech.io, IRL URL exhibition curated with Dr Alison Bennet, Dr Travis Cox & J. Rosenbaum in partnership with Midsumma, ACMI & Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC
2018 | New Intimacies, New Works from EO Gill and Sandrine Deumier, BLINDSIDE Satellite, Federation Square, Melb; Bunjil Place, Narre Warren; Harmony Square, Dandenong; Liverpool, Syd.
2018 | QueerTech.io, IRL URL exhibition curated with Dr Alison Bennet & Dr Travis Cox in partnership with Midsumma, ACMI, RMIT & Testing Grounds, Melnourne VIC
2017 | QueerTech.io, curated with Dr Alison Bennet, Dr Travis Cox, and Mark Payne, Midsumma (VIC), BLINDSIDE PLAY2, MELT (QLD), Mardi Gras (NSW)
2016 | Bedroom Suckers, curator, Besser Space, Collingwood VIC
2016 | Debut XII, co-curator, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne VIC
2015 | Screen Series: Displaced Agency, co-curator, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne VIC
2015 | Debut XI, co-curator, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne VIC
2014 | BLINDSIDE Festival; Meet the Public, co-curator, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne VIC
2014 | Screen Series: Autonomy, co-curator, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne VIC
2014 | Debut X, co-curator, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne VIC
2023 | Principles of Play 2, Video Game Theory Subject, Tutor, RMIT University School of Design (Games), Melbourne VIC
2023 | Digital Bleed; Experimental Screen Practice, Studio Subject, Lead Teacher, RMIT University School of Design (Digital Media), Melbourne VIC
2023 | Fine Art Honours, Honours Program Supervision, RMIT University School of Art, Melbourne VIC
2023 | Fine Art Video & Sound, First Year Studio Subject, Teacher, RMIT University School of Art, Melbourne VIC
2022 | Glitch: Interuption, Disturbance & Malfunction, Workshop Subject, Lead Teacher, Writer of All Subject Content, RMIT University School of Art, Melbourne VIC
2022 | Artist Mentor, Centre for Projection Art, Collingwood, Melbourne VIC
2022 | Exegetical Writing & Online Research Methodology, Guest Lecturer, multiple lectures 2020 - 22, Australian Film Television & Radio School (AFTRS), Sydney NSW
2019 | QueerTech.io Youth Workshop: Creating Internet Art, Key Artist/ Facilitator, presented in partnership with Midsumma Festival and ACMI, Melbourne VIC
2018 | QueerTech 360: VR & 360 Worshop, Lead Artist, presented in partnership with SIGNAL & Queer Space Youth, Melbourne VIC
2017 | Artist Mentor, SIGNAL Screen Commissions, SIGNAL (City of Melbourne), Melbourne VIC
2019 | Midsumma Festival, QueerTech.io, IRL/URL exhibition, Melbourne VIC
2018 | Midsumma Festival QueerTech.io, IRL/URL exhibition, launched at Midsumma Carnival, Melbourne VIC
2017 | Channels Festival Autofiction, Substation, Newport VIC
2017 | GLOW Festival, Curated by the Centre for Projection Art, City of Stonnington, Prahran VIC
2017 | For Films Sake, One Million Views at FFS Festival, Sydney NSW
2017 | Queeriot, Selection of QueerTech works for Festival, Graz Austria
2017 | Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, QueerTech.io Installation, Heaps Gay, Sydney NSW
2017 | MELT Festival, QueerTech.io Installation Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane QLD
2017 | Midsumma Festival, QueerTech.io Installation, Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC
2016 | Paradise Music Festival, Lake Mountain Alpine Resort, Marysville VIC
2016 | Emerging Writers Festival 2016, Lifted Brow Art Show, Melbourne VIC
2016 | MMW16: Heaps Gay Heaps Yummy, Melbourne Music Week, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne VIC
2015 | Channels Festival, Proxemics, Online Exhbition, Melbourne VIC
2014 | Next Wave 2014, Reality Codes, Next Wave Festival Club, Melbourne VIC
2013 | Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Kansas Anymore, GSPF Hub, Fitzroy VIC
Curatorial Projects:
2023 | Runway Journal: GHOST, Edition 46, Guest Editor, digital journal, Sydney NSW2023 | Conflict of Interest, Co-Curated with Sidney McMahon, Artbank, Sydney NSW
2023 | Queer PowerPoint, Co-Curated and Co-Founded with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth (since 2021), 107 Projects, MCA, Pleasures Playhouss, WA Museum Boola Bardip, Perth WA, RISING Festival
2019 | QueerTech.io, IRL URL exhibition curated with Dr Alison Bennet, Dr Travis Cox & J. Rosenbaum in partnership with Midsumma, ACMI & Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC
2018 | New Intimacies, New Works from EO Gill and Sandrine Deumier, BLINDSIDE Satellite, Federation Square, Melb; Bunjil Place, Narre Warren; Harmony Square, Dandenong; Liverpool, Syd.
