Ada_list October 2008

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by ANAT Communications

Nanoart: Making the Invisible Visible The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) is pleased to announce the November discussion on the Synapse elist which, throughout 2008, is investigating the leading-edge of art and science research collaboration. This month's discussion explores artists' engagement with nanotechnologies. As well as an exploration of artistic projects, the list will investigate some of the pressing issues arising from the proliferation of nanoscale technologies - for example, implications of the inability to control affect at the nano level and the peculiar challenges facing artists working with these technologies, not least the 'invisibility' of their practice both literally and figuratively. To join the discussion visit: www.synapse.net.au select 'Discuss' and follow the prompts. DISCUSSION GUESTS Ælab was founded in Montreal, Canada in 1996 by Gisèle Trudel and Stéphane Claude. Their diverse creations regularly pop up on the international art circuit and demonstrate their interest in collaboration between art and science, rooted in ecological and technological awareness. As well as their work with the lab, Claude is also a musician, audio mastering engineer and head of the audio sector at OBORO, whilst Trudel is an artist and Professor at École des Arts Visuels et Médiatiques, UQAM. www.aelab.com KRISTIN ALFORD is Managing Director of Bridge8, a strategy, foresight and communications consultancy for the science and technology sectors. She is particularly involved in nanotechnology public engagement activities including art/science collaborations, the establishment and growth of industry networks and the delivery of AccessNano, a national education resource for the Australian Office of Nanotechnology. Kristin is also a Board Member of ANAT. www.bridge8.com.au PAUL THOMAS was founding Director of the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP) and is currently the coordinator of the Studio Electronic Arts at Western Australia's Curtin University of Technology. His current research project, Nanoessence, (supported by SymbioticA, University of Western Australia and the Nanochemistry Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology) aims to examine life and death at the nano level, re-examining space and scale within the human context. www.visiblespace.com STEFANO RAIMONDI is an Italian art critic and curator. He holds an MA in Art History and it was during his studies that he first became interested in nanoart. In 2007, he curated Nan°art, the first Italian exhibition to engage with nanotechnology. He is author of the book Nanoart: seeing the invisible, (published bi Skira) and he also collaborates with art magazines DIGICULT and FLASH ART. In addition, Raimondi continues his role Co-Director of the Bergamo Art Fair. www.stefanoraimondi.it TAMI SPECTOR is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of San Francisco. She is on the board of Leonardo/ISAST, is Chair of the Leonardo Scientists Working Group and is serving as the co-editor of an on-going special section on Art, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology for the Leonardo Journal. Spector is also a guest editor of the philosophy of science journal Foundations of Chemistry. www.usfca.edu/artsci/fac_staff/S/spector_tami.html ___________________________________________________________________ ANAT is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council http://www.ozco.gov.au its arts funding and advisory body, by the South Australian Government through Arts SA http://www.arts.sa.gov.au and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. If you would like to change your contact details or be added or removed from this list please email anat(a)anat.org.au

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Sriwhana Spong - Artists Talk

by Mark Williams

Artists Talk - Sriwhana Spong Friday 31 October, 12.15pm New Zealand Film Archive cnr Ghuznee and Taranaki Sts, Wellington Following the opening of her exhibition Myth and Practice this Thursday 30th at 5.30pm, Sriwhana Spong will give an artist talk on Friday at 12.15pm. Myth and Practice features work inspired by a recent stay in the United States and a visit to the infamous Chelsea Hotel. Attached please find an image from Sriwhanas work Room 424, which documents the supposed former residence of a Mr. Leonard Cohen. In accordance with the New Zealand Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act, the New Zealand Film Archive needs to review your consent to receiving e-mailed exhibition notices. If you wish to continue receiving our emails then please do nothing. If you would prefer not to receive any further emails from the New Zealand Film Archive, then please reply to this email with ‘unsubscribe’ in the subject box. Mark Williams Exhibitions/Project Developer Nga Kaitiaki O Nga Taonga Whitiahua The New Zealand Film Archive PO Box 11449 Wellington Aotearoa, New Zealand ph +64 4 384 7647 ext 829 fax +64 4 382 9595 http://www.filmarchive.org.nz

