Mark Amerika public lecture and conversation with Dan Angeloro (Sodajerk)
The Centre for Creative Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, La Trobe University invite you to a public lecture: Mark Amerika: “Remixthecontext: the transmedia artist in network culture”
The lecture will be followed by a Conversation between Mark Amerika and Dan Angeloro (Soda_Jerk)
When: 15 November 2011, 6.30pm
Where: Village Roadshow Theatrette, State Library Victoria, Melbourne
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/visit/how-get-here
Remix is a widespread practice of recombining existing material to make something new —including covers, sampling, mash-ups, smash-ups, cut-ups. Mark Amerika looks at how new media artists, many of whom identify with the historical avant-garde, are expanding the forms of remix art to foreground an anti-disciplinary [anti-authoritarian + interdisciplinary] approach to both contemporary practice and theory. Amerika will discuss his experimental art, theory, and pedagogy, including his recent projects Immobilité and remixthebook.
Mark Amerika is a cult novelist, media theorist, web publisher, VJ artist, and remix artist. He has been named a “Time Magazine 100 Innovator” as part of their continuing series of features on the most influential artists, scientists, entertainers and philosophers into the 21st century. Amerika is widely exhibited internationally, with solo exhibitions at major art galleries and biennales. He is Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder and Principal Research Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne. http://markamerika.com www.remixthebook.com
Dan Angeloro is one half of Soda_Jerk, a collaboration working together since 2002. In their video installations and performance lectures, Soda_Jerk work with audiovisual samples to create speculative narratives that interrogate historical events and cultural trajectories. Soda_Jerk are the recipients of the 2011 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship and a 2011 British Council Realise Your Dream Award. http://www.sodajerk.com.au
For futher information, please contact
Norie Neumark, Director, Centre for Creative Arts
n.neumark@latrobe.edu.au
or Natalie Pirotta, Coordinator, Centre for Creative Arts
CentreCreativeArts@latrobe.edu.au
Installation by Helen Pynor & Peta Clancy
with sound by Gail Priest
The Body is a Big Place by Helen Pynor and Peta Clancy is a new media commission exploring the fluidity between bodily boundaries inherent to the organ transplantation process, the ambiguous boundary between life and death, and the complex and multilayered responses reported by organ transplant recipients.
November 4 – 26
Opening November 3, 6-8
Exhibition open 10am – 5pm
Performances Mon Nov 7 & 21, 5pm (time may vary)
Performance Space
CarriageWorks, Wilson St Eveleigh/Redfern, Sydney, Australia
www.performancespace.com.au
Burlesque Ball
Starring:
Catherine D’Lish (Seattle),
Tigger! (New York),
Melody Mangler (Vancouver),
Imogen Kelly (Sydney),
Lola The Vamp (Melbourne),
Rita Fontaine (Sydney)
& Bella de Jac (Melbourne)
Melbourne 11th Nov
The final tease: www.burlesqueball.com
Center for Chemical Evolution :: Exploratory Seed Grants for Visiting Artists
Emory University, Atlanta Georgia, USA :: Proposals due 1 December 2011
The Center for Chemical Evolution (CCE) is an NSF and NASA funded, multi-institutional research effort to study the question and determine the origins of evolution. The scientists at CCE are at the forefront of demonstrating that small molecules present in the early earth and its atmosphere react with one another, self-assemble and respond to environmental pressures to form larger molecules that resemble biology’s macromolecules. With this research, the CCE is able to test the basic theory that formation of these important materials could ultimately have led to evolution. The central mission of the CCE is to bring this cutting-edge research to the public, to diversify the audience of people interested in chemistry and to use these discoveries to educate and generate excitement about science. The CCE, with the Center for Creative Arts at Emory University is looking to provide seed funds of up to US$3000 to creative and performing artists who are interested in collaborating with CCE scientists to create unique works of art that explore the theme of Chemical Evolution and develop an outreach plan to bring these works of art to diverse audiences.
http://www.centerforchemicalevolution.com
_Bio-Tech Evolution :: Engagement with the Non-Human_ _Call for Submissions for Exhibition closes 4 November 2011_
This exhibition will be used to examine interactions between humans, technology, and biology, with the aim of re-invigorating the social, cultural and environmental value ofv non-human life. Artworks that contain / deal with “wet biology” are encouraged, ethics /quarantine clearance must also be confirmed if this is required. The exhibition will be held at the Spectrum Project Space, Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. Please email word documents and Jpegs to Donna Franklin at donna_franki@yahoo.com, including an Artist Statement, 300 word Biography, contact details and a photograph of proposed work or previous work for further information. The Exhibition will run for two weeks in either May or June 2012.
http://www.sca.ecu.edu.au/