2018 | QueerTech.io, IRL URL exhibition curated with Dr Alison Bennet & Dr Travis Cox in partnership with Midsumma, ACMI, RMIT & Testing Grounds, Melnourne VIC
2017 | QueerTech.io, curated with Dr Alison Bennet, Dr Travis Cox, and Mark Payne, Midsumma (VIC), BLINDSIDE PLAY2, MELT (QLD), Mardi Gras (NSW)
2016 | Bedroom Suckers, curator, Besser Space, Collingwood VIC
2016 | Debut XII, co-curator, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne VIC
2015 | Screen Series: Displaced Agency, co-curator, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne VIC
2015 | Debut XI, co-curator, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne VIC
2014 | BLINDSIDE Festival; Meet the Public, co-curator, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne VIC
2014 | Screen Series: Autonomy, co-curator, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne VIC
2014 | Debut X, co-curator, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne VIC
Teaching, Workshops & Mentorship:
2023 | Eco-Visionaries, Art History Subject, Tutor, RMIT University School of Art (Art History), Melbourne VIC2023 | Principles of Play 2, Video Game Theory Subject, Tutor, RMIT University School of Design (Games), Melbourne VIC
2023 | Digital Bleed; Experimental Screen Practice, Studio Subject, Lead Teacher, RMIT University School of Design (Digital Media), Melbourne VIC
2023 | Fine Art Honours, Honours Program Supervision, RMIT University School of Art, Melbourne VIC
2023 | Fine Art Video & Sound, First Year Studio Subject, Teacher, RMIT University School of Art, Melbourne VIC
2022 | Glitch: Interuption, Disturbance & Malfunction, Workshop Subject, Lead Teacher, Writer of All Subject Content, RMIT University School of Art, Melbourne VIC
2022 | Artist Mentor, Centre for Projection Art, Collingwood, Melbourne VIC
2022 | Exegetical Writing & Online Research Methodology, Guest Lecturer, multiple lectures 2020 - 22, Australian Film Television & Radio School (AFTRS), Sydney NSW
2019 | QueerTech.io Youth Workshop: Creating Internet Art, Key Artist/ Facilitator, presented in partnership with Midsumma Festival and ACMI, Melbourne VIC
2018 | QueerTech 360: VR & 360 Worshop, Lead Artist, presented in partnership with SIGNAL & Queer Space Youth, Melbourne VIC
2017 | Artist Mentor, SIGNAL Screen Commissions, SIGNAL (City of Melbourne), Melbourne VIC
Panels and Talks:
2023 | ART + FILM: Xanthe Dobbie & V Barratt, Presentation, Screening and Live interview with V Barratt, ACMI, Melbourne VIC
2023 | Artificial Intelligence in Creative Industries and Practice, Panelist with Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Dr. Nina Rajcic, Benjamin Duff, and James Purtill, Australia Council for the Arts (online)
2022 | Art, AI and Digital Ethics, Panelist with Vanessa Bartlet, Sean Dockray, Katrina Sluis, ANAT Spectra: Multiplicity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne VIC
2021 | Google Is My Primary Partner, Spotlight Talk, Digital Intimacies #7 Symposium, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD
2021 | The Queer Lens, Panelist with Wesley Dowling, Liam Power & Drew Pettifer, Bunjil Place in partnership with Melbourne Media Lab, Narre Warren VIC
2020 | Talking Digital Art, Desktop Presenter, VCR Fest (Online), Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne VIC
2020 | PHOTO LIVE: QueerTechIO and Rosa Menkman, Presenter with QueerTech.io (Online), PHOTO 2021 Extended Program, Melbourne VIC
2019 | Experimental Video within the Gallery, Presenter, as part of Adobe Presents: The Big Picture Filmmaker Development Program for St Kilda Film Festival 2019, St Kilda VIC
2019 | Dancing Queens: Queer Potentials, panelist, Simona Castricum, Mama Alto and Xanthe Dobbie in conversation with Alison Bennett, Dancehouse, Melbourne VIC
