Linda Caroli

Cultural writer, researcher and consultant
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

A Queensland based writer, Linda Carroli has written non-fiction as a journalist, essayist and critical writer since 1985. Most recently she has worked on a research project, Wordings, funded by the Australia Council’s Visual Art and Craft Board, for which she researched a series of essays exploring the intersection of image and text in contemporary visual art including exhibition and publishing practices. As a freelance writer, researcher and editor, her work has been published globally in arts and cultural magazines, journals, professional publications, anthologies and artist monographs. A former editor of fineArt forum, a monthly science, art and technology electronic magazine, she has guest edited several publications and had involvements in the editorial boards of Eyeline and Real Time. She has worked in digital, print and broadcast media.

Linda is also a new media writer and text artist having produced a number of collaborative and independent works including hypertexts, artist books and text based works. Her projects include a Writer's Residency as part of the Australian Network for Art and Technology project, *Water Writes Always in *Plural, working collaboratively online with Josephine Wilson to produce a hypermedia work. This work was awarded the inaugural Salt Hill Award for Hypertext (University of Syracuse, NY) in 1998 and received a Honourable Mention in the trAce/AltX International Hypertext Competition. She also collaborated again with Josephine Wilson to produce cipher and they participated in Ensemble Logic, a series of online lectures and forums organised by the Electronic Writing Research Ensemble. Her work, speak: a hypertext essay was presented as part of the INK.ubation Salon in conjunction with the trAce conference, Incubation in 2000, the Electronic Literature Organisation’s conference and MAAP99. Her most recent work is racconto. Several of Linda’s works are required or suggested reading in university courses in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. In 2003, Linda received a Centenary Medal from the federal government for ‘long and distinguished service to the arts’.