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Wilkins Hill – Windows impersonating other windows #Artspace
EXHIBITION: 5 March — 10 April 2010
Wilkins Hill
Windows impersonating
other windowsWilkins Hill’s new multimedia installation Windows impersonating other windows addresses the structures of communication through abstracting relationships between words, objects and meanings. The installation can be understood as extending the artists’ interest in the underlying processes involved in the communication of meaning between an artwork and an audience, building upon earlier works such as The Plague of Inheritance (2006), Sunny (2005) and the True meaning of Christmas (2004).
Throughout 2008 and 2009 Wilkins Hill participated in residency projects in Berlin, Paris and Hamburg during which time they began experimenting with language translation, utilising the inherent gaps and misunderstandings between languages as departure points for creativity. Produced when in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts, their video work Lemurs, roswell, wheat, pyramids, mosquitoes, yellow skin, humans that lay eggs, bestiality, nazi aryanism (2009) incorporated speech recognition software and automated translation websites as a way to generate poetic texts and narratives that were then edited into a corresponding visual structure. Windows impersonating other windows incorporates translation devices in a similar fashion, creating a space for deeper consideration of how meaning is extracted from our physical environment.
ARTIST DISCUSSION
Saturday 6 March, 2010, 3.00pm
Wilkins Hill, Sam Smith and Simon Denny will be joined by Reuben Keehan.Artspace
43–51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Sydney Australia
www.artspace.org.au
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The ends of the Earth a mixed media installation
Exploring Environmental Degradation through Mixed Media Installation
Jane Castle & Linda Dement, wax box blood(detail), 2009
Jane Castle and Linda Dement present a malevolent installation involving leaking and congealing blood, video loops on hacked digital players, anomalous machinery and a soundscape from recordings made at the ends of the earth.
runs until 28 November, 2009
SASA Gallery
Kaurna Build, City West Campus
Cnr Fenn Place & Hindley Street
South AustraliaCheck out the details at:
University of South Australia
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The Gulf of Carpet Area. A site-specific video installation by Zoe Scoglio
29 September – 10 October
Trades Hall, Victoria Street Wing Foyer
Corner of Lygon St and Victoria Pde, Carlton, MELBOURNECheck out: Gulf of Carpet Area
You are invited to visit one of the great mysteries Down Under. Come and gaze at the wonders that lie deep within the abyss and discover the secrets hidden for centuries under the Gulf of Carpet Area. The region has been explored and charted, exposing the ever-changing substances that lie beneath our feet. Be careful of solid ground. The Gulf is one of the distinct physiographic sections of the larger (and surrounding) Bella Union province, which in turn is part of the larger Trades Hall physiographic division.
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NOWHERELAND. The Paris Human Flesh Incident. A cross-media installation.
NOWHERELAND, is a cross-media installation combining video, installation, plastic food and surveillance technology.
24 September – 10 October
Blindside ARI
Level 7, Room 14, 37 Swanston St, Nicholas Building MELBOURNEFind out more at http://www.blindside.org.au/2009/nowhereland.shtml
Blindside provides an environment for experimentation and encourages the creation and presentation of art works that are challenging and innovative. The program fosters exchanges between local and interstate artists.
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Screen Worlds to open at ACMI
Screen Worlds: The Story of Film, Television and Digital Culture is a globally unique, dynamic, interactive and immersive exhibition charting the past, present and future of the moving image from cinema’s early beginnings to the rise of television, games, the internet, new media and the dominance of the digital age. Screen Worlds explores the impact each form has had on our senses and emotions, and the role they’ve played in shaping our society, from Australian perspectives and in an international context.
