Fractal Flowers by Miguel Chevalier

Miguel Chevalier exhibits his Fractal Flowers in a variety of forms: virtual reality installation, silkscreens on plexiglass and 3d stereolithography scultpures all born from the same digital code.

exhibition until – 03 May 09

http://www.imal.org/FractalFlowers/

Brisbane Queer Film Festival

Brisbane Queer Film Festival opening night – Friday 3 April 2009. The most anticipated opening night at Brisbane Powerhouse just got even better! The Volkswagen Gala Opening Night of the 10th Annual Brisbane Queer Festival will not only officially begin the celebration of queer film on Friday 3 April 2009, but it will also be the first ever 3D DISCO™ experience in Australia.

The opening film, Were the World Mine, tells the tale of Timothy, openly gay, living with his single mother, attending an all-boys school where he’s prone to musical daydreams to escape the drudgery of class and the homophobic taunts from his fellow students.

3D DISCO™ was created by the UK’s Novak Collective in 2006 and premiered at Newcastle’s AV Festival. This unique audio visual experience went on to be a hit and partnered with Calvin Harris for the Beck’s Fusion tour in 2007, culminating in a massive show witnessed by 9,000 people in London’s Trafalgar Square. Appearing at countless festivals, clubs and universities across Europe and the UK., 3D

Location Location Location! Melbourne Arts Project Exhibit

Location Location Location! encompasses themes and concepts surrounding architecture, interiors, the urban and suburban. Works from a wide range of mediums-2D, 3D and animation- explore the built environment and the way we inhabit it.

A number of these works investigate the local and often immediate Northcote environment, celebrating the iconic weatherboard house in its various stages of development and decay. Immaculate attention to detail and a celebration of materiality are engendered in the works of Chris Mason and Chris O’Brien, the latter of whose ‘houses’ are the starting point for intricate narratives, bold characters and social commentary.

Gallery Talk:
Saturday 18 April from 11 – 11.30am
Talk presented by Gallery Manager Sim Luttin.

Exhibition Dates:
Thursday 19 March – Friday 24 April 2009
Free and open to the public.

Location:
Arts Project Australia Gallery
24 High Street
Northcote Victoria 3070 Australia
T: +61 (03) 9482 4484
E:info@artsproject.org.au
web: www.artsproject.org.au

Beck Wheeler gets Crafty

The brilliant Beck Wheeler has an installation of new 3d works in the encounter window space at Craft Victoria (31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne). The installation is up till the 12th April. So if your in that neck of the woods, make a bee line to the patch of sidewalk outside Craft Victoria and have a look in.

A link to more info, a little interview/writeup and some pics is below:
http://craft-victoria.blogspot.com/2009/03/introducing-beck-wheeler.html

Beck Wheeler’s website: www.beckwheeler.net

Artsource Industry Night Idea | Form – Perth

Need to find new ways to present your ideas? Then be sure to book ahead to one of the hottest nights in town. Yes the Artsource Industry Night is on again and this year we have an even sweeter line-up such as; Edward Khoury, Managing Director, Form Designs Australia who are a local industrial design company with the ability to translate artists™ ideas into 2D and 3D forms.

Magic!. Their wide range of services includes design documentation, engineering drawings, 3D modelling, rapid prototyping and model making. Hear how this company and the others in our mini-expo can help give shape to your ideas.

8  April, 6 – 8 pm,
Cost: $11 Artsource members, $17 non-members, MAX members FREE. Bookings essential.  
King St Art Centre, 357 Murray St, Perth
For further information, email: perth@artsource.net.au
http://www.formdesigns.com.au/

Big Eye – Aboriginal Animations

An exhibition of the moving image, including stop-motion, 3D and other animation techniques, Big Eye showcases Aboriginal animations from Australia and Canada in a unique cross-tribal exchange of ideas and world views. Aboriginal Australian screen artists use digital storytelling techniques to bring cultural knowledge and contemporary exploration of country to the fore, with an original and distinctive voice.

