MIKE DODDS

ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS

1989 'Scanheads', rondeau, (June - paintings)

1993 'Four Corners', Ten Taylor Street Gallery, (June - mosaic)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1986 'Grubbie Graphics Ink' Ausgraph Exhibition, Sydney Town Hall, (July)

1988 'Aliens Ate Billy', rondeau, (July) 'Poetechnica', Virtual Object at the Performance Space, (July) 'Too Dangerous to Mention', rondeau, (September) 'Then What Happened?', Rondeau, (September) 'On the Head of a Pin', Sydney University Staff Club, (November)

1989 'Dis/inter/course', rondeau, (February) 'Plans', Virtual Object at rondeau, (April) 'Nothing to Declare', Post Squared, (May) 'The Production of Optical Equivalencies', eMr, (July) 'Whitewash', rondeau, (October) 'The 6th vault', Virtual Object at Artspace, (November)

1990 'Seriously Fruit', Injest Veritae at rondeau, (January) 'Cathedral of the Industrial Trapeze', The Foundry, (April) 'Automatic CanmakingÐGeodesic Proposals No.1', The Foundry, (May) 'Bulk Art-Geodesic Proposals No.2', The Foundry, (June) 'D/Livid', Virtual Object at the Livid Festival, Harold Park Raceway, (June) 'Sonic BoomÐGeodesic Proposals No.3', The Foundry, (July) 'Virtual Landscapes', Artspace, (September) 'Chimaeriforms', Performance Space, (December)

1991 'Flowers', Airspace, (March) 'Comets & Asteroids', Airspace, (April) 'Necromantix', Airspace, (July) 'Electricka Symbiotica', Airspace, (October)

1992 'Diced Fruit', Airspace, (November)

1993 'Anything Goes', Airspace, (April) 'Blurs', Airspace, (August)

1994 'Feed', Traveling exhibition to Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Townsville, (January-April) 'Inner Sydney Alternate Art 1994', Australian Embassy Jakarta Indonesia, (March) 'Still Photography?', University of Melbourne, (April)

1995 'Interior Designex', Darling Harbour, (April)

1996 'Skeletons', 811 Gallery/Artists in Space (April)

PUBLICATIONS

'Graphics via Computer', (Mike Dodds 1985)

'Poetechnica', (Virtual Object 1988)

'Plans', (Virtual Object 1989)

'The 6th vault...a certain Chinese encyclopedia', (Virtual Object 1989)

'Ze Bruck Zenze', (Virtual Object 1990)

'Virtual Landscapes', (Artspace 1990)

'Chimaeriforms', (Virtual Object 1990)

'Electricka Symbiotica', (Virtual Object 1991)

'Australian House and Garden', (February 1993)

'Count Jessie in Cat Street', (Draft by Dodds/Walton, 2000)

MOSAIC COMMISSIONS

'Somewhere on the planet ocean mural', (Shoal Bay Country Club 1993)

'City Tattersalls Club murals', (Pitt Street Sydney 1995)

'Rockface tiles', (Woollahra Apartment 1995)

'Colonial Financial Planning logo', (Mobius Marketing & Design 1996)

'Mirrabooka Square Shopping Centre Seabed mural', (Perth 1997)

'Lux tv commercial backdrop', (1997)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

August 1982 - Present

Director, Mike Dodds Mosaic, (Grubbie Graphics Ink 1982-93). Company formed to create new visual possibilities with computer technology.

Four years using Intergraph computer aided design workstation. Created finished art, typefaces, 3 dimensional models and logos.

Experimentation with paint, video digitization and animation using Commodore Amiga computer 1985/86.

Desktop publishing using Apple computer in 1988, along with regular exhibitions until late 1991.

In 1992 a ceramic tile studio was established in Surry Hills to create small tesserae and develop production methods. The 'pixels' on a computer screen could be fixed as tesserae on walls and floors.

Develop methodology and teach mosaic workshops from 1994-2000.

Moulds for small square and octagon tiles, masks, even Moroccan designs, were produced to mid 1998.

Prototyped a mosaic kit containing handmade tiles for sale in hardware stores. The kit included designs for house numbers. Later used the numbers for a children's counting book in 2000.

Launch mdmosaic website in November 2000. Produce animated movies.

March 1982 - August 1982 Art Director, Raponi Webb & Associates

January 1981 - March 1982 Art Director, SSC & B Lintas (Sydney)

June 1979 - December 1980 Graphic designer/photographic assistant, Media Services and Production Unit at Edith Cowan University.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts (Design) 1976 - 1979 Curtin University of Technology