About

I’m a researcher, art historian, immersive environment designer and 3D artist working in experimental new media, with a background in art history, galleries and universities. I design virtual and augmented reality art installations and research the application of these technologies for the cultural sector. I was previously a research fellow at the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, UNSW and before that at the Laboratory for Innovation in Galleries, Libraries Archives and Museums, an experimental arts research facility also at UNSW. Prior to joining UNSW, I worked as a program producer at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. I’ve produced festivals, conferences and digital projects for the gallery.

Some of my current research projects include:

  • Designing a 360 degree, 1:1 scale embodied theatre design system and mixed reality performance space for the Sydney Theatre Company
  • Building mixed reality artworks and exhibitions for artists and institutions, including the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and the Art Gallery of NSW.
  • Working on the excavation of a Roman Imperial Palace in Serbia and designing a new system for networked immersive archaeological visualisation and interaction
  • Making experimental virtual reality visualisations of particle accelerator data for conservation science

My research background is in Australian art history and my interests have ranged from 19th century European Orientalist painting to 21st century Australian contemporary art. I have a first class honours degree and a PhD in Art History from the University of Sydney, and I’ve been a visiting researcher at Bosphorus University, Istanbul. My PhD thesis “A Portrait of the Nation as a Young Man: the genesis of Gallipoli mythologies in Australian and Turkish art” examined the role of visual culture in the creation of national and imperial mythologies around the Gallipoli campaign. I continue to write about art and war, in particular about how contemporary new media artists have depicted the war on terror.

Research outputs

Edited book

  1. Yip, A., Anderson, J., & Marshall C., (eds.) The Legacies of Bernard Smith: Essays on Australia Art, History and Cultural Politics, Sydney, Power Publications, 2016.

Book chapters

  1. *Yip, A., Djokic, T., Kenderdine, S., Marcus, N., Oliver, C., Ong, A., & Sammut, C., ‘Designing multi-disciplinary immersive learning systems for next generation student experiences: case studies and future directions in cultural heritage, astrobiology and anatomy’, in Creative and Collaborative Learning Through Immersion: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives, Wagner C., & Hui, A. (eds.), Singapore, Springer, 2019 [forthcoming. Accepted October 2016].
  2. *Yip, A., Dredge, P., Gerard-Austin, A., Ives, S., ‘Henry VR: designing affect-oriented virtual reality exhibitions for art museums’, in The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites, Lewi, H., (ed) London, Routledge, 2019.
  3. *Yip, A., & Kenderdine, S., ‘The Proliferation of Aura: Facsimiles, Authenticity and Digital Objects’, in Drotner, K., Dziekan, V., Parry, R., & Schrøder, K., (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Media and Communication, London, Routledge, 2019.
  4. Yip, A., ‘James Rosenquist: Silver skies1962’, in Tunnicliffe, W., & Jaspers A., (eds) Pop to Popism, Sydney, Art Gallery of NSW, 2014.
    ……………………… ‘Tom Wesselmann: Still life #291963’
    ………………………      ‘Robert Indiana: The Demuth American dream no 51963’
    ………………………      ‘Brett Whiteley: The American Dream1968-69’
    ………………………      ‘Richard Prince: Untitled (cowboy) 1980-89′
  5. Yip, A., ‘Some Settled Sunlight: The Foxes in the Orient’, in Art Love and Life: Ethel Carrick and E Phillips Fox, Goddard, A. (ed), Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery, 2011.

