San Francisco is showcasing SymbioticA’s highly acclaimed research group the Tissue Culture & Art Project’s latest artwork, NoArk. Held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, BioTechnique features an international selection of artworks that have been “grown” rather than manufactured. SymbioticA co-founder and artistic director, Oron Catts with Tissue Culture & Art Project collaborator Ionat Zurr’s work, NoArk, is an updated version of a Wunderkammer, the cabinets of curiosity that preceded the natural history museum’s refined taxonomy of organisms, objects, and other physical wonders. Their collection includes a living mass of growing cells, taking the form of tissue in a state-of-the-art biotech incubator. NoArk’s protective vessel is a new type of body in the world, brought together as the assembled parts of different organisms, merged with technological support systems. BioTechnique offers a visually rich assortment of organisms, semi-living objects, and intricate life support systems that shines the light on the technologies that are changing the global economy and the earth itself. These hybrid objects, from sheltering vessels to semi-living diagnostic tools being developed in Silicon Valley, provide context for the artworks and further explore the increasingly fuzzy line between the technological and the natural. Guest curated by Philip Ross, the show runs from October 26, 2007 – January 6, 2008, at YBCA Galleries, San Francisco.
http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production.aspx?performanceNumber=4439
E-Text + Textiles (e-t+t) is a non-profit cultural organization focusing on the generation, distribution, and dissemination of networked knowledge through international Residencies scheme. Residency is based in Riga, the capital of Latvia. It welcomes artists, designers, writers, researchers and theoreticians working within or across the fields of literature and the arts, in particular textiles related. The e-t+t encourages Residents, through a mix of conceptual investigations and material productions, to join in a decades-long project among writers and artists involved in the Alt-X and ebr network. This group has been working consistently, not just to replace one technology with another in literary and arts practices, but also to give direction and cultural context to technological change and the electronic disturbance.
Deadline for the submission of project proposals is 21 December 2007.
http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/
Tape Projects is a collective of young and emerging artists who champion provocative, temporal, audio-visual works and site-specific performances by their peers in and around Melbourne. They are launching the third edition of their DVD/zine in December. The launch will feature live performances by: Rod Cooper & Anthony Magen, Paul Rodgers, Rat & Parrot, Rosalind Hall & Marco Cher-Gibard, who all hail from Melbourne and Pig & Machine from Osaka. There will also be AV interludes by Outpost Collective, screenings from DVD3, hacked Wii interactives by Jon Pak, roving helmet cams and more.
At Tapespace (Diretribe Gallery) , 1/81 Bouverie St, Carlton, Melbourne at 8pm Saturday 15 December 2007.
http://www.tapeprojects.org/
ABC TV Arts, Entertainment & Comedy and ABC TV Documentaries (Science) will finance the development of a Science and Arts documentary project to the value of AU$10,000 in a pitching competition at the AIDC, February 20-22, 2008. The collaboration between these two highly divergent cultures is now a dynamic area of practice. Increasing numbers of artists and scientists are exploring each other’s ideas, materials and working methods. Artists are inspired by science and technology as well as providing fresh critical viewpoints of the consequences of new knowledge. The artistic impulse is itself an area of research by scientists. Proposals from science and arts filmmakers that are interesting innovative formats are welcomed. We would like to receive applications that demonstrate new thoughts or new concepts on how a convergence of arts and science could be expressed on television. ABC TV Arts and ABC TV Docs are calling for treatments of up to 3 pages for either a one-hour documentary or a documentary series for prime time slots on ABC TV.
The deadline for applications is January 14 2008.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/aidc
A showcase of International Surreal & Stop Motion animation
Name: Jon Beinart
Age: 28
My YouTube account is dedicated to Surreal, Psychedelic and Stop Motion Animation from all parts of the world (Especially Eastern Europe).
http://youtube.com/jonbeinart
Please stay tuned for more strange animation.
Country: Australia
Occupation: Surreal Artist, Art Book Publisher and Collector.
Companies: ‘beinArt Publishing’, ‘beinArt Surreal Art Collective’ and ‘Surreal Visionary Art Forum’
Interests and Hobbies: Surreal Animation, Stop Frame Animation, Surreal Art, Fantastic Art, Lowbrow Art, Pop Surrealism, Psychedelic Art, Many things that are unrelated to art, Bla bla bla.
Website: http://beinart.org/info/jon-beinart.php
