Adam Nash

Adam Nash, PhD, Honorary University Fellow, is internationally recognized as one of the most original artists working in digital virtual environments, sound art, performance and extended-reality technology.

He has exhibited and performed in galleries, festivals and online all over the world, including at the Venice Biennale, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, ISEA, 01SJ, the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Portrait Gallery of Australia.

He was an early innovator in online performance and exhibition. He was the the inaugural Australia Council Multi-User Virtual Environment Artist in Residence. He won the SIGGRAPH Web3D Art jury prize three years running. He was shortlisted for the National Art Award in New Media. He was artist in residence at Ars Electronica FutureLab, Neutral Ground and the Australian Antarctic Division.

He has been composer and sound artist with Machine Movement Lab, Company In Space and Gibson/Martelli, exploring the integration of motion capture with robots and realtime 3D audiovisual spaces.

He was Associate Professor of Virtual Interior and Associate Dean of Digital Design at RMIT University. He was awarded the rank of Honorary University Fellow after resigning from academia to concentrate on art, music, trees and revegetation programs in South West Victoria.

He is a qualified Master Tree Grower, a volunteer at the Corangamite CMA citizen science EstuaryWatch program, and has been board member of the Otway Agroforestry Network, committee member of the Heytesbury District Landcare Network,  and a volunteer teacher at the Adult Migrant English Program. He is fluent in Japanese.