 Refereed Journal articles

  1. *Yip, A., ‘Metascapes and memory: virtual reality, museum and archive, spacetime’, Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly, 39:4, 2018.
  2. *Yip, A., Dredge, P., Howard, D., & Morgan, K., ‘Unmasking Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly: X-ray Fluorescence Conservation Imaging, Art Historical Interpretation and Virtual Reality Visualisation, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 17:2, 2017.
  3. *Yip, A., ‘The Ekphrasis Engine: Towards a New Industry Architecture for Digital Art Historical Practice in the Age of the Virtual’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 17:2, 2017.
  4. Yip, A., ‘The National 2017: New Australian Art’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 17:2, 2017.
  5. *Yip, A., ‘Metadata and the Rhizome of Museum Practice’, Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly’, 37:1, 2017.
  6. Yip, A., ‘Tatsuo Miyajima: Connect with Everything, MCA Australia | Time, Light Japan: Japanese Art 1990s to Now, Art Gallery of NSW’, Artlink: Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly, 37:1, 2017.
  7. *Yip, A., ‘Virtual Reality and the Museology of Consciousness’, Artlink: Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly, 36:4. 2016.
  8. *Yip, A., ‘Kit Messham-Muir, Double War: visual culture and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq’,Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 16:1, 2016.
  9. *Yip, A., Dredge, P., Ives, S., Howard, D., Spiers, K., & Kenderdine, S., ‘Mapping Henry: synchrotron-sourced x-ray fluorescence mapping and ultra-high definition scanning of an early Tudor portrait of Henry VIII, Applied Physics A, Sep, 2015.
  10. *Yip, A., ‘Ann Elias, Camouflage Australia: art, nature, science and war’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 13:1, 2013.
  11. *Yip, A., ‘Khaled Sabsabi: Peacefender’, Artlink: Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly, 35:1, 2015.
  12. *Yip, A., ‘First Person Shooter: Baden Pailthorpe, video games and the biopower of war’, ARTAND Australia, Feb 2014.
  13. *Yip, A., ‘Gender War: Shaun Gladwell and Ben Quilty in Afghanistan’, Artlink: Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly, 33:3, 2013. 

Exhibitions

  1. *Yip, A., Henry VR, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2018. Virtual reality exhibition commissioned by Art Gallery of New South Wales.
  2. Yip, A., Tessera, Jerico Contemporary, Sydney, 2018. New media art solo exhibition.
  3. *Yip, A., Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly Unmasked: Virtual Reality, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2018. Virtual reality exhibition installation commissioned by Heide Museum of Modern Art. Winner of 2018 Museums and Galleries Australia National Award for Interpretation, Learning and Audience Engagement.

Curatorial outputs

  1. Yip, A., Heathfield, A., & Jaspers, A., ‘Hahn Rowe: Ghost Telephone’, 20thBiennale of Sydney: The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2016. New media performance commissioned for the Biennale of Sydney.
  2. *Yip, A., contributing curator, Pure Land: Augmented Reality Edition, Kenderdine S., & Shaw, J., for Tang: Treasures from the Silk Road Capital, Cao Y. (curator), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2016. Immersive media installation.
  3. *Yip, A., & Wilson, N., Mad through the Darkness: Australian artists and the Great War, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2015.
  4. *Yip, A., & Miller S., Hidden War: Stories from the Trenches of the First World War, collected from the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Archive, Art Gallery of New South Wales Library and Archive, 2015.

Installation and exhibition design

  1. *Yip, A., virtual reality installation designer and 3D artist, ‘Together Again’, Fowler, H., Performance Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, 2017.
  2. *Yip, A., mixed reality installation designer and 3D artist,‘Eel Song’, Fowler, H., Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2018.

Peer reviewed and publicly exhibited interactive software design

  1. *Yip, A., designer and 3D artist, ‘iBauprobe’,iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, University of New South Wales, 2017. Mixed reality theatre design system.
  2. *Yip, A., designer and 3D artist, ‘iLLE: Immersive Learning Level Editor’, iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, University of New South Wales, 2016. Engineered software for immersive environment application design.
  3. *Yip, A., Djokic, T., Oliver, C., Van Kranendonk, M., ‘3D Mapping Pilbara Sites of Early Life for Immersive, Virtual Learning and Teaching’, Australian Centre for Astrobiology and iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, University of New South Wales, 2016.
  4. *Yip, A., production assistant, ‘Scanlines new media browser’, Kenderdine, S., Laboratory for Innovation in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums, University of New South Wales, 2015. Immersive 3D archive browser.
  5. *Yip, A., writer and producer,‘Journey of the Treasures’, in Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2014. Online and in-gallery interactive new media documentary.
  6. *Yip, A., writer and producer, ‘Hidden War’, in Hidden War: Stories from the Trenches of the First World War, collected from the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Archive, Art Gallery of New South Wales Library and Archive, 2015. Online and in-gallery interactive new media documentary.

