Andrew Newman is an artist and researcher based between Sydney and Vienna. His performative art practice poetically utilises methodologies from the communication sciences to examine value construction in contemporary culture. He has been researching cryptocurrencies at the Artistic Technology Lab at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna since 2013 and is currently investigating artistic knowledge production as a PhD candidate at the National Institute for Experimental Arts in Australia. He is a director and editorial board member of the journal Runway Australian Experimental Arts and editor for the upcoming Journal for Research Cultures: Epistemic Practices in Arts and Technology. Newman completed his MFA in Media Arts at the Sydney College of the Arts and the Berlin University of the Arts and his MA in Communication at the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Hamburg. Newman is the director of the Austria Australia Arts Alliance which creates an exchange of experimental art positions between Austrian and Australian researchers and artists. Newman regularly exhibits his work and performs internationally.