2018 | Humour, Queer Bodies & Pop Culture, Panelist, With Dr Quinn Eades & Brigid Hansen, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo VIC
2018 | The View From NYC: Digital Futures and Emerging Cultures, Curated Guest Speaker, With Kelani Nichols & Kelli Alred, ACMI, Melbourne VIC
2018 | Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, Curated Guest Speaker - Digital Collage: The Future is Now, ACMI, Melbourne VIC
2018 | ACMI Art + Film: QueerTech.io, Panelist, ACMI, Melbourne VIC
2018 | Midsumma Australia Post Art Prize, Artist Talk, No Vacancy Q.V. Melbourne VIC
2018 | Queer Some Space - Art and Literature, Panelist, Curated by Kate McKenzie, Chaired by Annabel Brady-Brown with Adolfo Aranjuez, Mossy 333 & Nayuka Gorrie, event by The Lifted Brow and Monash XYXY Lab, MPavilion, Melbourne VIC
2017 | Queer Identities: Resistance and Assimilation, Panellist, Chaired by Drew Pettifer with Alex Cuffe and Léuli Eshraghi, Bus Projects, Collingwood VIC
2017 | Contemporary Art, Feminism and the Internet, Panellist, Curated by Women in the Arts for Vivid Ideas, MCA, Sydney NSW
2017 | Experimenta Social #9, Curated Guest Speaker, ACMI X, Melbourne VIC
2017 | OpenLAB Artist Talks, Curated Guest Speaker, ACMI X, Melbourne VIC
2016 | Screen Futures, International Summit, Curated Guest, Lecture Presenter, RMIT University, Melbourne VIC
2016 | Youth Media Festival, International Education Summit, Curated Guest, Workshop Presenter, ACMI, Melbourne VIC
2016 | One Million Views Walking Tour, Presenter, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne VIC
2016 | One Million Views: How to Go Viral Workshop, Coordinator, Next Wave Festival, Arts House, Melbourne VIC
2015 | Experimental Video Art panel, Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Fitzroy VIC
2015 | Xanthe Dobbie in Conversation with Jessie Scott, Artist Talk, Grey Gardens Projects, Fitzroy VIC
2024 | Queer PowerPoint, Co-Curated and Co-Founded with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth (since 2021)
2023 | Assessor, RMIT First Site Gallery
2021 | Founding Member (since 2016), Collective and Curatorium, QueerTech.IO
2019 | Peer Assessor, City of Melbourne, Visual Arts Grants
2018 | Board of Artistic Directors (since 2016), BLINDSIDE ARI
2018 | Peer Assessor, City of Melbourne, Visual Arts Grants
2018 | Front of House and Social Media Coordinator, Curatorial Assistant, IT and AV Officer, Installation Tech, Videographer (since 2016), Australian Tapestry Workshop
2017 | Board of Directors (since 2013), Social Media Coordinator (2013-2017), Vice Chair (2016), Secretary (2013), BLINDSIDE ARI
2012 | Education Coordinator, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne
2012 | Head of Management Committee, 2012 Student Fine Art Graduate Exhibition, RMIT University
2023 | Artificial Intelligence in Creative Industries and Practice, Panelist with Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Dr. Nina Rajcic, Benjamin Duff, and James Purtill, Australia Council for the Arts (online)
2022 | Art, AI and Digital Ethics, Panelist with Vanessa Bartlet, Sean Dockray, Katrina Sluis, ANAT Spectra: Multiplicity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne VIC
2021 | Google Is My Primary Partner, Spotlight Talk, Digital Intimacies #7 Symposium, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD
2021 | The Queer Lens, Panelist with Wesley Dowling, Liam Power & Drew Pettifer, Bunjil Place in partnership with Melbourne Media Lab, Narre Warren VIC
2020 | Talking Digital Art, Desktop Presenter, VCR Fest (Online), Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne VIC
