Out-of-Sync is a collaboration between Norie Neumark and Maria Miranda

Norie Neumark and Maria Miranda have maintained a collaborative art practice for over 15 years, calling themselves Out-of-Sync.

Together they have explored the world as intrepid travelers on life’s journey. In Searching for rue Simon-Crubellier (2007) they went in search of the fictive street that Georges Perec wrote about in Life a User’s Manual. Their most recent projects have been preoccupied with our/human relationship to the ‘natural’ world around us, including the weather and the crisis over river systems in S. E. Australia.

In Talking About the Weather (2006) they attempted to collect the world’s largest breath collection, (in order to blow back global warming) and In Search of the Inland Sea (2008) they made paper boats as they travelled down the Murray river – following the British explorer Charles Sturt, who in 1839 dragged a whaling boat as he went in search of an imagined inland sea in SE Australia.

Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. They live and work in Melbourne, Australia.

Norie Neumark is Professor and Chair of Media Studies and Director, Centre for Creative Arts, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

Maria Miranda is a post-doctoral fellow in the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry at La Trobe University, Melbourne. In 2009 she completed her Ph.D thesis Uncertain Practices Unsitely Aesthetics at Macquarie University, Sydney.

Norie is co-editor of Voice: Vocal Aesthetics of Digital Arts and Media (MIT Press, 2010) and At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet (MIT Press, 2005).
Maria is author of Unsitely Aesthetics (forthcoming, 2012 Errant Bodies Press).

"Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff" - Harvey Pekar

contact:
maria@out-of-sync.com
norie5@mac.com