MEDIA ART CURATING FORUMS

For Regional Gallery, Museum & Library Professionals

Media art: video installations, interactive artworks and web based art are now part of mainstream contemporary visual arts and are continually growing in popularity. The forums address commonly asked questions and present an overview of contemporary media arts. Learn from local and interstate experts about curating and collecting works of media art. Topics include: exhibition design and presentation; technical/equipment requirements; maintenance and logistics; installation; invigilation; and audiences.

Who should attend:
Public gallery, museum and library directors and staff, volunteers, artists, independent curators, arts educators and students.

Admission is free. Refreshments provided. Bookings required for catering purposes.
RSVP to the venue. See details below.

Speakers
Liz Hughes, Managing Director, Experimenta
Emma McRae, Project Manager & Associate Curator, Experimenta
Matthew Gingold, Freelance Technical Director

(See speakers' biographies below)

MEDIA ART EXHIBITION:: EXPERIMENTA PLAYGROUND

Many of the forums will be held during Experimenta Playground, a touring exhibition of inspiring and thought-provoking media artworks by over 30 Australian and international artists. Artist and curator floortalks will be held at each of the venues. Admission is free.

SYDNEY :: 8 May-7June 08
Performance Space @ CarriageWorks
ADELAIDE ::29 Aug- 17 Oct 08
Samstag Museum of Art
PERTH:: 15 Nov 08 - 27 Jan 09
Western Australian Museum
BENDIGO:: 25 April - 7 June 09
Bendigo Art Gallery
ALBURY, :: 25 July- 7 Sept 09
Albury Library Museum

Please visit the Experimenta Playground national tour site for details: www.experimenta.org/playground-touring/

FORUMS 2008
Thursday 8 May	2-5pm SYDNEY Performance Space @ CarriageWorks Speakers: Liz Hughes, Emma McRae, Matthew Gingold	RSVP to: admin@performancespace.com.au 02 8571 9111
Monday 2 June	11am – 2pm DUBBO, NSW Western Plains Cultural Centre Speakers: Emma McRae, Joyce Hinterding Coincides with VIDEOWORK, a new touring exhibition of work by SHAUN GLADWELL.	RSVP to: info@wpccdubbo.org.au 02 6801 4444
Monday 28 July	4-6pm LAUNCESTON, TASMANIA School of Visual & Performing Arts (Academy of the Arts Bldg) Lecture Theatre Speaker: Emma McRae	RSVP to: Ellissa.Nolan@utas.edu.au 03 6324 4423
Friday 29 August	2-5pm ADELAIDE Bradley Forum, Hawke Bldg University of South Australia Speaker: Liz Hughes	RSVP to: samstagmuseum@unisa.edu.au 08 8302 0870
Saturday 30 August	2-5pm TOWNSVILLE, QUEENSLAND Pinnacles Gallery Coincides with VIDEOWORK, a new touring exhibition of work by SHAUN GLADWELL. Speaker: Emma McRae	RSVP to: pinnacles@townsville.qld.gov.au (07) 4773 8871
Friday 3 October	Alice Springs, NT Open to delegates of Art at the Heart, Regional Arts Australia's national conference 3-5 October	To register as a delegate, please visit: www.artattheheart.com.au
Monday 17 November	2-5pm PERTH Western Australian Museum Speakers: Liz Hughes, Matthew Gingold	RSVP to: julie.hemen@museum.wa.gov.au (08) 9427 2872

FORUMS 2009
Friday 24 April	2-5pm BENDIGO, VICTORIA Bendigo Art Gallery	RSVP to: bendigoartgallery@bendigo.vic.gov.au 03 5434 6088
Friday 31 July	2-5pm ALBURY, NSW Albury Library Museum	RSVP to: librarymuseum@alburycity.nsw.gov.au 02 6023 8333

SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHIES

Liz Hughes
Liz Hughes has worked in the film and media art sectors for 15 years as an innovative filmmaker, curator and senior arts manager. Her films have screened at over 130 film festivals, winning 21 international awards and selling to a number of TV networks. She has also directed documentaries for the Aboriginal media group CAAMA, as well as several episodes of the children’s TV  series Short Cuts, which received an Australian Film Institute award in 2002.

