Dear friends, I would like to advise you that I have accepted a role as Executive Director at *Experimenta *in Melbourne and that my last day with the Riddoch and Council will be 27 August 2021. I start with Experimenta on 30 August 2021.
Warmest regards, Melentie Pandilovski Experimenta Welcomes New Executive Director Experimenta is delighted to announce the appointment of *Dr Melentie Pandilovski *as Executive Director of Experimenta. Melentie will be joining the Experimenta team from 30 August 2021. Experimenta is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Melentie Pandilovski as Executive Director of Experimenta. Melentie will be joining the Experimenta team from 30 August 2021. Melentie has over twenty-five years of experience working in the arts in Australia and internationally having led successful operations and managed multidisciplinary teams in Australia, Canada and Europe. Most recently he has been the Director of the Riddoch Art Gallery and Manager of Arts and Cultural Development at the City of Mount Gambier, SA, since August 2016. His knowledge of international as well as Australia’s art milieu including incorporated, state, and regional art galleries will bring highly valued experience to the national reach of Experimenta’s programs. Melentie brings a wealth of leadership experience in the arts; before taking up his position at Riddoch Art Gallery he was Director of Video Pool Media Arts Centre in Winnipeg, Canada (2011-16). Previous to that he was Director of the Visual Cultural Research Centre, Euro-Balkan Institute in Skopje, Macedonia (2009-11); Director of the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, Australia (2003-2009), and the Contemporary Arts Centre in Skopje, Macedonia (1998-2003). He has organised and curated more than 200 projects including exhibitions, symposia, conferences and workshops, in Europe, Australia, Canada, and the U.S., such as: “International Limestone Coast Video Art Festival”, in 2018 and 2020, “Contestable Bodies” STELARC, in 2018/2019, Silent Cave|Bell, Olya Dubatova and Greg Niemeyer in 2018, “The Rise of Bio-Society” in 2017, “Future – Future?” Keith Armstrong, in 2017, "The Institute of Fungus", Ian Haig, “Age of Catastrophe” in 2015; “Toxicity” in 2013-14, “Marshall McLuhan & Vilém Flusser Communication & Aesthetics Theories Revisited”, in 2012; “Biotech Art – Revisited” in 2009, “SEAFair” (Skopje Electronic Art Fair) 1997 – 2011. *Melentie said of his appointment,* “I am thrilled and honoured to be joining Experimenta at this pivotal time, an organisation with a strong international reputation for venturing in unique and uncharted territories. Some of the things that attracted me to Experimenta are its deep commitment to the development of the future of art, a culture of risk-taking, the perseverance in supporting media artists, and the belief in the transformative power of creativity. It is my great honour to work with Experimenta's board, staff, volunteers, and collaborators”. *Victoria Lynn, Experimenta Chair, said,* “We are looking forward to Melentie bringing his extensive experience and enthusiasm to build on the successes we have enjoyed over thirty-five years. We are very pleased that Melentie will be leading the organisation in partnership with our Artistic Director, Jonathan Parsons as Experimenta continues to support the work of artists driven by technology, and lead the national dialogue about the impact of technology on creativity today”. Melentie is also an art theorist, historian, and writer. He was Editor of *Art in the Biotech Era* (2008); *Energy, Biopolitics, Resistance Strategies and Cultural Subversion* (2012); *The Apparatus of Life and Death* (2012). He was Consultant Editor of Artlink’s *Bio Art: Life in the Anthropocene* and wrote the essay “The Biotech Species” (2014); he was Co-Editor of *Marshall McLuhan & Vilém Flusser Communication & Aesthetics Theories Revisited* (2015). He has published the chapters: “Arts & Science – the Intersection (re)engineered” in *A Companion to Curation*, Brad Buckley and John Conomos (eds.), Wiley Blackwell (2019); “The Phenomenology of (Non)Habitual Spaces for the Bioarts” in: *Naturally Postnatural—Catalyst: Jennifer Willet*, Ted Hiebert (ed), Catalyst Book Series; “Perspectives on Living and Thinking Vectors of the Anthropocene” *Found Sci* (2021) as well as “What lies behind modern technology? The approaches of Marshall McLuhan and Vilém Flusser”, *Fine Print*, Adelaide, South Australia (2018). 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