The digital glow of the Internet has largely replaced the dark space of the cinema as the site where furtive desires are first expressed and encountered on flickering screens. Consequently, the web continues to evolve into an uncanny hybrid of personal longing and collective interaction where configurations of watching and being watched take on radically new form. Reconsidering the historical contours and shifting relationships of sex and community in the digital age, a range of artists
have been invited to select two works: one contemporary video shown to be shown online, and one historical film to be screened in the cinema.
20th September, 7 pm
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium, London
http://www.tank.tv/show.htm
SymbioticA is an artistic laboratory dedicated to the research, learning and critique of life sciences. SymbioticA is the first research laboratory of its kind, in that it enables artists to engage in wet biology practices in a biological science department.
The ethos of SymbioticA is that ideas are discussed and shared openly and the Friday Seminar Series is designed to allow an open forum to disseminate artistic, scientific, ethical and philosophical research and practice of resident researchers, visiting artists and scholars to our University.
Our Friday Seminar Series are held, salon style, in our studio space and commence at 3.30pm. All welcome.
Upcoming event
5th September Seminar >
Brian Rappert — 3.30-5pm
Brain’s long term concern has been the social and ethical dilemmas associated with modern science and technology. He has sought to examine how choices about the adoption and regulation of technology are made where there is uncertainty and disagreement.
In recent years, much of his work has been direct towards the social, political, moral and technical aspects of the use of force by military and police organisations. The central substantive concerns herein are two-fold, to examine: how claims about the acceptability of the use of force are justified and how notions of what constitutes responsible conduct by security-related agencies are negotiated. Considering how public commentators attempt to justify contentions about what constitutes ‘acceptable force’ has led me to more theoretical questions about the basis of knowledge claims and the politics of representation.
Fridays, 3:30 PM
FREE EVENT
2nd Entrance Hackett Drive opposite Matilda Bay Tearooms
Room 228, Level 2, School of Anatomy and Human Biology
University of Western Australia
Ph (08) 6488 7116 or http://symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/
Performance Space invites you to participate as a spectator in one of the following raceway events for ECR (Eveleigh City Raceway) by Marley Dawson and Christopher Hanrahan. Working at the intersection of conceptual art, performance and raceway culture, Dawson and Hanrahan transpose an operable dirt-bike track into the gallery environment of Bay 19 @ CarriageWorks.
Replete with dust, fumes and the sounds of the speedway, ECR. mixes situational estrangement with daring machine poetics. Artists, critics and curators will face-off against one another, engaging in a physical and sensorial spectacle that will take their creative differences out of the gallery and the arts pages, and into the raucous space of the sporting
arena.
Each event is limited to an audience number of 50. Please book early and stipulate the date of the event you wish to attend. Each race will commence at 7pm sharp, so please arrive early.
6 and 7 September, 7pm – 8pm
Performance Space @ CarriageWorks, 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh, Sydney
Gallery Hours 12-8PM, Wednesday – Saturday
FREE EVENT but you need to reserve a seat!
To book tickets, contact 02 8571 9101
rsvp@performancespace.com.au
http://www.performancespace.com.au
To celebrate the launch of “Colony”, the new urban art environment for Life.lab at Digital Harbour this seminar will look at the artwork in detail. “Colony” features 36 totems surrounding the Life.lab building which are interconnected and express a fictional world. The interactive artwork responds as you walk through the landscape. Patterns of light and sound animate rusted totems in the garden and urban environment surrounding the Life.lab building.
Speakers:
Troy Innocent, Colony Artist
Liz Hughes, Artistic Director, Experimenta
David Napier, Executive Director, Digital Harbour
18 September, 6.00-7.30pm: Seminar (please note new start time)
7.30-8.00pm: viewing of Colony
FREE
Digital Harbour Theatrette
1010 LaTrobe Street, Docklands
Fore more info and to register, go to the website.
For more information about Colony and the fantastic Troy Innocent check out http://www.fieldofplay.net/
South Australians now have the chance to see a recent video artwork by award-winning Australian creator, Daniel Crooks who was recently awarded the prestigious $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize for his video artwork titled Static no. 11.
Daniel’s work titled On Perspective and Motion – Part II is part of Experimenta’s national touring exhibition, Experimenta Playground.
The exhibition is a digital media playground of interactive artworks, video installations, short films and extreme art on screen by over 30 Australian and international artists. Other Australian artists featured are: Shaun Gladwell, who has been invited to represent Australia at the 2009 Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art; Narinda Reeders; Jaki Middleton and David Lawrey; Priscilla Bracks, Gavin Sade and Matt Dwyer; and Stelarc. International artists include: Fischli & Weiss; Hiraki Sawa; Guy Ben-Ner and June Bum Park.
Experimenta Playground is a free exhibition that promises an unforgettable experience. This is contemporary art with a difference!
runs until – Friday 17 October 2008
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 11am-5pm, Sunday 2-5pm
(Closed Saturdays)
Samstag Museum of Art
Hawke Building, University of South Australia
55 North Terrace, Adelaide
www.experimenta.org/playground-touring/
