GROUP EXHIBITIONS EVENTS

2008

ARTSMART PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR Parramatta Artists Studios.
16 Artists Selected via application.
Culminating with group show Aug 08.

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

2007

Panel Presentation, Disability & the Arts, Electrofringe Festival Newcastle, NSW.

Cartograph: Making things write. Video Projection, Electrofringe Festival Newcastle, NSW.

F. up, ATVP Winter ’07 Show. Sydney June. Light installation.

Digital Flaneur , Vanishing Point Gallery, Opening Show. Newtown Apr.

Abduction by Concept , Vanishing Point Gallery, Opening Show. Newtown


Light Scribe, National Museum of Australia. Wear Now Symposium Exhibition, Australian National Museum ACT.

Light Scribe, RESKIN Residency ANAT, Canberra ACT.

Art Basel Miami - Scope Miami [PAM], Art Video Lounge. Video Installation. USA.

2006


Transitions BMAN Artspace Katoomba. Installation. ‘S.H.Y’

Ctrl+alt+del/Dysfunctional Feed/ Video Installation.
Gorman House Canberra Contemporary Arts

Amerika Mike Parr AGNSW/Performance Space, Assistant.

Exquisite Corpse/ Curated by Tracey Clements
Peloton, Sydney. Sculpture.

Telematic Performance/ Johannes Birringer
Performance Space Sydney. Video,audio.

2005

Sedition Exhibition / plaque installation
Casula Powerhouse Contemporary Arts Center NSW Installation.

Nothing / Curated by Nicholas Tsoutas
New Media Installation, Alien Presence IV
Artspace Wooloomooloo NSW.

Quarterish Honours Graduation Exhibition
New media installations, Alien Presence IV,
Alien Presence II.
University of Western Sydney NSW.

Emerge, mixed media
Blue Mountains Artists Network - Curator Daniel Kojta

Logos Perception, new media installation / UV light Installation.
Artspace Sculpture Exhibition, Katoomba NSW.

BMAN Artspace Sculpture Exhibition
Curator Daniel Kojta. Judged-Adam Cullen, Richard Perram.

Double Blind’, paper / sound installation, with Stelarc.
Flesh Vs Machine, TekniKunst Festival - Incinerator Gallery VIC.
Daniel Kojta Anthony Mravic.

In shadow of memory, audio-visual installation – 2nd Place + High Commendation. BMCC
‘Artstreet’ Exhibition Katoomba


2004

Entropy 1, composed sound / steel / lighting / rubber installation YZ Gallery, University of Western Sydney

Digital Soup, digitally engineered installation
BMAN Artpace Series - Braemar Gallery, Springwood

Haiku Gravity, sound / granite boulder / perspex / steel.
‘Western Front’ - WS Contemporary Art, Railway Theatre Penrith

Haiku Gravity 1, installation
‘Emerge’ - Blue Mountains Artists Network, Art Space Katoomba

Tactical doubling of monopoly, print works
2004 Print’ - Art Space Katoomba

Stitching Tide, drama 7’00” 16mm - written / directed / edited
PV Film Festival Sydney

Line of flight, new media installation 7m(h) x 3m(w) - oregon / stainless steel / office equipment / plastic / dig cam / glass / suspension Bachelor of Visual Arts Degree Exhibition ‘Sensoria’ - UWS

Immersion absence, photography / digital imagery
Blue Mountains Photography Exhibition, Art Space Katoomba

2003

Stitching Tide, drama 7’00” 16mm - written / directed / edited
Awarded Best Direction, Edit - ‘Screen Me’ BM Film Festival
Screened AFI Paddington and C&F Film Festival Balmain

Please Remain Seated, documentary 7’30” DV - written/directed/edited
Screen Me BM Film Festival / Screened AFI Paddington

Man with the digital camera, photography / digital imagery
Blue Mountains Photography Exhibition, Art Space Katoomba

A Celebration of Media, Digital Installation
Archipelago Gallery, Katoomba’



SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007

AP-[handmade echo] - Stills Gallery, Paddington. NSW. Video Install

2006

Alien Presence H – First Draft, Sydney
Video Installation.

Bathurst Regional Gallery Hill End studio.

