HALM206 Issues in Electronic Media

New events will be posted here regularly. If you have a suggestion for an event, please send it to Lisa

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sensesurround
Exhilarating sensory environments by renowned Australian and international media artists that immerse the viewer.
http://www.acmi.net.au/sensesurround.jsp

Thursday 7 October - Sunday 7 November 2004
Curated by Alessio Cavallaro.

granular synthesis: modell 5
The 'choir of cyborgs' in Modell 5 surrounds, immerses and overwhelms the senses with massive subsonic sound and penetrating light frequencies. The awesome scale and perceptual rush of this extreme audio-visual performance will leave you speechless.

granular synthesis: form
A performance by dancer Michael Ashcroft is interspersed with intense colour frames and magnified video grain to create an exhilarating collision of opposites: presence and absence, light and dark, positive and negative, image and after-image.

david pledger and jeffrey shaw: eavesdrop
Presented in a 360-degree cinematic environment, Eavesdrop provides new experiences of interactivity. The user becomes the director who navigates through the screen and narrative space to reveal the secrets embedded in the interconnected stories.

jon mccormack
Strongly influenced by the new science of Artificial Life and the mediation of nature through technology, Jon McCormack is an acclaimed digital media artist and one of the few artists who develops his work primarily through writing computer software.

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Gametime Symposium

International Game Culture Symposium
Friday 15th - Sat 16th October
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
http://www.gametime.net.au/program.pdf

Reactivate Exhibition
Experimedia
State Library of Victoria

1 Oct - 14 Nov 2004
FREE

See http://www.gametime.net.au for more details

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The Art of (Sampled) Memory 2
When: 20 - 21 August, 8pm
Where: ACMI Cinemas, Federation Square, City

ACMI is proud to present The Art of (Sampled) Memory 2, a premiere live
performance of new music and evocative video collage featuring renowned New
York composer David Shea, working in collaboration with video / visual
artist Kristi Monfries and video artist Michael Fairlie (ACMI Collections).

Find out more at www.dshea.net

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German Video Art 2000-2002
When: 16 August - 25 September, Opening 16 August 6-8pm
Where: RMIT Storey Hall, 344 Swanston St City

Featuring the work of Jung-Min Bae, Peter Becker/Stefan Holmeier, Sandra
Draschaft/Marc Thurow, Cornelia Erdmann, Beate Geissler/Oliver Sann, Sven
Harguth, Hartmut Jahn, Min Kim, Sussanne Kutter, Eric Lanz, Bernd Mattiebe,
Bjorn Melhud, Matthias Muller, Claudia-Aline Muller-Hermann/Ruth Karina
Scheel, Bianca Rampas, Anke Schafer, Harald Scheicher, Nora Schmidt, Reni
Scholz, Jan Verbeek and Anna Werkmeister.

To find out more email rmit.gallery@rmit.edu.au

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AFTRS AIMIA Convergence Seminar Number 2: 360º Degree
Production
When: 19 August, 1:30 pm
Where: Treetops Room, Museum of Victoria

AIMIA Victorian Chapter and AFTRS extend a special invitation to attend the
second event of the 2004 Convergence Seminar Series. The focus will be on
producing for multi-platform delivery, from television and film, to online,
telephony and print media, a true 360º Degree Production. The seminar will
cover planning, team configuration, management, process design and tools.
PRESENTERS: CATHY HENKEL, Managing Director, Hatchling Productions; LYNLEY
MARSHALL, Director, New Media & Digital Services, ABC; WILL BERRYMAN, Chief
Technology Officer, SBS; JO LANE, Creative Director, Design IT.
MODERATOR: RACHEL DIXON, In addition to a career as an award-winning
filmmaker, Rachel has been a developer, publisher and marketer of
interactive media since 1993. $50 AIMIA members,$75 Non-members, $25
Full-time student with ID.

Find out more at www.aimia.com.au

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Andrew Garton: Up Close and Personal
When: 14 August
Where: Cecil Street Studio 66 Cecil St Fitzroy

A story of art on-air, on-site, on-line. From punch card programming to
generative sound design, from store and forward file sharing to wire-free
audio streaming, artists have consistently adopted, adapted and assimilated
technologies in its myriad forms to articulate that which drives their
spirited and complex behavior. Andrew Garton is an internationally respected
composer, performer and
producer. In recent years he has written and performed extensively for
Internet audiences resulting in new forms of composition, particularly those
not governed by time and location. He is co-founder of c2o/Toy Satellite and
Secession Records.

