About
Dement’s gift is to turn polymorphous perversity... to aesthetic ends, let it run free and enjoy itself. ... The sacred and the savage, sexuality and abuse, are her private square of opposition.George Alexander; Linda Dement's Eurydice, Art Monthly, April 2002
Linda Dement has worked in arts computing since the late 1980s with a longstanding interest in bodies and technologies. Originally a photographer, her digital practice spans image, video, virtual, code driven and more recently bioprinting.
Dement's work has been widely exhibited internationally and locally, including at the LA County Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art London, Ars Electronica Austria, multiple International Symposia of Electronic Art and Impakt Media Arts Festivals in Europe. She is twice winner of the Australian National Digital Art Award and has been awarded a New Media Arts Fellowship by the Australia Council for the Arts. Her work is held in collections such as the Bibliotèque Nationale de France, Australian Video Art Archive, New York Filmmakers Co-op and the Daniel Langlois Foundation.