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UpStage open walk-through: Tuesday 4 November

by helen varley jamieson

/(apologies for cross-posting and please forward to interested people)/ The next UpStage open walk-through will be at 8pm New Zealand time on Tuesday November 4th; find your local time here: http://tinyurl.com/58h4bg (note - if you're in western USA, it will be the evening of Monday 3rd). UpStage is an open source web-based platform for live online interactive performance (cyberformance); logged-in players manipulate media (such as graphical avatars, backdrops, web cams, audio, drawing and text) in real time to create a theatrical performance for audience members, who require only a browser and standard internet connection. The audience interact with the players, the performance and each other via a text chat. For more information about UpStage, visit http://www.upstage.org.nz The open walk-through is an opportunity for those who are new to UpStage to have a guided introduction to the environment, with regular UpStage users. If you would like to attend the walk-through, please email me for a log-in and link to the stage. helen : ) -- ____________________________________________________________ helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst helen(a)creative-catalyst.com http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.avatarbodycollision.org http://www.upstage.org.nz http://www.writerfind.com/hjamieson.htm ____________________________________________________________

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"Clean" Feeds on Australian Artists

by ANAT Communications

"Clean" Feeds on Australian Artists The Australian Government will soon introduce a whole of Internet filtering system under the auspices of child Cyber-Safety, requiring Internet Service Providers to filter out content identified as prohibited by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). As every Australian home already has access to free filtering technology, the scheme not only provides meagre additional safety for children - it also could result in long-term damage to the Australian emerging media and new technologies industries. The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) Executive Director Dr Melinda Rackham comments "I strongly believe that this misguided scheme will have a severely adverse affect on our creativity, our culture and our economy." Whilst there is a need for additional protection for the worlds children online, perhaps more thought needs to be dedicated to this issue by the Government. Industry studies have shown that the mandatory filter could slow down network speeds significantly and block sites that are neither harmful nor inappropriate for children, nor illegal. There is significant difficulty in identifying what would be banned material in streaming media or via Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing networks. Artists who traditionally work at the leading edge of new technologies will most likely be caught by the "inappropriate" net. Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) expressed alarm, with Spokesperson Colin Jacobs stating that "the Clean Feed will be mandatory in all homes, schools and libraries throughout the country - and concerns remain about who decides what is banned." Phoebe Knowles from the Human Rights Law Resource Centre comments: "The scheme would limit our rights to privacy by monitoring the information we access and our freedom of information. Free flow of information is essential to a healthy democracy, civic debate and artistic endeavor." She continues, "Protection of children is undeniably extremely important. However, in the absence of a federal Human Rights Act, this scheme is not rigorously justified as being necessary in all the circumstances having regard to the competing rights. Where the filter blocks material that is neither child related nor illegal, it would be an unnecessary and unjustified limitation on freedom of expression." Fee Plumley - ANAT's portable platforms and emerging technologies Program Manager comments, "To ensure the world is a better place for Australian children, why not invest in widespread education and lower-cost access to the networks? These will enable children to use current and future systems responsibly and to learn how to protect themselves in our increasingly networked world." The Internet redresses our nation's tyranny of distance, easily situating Australian creative content and intellectual property in the global domain; and to stifle that is a significant step backwards. Not only is our reputation for innovation in artistic and cultural arenas slipping, but our Human Rights Record - tarnished over the past decade of Desert Detention centers and the Pacific Solution, is looking decidedly unhealthy. For more information and information on this policy and what you can do about it, visit the EFA clean-feed site http://nocleanfeed.com www.anat.org.au ___________________________________________________________________ ANAT is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council http://www.ozco.gov.au its arts funding and advisory body, by the South Australian Government through Arts SA http://www.arts.sa.gov.au and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. If you would like to change your contact details or be added or removed from this list please email anat(a)anat.org.au

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Opening Invitation - Sriwhana Spong

by Mark Williams

Dear Friends Thursday 30th October at 5.30pm, you are warmly invited to attend the opening of Sriwhana Spong's installation Myth and Practice. Featuring work developed during a recent New York residence, Myth and Practice includes video, film and sound. Faced with the impossibility of documenting the mythic proportions of the infamous Chelsea hotel, a cartridge of black and white Super 8 film was hand wound as the artist roamed the corridors. Losing the means of focusing allowed the air, or atmosphere, of this mythologised building to touch the actual film. What is recorded is the dust of the machines used in the processing and transfer of this film. Chelsea Hotel plays with the idea of documentation as a means of capturing something in order to name it and understand it, but in the end getting no closer to it. The Birds is a sound work, created through the direct translation of an image of birds sitting on a telephone wire into a 21-second piano piece. It is scored by Godfrey de Grut, and interpreted visually by Kelvin Soh and Simon Oosterdijk of The Wilderness. The Birds takes a recorded moment and creates a piece involving collaboration, direct translation and interpretation. Room 424 is a series of three photographs taken of what is, supposedly, Leonard Cohen’s old residence at the Chelsea Hotel. Although the three images show the same door, what they describe is a process of capture and framing: with flash/without flash, long shot/ close-up. PLUS: Tune in to National Radio this Saturday morning at 9:45am to hear former Dominion Post arts writer Mark Amery discuss art criticism with Kim Hill. Sriwhana Spong Myth and Practice Opening Thursday 5.30pm, 30th October New Zealand Film Archive, Wellington In accordance with the New Zealand Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act, the New Zealand Film Archive needs to review your consent to receiving e-mailed exhibition notices. If you wish to continue receiving our emails then please do nothing. If you would prefer not to receive any further emails from the New Zealand Film Archive, then please reply to this email with ‘unsubscribe’ in the subject box. Mark Williams Exhibitions/Project Developer Nga Kaitiaki O Nga Taonga Whitiahua The New Zealand Film Archive PO Box 11449 Wellington Aotearoa, New Zealand ph +64 4 384 7647 ext 829 fax +64 4 382 9595 http://www.filmarchive.org.nz

