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Tim Bruniges

Lecturer, Music

School of the Arts, English and Media

  • Lecturer, Music
    School of the Arts, English and Media

BIO

Tim Bruniges is a Sydney based artist and musician working across a range of creative contexts and media, including contemporary music production and performance, art installation, sound and video. His record production work has been shortlisted for both the Australian Music Prize and AIR awards (Laura Jean ‘Amateurs’, 2022), he has toured globally as a performing musician (Laura Jean, The Dead Sea, Decoder Ring), written/performed music for cinema and TV (Bright Star, CSI: Miami, Spirited) and produced, recorded, mixed and/or mastered countless singles, EPs and albums.

He holds a PhD in media arts from UNSW and has exhibited his sound installation work internationally. Often taking the form of site-responsive installations, the works use live input, amplification and feedback to demonstrate the spatial, volumetric experience of listening. Bruniges has been awarded numerous competitive grants, including: EMPAC residency, Albany NY, 2022 (Aus. Council for the Arts), ISCP residency, New York 2019 (Aus. Council for the Arts),  Greene St Studio artist residency, New York 2013 (Aus. Council for the Arts). In addition he was awarded five individual competitive New Work grants form the Australia Council for the Arts between 2010 - 2018. He was a finalist in the NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) 2014/2016 and the John Fries Award 2014/2015. His work has been written about in Hyperallergic, New York Magazine, The New York Times and he has exhibited works in Australia, USA, UK, Belgium, Germany, France, Iceland and Russia. 

UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG APPOINTMENTS

  • Lecturer, Music
    Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, School of the Arts, English and Media, Wollongong, Australia2021 - present

DEGREES

  • Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy, Media arts
    University of New South Wales2015 - 2019
  • M.F.A. Master of Fine Arts, Media arts
    University of New South Wales2012 - 2014
  • B.A. Bachelor of Arts, Music
    University of Western Sydney1994 - 1996

AVAILABILITY

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision