Experimenta Utopia Now
INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF MEDIA ART NATIONAL TOUR
ALBURY LIBRARYMUSEUM, ALBURY, NSW
SATURDAY 3 December 2011 - Sunday 29 JanUARY 2012
SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES. FREE!Experimenta Utopia Now International Biennial of New Media Art will be on it's final stop when it tours to Albury LibraryMuseum, Albury, NSW in December. The exhibition, which opens just in time for the school holidays, brings together a superb collection of Australian and international artworks and will showcase a number of the artworks seen at the exhibition's Melbourne Launch in February 2010. Artworks will include interactive works TouchMe, the giant human photocopier by Dutch duo Blendid Interaction Design, and Akousmaflore, the enchanting singing plants by French artists Scenocosme. Ominous to optimistic Experimenta Utopia Now will continue to delight and inspire audiences of all ages.
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Online Art Works
For I will fly to you, is an online artwork that melds text, animated visuals and sound to create a multi-layered and interactive experience. The viewer is taken on a journey in which they come face-to-face with a peacock, a hummingbird and an owl; each bird both embodying and subverting the certain myths and folklore that surround them.
EXPERIMENTA ANNOUNCES EXPERIMENTA SCREENGRAB SCREENING PROGRAM AT FEDERATION SQUARE
Curated exclusively for Federation Square, Experimenta presents a short programme of recent Australian screen based worksfor screening throughout December 2011. Experimenta Screengrab features three Australian artists: Jess MacNeil, Kate Murphy and Emile Zile, artists who share a unique dialogue and engagement with the world around them.
Jess MacNeil's Revolution is a 360 degree navigation around Trafalgar Square in London and a meditative consideration of the human presence in public space and the traces we leave behind. Emile Zile's Five production company logos' in 3D is an irreverent single channel video work in which the artist performs the signature logo's of five production companies in synch with an original soundtrack. The implicit critique of the proliferation of image production and consumption in this work is brought alive in this context and is an irreverent look at the generation of "content" for mass audiences. Kate Murphy's work Count me in draws us in to a strange kind of intimacy with young performers at an end of year concert. By placing an observational camera just offstage, we witness the giddy breathlessness and nervous anticipation of these "accidental" performers as they wait in the wings. The work is an insightful and poignant celebration.
Experimenta Screengrab is contemplative and reflective, fun and irreverent, intimate and optimistic, acknowledging the geographic, conceptual and temporal context of Fed Square.
A second programme of single channel screen works will be announced for screening in January.
Experimenta Screengrab 5 - 31 December. Screenings begin from 6.30 - 7.30pm on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday between 5 - 11 December with a repeat screening at 10.30pm on the same nights.
For updates or screening times for following weeks, check the Fed Square website
EXPERIMENTA'S ACTING DIRECTOR RUTH BAIN SPEAKING AT MEDIA CITY SEOUL
Ruth Bain, Experimenta's Acting Director, will join colleagues from around the world at Seoul Museum of Art this week 8 and 9 December, for Media City Seoul's International Symposium. Since 2000, Media City Seoul has organised a series of programs, dedicated to contemporaryproductions of art, media and technology. To welcome the 7th edition of Seoul Media City, this years International Symposium will explore the relationship between technology, media andcontemporary art practices today. The symposium will include a forum and workshop, whichwill take place on Thursday and Friday 8 and 9 December 2011. A catalogue of keynotespeakers' essays will be published for the symposium.
Visit Media Ctiy Seoul's website for futher information
Experimenta Announces 5th International Biennial of Media Art - EXperimenta speak to me
Experimenta is thrilled to announce our 5th International Biennial of Media Art set to launch in Melbourne at RMIT Gallery September 14 to November 17, 2012. Experimenta Speak to Me is an invitation to consider what it means, at this time, to be together. Our ability to communicate with each other anywhere, all of the time - ultimate interconnectivity - has been with us for some time. We have seen previously impermeable boundaries become redundant to an extent where relationships can now exist in a parallel universe, a second life. As this capacity for connectedness is integrated more and more into our lives, it affects many of our significant, daily actions and the way we engage with places around us. In a rapidly changing technological field, how do we now consider these new relationships to the world, technology and each other? What does this connectedness offer us?
SELECTIVELY REVEALED AN Experimenta/Asialink partnership exhibition
Experimenta are pleased to partner with Asialink to present Selectively Revealed, an exhibition of 14 Australian media artworks curated and presented as part of Asialink’s 2011/2012 visual arts touring program. Selectively Revealed investigates the blurry line between public and private in artistic practice. Employing a variety of screen and contemporary video-making techniques, each artist in the exhibition Selectively Revealed chooses precisely what - or what not - to reveal about those around them and themselves. Selectively Revealed will tour to a number of venues across Asia from October 2011 to mid 2012 beginning with Aram Art Gallery, Seoul, 26 October to 11 December 2011.
More information on Selectively Revealed
EXPERIMENTA COMMISSIONS FOR UPCOMING MEDIA ART BIENNIAL
Experimenta is pleased to announce the commissions for its 5th International Biennial of Media Art that will launch in Melbourne September 2012. Congratulations to Christopher Fulham (ACT), Jess MacNeil (NSW), Katie Turnbull (VIC) and Wade Marynowsky (NSW) on their selection.
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