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Performance Controller 08-Friday Oct 24th 6pm

by Morgan Barnard

October 24th 6pm Victoria University of Wellington 139 Vivian Street, Lecture Theater 1 Performance Controller 08 An evening of live audio visual experiments by Victoria University Digital Media Design students from the elective class "Design and Real-time Media". Students will be performing short-form audio visual projects using interfaces other than the mouse and keyboard as a controller. By experimenting in this area of physical interaction with a computer, students explore a rich terrain of new approaches for interfacing with technology. The program will run for around 2 hours from 6pm to 8pm. Lecture theater 1 is located to your right after you enter the school of Design and Architecture.

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Dom Post axes Amery: Letter time?

by Mark Williams

Dear Arts Friends, As many of you know, the Dominion Post has decided to axe Mark Amery's weekly art column. This is a blow to many of us. As well as smart, serious journalism Mark's column was a lone voice for regular art criticism in Wellington. Plus, those valuable column inches often gave a boost to visitor numbers. This afternoon I've written a letter to the Dominion Post editor expressing my disappointment. I'd like to invite everyone on this mailing list to do the same. It's important to note that the end of Mark's column reflects a wider trend towards reduced coverage for the arts in our beloved daily. Despite Wellington being the 'arts capital of New Zealand' the Dom says "the future of other contributors’ columns is also being reviewed" and the Arts editor has "been directed to reduce the number of columnists we use". The address is: letters(a)dompost.co.nz. Letters must include the writer's full name, home address and daytime phone number and not exceed 200 words. Finally, thanks to Mark for flying the flag for the past five years. We appreciate it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------- Mark Williams Exhibitions/Project Developer Nga Kaitiaki O Nga Taonga Whitiahua The New Zealand Film Archive PO Box 11449 Wellington Aotearoa, New Zealand ph +64 4 384 7647 ext 829 fax +64 4 382 9595 http://www.filmarchive.org.nz

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CUT/SCRATCH/PLAY Wednesday 22nd Oct 5-7PM live audio/visual performance

by Morgan Barnard

CUT / SCRATCH / PLAY an evening of live audio/visual performance by academic staff, masters students and a visiting researcher. Oct 22_ 5-7pm Digital Media Design Lab Wigan Building 4th Floor. School of Design Victoria University of Wellington Grayson Cooke "Glitchcock" “Glitchcock” is a live-mixed audio-visual improvisation, underpinned by two concepts: feed-back and back-projection. The project uses back-projection sequences from Hitchcock films, which are cut-up and re-mixed live. Concurrently, the project sets up an audio-visual feed-back loop, where the audio from the Hitchcock sequences is processed and filtered, and is then used to drive visual effects on the film footage. Thus, the visual media sequences are “glitched” by their own audio track. Bio: Grayson Cooke is an interdisciplinary scholar and digital media artist who lectures in digital media at the Bundaberg Campus of Central Queensland University. He is currently a visiting researcher in the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies while on sabbatical. Johann Nortje and Tammy Thompson “Luminin” Visual Music is a collaboration between Johann Nortje and Tammy Thompson. Johann Nortje is currently studying his Masters in Digital Media design after having completed a degree in Industrial Design at Victoria University. His study is looking at Intuitive Interfaces for Live Cinema Performance Instruments and how these can translate into Club-VJ environments. Tammy Thompson is a classically trained musician and wanted to use this background to create lovely – quiet – visually based art. Visual Music is a study on the Syneasthesia between sound and image. The project is performed with a Theremin as the interface, and colour art as the product. The Theremin seemed a good interface as the data could be captured and assigned to colour instead of the sound output it is set up for. These elements are performed independently as well as combined for a intricate Audio/Visual Composition. Morgan Barnard "reflections: UrbanScreens" "reflections:UrbanScreens" is a remixed documentary project created at the Melbourne Urban Screens conference between October 3rd and 8th. Interviews about the public's relationship to urban screens and documentary footage of the conference was gathered in Federation Square then remixed in a live context to create an ephemeral real-time documentary for the transitory urban audience. Live data feeds of contextual information are displayed as motion graphic elements and visual collage. "Reflections" redefines the editorial process of traditional film and television post-production by creating a work that uses an improvisational and temporal approach for content generation. Morgan Barnard is a lecturer in Digital Media Design at The Victoria University of Wellington School of Design. He has worked as a Director, Editor, and New Media Designer in New York and Los Angeles for the past 10 years. His research includes Live Cinema, Interaction Design and exploring new ways to engage audiences in dynamic media experiences. Naomi Lamb As Veteran VJ with over ten years of exposure in the New Zealand’s Dance sub culture, Naomi Lamb took the rare stance of producing all her own video samples. She has improvised and engaged audiences with her original style at legendary music and dance festivals such at The Gathering, Kaikora Roots, Alpine Unity, Destination, Parihaka and Canaan Downs. Her experimental video art has been exhibited in Germany, South Korea, Australia and Nationally. Lamb is a master’s candidate and tutor at Digital Media Design at Victoria University, where she continues to explore VJing, Live Cinema and new media practices. She has recently been awarded an artist in residency at SCANZ, a premier arts and technology symposium, in Takanaki next year.

