Current biennial: 2010-2012
EXPERIMENTA UTOPIA NOW
INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF MEDIA ART
MELBOURNE LAUNCH THE ARTS CENTRE, BLACKBOX, MELBOURNE
12 February 2010 – 14 March 2010
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OMINOUS TO OPTIMISTIC. INNOVATIVE AND INTERACTIVE.
Experimenta Utopia Now International Biennial of Media Art chases the dream of a perfect world. Showcasing more than 35 works from countries including Australia, Japan, Austria, India, Germany, Canada, France, Taiwan and the UK, Experimenta Utopia Now critiques 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.
LIST OF ARTISTS:
AES+F (Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovitch, Evgeny Svyatsky, Vladimir Fridkes) // Peter Alwast // Patrick Bernatchez // Blendid (David Kousemaker & Tim Olden) // Marco Bresciani // Persijn Broerson & Margit Lukács // Bu Hua // Michael Burton // Penelope Cain // Cao Fei // Leon Cmielewski & Josephine Starrs // Jen DeNike // Jean DuBois & Chloe Lefebvre // Hans-Peter Feldmann // Christopher Fulham // Shilpa Gupta // Adad Hannah & Niklas Roy // Susan Jacobs // Christian Jankowski // William Kentridge // Kwon Miller Productions (Annie Kwon and Paul Miller aka Dj Spooky) // Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine // Jimmy McGilchrist // Rowan McNaught // Angelica Mesiti // Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer // Ms & Mr (Stephanie nova Milne & Richard nova Milne) // Dorota Mytych // David OReilly // Stuart Ringholt // Scenocosme (Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt) // Momoyo Torimitsu // Kuang-Yu Tsui // Levi van Veluw // Kit Wise // Yang Zhenzhong
EXPERIMENTA CURATORIUM
EXPERIMENTA UTOPIA NOW:
Amy Barclay, Liz Hughes, Clare Needham, Jen Mizuik, Daine Singer
AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE NOW: Clare Needham
AS SEEN BY EXPERIMENTA FILM PROGRAMMER: Kit Vane Tempest
FEDERATION SQUARE BIG SCREEN SHORTS CURATOR: Daine Singer
EXPERIMENTA UTOPIA NOW DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH TEAM: Caroline Farmer, Emma McRae, Ocea Sellar, Claire Wilson
EXPERIMENTA UTOPIA NOW
SCREENING PROGRAM
AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE NOW (G)
An Australian Perspective Now showcases a diverse range of single channel video works by eight contemporary Australian artists. Each work presents a unique visual and conceptual approach to the widely embraced and complex terrain of video and explores ways in which we individually and collectively construct, navigate, survive, interpret and dream within the world we live.
Venue: the Arts Centre, Theatres Building, St Kilda Road Foyer, 100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
Dates: 12 February – 14 March 2010
Screening continuously during the Arts Centre Opening Hours
BIG SCREEN SHORTS AT FED SQUARE (G)
Big Screen Shorts features video art from international and Australian artists. The program brings together whimsical and engaging works that touch on themes of utopianism, the creation of worlds and the creative subversion of reality.
Venue: Big Screen Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne (opposite Flinders St Station)
Dates: 1 February – 14 March 2010
Screening Times: On rotation – every day!
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BY MEANS OF SIGH – INTERACTIVE SCREEN WORK (G)
By Means of a Sigh is an interactive video installation by Canadian artists Jean Dubois and Chloe´ Lefebvre that invites the viewer to call a number on the screen with their mobile phone and lend their breath to inflate two bubble gum bubbles being blown between two people on the screen.
Venue: Big Screen Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne (opposite Flinders St Station)
Dates: 1 February – 14 March 2010
Screening Times: On rotation – every day!
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AS SEEN BY EXPERIMENTA - FILM PROGRAM
A standout selection of the classic, the contemporary and the cult – As Seen by Experimenta is bound to turn a few stomachs and convert a couple of carnivores. From Capra to cannibalism, explore cinema’s greatest attempts to highlight the inevitable failures in humanity’s quest to manufacture utopia. Shown over three hot summer nights – don’t miss these iconic films on the big screen!
Venue: Australian Centre for the Moving Image Cinemas, Federation Square
SCREENINGS
SUNDAY 14 FEBRUARY @ 7:30PM
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE SCREENING
SECOND SKIN,
Directed by Juan Carlos Pineiro-Escoriaza (feature), MA 15+
MONDAY 15 FEBRUARY @ 7:30PM – DOUBLE BILL
GRISTLE,
Directed by Jonathan auf der Heide (short film), unclassified MA 15+
SOYLENT GREEN,
Directed by Richard Fleischer (feature), M
16 FEBRUARY @ 7:30PM
LOST HORIZON,
Directed by Frank Capra (feature) PG
$8 Full, $5 Concession
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POP UP EXPERIMENTA
Selected video works will be screening at City Library, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne during City Library opening hours
WHAT'S YOURS IS MINE
JAKI MIDDLETON AND DAVID LAWREY
What’s Yours Is Mine is an interactive sculptural installation that creates the illusion of a forest scene that explores the intersection between physical and virtual space. Inspired by childhood mythology, this hyper-real magic faraway tree presents portals into a simulated forest that sprouts from a patch of Astroturf.
Venue: The Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, 25 Collins St, Melbourne
Dates: 18 January – 21 March 2010
Times: All day, every day
MOMOYO TORIMITSU
MIYATA JIRO, PERFORMANCE
Watch as life-size robotic businessman Miyata Jiro crawls his way commando-style through the CBD battlefield like so many before him. Tended to by his lovely nurse artist Momoyo Torimitsu performances are not to be missed!
Friday nights performance was extremely well attended - with crowds gathering in their hundreds.Saturday's performance on the Princes Bridge was no less covert, delighting people on St Kilda Road and at Flinders Street Station. Keep an eye out on Collins Street and Bourke Street today (Monday 15th Feb) for performances. This performance is really about spontaneity and surprise!
THE NAURU ELEGIES: A PORTRAIT IN SOUND AND HYPSOGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE
BY PAUL MILLER (DJ SPOOKY) AND ANNIE K. KWON, EXHIBITION AND PERFORMANCE
This project looks at the combination of unique qualities that make a remote place like
the island of Nauru a core member of the 21st century global economy: It explores an island
in a state of environmental collapse. The music component of the Nauru Elegies reflects colonial and postcolonial issues facing the digital economy of the 21st century translated into a string quartet, composed by Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky, while the architectural component conceptualized by Annie K. Kwon spatializes and formalizes otherwise invisible economic flows and irreversible ecological devastation.
Venue: Blindside Gallery, Nicholas Building, Level 7, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Dates: 19 February – 6 March. Opening night February 18 6:00pm -8:00pm.
Times: 10-5 daily
EXPERIMENTA, OPEN CHANNEL,
SHED 4 AND STABLE PRESENT:
DJ SPOOKY: THE NAURU ELEGIES
LIVE PERFORMANCE
Venue: Victoria Harbour, Shed 4, North Wharf Road, Docklands, Melbourne
Date: Friday 5 March 8:00pm
Tickets: $25, $20 concession
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