Alien Presence E – Pelt , Sydney.Interactive installation + video, sensors, max msp

2005

Alien Presence 1 - Lewers Bequest & Penrith Regional Gallery
interactive installation + video, sensors DV cam.

2004

Entropy 1 - YZ Gallery, UWS
Installation sculpture, sound, mechanical.





PRIZES & AWARDS

2007

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

Awarded SUZI DUNCAN SCHOLARSHIP Flight Training - Pilots licence

Selected CODING CULTURES Lab residency, Cambletown Center for Contemporary Art.

Selected RESKIN Lab residency ANAT - Australian Network of Art and Technology, ANU, ACT.

Awarded Engage Symposium UTS.

2006

Bathurst Regional Gallery Hill end residency

Western Sydney Arts/Sofala Photographic prize.
1st Prize Contemporary
1st Prize New Media
1st Prize Landscape

2005

Raw Space Gallery Residency Queensland Australia

Mixed Media Prize: Installation / Sculpture / Painting
Mixed Media Exhibition - Katoomba Art Space, BMCC
Curator: Daniel Kojta

Academic Achievement / Membership
Golden Key International Honour Society, UWS

In shadow of memory - High Commendation
Awarded best night-time window - Second Place
BMCC ‘Artstreet’ Exhibition

2003

Stitching Tide, drama 7’00” 16mm - written / directed / edited
Awarded Best Direction, Edit - ‘Screen Me’ BM Film Festival
Awarded Best Direction – AFI Ind. Screening. Syd. Aus.

Official selection
What Time, 6’ 00” Super 8 Dir.,DOP, Wr. DKojta
Matinaze 97 Short Film Competition - Art Gallery of NSW

1996

Archibald Finalist – Subject
Art Gallery of NSW. By He Huang.

City of the Arts Grant, presented by Premier Bob Carr
Funding Forum granted Anthology publication.




PUBLICATIONS

2007

Artlink Magazine, Australia. December Issue. Feature Article, written by Daniel Kojta. RESKIN. Vol 27, No.4

Australian Financial Review Magazine, ‘Garment Geek’. RESKIN article. April 2007.

THIS IS NOT ART, Australia. Program Artist Feature. Daniel Kojta 2007.

ARTLIFE. Exhibition review, Stills Gallery Daniel Kojta, Paul Adair, Peter Volich by Artlife.blogspot.com

SMH Arts Review. Exhibition review, Stills Gallery Daniel Kojta. by Tracey Clement 9 Feb.

RESKIN - Workshop residency ANAT - Article, The Australian. ACT.

2006

SCAN New Media Journal Review
Catalogue Essay Ann Finnegan ‘Alien Slumber’

Dr. Melinda Rackham Catalogue Essay ‘Alien Presence’.
First Draft. Gallery Sydney.

Open Gallery – Alien Presence [handmade echo], Sydney Morning Herald - Spectrum, June 17-18 2006, by Sunanda Creagh.

FRONT PAGE Feature - Accord Magazine - Feature Article. Spring Issue.
'Work in Progress' Feature Artist Daniel Kojta.

REALTIME MAGAZINE Review ‘Crtl+alt+del’ Dysfunctional Feed group Show
Video Installation review.

Blue Mountains Gazette, Exhibition review / Gallery Pelt Sydeny. April.

Open Gallery - Nothing, Sydney Morning Herald - Spectrum December 10-11, 2005 by Sunanda Creagh


PRIOR 2005


Radio Interview, 2BLU FM Katoomba NSW/ Exhibition Review

Nothing - Catalogue Essay, Artspace, by Ann Finnegan

Review, Blue Mountains Gazette / Curatorial Practice Daniel Kojta. Feature Article.

Interview, Radio 2SER FM NSW / Arts

PUBLISHED & PERFORMED A suite of Poetry and Prose by DanielHKojta
IV International Year of Poetry, Arka Space Sardinia ITALY.

‘Flog’, Cover Art Illustration - ‘Sietra Magazine’ Australia
Published Short Stories;
‘Quite Big Drops’
‘Sneaky Little Bastard has a Dance’
Short Stories - ‘Sietra Magazine’ Australia

‘Galileo’s Microscope’, Exhibition Review - Art Almanac


FRONT PAGE Feature - Paraquad Magazine - Feature Article. Spring Issue