Experimenta - House of Tomorrow Australian Tour

Adelaide -25 February - 27 March
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>Exhibition 25 February–27 March 2004 Open 12 - 5pm daily Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre King William Road, Adelaide [Access via Festival Drive, AFC Amphitheatre, Hyatt or Riverbank] Admission FREE	Featuring Experimenta House of Tomorrow favourites such as ZiZi The Afffectionate Couch Mimesia Church on 5th Avenue Mirror D Expecting Slow Service Flying Carpet Virsual The Digital Rocking Horse Entering a Biological Absence of Light Panopticon
>Cinema Program 7–10 March 2004 Mercury Cinema, Media Resource Centre 13 Morphett Street, Adelaide Bookings Call (08) 8410 0979 Admission $10 full or $8 concession	Mon Oncle (G) Sunday 7 March, 3pm Directed by French master Jacques Tati, this feature film of the 50s follows its eccentric hero Monsieur Hulot as he is let loose in his sister's ultra-modern home, the Villa Arpel. In this delightful satire of mechanized living, Hulot contends with electric switches, slamming doors and malfunctioning gadgets in seamless spectacles of slapstick.
	Home Fictions (18+) Monday 8 March, 7.30pm Featuring everything from domestic robot love stories to the tale of a fridge that eats people, this program of contemporary short films and animations turns home truths into fantastic fictions. Shorts & animations include: We Should Call It a Living Room Morphology of Desire The Fridge Sexy Girls, Sexy Appliances Semiotics of the Kitchen Solid Action Love Partner Kung-Fu Kitchen Color Samples The Amateur Developer’s Handbook Kitchen Sink The program also includes a selection of Future Ads.
	Utopian Promises (18+) Wednesday 10 March, 7.30pm Utopian Promises is a backwards look at visions of the future. Through a look at the Futuro House of the 60s to a selection of the rare 50s TV commercials, this program affectionately combines idealistic views of technology, with full international visions of colour and drama. Films include The Electric House Utopia Appropriated: The Future As It Was Futuro – A New Stance For Tomorrow The program also includes a selection of Future Ads
>Artist Talk Artist Talks are designed to give you a behind-the-scenes insight into the making of the artworks featured in the exhibition. Aimed to introduce audiences to the combination of art and technologly.	Marcus Lyall Saturday 28 February 2004 - 10.30am to 11.00am Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre Kind William Road, Adelaide [Access via Festival Drive, AFC Amphitheatre, Hyatt or Riverbank] Admission: FREE Marcus Lyall grew up in London, UK. He got involved in film-making while studying Graphic Design at Central St Martin’s College of Art. Here, he helped start up a company making multi-screen projection shows for music events, working extensively in the dance music scene. Leaving college, he became involved in multi-media and then worked as an editor and broadcast designer, working on a mix of title sequences, music videos and TV programmes. He also continued his interest in live music, making animated film sequences for large rock tours, including Oasis, Bush, U2 and The Chemical Brothers. He then moved into directing, making a number of music videos. Before moving to Melbourne in 2001, he helped put together the visual sequences for U2’s Elevation tour. In Melbourne, he joined Great Southern Films as a commercials director. Amongst other things, he directed the trailer for the Melbourne International Film Festival and an experimental short film for the TAC about youth, driving and risk-taking. He also worked on the Rolling Stones ‘Licks’ tour, making sequences in London, Toronto and Boston. Marcus is currently working on a number of music-related projects and a documentary.
	Liz Hughes Monday 1 March - 10.00am to 12.00pm Art Gallery of South Australia North Terrace, Adelaide [Between the South Australian Museum and the University of Adelaide] Admission: FREE Liz Hughes has a long history of working in film and digital media. She has written and directed short films which have screened at over 130 film festivals and have won twenty-two international awards including prizes for Best Short Film and Audience Prizes. Her films have been featured in a number of critical journals. Most recently Cat’s Cradle was featured in Richard Raskin’s book, The Art of the Short Fiction Film: Nine Modern Classics alongside the films of Roman Polanski and Jim Jarmusch. Liz has directed documentaries and TV drama for the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, Disney Television and Channel Seven. She directed three episodes of Short Cuts, winner of the Australian Film Institute award in 2002 for Best Children’s TV Series. As Artistic Director of Experimenta. Liz curated the highly successful Prototype exhibition and co-curated Experimenta’s 2003 major exhibition, House of Tomorrow, touring nationally and internationally in 2004 and 2005. She will be a contributing curator for the upcoming Media City Seoul in Korea in 2004 and is currently working on Experimenta’s 2005 major project.
>Net.Art	Net.Art is an online web project curated in 2003 by Rebecca Cannon for the Experimenta House of Tomorrow project. View site
>Mesh	Mesh is an online media art journal produced by Experimenta each year. View Mesh 16 online or read it in the Experimenta House of Tomorrow Exhibition catalogue (available for $11.00 only at the exhibition.)