Find out more at www.rainerlinz.net/NMA/upclose/

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Justin Andrews: Complex Structures
When: Until 14 August, Tuesday - Saturday 12-6pm
Where: seventh gallery, 155 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy

The assemblage of dynamic constructivity within Complex Structures creates a
potential energy within the static artwork. Accelerated velocities shatter
and crystallize under deep pressure, structuring and solidfying a hard-edged
geometric abstraction: The sequence, or multiplicities are part of the same
organ (03.2004A). What begins and ends with the cartographer mapping the
real world becomes translated/transformed within the process of
construction, deconstruction, and finally reconstruction. During this
process the engineer builds a model from the cartographer¹s tracing of the
city. A symbiosis between technology and the theorist deconstructs this
model, creating an architectural topology. Finally the process ends with the
artist, who is also a map maker, interpeting and reconstructing these
Complex Structures. This workforce cohabitates within the same person.

To find out more email seventh@labyrinth.net.au

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Patricia Todarello: MACHINE AESTHETIC: photo/copy
When: Until 21 August, Wed-Fri 3-6pm Sat 12-6pm
Where: Kings Artist Run Initiative, Level 1/171 Kings Street, City

Machine Aesthetic : photo/copy by Patricia Todarello explores the formal
properties that limit a space. Referenceing the photographic image as a
specific type of medium, Patricia uses large scale painted installations to
represent the nature of that process. Specifically for this body of work,
Patricia observes interior space through scale and a reduced palette which
ascribe to the variation of light in black and white photography. Patricia
challanges our ability to see and the very context of what we see. A mode of
perception that becomes a combination of the conventional and the contrived.

Find out more at http://www.projekt.com.au

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Whitewall launch
When: 15 August, 12-4pm
Where: Westspace, First Floor, 15-19 Anthony St City

We are a new specialist online music and toy store, stocking limited edition
art toys and reissues of 60s-70s music. Whitewall is a fusion of anarchic
dreams and imagined utopias, with sounds and play for the future and
present. It is founded on the principle of the creative spirit as an agent
of social change and influence. The combination of toys and music in one
business may seem an unusual juxtaposition. Yet our toys are no ordinary
toys and our music not quite on the play lists of Gold FM.

Find out more at www.whitewall.com.au

THE DREAM SEQUENCE

http://www.thedreamsequence.com/

The Scarab Window
A public-art projection

The Scarab Window is a series of public art projections intent on enlivening and challenging the ways we deal
with public space.

Funded by the City of Yarra and supported by local schools and businesses, the project offers artists and
other community members the opportunity to exhibit their work and thoughts, projected at approximately the
same size as a billboard.

To what extent do we take for granted the massive accumulation of advertising billboards and the constant
chatter of their propositions? What access does the community have to public space? How might the public
react to art on billboard scale? Might it be possible to open a gap in the rhetoric of the city, through
which the community might speak creatively for themselves?

The Scarab Window proposes such an opportunity.

the network is the artwork
Since the World Wide Web emerged, many have predicted great things for network art - envisaging it as a mass connectivity that would itself result in a new type of creatively distributed consciousness. Through interactivity, hypertexuality and connectivity the network is certainly defining a new territory for art - one of open systems, multiple voices and distributed knowledge - but what is still to come?

Adrian Miles, Lisa Gye, Troy Innocent, Rebecca Cannon and Adam Nash discuss networked art - its code, its lag, its communities and its new paradigms for exhibition. Who is the author of networked art, who are the audiences and where is the work situated? Do we want it in the gallery? Does it want to be there?

date Wednesday 18 August, 7pm
location ACMI Cinemas
http://www.acmi.net.au
admission Free

2004: australian culture now

ACMI Federation Square Melbourne
http://www.acmi.net.au

Image: Marcus Lyall Slow Service
ACMI and the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) join forces for the first time to present an unprecedented landmark national survey of the work at the edge of current artistic practice at Federation Square.

Unmatched in its scale and spanning the breadth of visual culture, 2004 includes the latest film, video, television, painting, networked media, sculpture, installation, photography, craft, design and fashion. This major exhibition will showcase new work by more than 130 leading and emerging Australian artists. The extensive program of events, exhibitions, talks and screenings as part of 2004 will be complemented by a pioneering online exhibition of networked media, a series of specially commissioned ARTV short films to be screened on SBS, and a major publication.

screen gallery
The works selected for the Screen Gallery in 2004 include video, multimedia, interactive works and bio-cybernetic installations

networked
The Networked program features major installations, an interactive zone, a site lounge in the Screen Gallery, Live Events and Online Forums.

CCP e media gallery

http://www.ccp.org.au/exhibitions/exhbt_emedia.html

CCP's e-Media Gallery was established in 1997 as a dedicated space for the display of digital art. Initially limited to CD-ROM works, e-Media has recently been refurbished to enable the display of net art, through broadband internet connection.

Originally programmed by Experimenta Media Arts and then the Department of Creative Media at RMIT University, the e-Media Gallery is currently curated by Daniel Palmer, and exhibits a range of Australian and International digital art. Artists who have recently exhibited include Natalie Bookchin, Alan Currall, Constance De Jong, Tony Oursler & Stephen Vitiello, Forced Entertainment, Ross Gibson & Kate Richards, Uninvited Guests, and net artists John Tonkin, Mark Amerika and Melinda Rackham.