Today technology embeds itself in our daily lives and has become virtually invisible. We use it for our own biological advancement, masking our human imperfections and changing the way we understand the human body. The melding of science, art and the human body may well be this century’s quintessential art form. The Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), has embraced the idea of science, art and the human body merging as one. Biennially, the Gallery presents the National New Media Art Award. The partnership between art and science in the 2012 exhibition (GoMA, 3 August – 4 November, 2012), encouraged expression and development within both fields. George Poonkhin Khut’s Distillery: Waveforming and Ian Haig’s work Some Thing were among eight artworks showcased. These two artists present very different applications of technology, but each focuses on the human body, from the psycho-physical perspective. The National New Media Art Award was inaugurated in 2008 in order to exhibit leading Australian new media artworks. QAGOMA defines new media artists as ‘… artists working predominantly within the field of new media technologies as well as artists who employ new technologies as an adjunct to a practice in traditional media’. Among the distinguished judges for the 2012 Award were Amy Barrett-Lennard (Director of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art), Daniel Crooks (new media artist), and Suhanya Raffel (Acting Director of Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art). The winning artwork becomes part of the Queensland Art Gallery Collection. On 2 August 2012 it was announced that the winner was George Poonkhin Khut. The judges described his work as having, ‘… poetically explored the interactions between the mind and body; art and science’ (QAGOMA, 2012)... The rest of this article is available to subscribers of Eyeline