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EXPERIMENTA UTOPIA NOW
INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF MEDIA ART
Carriageworks, sydney
Saturday 25 September – Saturday 16 October 2010
All welcome/Suitable for all agesFREE!
Showcasing 24 works from countries including Australia, China, Austria, Taiwan, Germany, Canada, France, Netherlands, Poland 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.
Experimenta Utopia Now features artists Peter Alwast (Poland) // Patrick Bernatchez (Canada) // Blendid Interaction Design (Netherlands) // Marco Bresciani (Australia) // Broersen & Lukacs (Netherlands) // Bu Hua (China) // Michael Burton (UK) // Penelope Cain (Australia) // Cao Fei (China) // Leon Cmielewski & Josephine Starrs (Australia) // Hans-Peter Feldmann (Germany) // Susan Jacobs (Australia) // Christian Jankowski (Germany) // Jimmy McGilchrist (Australia) // Rowan McNaught (Australia) // Angelica Mesiti (Australia) // Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer (France/Austria) // David OReilly (Ireland) // Van Sowerwine & Isobel Knowles (Australia) // Dorota Mytych (Poland) // Stuart Ringholt (Australia) // Scenocosme (France) // Kuang-Yu Tsui (Taiwan) // Kit Wise (Australia)
Together theses artists envisage and reveal the ideological flaws in the drive to engineer a perfect world. From ominous to optimistic, they highlight the responsibility of the individual to choose, hope and work for a better tomorrow.