2020 | PHOTO LIVE: QueerTechIO and Rosa Menkman, Presenter with QueerTech.io (Online), PHOTO 2021 Extended Program, Melbourne VIC
2019 | Experimental Video within the Gallery, Presenter, as part of Adobe Presents: The Big Picture Filmmaker Development Program for St Kilda Film Festival 2019, St Kilda VIC
2019 | Dancing Queens: Queer Potentials, panelist, Simona Castricum, Mama Alto and Xanthe Dobbie in conversation with Alison Bennett, Dancehouse, Melbourne VIC
2018 | Humour, Queer Bodies & Pop Culture, Panelist, With Dr Quinn Eades & Brigid Hansen, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo VIC
2018 | The View From NYC: Digital Futures and Emerging Cultures, Curated Guest Speaker, With Kelani Nichols & Kelli Alred, ACMI, Melbourne VIC
2018 | Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, Curated Guest Speaker - Digital Collage: The Future is Now, ACMI, Melbourne VIC
2018 | ACMI Art + Film: QueerTech.io, Panelist, ACMI, Melbourne VIC
2018 | Midsumma Australia Post Art Prize, Artist Talk, No Vacancy Q.V. Melbourne VIC
2018 | Queer Some Space - Art and Literature, Panelist, Curated by Kate McKenzie, Chaired by Annabel Brady-Brown with Adolfo Aranjuez, Mossy 333 & Nayuka Gorrie, event by The Lifted Brow and Monash XYXY Lab, MPavilion, Melbourne VIC
2017 | Queer Identities: Resistance and Assimilation, Panellist, Chaired by Drew Pettifer with Alex Cuffe and Léuli Eshraghi, Bus Projects, Collingwood VIC
2017 | Contemporary Art, Feminism and the Internet, Panellist, Curated by Women in the Arts for Vivid Ideas, MCA, Sydney NSW
2017 | Experimenta Social #9, Curated Guest Speaker, ACMI X, Melbourne VIC
2017 | OpenLAB Artist Talks, Curated Guest Speaker, ACMI X, Melbourne VIC
2016 | Screen Futures, International Summit, Curated Guest, Lecture Presenter, RMIT University, Melbourne VIC
2016 | Youth Media Festival, International Education Summit, Curated Guest, Workshop Presenter, ACMI, Melbourne VIC
2016 | One Million Views Walking Tour, Presenter, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne VIC
2016 | One Million Views: How to Go Viral Workshop, Coordinator, Next Wave Festival, Arts House, Melbourne VIC
2015 | Experimental Video Art panel, Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Fitzroy VIC
2015 | Xanthe Dobbie in Conversation with Jessie Scott, Artist Talk, Grey Gardens Projects, Fitzroy VIC
Arts Administration & Management
2024 | Judge, Midsumma Australia Post Art Prize2024 | Queer PowerPoint, Co-Curated and Co-Founded with Harriet Gillies & Thom Smyth (since 2021)
2023 | Assessor, RMIT First Site Gallery
2021 | Founding Member (since 2016), Collective and Curatorium, QueerTech.IO
2019 | Peer Assessor, City of Melbourne, Visual Arts Grants
2018 | Board of Artistic Directors (since 2016), BLINDSIDE ARI
2018 | Peer Assessor, City of Melbourne, Visual Arts Grants
2018 | Front of House and Social Media Coordinator, Curatorial Assistant, IT and AV Officer, Installation Tech, Videographer (since 2016), Australian Tapestry Workshop
2017 | Board of Directors (since 2013), Social Media Coordinator (2013-2017), Vice Chair (2016), Secretary (2013), BLINDSIDE ARI
2012 | Education Coordinator, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne
2012 | Head of Management Committee, 2012 Student Fine Art Graduate Exhibition, RMIT University
Prizes:
2023 | Incinerator Art Award, Winner, The Long Now, Incinerator Gallery, Aberfeldie VIC
2022 | Wollunbin Art Award, Highly Commended, The Long Now, Tweed Regional Gallery, Tweed NSW
2022 | Digital Art Prize, Winner (Second Prize), Eidolon, Goolugatup Heathcote WA
2021 | Woollahra Digital Literary Award, Finalist, Eidolon shortlisted for Digital Innovation Award, Woollahra NSW
2019 | Melbourne Fringe Festival, Winner of Best Experimental Show for Harriet Gillies 'The Power of The Holy Spirit', Melbourne VIC
