WHAT: Storytelling: Tales from the Union Art Collection
WHO: Curated by Elyse Horan and Bethany Cannan. Featuring works by Bill Henson, Trent Parke, Terry Gilliam, Del Kathryn Barton, Hayley Linz, Gareth Sansom, Noel Counihan, Richard Lewer, Maurice de Vlaminck, Matheus Van Helmont and Albrecht Dürer.
WHEN: Opening Thursday October 13, 6pm. October 10-November 4, Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm.
WHERE: Verge Gallery, Jane Foss Russell Plaza, City Road, University of Sydney. Australia
CONTACT: Greg Shapley on (02) 9563-6218, g.shapley@usu.usyd.edu.au
Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam, controversial photographer Bill Henson and Dutch art master Matheus Van Helmont walk into a bar. What do they talk about?…
Original artworks from these, and other artists, will be on display at Verge Gallery as part of an exhibition that playfully joins the dots between some of the University of Sydney Union’s most interesting art acquisitions. This century-old art collection contains a prestigious and eclectic range of works. Student interns turned curators, Elyse Horan and Bethany Cannan have selected works from this collection that are dying to be seen and heard. Each one beckons you in closer, throws an arm around your shoulder and whispers historic tales of intrigue and suspense. Collectively, they chatter away inviting audiences to become involved in the bigger conversation on the nature of art and the human condition. Visitors are asked to document what they hear on large scrolls that, in turn, become part of the show. Also involved in this grand narrative are works by Trent Parke, Del Kathryn Barton, Gareth Sansom, Hayley Linz, Noel Counihan, Richard Lewer, Maurice de Vlaminck, Albrecht Dürer and George Milpurrurru.
Make a Better Door: Or, How Does Digital Humanism Humanize?
An interesting image for 2011. …
A player/character in the most recent Portal game is literally locked out of her workplace and replaced by a pair of robots. From this resonant image of the human-computer interface a discussion will emerge to do with broader understandings of the digital humanities, media scholarship, and electronic literature. The focus for this approach will be the question famously posed by Richard Lanham’s: “how do the humanities humanize?”
Professor Darren Tofts (Swinburne University of Technology) will moderate a conversation with Professor Moulthrop following his presentation.
Date: Monday 10th October, 2011
Time: 6.30-8.30 pm.
Venue: Village Roadshow Theatrette
State Library of Victoria 179 La Trobe Street Melbourne (Conference Centre, Entry 3)
Australia
Stuart Moulthrop is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is an electronic literature pioneer, both as a theoretician and as a writer, and has published many of articles on the topic of games, network literature and digital media theory. From 1995-99 he was co-editor of the online journal Postmodern Culture and he is a founding board member of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO). His hypertext Victory Garden (1992) was featured on the front page of the New York Times Book Review in a (now famous) review by American literary critic Robert Coover. Moulthrop is also the author of the hypertext fiction works Reagan Library (1999), and Hegirascope (1995), amongst many others. His recent work engages with digital games and its interface with media theory, electronic writing and scandal. His current work in progress is “Sc4nda1 in New Media,” an Arcade Essay that converges philosophical meditation with an actual video game. It can be accessed at http://pantherfile.uwm.edu/moulthro/index.htm.
Professor Moulthrop is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Faculty of Life & Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology. This visit has also been supported by the School of Media and Communication, RMIT and Sydney University.
BRISBANE: IDA PROJECTS PRESENTS THE JOY OF LOSS EXHIBITION
Artist/composer David Sudmalis brings his latest project, The Joy of Loss, to The Block with the support of IDAprojects and QUT from 16-28 September.
The Joy of Loss is a multi-platform investigation of the emotional terrain sculpted through loss, transformation and transcendence. Immersive sound, silent interviews, live performance and an iPad orchestra come together in this exhibition to develop a shared emotional understanding of loss and its joyous cathartic qualities. Presented by IDAprojects and QUT Creative Industries Precinct.
You can follow the project with David on his blog www.thejoyofloss.blogspot.com or submit your stories via Twitter with #TheJoyOfLoss.
16 – 28 September 2011
_Science Graduates – Stop Explaining and Start Dancing! _ _2011 Dance Your Ph.D Contest :: Closes 10 October 2011_
The dreaded question: “So, what’s your Ph.D. research about?” You take a deep breath and launch into the explanation. People’s eyes begin to glaze over. At times like these, don’t you wish you could just turn to the nearest computer and show people an online video of your Ph.D. thesis interpreted in dance form? Now you can. And while you’re at it, you can win $1000, achieve immortal geek fame on the Internet, and be recognized by Science for your effort. This year, Dance Your Ph.D. is sponsored by TEDxBrussels. The creator of the best Ph.D. dance gets a free trip and hotel stay in Brussels to be crowned the winner at the TEDx conference on 22
November 2011. http://gonzolabs.org/dance/
