Experimenta Utopia Now
INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF MEDIA ART
NATIONAL TOUR
NEXT STOP – Carriageworks
saturday 25 september - 16 october 2010
Carriageworks, Sydeny
On the next stop of its National Tour, Experimenta Utopia Now International Biennial of Media Art will pull up at CarriageWorks, Sydney, where it will be part of the Sydney Children’s Festival. Showing a selection of artworks from exhibition launched in Melbourne in February 2010, Experimenta Utopia Now continues to critique the scope for happiness on earth as we know it, pokes fun at social and physical boundaries and questions the human race’s ability to preserve itself.
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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.
ISOBEL KNOWLES & VAN SOWERWINE WIN QUEENSLAND PREMIERS AWARD
Experimenta would like to congratulate Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine on winning the prestigious Premier of Queensland National New Media Art Award with their entry You Were In My Dream. Originally commissioned by Experimenta as part of Experimenta Utopia Now: International Biennial of Media Art, You Were In My Dream is an exhilarating interactive installation that invites you to leap and cavort in a choose-your-own-adventure style narrative complete with charmed beasts and mysterious forest characters.
Click here to experience their winning work in a specially commissioned online version
For more info visit the Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art
NEW ONLINE ARTWORK
Experimenta is excited to announce the launch of our latest online commission, For I fly to you, by animator Felicia Yee, writer Isabella Mead and sound by Nick Van Cuylenberg. The work combines text and animation to create a multi-layered interactive experience.
Artists Felicia and Isabella will be speaking at ‘How I Became a Writer’ a Melbourne Writers Festival evet on 2 September, and will be part of Overload Poetry Festival’s Poetronica on 11 September at The Wheeler Centre.
Visit Melbournre Writers Festival for more information
Visit Overload Poetry Festival for more information
CLARE NEEDHAM SPEAKING AT ARS ELECTRONICA
At the beginning of September, Clare Needham, Experimenta Exhibition Program and Education Manager, will be at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria to present a paper as part of the Scenes and Structure programme. Clare will also attend the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in Germany to conduct some good old research and development.
Ars Electronica is the world's largest international festival for digital art. The festival was a pioneer in facilitating ideas and exchange in the realm of media art whose impact extends beyond the scope of the festival itself: a role Ars continues today. And the International Symposium on Electronic Art is one of the most important festivals for digital and electronic art.
ISEA 2010 will be held in Germany for the first time. At several venues in the cities of Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg, with more than one hundred speakers, the festival presents current works and debates in Media Art worldwide.
Pop Up Experimenta at Melbourne Art Fair 2010
Great Job!
What a marvelous Melbourne Art Fair, and what a wonderful turn out to Pop Up Experimenta! Hundreds of people either photocopied themselves, drew with a Wiimote, or marveled at beautiful ever changing Chinese lanterns. Thanks to everyone who came along – we are happy all enjoyed it!
Pop Up Experimenta Artists:
Click here for more information about Melbourne Art Fair 2010
EXPERIMENTA ON TOUR
WOrLD EXPO 2010 SHANGHAI
Experimenta presents, Experimenta Screening Program for World Expo 2010, at the World Expo 2010, Shanghai China 15 May – 31 October 2010.
Featuring Australian media artists Stuart Ringholt, Rowan McNaught, Sary Zananiri, Isobel Knowles, Penelope Cain and Jimmy McGilchrist, Experimenta Screening Program for World Expo 2010, showcases a diverse range of single-channel video works that present a unique visual and conceptual approach to the widely embraced yet complex terrain of video and explores ways in which we individually and collectively construct, navigate, survive, interpret and dream the world in which we live. Screening at the Australian Pavilion between 15 May and 31 October 2010, this program is sure to be a favourite with the expected 100 million plus visitors to the World Expo site in Shanghai.
EXPERIMENTA @ NGV KIDS CORNER
2 June – 7 November 2010 FREE!
Open 10am – 5pm. Closed Mondays
Experimenta Overseas
Experimenta’s Director Jen Mizuik and Communications and Development Manager Kat Vane Tempest will present at the AAF (Asian Art Forum). Presenting on the topic of audience development, Jen and Kat will profile the phenomenal successes of Experimenta’s recent International Biennial of Media Art blockbuster Experimenta Utopia Now - as well as provide insight into the organisation’s unique ability to grow and retain a diverse spectrum of audience demographics.
This trip is generously supported by the AAF and the Australian –Korean Foundation.
for more information see
Asia Art Award Forum
Move on Asia Goes to Hong Kong
17 July - 5 September 2010, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
Following the success of Move on Asia 2010, part of AAF (Asian Art Forum), at Gallery Loop in Seoul, the exhibition has now opened at Para/Site Art Space in Hong Kong. Experimenta continues to represent three amazing Australian video artists: Daniel Crooks, Peter Alwast and Angelica Mestisi.