2018 | Midsumma Australia Post Art Prize, Winner of People's Choice, No Vacancy, Q.V. Melbourne VIC
2016 | John Fries Award, Finalist, UNSW Galleries at UNSW Art & Design, Sydney NSW
2014 | Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award, Finalist, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra ACT
2014 | RMIT Honours Travelling Scholarship, Winner, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne VIC
2022 | Wollunbin Art Award, Highly Commended, The Long Now, Tweed Regional Gallery, Tweed NSW
2022 | Digital Art Prize, Winner (Second Prize), Eidolon, Goolugatup Heathcote WA
2021 | Woollahra Digital Literary Award, Finalist, Eidolon shortlisted for Digital Innovation Award, Woollahra NSW
2019 | Melbourne Fringe Festival, Winner of Best Experimental Show for Harriet Gillies 'The Power of The Holy Spirit', Melbourne VIC
2018 | Midsumma Australia Post Art Prize, Winner of People's Choice, No Vacancy, Q.V. Melbourne VIC
2016 | John Fries Award, Finalist, UNSW Galleries at UNSW Art & Design, Sydney NSW
2014 | Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award, Finalist, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra ACT
2014 | RMIT Honours Travelling Scholarship, Winner, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne VIC
Grants:
2020 | Create NSW Digitise Initiative Grant
2020 | Playking Grant
2020 | Sidney Myer National Assistance Program for the Arts
2017 | City of Moreland Individual Development Grant
2015 | City of Melbourne 2016 Arts Grant Recipient
2015 | Creative Victoria 2016 Arts Grants Recipient
2015 | Next Wave Festival 2016 Kickstart Artist
2020 | Playking Grant
2020 | Sidney Myer National Assistance Program for the Arts
2017 | City of Moreland Individual Development Grant
2015 | City of Melbourne 2016 Arts Grant Recipient
2015 | Creative Victoria 2016 Arts Grants Recipient
2015 | Next Wave Festival 2016 Kickstart Artist
Residencies:
2022 | AAF Expand Lab, Participant, Adelaide Film Festival, Adelaide SA
2022 | RMIT Researcher in Residence, ACMI X, Melbourne VIC
2019 | Artist in Residence, Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC
2018 | Artist in Residence, Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC
2014 | Artist in Residence, Spring Resident, Chantilly Studios, Melbourne VIC
2022 | RMIT Researcher in Residence, ACMI X, Melbourne VIC
2019 | Artist in Residence, Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC
2018 | Artist in Residence, Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC
2014 | Artist in Residence, Spring Resident, Chantilly Studios, Melbourne VIC
Collections:
ACMIArtbank
Private Collections
Published:
2023 | Runway Journal: GHOST, Edition 46, Guest Editor’s Call Out & Letter, digital journal
2022 | Self As Other, Soapbox Essay, Arts Northern Rivers Online Publication
2021 | Classic Blue, Going Down Swinging, Online Edition 41
2020 | Circle Jerk, Going Down Swinging, Online Journal
2019 | Xanthe Dobbie: Internet art to heal your queer heart, ACMI Online
2018 | Video Becomes Us, Episode: The Internet, Directed by Kate Blackmore, ABC iView
2016 | PLAYTHING Magazine, Emerging Writers Festival Issue
2015 | The Lifted Brow, Issue 25
2015 | PLAYTHING Magazine, Issue 1
2022 | Self As Other, Soapbox Essay, Arts Northern Rivers Online Publication
2021 | Classic Blue, Going Down Swinging, Online Edition 41
2020 | Circle Jerk, Going Down Swinging, Online Journal
2019 | Xanthe Dobbie: Internet art to heal your queer heart, ACMI Online
2018 | Video Becomes Us, Episode: The Internet, Directed by Kate Blackmore, ABC iView
2016 | PLAYTHING Magazine, Emerging Writers Festival Issue
2015 | The Lifted Brow, Issue 25
2015 | PLAYTHING Magazine, Issue 1