As Artistic Director of Experimenta for the last six years, Liz has contributed significantly to the organization’s transformation and success through her efforts to reposition Experimenta, generate inspiring and accessible programming, expand its funding base and develop new local partnerships and international networks.

While at Experimenta, Liz has also driven, managed, curated or co-curated, and toured a number of ambitious projects, including House of Tomorrow and Vanishing Point, which have attracted large and diverse audiences and extensive media coverage, both in Australia and overseas. Liz also co-curated the 2004 Seoul International Media Art Biennale, contributed to the curation of Multimedia Art and Asia Pacific (China 2002 and Singapore 2004) and has curated Experimenta’s Under the Radar, a collection of Australian media art which toured to Liverpool’s Foundation for Art and Creative Technology and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London. Recently, Liz co-curated Experimenta Playground, which launched in Melbourne in August 2007 and is currently touring Australia.

Liz is currently planning, researching and developing Experimenta’s next large scale exhibition to be launched in 2010.

Emma McRae
Emma McRae has worked with video and new media for over 10 years and was Experimenta's Project Manager & Associate Curator for 4 years. In this position she co-curated Experimenta Playground (2007) and Experimenta Vanishing Point (2005), and curated the Oz Digital Shorts program for the 53rd Sydney Film Festival (2006). Emma co-ordinated the highly successful Experimenta Vanishing Point National Tour to 5 states in Australia, the Experimenta Under the Radar tour of Australian media art to the UK in 2006, and Experimenta Playground which launched in Melbourne in August 2007 and is currently touring Australia.
 
Emma previously worked on project management for exhibitions including "I thought I knew but I was wrong", an ACMI/Asialink touring exhibition of Australian video art, and her video artworks have been screened and performed at galleries and festivals nationally and internationally including ISEA, Japan; Futuresonic, UK; Electrofringe, Australia; Champ Libre, Canada; Root X, UK; Next Wave, Australia; and Gwangju Biennale, Korea.

Matthew Gingold
Matthew Gingold has been working as a technical director, arts project manager, and new media artist in Australia and abroad for the last 10 years. His work has taken him to Korea, Britain, Germany, China and many regional areas and capital cities in Australia. As a technical director Matthew coordinates large-scale national and international new media productions for a number of arts organisations and institutions, including Experimenta, ACCA, ACMI and the State Library of Victoria. Matthew is considered to be one of the best in his field, not only understanding and delivering the most appropriate hardware and software for clients, but also building strong collaborative and creative relationships directly with artists and their work to produce systems that are flexible, reliable, transportable and durable whilst remaining at the cutting edge of technology and conceptual art practices.

Matthew’s art practice spans photographic exhibition, interactive, sound and video installation, live audio visual performance, sound and video design for theatre, dance, film and documentary productions as well as cultural and community development and public art projects. Recent projects have been presented at CarriageWorks, Sydney (during the Sydney International Art Festival); Bus Gallery, Melbourne; Tap Seac Square, Macau; BlackBox, the Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne; and ACMI Memory Grid, Melbourne.

Joyce Hinterding
Joyce Hinterding has created many works in collaboration with David Haines. Individually and collaboratively, Haines and Hinterding’s work has been presented at a number of exhibitions including;
Experimenta Vanishing Point, Melbourne (2005), the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Contemporary Photomedia, Art Gallery of South Australia (2004), Sao Paulo Bienal, Brazil (2004), Liquid Sea, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2003), Biennale of Sydney (1992, 2002), Space
Odysseys – Sensation and Immersion, Art Gallery of NSW (2001), the 7th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2001) and the V2 institute unstable media, Netherlands (1998).

This project is an initiative of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body and assisted by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, state and territory governments.