MISSINGHAM | SUDMALIS is the creative team of Daynor Missingham and David Sudmalis. Video installation artists, composers, designers and creative consultants, the MISSINGHAM | SUDMALIS team has developed an international reputation in a range of fields including art and technology, cultural policy, and arts and research project management.
The work of MISSINGHAM | SUDMALIS is a true collaboration resulting in a ‘third entity’ – a skill and conceptual set greater than the sum of its parts. New and in-progress works (Die Eigenheit cycle, Love Story) bring together their sophisticated audio-visual compositional language and methodology with an experimental and interactive performance aesthetic that is truly original and expressive.
DAYNOR MISSINGHAM is recognised as a photographer, video artist, musician, performance artist and graphic designer. A recurrent theme of her work is the intersection of the seductive nature of flesh with the cold objectivity of technology, and the valuing of the ephemeral within technologically mediated and facilitated spaces.
Daynor was shortlisted for the Harries National Digital Art Prize in 2005 (for her three screen, six channel audio work Durée) and the British Council Realise Your Dream Award in 2006. An experimental musician, Daynor has performed new works with traditional and non-traditional Western and Chinese musical instruments, interactive technologies and synchretic live audio-visual forms.
Daynor holds a Master of Fine Art and Design and a Bachelor of Music (Music Technology). She has lectured at James Cook University (music technology) and the University of Tasmania (music technology, video, digital media, cross-media) and held important posts in arts administration, including stints as the Executive Officer of the Townsville Music Centre, and Manager of ESVEPIA Media. She currently works as a graphic designer for print, web and moving image.
DAVID SUDMALIS is an internationally acclaimed composer, video artist, performer and cultural policy analyst and adviser. He is currently Manager – Strategic Development and Evaluation (Australia Council for the Arts) and was formerly Manager of Youth Arts, Education and Policy (Australia Council for the Arts); Head of Research (Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania); Head of Music (University of Tasmania); Head of Music and Media Studies (JMC Academy) and Lecturer in Music (College of Music, Visual Arts and Theatre, James Cook University). Additionally, David remains active in Australian Research Council (ARC) funded research, community arts projects, boards and committees throughout Australia.
As a researcher and academic, David has presented many papers at international conferences relating to visual and performing arts research, compositional methodology, arts education and cultural policy. He has been the sole author on many research projects, curriculum reviews, and school reviews. He was instrumental in developing approaches to the Research Quality Framework within the visual and performing arts, developing assessment metrics for research evaluation, and reframing the research paradigm whilst employed at the University of Tasmania.