Screen Worlds is permanent to ACMI and opens on Sept 20, 2009
Some of the games content includes:
GAMES LAB: The new 14-computer Games Lab allows you to explore different genres of games through a curated selection of playable titles. Built into the heart of ACMI’s new SCREEN WORLDS space, the lab is designed for single and multiplayer use (such as four players for Quake, two for Mario Kart), has an enclosed M15+ section and includes facility to watch live gameplay on the big screen. Some of the curated games include: Quake, Tetris, Lemmings, Sensible Soccer, Pro Evolution Soccer, Civilisation, Spore, Project Gotham Racing, Little Big Planet, Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario Kart.
SPOTLIGHT ON KROME STUDIOS: One of 14 spotlights of prominent Australian creators given their own ‘spotlight’ exhibit within Screen Worlds, Krome Studios are Australia’s largest videogame developer. Krome Studios is a leading independent studio in the worldwide games development community. Founded in 1999 in Brisbane by Steve Stamatiadis, John Passfield and Robert Walsh to make surfing games, it has now expanded into Melbourne and Adelaide. They are best known for their TY the Tasmanian Tiger titles among others. This exhibit will explore the work of this fascinating Australian success-story.
TY the Tasmanian Tiger ZOETROPE: Located in the ‘Sensation’ section of the exhibition, venture into the theatrette and as the lights go down and the strobe light kicks in, see the illusion of animation come to life in this spectacular 3D zoetrope. Starring Australia’s own boomerang-wielding videogame superstar – Krome Studios’ TY the Tasmanian Tiger – and his friends, this new installation is a world premiere.
Pong vs Tennis: Commisioned by ACMI and created specifically for the Screen Worlds exhibition, Pong vs Tennis allows you to play videogame graphics across time in this full-body interactive experience. Player One has a retro-style paddle, while Player Two has a fully motion sensitive wireless controller. Who will win? WORLD PREMIERE
THE EMERGENCE OF VIDEO GAMES: throughout the ‘emergence’ section of the exhibition we take a look at the past, present and future of video games via exhibits and interactive displays. Some of the features of this section include; playable vintage consoles including Magnivox Odyssey, the worlds’ first home console which allows you to play Pong; Space Invaders (on Amiga); early games from Beam Software one of Melbourne’s most important games publishers, such as Way of the Exploding Fist (Commodore 64); as well as playable Super Mario 3, Super Mario 64 and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. This section will also feature a life-size model of Lara Croft. There is also a specially-commissioned world-premiere ‘modding’ game developed by programmers at by Swinburne Uni and Primal Clarity – a ‘mod’ of Unreal Tournament called Mod Splodge! in which players play paint-ball in the Fed Square carpark. Your enemies are the ‘paint bots’ – packs of paint gun weilding automatons who try and splat the walls and you, in the brightest of colours – and your goal, as the cleaner, is to both clean and neutralise as many of the bots as possible!
ALL FREE!
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Federation Square, Melbourne
www.acmi.net.au
http://www.acmi.net.au/screen_worlds.htm
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Silk House Art Projects. The Twilight Girls present Wet Walls
EXHIBITION OPENINGS – SATURDAY 12 SEPT 6PM
Silk House Art Projects and the Arthive gallery present…
Exhibition: The Twilight Girls present ‘Wet Walls’
Dates: 12 September – 09 October
Artist/s: The Twilight Girls Curator: Penny ThwaiteA site-specific installation situated on the glass windows of the Silk House shopfront. The Twlight Girls bring a mix of the tactile, the architectural and classic 70s design to the windows of Silk House. ……is it water? Is it glass? How did they do it??
Opening: Saturday 12 September
Time: 6pm
Location: SilkHouseARtProjects, Shop 1, 200 Hunter St Mall, Newcastle, AustraliaSilkHouseARtProjects is a series of installations and experimental art projects.
Works viewable 24hrs & open to visit 10-5 each Saturday.
Contact SHARP by email info@silkhouseartprojects.com
www.silkhouseartprojects.com
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Primitive: A New Multi-Platform Media Artwork
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new multi-platform media artwork Primitive was commissioned by FACT in partnership with Haus der Kunst, Munich and Animate Projects, London. The work is a combination of:
- a multiple- screen video installation
- a music video
- a short film for cinema
- an online film
- an artist’s book.
