John Conomos

John George Conomos (28 January 1947 – 26 July 2024) was an Australian artist, critic and writer, and Associate Professor and Principal Fellow at Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, the University of Melbourne.

His books, essays and artworks are framed within four traditions of contemporary art: Anglo–American and Australian cultural studies, critical theory and post-structuralism.

Conomos was an active participant in Australian film and small magazine culture from the mid-1960s, when he was affiliated with the Sydney Push.

Conomos worked across a number of art forms – video, new media, installation art, radiophonic art and photo-performance – and his written ''oeuvre'' includes cultural and film aesthetics, art criticism and theory, new media and critical theory.

Conomos received a New Media Arts Board Fellowship in 2000 and developed two major projects during this time, ''Aura'' and ''Cyborg Ned''. He died in Sydney on 26 July 2024, at the age of 77. Provided by Wikipedia