Go along to OPEN CHANNEL’s free Video Slam Forum, Remix and Screening at Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale St(Melbourne) on Thursday 22 May, from 7.30pm. Film makers, artists, lawyers, curators and producers will slam out a
sound and video work that explores appropriation, remix, and the use of public space in the electronic arts. A panel of new media practitioners will discuss appropriated hybrid artworks and the laws that govern what an and can’t be digitally consumed on and offline.
The forum itself will be appropriated into a remix of materials collated or the VIDEO SLAM short and other materials provided by participating artists. The remix artist is Melbourne VJ, John Burton.
Hosted by Andrew Garton, panelists include:
*Shaun Miller – Film lawyer, Marshalls & Dent
*Elliott Bledsoe – New media lawyer, Creative Commons Clinic
*Shiralee Saul – Curator, Educator, Creative Media Research Journalist
*Emile Zile – Artist
FREE
Video Slam is proudly supported Film Victoria and 3RRR, and is part of Arts Law Week 2008.
To follow the Video Slam process, tune in to the blog at
http://openchannel.org.au/blogs/videoslam/
Though made for children, Japanese toy robots can catch the eye of even the most discriminating adults.
Iconic graphic designer Tom Geismar, whose firm Chermayeff & Geismar has created memorable logos for Mobil, PBS and other U.S. institutions, has been collecting the shiny bots for decades.
The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle will exhibit toys from Geismar’s collection in Robots: A Designer’s Collection of Miniature Mechanical Marvels through Oct. 26. The vintage robots on display reflect Geismar’s trained eye. “I’ve really restricted myself to ones that appealed to me as interesting, imaginative designs,” he says.
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trope:::
http://www.trope.net.au
trope promotes new Australian writing within virtual environments, and will be launched as a space within Second Life to coincide with the Sydney Writer’s Festival on May 22, 2008.
trope is a new space in Second Life promoting creative writing in virtual environments. The roundtable features trope’s creators alongside writers selected for the first iteration, discussing the dynamics of this intersection between literature and new media.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Time:12:00pm – 2:00pm
Location: Bangarra Theatre
Street: Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
City/Town: Sydney, Australia
by Artist Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.
For the past three years, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, as an artist in contemporary art practice and cross cultural disciplines, has been researching and developing a new series of work on the subjects of sexual, gender and body politics in the realms of arts and science and particularly stem cell research. This covers sub themes of right to life, governmental legislative controls, the shifts and differences in international laws, the advancements of scientific intervention, ethical rights and much more. The emphasis has been placed in the main debates of the females body and her rights in contrast to that of stem cells derived for egg donations. In conjunction to this she is addressing the very same precepts of donation from the male gender role and implications, which has a greater historical precedence in the time line, as the recent process of egg donation by comparative analysis is relativity a new sphere.
‘Male Gender Philanthropy of XY Chromosomes: Call for Sperm Donations’ is to take those very inaugural principles and how societal and institutional conventions have transformed the emphasis in displacement and focus redefined.
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For more information on the artist, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney go to:
Independent Website: www.gaynorevelynsweeney.co.uk
Associate Website: www.transvoyeur.com
Wallspace presents Tattooed Ladies, an exhibition of new sculpture and drawings by Kate Costello. For her first solo show at Wallspace, Costello fills the gallery with sculptures and a series of large-scale, multi-paneled drawings. Composed from a variety of materials (shredded paper, crumbled cement, metal, wire and plaster), the sculptures emerge through an improvisational process of breaking down, exaggerating and manipulating pre-determined forms. Formally, the works bare witness to this quality of emergence, and appear to be suspended in a state of perpetual becoming.
Costello first gained recognition for her contribution to the landmark exhibition, Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, at The Hammer Museum in 2005, where she presented Portrait Gallery, a phalanx of busts that ranged from representational to abstract. These new works are less singular, preferring instead to establish new chains of reference between symbols, objects and history. Evoking a wide range of aesthetic forbearers, from Moche ceramics and Ingres’ nudes to tattooed limbs and stock graphics, the works move seamlessly between historical archetypes, cultural artifacts and personal invention. The work on view here, a bust, an apple, a lighting bolt, the letter u, grapes and glasses, repeating parrots and a woman’s leg, stand alone or in clusters atop a democracy of plinths, pedestals and tables.
Characteristically elusive and suggestive, they reveal a strong relationship not only to history but also to the body, memory and, in their own quiet way, enact an assault on monumentality and hierarchy. Costello’s accompanying wall drawings function both as discrete works and theatrical-style backdrops for the sculptures. Like contemporary Lascauxian symbols or modern-day hieroglyphics, these works frame and unify her sculptural configurations as much as they relate to them, providing an environment for an idiosyncratic medley of voices, forms and symbols.
Kate Costello lives in Los Angeles. She has shown at Galerie Ruzicska, Salzburg, in a two-person exhibition with Monique van Genderen; at The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; at The Green Gallery at Yale University in Making Do – curated by Robert Storr and Sam Messer; and at Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles.
Wallspace Gallery Chelsea 619 West 27th Street, ground floor, NY
Web: www.wallspacegallery.com
