The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes wow Jack Kerouac 1976.



Daniel Kojta is an emerging curator / new media artist. The works engage the senses, often through an interactive experience within installations, sculptures, performances and video projections.
In the tradition of Panamarenko and Bill Viola, the works call from the participants an alternating range of rational reflections and spontaneous emotions by apprehending the creative tension between subjective response and the kinaesthetic experience of philosophical ideas. Daniel is currently working within remote Aboriginal communities of the Gulf of Carpentaria, and far west NSW. in the development of New Media programs.
He maintains a practice within local and metropolitan galleries throughout Australia, focusing on Sydney.


'Metholated Spirit - safely hidden'
Rubber, 'Witches Hat' boundary marker, cotton military cover.
77 W x 67cm H.
Mori Gallery, Sydney. 'Battle Feel' Group Exh. April 2008.
Daniel Kojta

This sculpture juxtaposes the extreme attraction of the 'witches hat' used to gain attention, with the concealment of the military camouflage, used to remain hidden in a given situation.


April 2008

MORI Gallery Sydney. Group Exhibition 'Battle Feel' Sculptural Installation, 'Metholated Spirit'. Opening April 9 6pm. All welcome.

Jan 2008

KARUMBA, FAR NORTH Queensland. 4WD Expedition through the Gulf of Carpentaria to Gove, Nhulunbuy Communities. Wet season prevents further expedition beyond Karumba. Photo series; 'Behind the Message'.



EXHIBITION OF THE YEAR SYDNEY 2007 DANIEL KOJTA
Voted as Photo media exhibition of the year, Sydney by Peter Frost of Artlife, with a number of critics including Robert McFarlane. Alien Presence - [handmade echo], Daniel Kojta, Stills Gallery Paddington. Jan 2007 with Paul Adair, Pete Volich.



Artlink Magazine Feature Article written by Daniel Kojta.
Artlink, Vol 27 no 4, Reskin: Intensive Collaboration.
www.artlink.com.au/articles.cfm?id=3037





Awarded SUZI DUNCAN SCHOLARSHIP Flight Training - Pilots Lic. Intensive course of over twenty hours flying in a Cherokee 140 GA, with theory.



'Line Describing', Architectural Projection, Electrofringe Festival, Newcastle. Daniel Kojta 2007.


The installations are designed to activate the attention of the visitor or participant, beyond that which is allocated to chance or phenomena. They capture ordinary moments and present them as a discovery, or application, as an experience unique to each visitor.



Most recently Daniel has begun a new series of work. The works focus on the relationship of gravity and movement. Movement in flight, movement as the experience of the contemporary Flaneur, a journey through the senses. The first in the series explores movement only visible through stasis. In 'Digital Flaneur', Daniel employs technology to transform the 'position of view' in order to achieve the anonymity required by the contemporary Flaneur.




Showing Vanishing Point Gallery, Newtown. Climate Change Show.



June 2007

ART Program Development. Teaching Goodooga Aboriginal Community Lightning Ridge. One month placement.

May 2007

Video Art Professional Seminar MCA
Grant Applications: New Work Grant, Gertrude Contemporary Space, Artspace.

April 2007



Showing Vanishing Point Gallery, Newtown. Gallery Opening Show. Group. April.Installation 'Digital Flaneur', 2007.

A video install showcasing the results of a 'miracle' by technology. Daniel is healed by technology and walks. In memory of Baudrillard, 'Digital Flaneur' explores the simulacra in the power of contemporary technology to produce reality, 'The Super Real' as ref. by Merleau Ponty, and ponders the entropy of reality through a modern day miracle.



March 2007


'Light Scribe' Anat Residency LAB RESKIN, Australian National Museum. Daniel Kojta Feb. 2007

Completed LAB residency, Reskin ANAT www.anat.org.au/reskin see images: www.flickr.com/reskin, or article written by Daniel Kojta: www.artlink.com.au/issue.cfm?id=2740


Jan - February 2007


'Alien Presence - [handmade echo]' Stills Gallery Paddington. Daniel Kojta Feb 2007

Showing at Stills Paddington, 'Alien Presence' Video Installation.
This video installation presents a synchronised moment through twelve video works produced all over the world at the same moment with each work sharing a common horizon line. Directed by Daniel Kojta the installation includes works by noted artists; Adam Cullen, Greg Brown, Carly Leimbech, Katryn Nyholm, Stephen Barrass, and others.



'Sleep' Ahros, National Contemporary Gallery Denmark. Katrine Nyholm, Carly Leimbach, Daniel Kojta. Installation presenting a telepresent projection of people sleeping, shot live in Australia, projected on bed in Denmark State Gallery.


'Alien Presence - [erewhon seduction]' Pelt Gallery Sydney Daniel Kojta. Apr 2006

'AP Erewhon Seduction' engaged four Artists each evening through the course of the exhibition. They slept on the constructed beds wired for video and audio recording. The footage was captured through the evenings and presented following time treatment next day as a large wall projection at end of each bed. The complete install was set up as a lab research event. Sleepers included; Stephen Barrrass, Inga Liljestrom, Adam Cullen, Daniel Green, Jasper Streit, Laurice Ghannoum.