Keynote lectures

  1. *Yip, A., ‘The Ekphrasis Engine: towards a new industry architecture for digital cultural heritage practice’, Ways of Seeing: Digital, Cultural, Spatial, University of South Australia, 2018.
  2. *Yip, A., ‘Cultural Collaboration in a Virtual World’, Australian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres Annual Conference 2017, Australian National University, December 2017.

Conference papers

  1. *Yip, A., & Best, N., ‘The Gamification of Art and History’, Unite Melbourne 2018, Unity Industry Conference, 2018.
  2. *Yip, A., & Ives, S., ‘Mapping Henry: experimental conservation imaging and art historical attribution’, Recasting the Question: Digital Approaches in Art History and Museums, Australian National University and University of Sydney, 2015.
  3. *Yip, A., & Ives, S., ‘Who painted Henry? The hidden life of a Tudor portrait’, Museums Australia National Conference 2015, Sydney, 2015.
  4. *Yip, A., ‘The embodied environment: experimental new media technologies and gallery engagement’, The Edge of Change: new approaches to digital engagement, University of Queensland Art Museum and Museums and Galleries QLD, 2015.
  5. *Yip, A., ‘Curating Gallipoli: a century of exhibition’, Gallipoli/Gelibolu, Sydney University, Australian National University and Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, May 2015.
  6. *Yip, A., ‘Second sight: drones, video games and the displaced subjectivity of the war on terror’, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference 2014, Launceston, 2014.
  7. *Yip, A., ‘Effaced: portraits from the war in Afghanistan’, Fresh Faces: new thinking on portraiture, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2014.
  8. *Yip, A., ‘The Uneasy Republican: Mehmet Ruhi’s Triptik’, Global Empires and Visual Culture, University of Sydney, funded by Yale University, John Schaeffer and Power Institute, 2014.
  9. *Yip, A., ‘Virtual Space: extending gallery learning and engagement through iPad apps and new media channels’, NVAEC 2012, National Gallery of Australia, 2012.
  10. *Yip, A., ‘A Familiar Enemy: appropriation and cultural contest at the 1918 Vienna Exhibition of Ottoman-Turkish Art’, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, February 2011.
  11. *Yip, A., ‘A Portrait of the Nation as a Young Man: George Lambert, Charles Bean and the mythologising of Gallipoli’, Second International Gallipoli Symposium: Gallipoli and National Imagination, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University, April 2009.
  12. *Yip, A., ‘Turkish Paintings of Gallipoli’, The Gallipoli Campaign from a Different Perspective Seminar, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 2008.
  13. *Yip, A., ‘Framing the Enemy: Turkish Paintings of Gallipoli as Cross-cultural Exchange’, Gallipoli: History, Art and Literature Symposium, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University, April 2008.
  14. *Yip, A., ‘Battles Between Borders: Turkish Paintings of Gallipoli’, Immigrants as Citizens: Transnationalism and Incorporation as Future Directions in Turkish Relations with Australia, Europe and North America, The University of Sydney, 2007.
  15. *Yip, A., ‘Broken Body, Broken Mind, Broken Men: The Gallipoli Drawings of Ellis Silas’, Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads Conference, Bilgi University, Istanbul, 2006.

Conferences and symposia convened

  1. *Yip, A., Roberts, M., & Wellington, R., Gallipoli/Gelibolou, Sydney University, Australian National University and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2015.
  2. *Yip A., Fresh Faces: new thinking on portraiture, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2014.
  3. Yip A., Anderson J., Ledbury, M., The Legacies of Bernard Smith, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney University and University of Melbourne 2012.
  4. Yip A., Borderlands: Photography and Cultural Contest, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2012.
  5. Yip, A., Subject and Object in 21st Century Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2011.
  6. Yip, A., coordinator and session chairImmigrants as Citizens: Transnationalism and Incorporation as Future Directions in Turkish Relations with Australia, Europe and North America, Sydney University, 2007.