Amanda McDonald Crowley is a New York-based Australian curator and arts administrator who has created exhibitions and events focused on new media art, contemporary art, and transdisciplinary work. She has served as the executive director of Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York City and as the artistic director at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. Education Crowley has a B.A. from Australian National University, where she did a double major in Fine Arts and German. Career Crowley began her career working with a range of arts organizations in Australia including the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Training Australia, and Electronic Media Arts Australia, which incorporates the Australian Video Festival. From 1995 to 2000 she was director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), where she developed residencies for artists in settings ranging from contemporary art spaces to science organizations. She also organized virtual residencies and master classes for artists and curators. Since the early 2000s, Crowley has become known for curating and organizing international new media and contemporary art events. Key themes in her curatorial work have been food and sustainability. In 2002, she was associate director of the Adelaide Festival, for which she also co-chaired the working group that curated an affiliated exhibition and symposium entitled "conVerge: where art and science meet." In 2004, she went on to serve as the executive producer for ISEA2004, which was held in Tallinn, Estonia, and Helsinki, Finland, as well as on a ferry in the Baltic Sea. In 2005, she became the executive director of Eyebeam Art +Technology Center in New York City, a position she held until 2011. Crowley is credited with returning Eyebeam to its roots as an experimental workspace for artists and fostering its growing community of artists.<ref>Goldberg, RoseLee, and Jennifer Liese. Performa: New Visual Art Performance', 2007, p. 145. - Page 145</ref> In 2014-2015, she was Artistic Director at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. In addition to long-term positions such as the one with Eyebeam, she has done shorter curatorial residencies around the world, including at the Banff Center for the Arts (Canada), Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), Helsinki International Artists Program (Finland), Santa Fe Art Institute (U.S.), and Sarai New Media Institute (India). Crowley occasionally writes for journals such as Artlink, RealTime, the Sarai Reader, and Art Asia Pacific. Crowley is a board member of NAMAC (National