Blackaeonium - Lisa Cianci

multidisciplinary artist, [an]archivist, digital media developer

Lisa Cianci (A.K.A Blackaeonium) is an artist, archivist, and digital media developer from Naarm (Melbourne) – Wurundjeri Country, Australia.

Her creative practice employs both analogue and digital materials, with a current focus on real-time & code-driven animations, digital video, and installations that use fabric and discarded clothing.
Lisa's work is a study of [an]archival possibilities, entropy in the material, unexpected artefacts in both digital and analogue media, and the unsettling spaces where systems and structures break down.

Intersections of art, archives and digital media technologies are her research focus. The artist’s role in preservation of cultural heritage is an important factor this work.

Lisa has exhibited her art work internationally in physical galleries and virtual spaces. She completed a PhD by research project in 2012 at RMIT University, occasionally writes academic texts related to her research interests, and until recently was teaching in Creative Arts & Digital Transformation. Her teaching areas include a broad range of subjects in digital media, creative research methods, and sustainable creative practice.

Lisa currently the Library Digital Learning Team at RMIT University.

Lisa's PhD project outcomes include a series of analogue and digital media artworks, and an experimental archival system built for the development of creative projects and preservation of variable media artworks. Experimental archival practices & archives in the wild are ongoing interests born from that project.

Lisa recently published a book chapter on artists and entropy in the material in Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context (Breakell & Russell 2023). She has also published journal articles in Archives & Manuscripts (2014 with S.Schutt & 2017), and in Global Ethnographic Journal (2014 with S.Schutt and M. Berry). The A&M special edition from 2014 was also published as a book: Participatory Archives in a World of Ubiquitous Media, Natalie Pang, Kai Khiun Liew & Brenda Chan Eds., Routledge (2015).