WHO: 3 independent artists collaborating to fuse a rustic earthy theme combined with street style.
WHERE: Blank_Space, 11 Spring St, Surry Hills Sydney.
WHEN: From Thursday 18th October 2007 onwards for a week.
3D animator and graphic designer, Bill Chen has recently made his mark in the fashion industry with street-wear label ‘Meet Tyrone’. Meet Tyrone’s signature style bases itself on utopian values, finding interest and wonder in even the most inanimate of objects.
Featuring four major prints titled ‘Diamond Horse’, ‘Anubis’, ‘Reindeer’ and ‘Swallows ‘n’ Feathers’, ‘Animals in 3D’ is Meet Tyrone’s latest range of t-shirts’ & hoodies’ to hit the streets. In this range, ‘Meet Tyrone’ experiments with popular geometric art, lines, shapes and patterns.
SMC is a self-taught artist with no formal art or design training. He uses character based styles and images, concentrating on simple black definite lines and a minimal colour palette. Influenced by 60’s comics, cubism & Japanese pop art, repetitive characters and images are his recognisable signature traits. For this exhibition, SMC has chosen to use a medley of raw materials & neutral tones, mixed with a ‘street style’ impact.
Like his squid brethren that hide amongst the rocks of the ocean, ‘Striker’ hides amongst the citizens of the city. You might have caught a glimpse of his slithering, oozing arm that scrawls his images. Half man, half squid, ‘Strikers’ images are on the darker side of the ocean. This is the first time he has come out of the dark to show his canvases as part of the group show, Animal Conclave.
Visit www.meettyrone.com for more information.
Cravenet checks out the $99(US) Roboquad robot from WowWee and seems to have a lot of fun doing it!
“Watching it in action, this arthropod moved so organically that it really seemed alive and uncontrollable”.
AUDIOPHILE – NEW SOUND DATABASE AND LISTENING LIBRARY CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
A new Australian website devoted to publishing radio docos, audio stories, field recordings, and more. Become a member of the Audiophile community and start publishing your original material now! We are offering a $300 cash prize as part of our initial call for works. All works uploaded before 20th October will be go into the draw to receive
the cash prize.
Audiophile is a not for profit website, devoted to publishing the works of emerging audio producers with an interesting story that they want the world to hear.
Duration – 30 seconds or more
Closing date for cash prize 20th October.
email – eardrum@audiophile.org.au
http://www.audiophile.org.au
http://www.myspace.com/radio_audiophile
We generally assume that artists make art. But what happens when machines produce art? Do artists then become engineers? What does the artist’s apparent withdrawal from the creative act signify, and what are the consequences of that action for the originality and uniqueness of the artwork? What is then the work of art: the machine, the product, or the act of producing it? Beginning with Jean Tinguely’s drawing machines from the 1950s and continuing to the present, this exhibition, jointly conceived by the Schirn and the Museum Tinguely in Basel, features art machines that have one thing in common: they produce art themselves. Machines by artists such as Angela Bulloch, Olafur Eliasson, Damien Hirst, Rebecca Horn, Jon Kessler, Tim Lewis, Lia, Miltos Manetas, Steven Pippin, Cornelia Sollfrank, Antoine Zgraggen, and Andreas Zybach transform art spaces into production spaces. Thanks to the mechanical process of production, visitors to the exhibition can take home several of t he works, such as the Tinguely machine drawings and sheets by Damien Hirst and Olafur Eilasson. Other, digital works may be produced by the visitors in the exhibition or on the Internet, such as on the websites of Lia or Miltos Manetas.
Art Machines, Machine Art is on at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany from 18 October 2007 – 27 January 2008.
http://www.schirn-kunsthalle.de/index.php?do=exhibitions_detail&id=78&lang=en
Polar: Fieldwork and Archive Fever is an interdisciplinary symposium focusing on the curation and production of climate change knowledge in the polar regions. It brings together scientists, writers, artists, historians and social scientists with interests in knowledge about the polar landscape and its broader implications for global climate and society. Polar regions are both exceptional to and considered representative of the developments in global climate change and climate change science. Given the important claims and policy decisions based on the polar archive, it is timely to consider the way in which our knowledge of this archive has been produced. Historically, control of polar archives and landscapes has gone hand in hand. Recent work suggests that this archive and the landscapes represented therein could be structured and interpreted in alternative ways. This might give rise to alternative visions and uses of polar landscapes and their connection to a wider global picture. The symposium is organised by the Open University in association with the British Library and The Arts Catalyst with international partners as part of a wider multi-disciplinary project exploring cultural and scientific issues surrounding climate change in the context of the International Polar Year (2007-08). It incorporates the 2-day Polar symposium, a publication, and a series of public lectures taking place at the British Library.
http://www.artscatalyst.org/polararchives.html
