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Running the City

di — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:44:16 +0000

Exhibition

7 June 2013 – 20 July 2013

Presented by the National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA) and ISEA2013, Running the City was an experimental, interactive exhibition in which artists deployed a range of electronic media and tactics to both map and move throughout the city. Connecting with the ISEA2013 theme – Resistance is Futile – Running the City played on the relationship of virtual to real space, exploring how boundaries and points of resistance are circumvented.

Website

ISEA2013

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test pattern

di — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:39:08 +0000

Exhibition

8 June 2013 – 1 July 2013

A highlight of the ISEA 2013 program was the Australian premiere of test pattern, a large scale immersive installation by renowned Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda.

Like many of Ikeda’s works, test pattern represents the intense energies of massive digital data flows that increasingly shape our globalised world.

Website

ISEA2013

Location

CarriageWorks

Sydney

NSW

Australia

Selected objects

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This is Video

di — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 07:05:28 +0000

Exhibition

30 May 2013 – 16 June 2013

Featuring work by: Pam Brown, Warren Burt, Peter Callas, David Chesworth, Malcolm Ellis, Mick Glasheen, Miles Green, Marr Grounds, Stephen Jones, Peter Kennedy, Eva Krczag, Gilly Leahy, Bob Pollock, David Perry, Paul Pholeros, Jill Scott, Bush Video, Bruce Tolley

Website

ISEA2013

Location

Artspace

Sydney

NSW

Australia

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Incompatible elements: version 02

di — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 06:57:13 +0000

Exhibition

23 May 2013 – 15 June 2013

Incompatible Elements: version 02 re-presents the relationship between nature and culture by reconfiguring land as active rather than neutral, verbal rather than mute, and therefore able to comment directly on the impacts of climate change. Building on the long tradition of artists combining text and image to communicate ideas and concepts, poetic texts are digitally embedded into satellite images of landscapes in crisis.

Website

ISEA2013

Location

Cross Arts Projects

Sydney

NSW

Australia

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Media Facade Exhibition

di — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 06:51:49 +0000

Exhibition

22 May 2013 – 1 June 2013

An exhibition showcasing six seminal media facades through large light posters and moving images as well as a selection of new media facade projects from around the world.

Curated by M. Hank Haeusler and Martin Tomitsch, presented by the Media Architecture Institute and Customs House in collaboration with Vivid Sydney and ISEA2013.

Website

ISEA2013

Location

Customs House

Sydney

NSW

Australia

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Smoking Bolts

di — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 06:43:54 +0000

Exhibition

2 May 2013 – 16 June 2013

Three machines comprising Smoking Bolts occupy the walls of the Artspace gallery clearly marking new painting compositions that change progressively throughout the duration of the exhibition. These painting robots are operated remotely by the artist in New Zealand and by Artspace staff to enact a trans-Tasman painting collaboration that reframes painting’s traditional mode of production. The machines leave a constant trace of their presence as a reference to the open dialogue between the artwork and contemporary technology.

Website

Artspace

Location

Artspace

Sydney

NSW

Australia

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The Woman and the Snowman

di — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 06:28:52 +0000

Exhibition

2 May 2013 – 16 June 2013

The Woman and the Snowman, a moving image and machinic installation, joins a humanoid robot (Ishiguro, 2007) created by Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University and a projection depicting a snowman to present two differing allegories of reality. Functioning as an ‘honest’ representation of a fictional being, the snowman becomes seemingly more real than the humanoid woman robot as the artwork unfolds.

Website

Artspace

Location

Artspace

Sydney

NSW

Australia

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Accomplice

di — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 06:14:48 +0000

Exhibition

2 May 2013 – 16 June 2013

Accomplice features an infestation of autonomous robots — a colony of curious, social machines hidden within the Artspace gallery walls — that function as an allegory of our world’s complex machinic ecology. Each robot is equipped with a motorised punch, a camera, and a microphone to assist in the complete transformation of the surrounding environment. Collectively, these robots explore, learn, play and conspire by knocking against the wall, producing holes and patterns that mark the evolution of their social development.

Website

Artspace

Location

Artspace

Sydney

NSW

Australia

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Channels: The Australian Video Art Festival

di — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 05:35:23 +0000

Video Festival

18 September 2013 – 21 September 2013

Channels is an international biennial festival based in Melbourne showcasing contemporary video practice from Australia and around the world. In September 2013 Channels hosted an eclectic and playful program of screenings, performances, workshops and artist commissions designed to provoke curiosity and engagement amongst the arts and broader community.

Website

Channels: The Australian Video Art Festival

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TIME MACHINE: A Festival of Experimental Time Based Art

di — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 05:25:35 +0000

Festival

18 July 2012 – 29 July 2012

Curated by Serial Space, the inaugural TIME MACHINE festival presented time-based art forms including performance, installation, workshops, talks, and experimental music. Time Machine showcased work by more than 50 Australian and International artists, taking place across a series of venues in Sydney, Australia.

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Website

Time Machine Festival

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