Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

Cecelia Cmielewski is an arts industry leader with over thirty years’ experience in the cultural sector. She is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University (WSU) on Australia Research Council (ARC)-funded international and WSU-funded local projects. She is currently the WSU Research Fellow on ARC-funded The Collaborative Museum: Embedding Cultural Infrastructure in the City in partnership with the Powerhouse Museum. Cecelia was previously the research manager for the ARC-funded project UNESCO and the Making of Global Cultural Policy and a Chief Investigator on the ARC-funded Large Urban Screens and the Transnational Sphere with the University of Melbourne, Federation Square and Nabi Art Centre, Seoul. Whilst at the Australia Council for the Arts, she managed two full policy cycles of the Arts in a Multicultural Australia policy (2000-2006 and 2006-2011).

Cecelia produces artworks where social, technological and cultural engagements intersect to encourage new understanding across knowledge systems and realises these projects as an academic researcher, manager and arts curator. She holds a PhD (Western Sydney University), an MBA (University of Adelaide), a Bachelor of Design (University of South Australia), and a B.A. (Flinders University). She lives in regional Australia on unceded Dharawal lands.