First World countries Australia and Canada are two of very few countries in the world who recognise their first people as Aboriginal. Philosophically, this exhibition explores a shared heritage by Aboriginal Canadians and Aboriginal Australians through the intersection of Aboriginal Aesthetics and Culture, with the endurance of a similar colonisation as a background.

Featuring Dark Thunder Productions, Raven Tales, Skawennati Tricia Fragnito, Rabbit and Bear Foot, The Healthy Aboriginal Project and Anthony Wong, Frank Mcleod & Aboriginal Nations, Aroha Groves, Christine Peacock & Rebekah Pitt & John Graham, the Gunbalanya Community & Gozer Media, and artist/curator Jenny Fraser.
 
The exhibition opens at QUT Creative Industries Precint ‘the Block’ at Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Australia – Tuesday April 28th, 2009 – 6 for 6.30pm
 
Opening hours Tuesday & Wednesday 2pm – 6.30pm, Thursday & Friday 2pm – 8pm,
Saturday 4pm – 8pm
Until May 30th 2009.
also with a drop-in Animation Lab
How to get there:
http://www.ciprecinct.qut.com/whatshappening/howtogethere.jsp

Melbourne Dataflux 0.1 at RMIT

Kit Webster’s solo exhibition at the RMIT School of Art Gallery, Dataflux 0.1 showcases his cutting edge developments in the combination of computer programming and 3D space. The installation merges mechanics, video object mapping, intelligent lighting and sonic triggers into one choreographed sequence, creating an engaging sensorial experience for the observer.

16-20 February
Opening 17 February 5-7pm
RMIT Building 2.B, Bowen Street (off Latrobe St), Melbourne
Monday to Friday 9.30am – 5pm
Or contact Kit Webster at: kit.webster@gmail.com
http://schoolofartgalleries.dsc.rmit.edu.au/SOAG/index.html

Cut & Paste Deadline Extended

Digital artists, do ya wanna take over the world? Cut&Paste’s Digital Design Tournament 2009 is starting it’s engines, so if you want to be involved you’ve only got limited time left to apply. They’ve kindly extended the deadline to artists still recovering from their holiday breaks, so if you’re ready to go head-to-head, live in action with other digital artists you’d better get a jump on it. This year there are three categories in the tournament – 2D, 3D and Motion Design – and they are looking for contestants in sixteen cities all over the
globe in just over a hundred days. All 48 winners will then be pitted against each other in their first ever “Global Championship” taking place in New York City. Boom!

They are also introducing a new series of Show&Tell sessions, where artists can share ideas and spread inspiration, as well as continuing their Audience Design Contests where you can create your own speed design in 2D or 3D.
 
Deadline: 20 February
For further information, visit the website at:
http://www.cutandpaste.com/

Gog Classic 1950s sci fi movie in 3D presented by Mu-Mesons

Gog (1954) in 3D – Classic 1950s sci fi movie. Scientists working on induced hibernation for space travel are killed, apparently by machines acting independently. Security agent Sheppard arrives at the secret underground space research base to investigate possible sabotage. Shot in 3D, but released mainly in regular 2D. 3D glasses will be provided but if you have your own bring them along.
Monday 23rd February …
Annandale Hotel (Sydney) 7.30 $5 suggested Donation
17 Parramatta Rd Annandale, Sydney. Ph (02) 9550-1078

In association with — For More extensive and detailed information please visit Mu-Meson Archives
web site http://www.mumeson.org

Sharescapes

Sharedscapes is an experimental 3D shared space, a platform for creativity, research and self-expression. It welcomes online submissions of texts, pictures and sounds, which will express your definitions of the concept of landscape. Through the medium of the technological translation of material published online, its secondary aim is to create a 3D space/sculpture in real time. Each deformation of the 3D space surface is specific, linked to the characteristics of the message (date, weight, content). This will crystalise that material, seeking to bring together computer-generated images, chaotic/generative modelling and a “virtual reality” space. Little by little, a virtual landscape will develop. Its composition will not be subject to the physical constraints of a site (in concrete geographical terms) but to the technological exchanges of human beings virtually connected to each other. It is in the ambiguous relationship between landscape and information that the essence of this project exists.

For submissions and more information, email contact@nobox-lab.com
http://www.nobox-lab.com/