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Artists Talk - Dan Agnihotri-Clark

by Mark Williams

THE PELORUS TRUST MEDIAGALLERY PRESENTS HTTP Error 413: Request Entity Too Large (performance with technology, and its implications for subjectivity) * Performance * 16 October 2008, 7:00pm, KOHA * New Zealand Community Trust mediatheatre, Wellington Daniel Agnihotri-Clark (aka Dan Untitled) is an artist, curator, writer and musician based in Wellington, New Zealand. His art practice intersects the fields of art and technology - traversing the disciplines of video, sound, sculpture, installation, live performance (audio, video, and cyberformance), web-based media and robotics. His projects and research have been experienced both locally and internationally (reaching online audiences worldwide, and proximal audiences in London, Berlin, Barcelona and Melbourne). This discussion will investigate how technology can mediate our sense of self, with particular emphasis on Daniel’s recent cyberformance projects and robotics works. Daniel will be speaking from the dual capacities of artist and curator. For this presentation Daniel will be joined by globally dispersed remote participants. Daniel is in the final year of his Doctorate in Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington. He has also tutored in both studio practice and critical theory, and he manages a web-based e-learning initiative that he launched for the School of Fine Arts. Presented in association with the exhibition hey Student! - Recent video from the School of Fine Arts BFA programme, Massey University, Wellington. On now until Saturday October 25, 2008. In accordance with the New Zealand Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act, the New Zealand Film Archive needs to review your consent to receiving e-mailed exhibition notices. If you wish to continue receiving our emails then please do nothing. If you would prefer not to receive any further emails from the New Zealand Film Archive, then please reply to this email with ‘unsubscribe’ in the subject box. Mark Williams Exhibitions/Project Developer Nga Kaitiaki O Nga Taonga Whitiahua The New Zealand Film Archive PO Box 11449 Wellington Aotearoa, New Zealand ph +64 4 384 7647 ext 829 fax +64 4 382 9595 http://www.filmarchive.org.nz

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Performing Environments at AUT this Saturday