“This will be the first solo exhibition in the UK by the Thai artist, which forms part of the AND Festival, Primitive is set in Nabua in the Renu Nakhon district of Thailand, which suffered violent clashes between communist communities and the Thai military in the 1960s. Communist suspects were brutally tortured during attacks and those who managed to escape fled to the jungle where they disappeared forever. Nabua’s story undeniably has echoes with the current political turmoil in Thailand, as freedom of expression is still restricted and Thai security forces continue to engage in extrajudicial killings, torture and arbitrary arrests, with new cases of ‘enforced disappearances’ emerging during 2008.”
Read more about Primitive at FACT.
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Radiobots, fusing art with Technology
Matthew Gardiner is renown for his work that fuses art with technology, working across such areas as robotics, origami, computer programming, interactivity technology and projection. In collaboration with composer David Young, Matthew is developing a network of multiple Radiobots.
1-20 September
Shepparton Arts Gallery
Eastbank Centre, 70 Welsford Street, Shepparton, Victoria, AustraliaCheck out the details at http://www.aphids.net/features/Radiobots_Shepparton
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Trace at Artspace. Post colonial cluster fcuk.
29 August – 03 October 2009
TRACE: Displaced (Post-Colonial-Cluster-Fuck)
TRACE COLLECTIVE: PHIL BABOT, LEE HASSALL, EDDIE LADD, TONY SCHWENSEN, ANDRÉ STITTLocated in a domestic terraced house in Cardiff, TRACE has presented live works and resulting ‘trace’ installations by a wide range of major international practitioners for almost a decade. According to TRACE: ‘the seemingly left-over or discarded matter from performance activity is offered up for contemplation and reflection in relation to contemporary artists’ exploration and research. In bringing together these discrete elements one becomes aware of a certain unity of practice; a living archive centred on process, events and experiences — traces that embody that fragile quality where the object itself is imbued with the performance that created it.’ With this in mind, the collective also creates regular exhibitions of its archive-based documentations, residues and partial objects created through the process of performance art.
For TRACE: Displaced at Artspace, the TRACE Collective will build a suspended floor structure — a scaled replication of the floor area of TRACE in Cardiff. During each day of the initial, public live aspect of the project, the artists will engage in an ongoing dialogue with the installation, navigating its physicality and making interventions upon its structure. Collective activity will include the dismantling of a number of classic Australian-built Torana cars combined with accumulative documentary videos of live work created in and around Sydney during the TRACE residency at Artspace. References to locations and conditions in and around Old South Wales are displaced and relocated to New South Wales, with the intent of creating multi-layered investigations which reference departure and arrival though post-colonial-scouring-cluster-fuck.
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Waiting to Turn into Puzzles at Frankston Art Centre
Waiting to Turn into Puzzles Installation
(Cube 37), Frankston Art Centre, Victoria
10-30 August, 2009
From Dusk till dawn
Featuring Video Projection and Sound InstallationWaiting to Turn into Puzzles is the latest collaboration between film artist Louise Curham and composer David Young. Shot in Yokohama Japan, this 45 minute hand-processed super 8 film/music work forms the basis of the musical scores. The inter-medial nature of the work creates a hovering connectedness between image and sound, shifting the boundaries between the artforms. Similarly the graphic music notation allows a certain freedom and spontaneity in the performance of the music which accompanies the film, whilst remaining precisely structured.
As part of the opening of Waiting to Turn Into Puzzles installation in Cube 37, an excerpt of the work will be performed by Melbourne-based Quiver Ensemble. Quiver consists of a group of highly focused young musicians who are passionate about contemporary art music, experimental improvisation and interdisciplinary practice. The four core players are also co-directors who share a dedication to innovative programming and close composer-performer collaboration.
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