Curator: Liz Hughes

Liz Hughes has a long history of working in film and digital media. She has written and directed short films which have screened at over 130 film festivals and have won twenty-two international awards including prizes for Best Short Film and Audience Prizes. Her films have been featured in a number of critical journals. Most recently Cat's Cradle was featured in Richard Raskin's book The Art of the Short Fiction Film: Nine Modern Classics alongside the films of Roman Polanski and Jim Jarmusch.

Liz has directed documentaries and TV drama for the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, Disney Television and Channel Seven. She directed three episodes of Short Cuts, winner of the Australian Film Institute award in 2002 for Best Children's TV Series. As Artistic Director of Experimenta, Liz curated the highly successful Prototype exhibition and co-curated Experimenta's 2003 major exhibition House of Tomorrow, which is currently touring nationally in 2004 and internationally in 2005. She will be a contributing curator for the upcoming Media City Seoul in Korea in 2004 and is currently working on Experimenta's 2005 major project.