by Janine Randerson

Hi All The programme for the FREE 'Performing Environments' symposium and the Co-Lab launch is out now and myself and several of the artists in 'atmos' will be speaking about our work, all welcome! *Performing Environments* A symposium held by CoLab, a research and development centre for creative use of technology in partnership with MIC Toi Rerehiko and AUT. Saturday 18 October 10.00 am - 4.30 pm Room WA 224 – A Block Wellesley Street, AUT City Campus This conference will engage with critical aspects of art and technology projects. The conference coincides with the launch of CoLab, a new transdisciplinary research and development centre led by collaborative partners AUT University and MIC Toi Rerehiko. CoLab aims to become a national centre of excellence in the development and use of new technologies for creativity, communication and innovation. Saturday 18 October MORNING: ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIVE STRATEGIES 10 .00 – 10.30 am Welcome and introduction to CoLab: Deborah Lawler-Dormer (CoLab CoDirector) 10.30 – 10.50 Uwe Rieger is an architect and the Associate Head of Design at the School of Architecture and Planning at The University of Auckland and will discuss environmentally responsive design strategies as an interaction between landscape, people, architecture and digital information. 10.50 -11.10 Interactive and Performance Technologies Sue Gallagher: Home Body & Dead space Ovid’s story of Hermaphrodite will be told in light of some recent examples of hybrid performative environments that fuse house with body. These mobile structures are based on the notion of union. The presentation will then shift focus to homelessness and bodiless in a discussion of the scenographic strategies of repetition, delay, and disorientation in relation to three of Sue Gallagher’s performative video and light installation works: WAKE, SUGAR, & SPACEINVADER. These works are concerned with an extended moment of interregnum, as is experienced in grief, particularly when a disbelief in death results in a dramatic limbo. A dead space where bodies are caught in frenzied motion and ultimately caught in a space of paralysis. This paper seeks to trace the confounded unfolding of disruption and disorientation in relation to these works, in order to arrive at some understanding of dead space, nothingness, paralysed thought and suspended animation. 11.10 – 11.30 Listening to the Breeze – work in the AURA Laboratory Originally from Wales, Dr. Dave Parry is a Senior Lecturer in the Auckland University of Technology School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences And Directory of the AURA RFID laboratory. He holds degrees from Imperial College and St. Bartholomew’s Medical College, London and the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research interests include internet-based knowledge management and the semantic web, health informatics, the use of Radio Frequency ID in healthcare and information retrieval. The AURA lab, set up this year at AUT is concerned with application of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to real-world problems. RFID has expanded from being a “super barcode” into one of the most exciting technologies for identifying, locating and possibly understanding objects. By bridging the gap between real objects and the databases that monitor them, RFID may allow a whole new set of interfaces to be created. This talk will briefly introduce RFID but mostly deal with some of the work going on in the lab especially in the medical domain. 11.30 – 11.50 Andrew Denton is Senior Lecturer in Digital Design at AUT University. He will talk about his “work in progress” with architect Adrien McNaught on their gallery based video and sound-scape installation Horizon Line. 11.50 – 12.10 Digital Storytelling and Community Media Practices Alan Young is a designer and senior lecturer at AUT and will discuss the role of new media technologies in relation to his latest community media projects including ‘Equal Sepeople in Melbourne, for the Department of Justice as well as projects for the City Council in Glenn Innes. 12.10 – 12.30 Mobile and wireless sensor networks Dr Andrew Ensor is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at AUT, and will describe some of the current and planned CoLab projects that involve mobile technologies or wireless sensor networks. 12.30 – 1.30 Lunch Break (Catered) AFTERNOON: ENVIRONMENTALY-RESPONSIVE WORKS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ATMOS EXHIBITION AT MIC TOI REREHIKO 1.30 – 2.00 pm Janine Randerson is a New Zealand artist and curator and will be discussing technological mediation in ecological systems with a particular focus on satellite imaging. Janine will examine these issues in relation to the exhibition atmos, which explores how technological mediations in weather may become ciphers for dialogue, critique and transformation. 2.00 – 2.30pm Tom Corby is an artist and writer whose research is concerned with relocating digital imaging processes within wider aesthetic and social frameworks. Corby will discuss how scientific information visualization practices can be used to produce platforms for critical, aesthetic and affective experience. 2.30 – 3.00 Jerome Knebusch is an artist based in Paris and Frankfurt and will discuss his latest work examining the weather as an everyday part of life as well as online representations of weather as an event. 3.30 – 4.00pm Lisa Benson and Douglas Bagnall Lisa Benson is a New Zealand artist working with a range of media from photography to object based installation. A key focus in her practice is the experimentation with light and time. In 2008 she participated in a major exhibition at the Turkish Cultural Center, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzgovina. In 2001 she completed her Master of Fine Arts at RMIT University in Melbourne. Lisa is represented by the Vavasour Godkin gallery in Auckland and has exhibited widely in New Zealand and Australia. Wellington based artist Douglas Bagnall is an artist and programmer, who tries to make machines to automate some of the more mundane processes of artistic production. This was not always the case; Douglas began his career in the early nineties. His film and digital art, including The Sea (pt 3) (1996) and Random Geographical Survey (1998), has been seen throughout New Zealand at short film and fringe film festivals. His work has been shown internationally at Melbourne Experimenta in 1994 and at the Tokyo Video Festival in 1996. Bagnall was Digital Artist in Residence at the University of Waikato in 2003. Cloud Shape Classifier has been exhibited at Ramp gallery in Hamilton, Enjoy in Wellington. In 2006 the installation appeared internationally at ZeroOne/International Symposium on Electronic Arts in San Jose and later in the group show Geomatics and Ecomatics: three stories in Shanghai (2007). 4.00 – 4.30 Closing: Charles Walker 5.00 – 7.00 Drinks and Launch of CoLab

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