08 AM | 11 Sep

Portable Worlds (Second Edition)

Portable Worlds (Second Edition) – Applications Now Open! Touring Portable Intimate Mobile Art

The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) is seeking applications for Portable Worlds Second Edition from artists make work with or for mobile phones. Artworks must be complete or near completion at the time of application. Applications need to be received by close of business October 19th 2007.

The Second Edition hopes to attract works that explore notions of digital community, connection, scale and distance by seeking artwork that encounters mobile phones and portability in its display or creation.

The Portable Worlds Second Edition is planned to tour major Australian regional centres with a view to international exhibition opportunities.

ANAT is currently presenting its first edition of Portable Worlds, a touring exhibition of Australian Artists working with mobile and portable devices. The current exhibition focuses exclusively on artists working for the mobile phone screen, and has toured regional South Australian venues, to Tanks Art Centre in Cairns and to the International Pocket Film Festival in Paris.

For application details, assessment criteria and to see works from the first edition please visit www.anat.org.au/portableworlds. No development funding is available.

08 AM | 11 Sep

Screenscapes:past, present,future

Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 9:00am to Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 5:00pm

Location: University of Sydney Email: peter.marks@arts.usyd.edu.

The proliferation of screens is a signature feature of modern and contemporary life. Screens located on computer, cinema, television or mobile platforms offer possibilities for entertainment, communication, art, manipulation and surveillance, creating new forms of identity, community, expression and social control. These developments in turn have created a rich and rapidly changing set of research initiatives within and across academic fields. Screenscapes: Past Present Future offers a space for the examination of these and other issues, including the creation of screen communities and identities, the remediation of screen technology into other cultural forms, the history and future of screen technology, aesthetics, audiences, developments in mobile screens, and the use of screens in visual and data surveillance.

Keynotes speakers are Professor Sean Cubitt (University of Melbourne) and Professor David Trotter (Cambridge University). Other confirmed speakers include Professor Peter Kuch (University of Otago) Professor Gerard Goggin (University of New South Wales) and Professor Julian Murphet (University of New South Wales).

Organising committee: Peter Marks, Chris Chesher, Kathy Cleland.

http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/conference/screenscapes/

04 PM | 10 Sep

SYNARCADE EMERGENCE AT ART HOUSE

Part social experiment, game and installation, Emergence is a unique and daring interactive show by Synarcade Audio-Visuals, where audiences are invited to build their ideal human being and watch it come alive. Larger-than-life, real-time and incredibly engaging, Emergence is a ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ film combining immersive theatre, live cinema, interactive technology and a giant talking head; where each show culminates in the creation of a unique being. Audiences or ‘Parents’ first meet an embryo in the Emergence ‘Virtual Lab’, where they influence and monitor its development through to the performance outcome. Would-be Parents register for their experiment and can begin making important choices for their embryo in the on-line ‘lab’. The collective decisions made on this website will determine the actual gender and physical traits of the creation that features in the show.

On at the Arts House in North Melbourne from 19 -23 September.

http://www.buildyourownbeing.com/

04 PM | 10 Sep

STILL, LIVING EXHIBITION

The seminal exhibition Still, Living presents a showcase of art that deals with biological systems. It features the international debut of work developed at symbiotica by renowned artists such as ORLAN, Critical art ensemble and the tissue Culture & art Project, as well as other major international artists in this field. Projects range from a two-headed worm searching for the right direction; live birds learning new feeding technology; frogs that mutate naturally; the non/sense and nuances of DNA fingerprinting; the fallouts of bio-warfare and torture; a multiethnic skin coat of many colours, architecture that is literally growing, a bleeding angel and notions of life in the 21st century.

Still, Living is on at The Bakery ARTRAGE complex in Perth from 15 – 23 September.

http://www.beap.org/