Amanda McDonald Crowley is a New York-based Australian curator and facilitator who has created programs and events of new media art, contemporary art, and transdisciplinary work. She has been a board advisor of AKTIONSART in Seattle since its inception in 2014, and she was the Executive Director of Eyebeam Art +Technology Center in New York City from 2005 -2011, and the Artistic Director at the Bemis Center from 2014-2015. Crowley has a Bachelor of Arts from Australian National University, double major of Fine Arts and German. She specializes in creating new media and contemporary art events and programs that encourage cross-disciplinary practice, collaboration and exchange. Prior to working at Eyebeam, she was executive producer for ISEA2004 held in Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland, and on a cruiser ferry in the Baltic sea. She was Associate Director of the Adelaide Festival 2002 and in this position was also co-chair of the working group that curated the exhibition and symposium 'conVerge: where art and science meet'. From 1995 to 2000 she was Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology where she made significant links with science and industry by developing a range of residencies for artists in settings such as science organizations, contemporary art spaces and virtual residencies online; developing cross-disciplinary masterclasses for artists and curators; as well as beginning to establish links with media artists and organizations in Asia. She previously worked with a range of arts organizations in Australia including the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Training Australia, and Electronic Media Arts Australia. She has done residencies at notable places like Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada and at Sarai in Delhi, India, regularly speaks at international conferences and festivals, occasionally writes for journals such as Artlink, RealTime, the Sarai Reader, and Art Asia Pacific; and lurks on a lot of media, technology and culture related email lists. She has worked throughout Europe and Asia, holding residencies in Berlin, Germany, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada and at The Sarai Programme at CSDS in Delhi, India. Crowley is also a board member of NAMAC. She currently has a permanent exhibit at the Senior Planet Exhibition Center titled Invisible in Plain Sight. Amanda's curatorial practice was cited along with MoMA "trailblazing curator" Barbara London in Beryl Graham's New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audiences After New Media Art. Additionally her curatorial work has been cited in the following texts:
