Blast Theory Julianne Pierce

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Blast Theory is renowned internationally as one of the most adventurous artists' groups using interactive media...

... creating groundbreaking new forms of performance and interactive art that mixes audiences across the internet, live performance and digital broadcasting.Blast Theory’s artists describe their work as collaborative and interdisciplinary.

Led by Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr and Nick Tandavanitj, the group’s work explores interactivity and the social and political aspects of technology, It confronts a media saturated world in which popular culture rules, using performance, installation, video, mobile and online technologies to ask questions about the ideologies present in the information that envelops us.

Julianne Pierce is an Australian curator, writer and producer specialising in digital and media arts. In September 2007 she relocated to the UK to take up the position of Executive Producer with Blast Theory. She has worked in the Australian arts and digital media sector for over twenty years and from 2000 to 2005 was the Executive Director of ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology).

She has curated several events and exhibitions including Primavera, the annual exhibition of emerging Australian artists for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in 2003 and the Artists’ Week program for the Adelaide Festival of Arts in 2006 and 2008. Julianne is a founding member of the influential computer artist group VNS Matrix, who exhibited widely in Australia and internationally.

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