In 2008, TRANSIT LOUNGE becomes an experiment in remote collaboration, as 15 artists work between Berlin, Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, on the evolution of a complex, emergent structure.
The platform for this trans-disciplinary exchange is the TRANSIT LOUNGE website, powered by wiki software. An organic structure, the site grows in multiple directions as the content is layered and interlinked, tracing remote interactions and local interventions between artists. The latency of these dialogues across time zones and locations creates feedback loops (local interventions – web – local interventions) opening up spaces for mistranslation resonating between the different cities.
The multitude of inputs, exchanges, and disruptions will be distilled in an exhibition which opens at PROGRAM BERLIN on the 31st January, 2008. Here the variations will continue to multiply, incorporating inputs from visitors to the space.
TRANSIT LOUNGE is a project by Katie Hepworth and Miriam Mlecek and involves the following artists:
Chris Bennie (Brisbane), Bianca Calandra (Berlin), Robert Curgenven (Berlin), Cat Hope (Perth), Tanja Kimme (Melbourne), Somaya Langley (Berlin), Sarah Last (Brisbane), Silvia Marzall (Berlin), Ben Milbourne (Melbourne), Michael Prior (Melbourne), Lynda Roberts (Melbourne), Jodi Rose (Berlin), Sumugan Sivanesan (Sydney), Anna Tautfest (Berlin)
The TRANSIT LOUNGE is a partner event of transmediale.08
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Ever thought that the millions of images broadcast on television could one day be an archive of human behaviour? Explore that idea as you step into the multi-sensory excitement of interactive 3D cinema.
T_Visionarium’s constellation of video-streams responds to your whim, spinning a fascinating narrative web made up of over 20,000 clips from Australian television broadcasts.
A kind of visual search-engine using the latest advances in multi-media database technologies and high-volume video-streaming, T_Visionarium assembles clusters of information according to the pathways you choose to explore.
Be amazed by the sheer volume of audio-visual information you can commandeer as you are literally surrounded by hundreds of clips moving in three dimensions over a curved screen 30 metres long and three and a half metres high.
Developed at the UNSW Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, T_Visionarium opens the door to a whole new future of viewer-image interaction. Experience it to believe it!
Sydney Festival 5-26 January
Wednesday 16th January
2007 in review the revised eddition
This your last chance to see Sandy Crack’s incredible review of 2007 Sandy has re-edited and revised it and will be in-person to walk us through one of the craziest years yet . Mu-Meson Archives doors 7.30 for 8pm start with supper $10
Thursday 17th January
The Directors Cut
Iain McIntyre’s A WARNING
The A Warning project first took form whilst Iain McIntyre was living in London in 2004. Inspired by the film work of composers such as John Carpenter and John Cameron and gifted the use of a three track recorder and a Holiday Genie organ. McIntyre raided various video and online archives for stock footage with which to create the surreal “lost” movie. 15 separate clips have been put together to tell the story of a shell shocked and alcoholic journalist who is forced into private detective work following a 1972 military coup within the US. Traveling across America in search of the runaway daughter of a high ranking politician our hero experiences saucer landings, fish falls and earthquakes. Plus bonus feature “Idaho Transfer” the film that inspired A Warning, directed by Peter Fonder Mu-Meson Archives doors 7.30 for 8pm start with supper $10
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Presented by Inhabitat and Marc Alt + Partners
On February 1st, 2008 in New York City industry leaders, entrepreneurs, journalists, and designers will gather to discuss the business case for the greening of the consumer electronics industry. Greener Gadgets is a one day conference featuring key representatives from some of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world, innovators from academic thinktanks, members of startups focused on renewable energy, and some of the leading minds in the word of sustainable design and business. Topics to be addressed include: design for sustainability, product life cycle management, take-back and recycling programs, energy efficiency, greener materials, and green lifestyle and product marketing. An attached gallery space will feature a green prototype office display and technology exhibits from companies on the cutting edge of green tech.
The Greener Gadgets conference will showcase revolutionary design and tech innovations that will shape the future of the consumer electronics and change your world… for the better.
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Daniel Buren, Hors les Murs Courtesy galerie Kamel Mennour
PARIS – In the mind of the public at large, here is an artist who uscceeded in becoming one with his obsessional motive, bands. In a constant width – 8.7 cm – he has placed it on urban fences (in the 60s), in happenings remained famous (such as the one in 1967 in Paris with his colleagues Mosset, Parmentier and Toroni), in the heart of the Guggenheim (creating once again a beautiful scandal in 1971), up to thePalais-Royal where his installation
Deux Plateaux, known as «Buren’s columns», broadcast his name throughout the various stratta of the population (1986). Golden Lion at the Biennale of Venice that same year, Buren has included in his artistic practice other colors than black and white, other formats than the vertical band. The exhibition at Beaubourg in 2002 gave fame to his concept of the «exploded cabin», in which elements from a cube of the base – a square window for example – is thrown against an adjacent wall. This game of expansion in space finds a new expression at the Kamel Mennour gallery, with the inauguration this time of a new space in a private town house on rue Saint-André-des-Arts.
- Daniel Buren, « C’était, c’est, ce sera », works located on site at the Kamel Mennour gallery, 47 rue Saint-André-des-Arts, 75006 Paris, until 19 January 2008
