ME

Born in Indonesia, Bambang N Karim is a media artist by trade who has worked primarily with digital media for over 12 years. Bambang seeks to explore the boundaries of the digital medium through his favourite theme of identity, women, and the human struggle.

Most recently, Bambang was nominated for a Green Room Award in Projection and/or Video Design category for his work in En Trance produced by Malthouse Theatre/Yumi Umiumare.  In 2009, his collaborative work Sakasama, was performed by Yumi Umiumare, at the iDance Festival Hong Kong.  His video installation entitled Miss Taken was shown at OzAsia Festival, Adelaide in 2009.

Sponsored by Full Tilt at the Arts Centre, Melbourne, Bambang initiated a collaborative work with Yumi Umiumare and Tony Yap, entitled 3A in 2004. 3A work has become the benchmark of his exploration in combining live performance and the realm of digital technology.

When not practicing art, Bambang – also known with his nickname BB - is one part designer, one part developer, honing his skill by running a web design business bNd Solutions. He deals with numbers of corporate clients as well as artists, such as William Yang, Nigel Helyer, and version 1.0 to name a few.

INFLUENCE

BB loves film and music very much. Most of his visual works were helped a lot through his obsession with film and music. Every now and then he does “a binge film watching” – that is he watches tens of movies over the weekend nonstop.

His “sinful” thing toward art is his love to television – bad TV and so many guilty pleasure pop cultures that enriching his art. To name a view, he loves the works of Robert del Naja of Massive Attack, Jim Morrison of The Doors, and Michael Stipe of REM. He loves Woody Allen’s works, Zhang Yimou, Guiliermo Arriaga, Joe Wright, Jean-Piere Jeunett, Robert Lepage…oh so many, the list can go on and on….and of course his self-proclaimed obsession to the pop culture phenomenon: Madonna