Ada_list August 2008

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by Sonja van K

Is it possible to order a copy of the ADA reader or is it available in digital form? thanks, Sonja Sonja van KerkhoffART: www.sonjavank.comBLOG: sonjavank.blogspot.comDESIGN: www.sonjavank.com/designVIDEOS: www.youtube.com/sonjavank BOOKMARKS: http://del.icio.us/sonjavank _________________________________________________________________

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MIC Toi Rerehiko Presents CHRISTINE WEBSTER

by Nicole Edwards

MIC Toi Rerehiko presents CHRISTINE WEBSTER August 29 - 11 October. OPENING RECEPTION Frid August 29th, 6pm @ MIC Toi Rerehiko, Level 1, 321 K-Rd, Newton, Auckland. MIC is privileged to welcome the return of Christine Webster, one of New Zealand's most prodigious and well-respected talents working in photography and video. Christine Webster will be exhibiting 'Le Dossier', a deeply evocative and erotically charged rumination on cultural mores as they relate to sexuality as well as a sophisticated critique of the role of representation in both maintaining and challenging culturally sanctioned categories of decency. A new version of the video installation 'Blindfield' will be shown alongside 'Le Dossier' and explores the role of the individual in relation to structures of power. Webster will also be presenting her latest multi-screen video and sound installation 'ViGil', which examines issues around desire and vulnerability, intimacy and control amongst various heterosexual, bi-sexual, gay and asexual participants. 'Le Dossier' 2006 Three women shut themselves away in a chateau in France to mime out erotically charged actions related to events dredged up from a scandal, which had occurred in Toulouse. The building becomes a repository or vessel for these actions, its fragile structure and surrounding gardens heavily marked by time, but leaving no traces of evidence. Kyla MacFarlane C-type prints (20" x 28") 'Blindfield' 2007 Blindfield is not by any means a sentimental film work. It is instead a cautionary tale that gives visibility to the voiceless; uncovering what resides in residues of a past asylum. With the knowledge that her Grandmother had received Electric Shock Treatment, Webster set out to explore what it means to be institutionalized. There is a constant sense of waiting or foreboding without resolve however the viewer is given the power to question what is seen. Laura Earley A video work 'ViGil' 2008 Vigil is a multi-screen installation presenting a number of seated nudes. This work explores issues around desire and vulnerability, intimacy and control, examining differing perceptions about sexuality. A collection of subjects of differing sexual orientations occupy eleven monitors. The nudes are strangely distanced, playing the role of observers whilst audio tracks provide intimate confessional stories. A multi-screen video and sound installation CHRISTINE WEBSTER MIC Toi Rerehiko, 321 Karangahape Rd, Newton, Auckland August 29 - 11 October Gallery Opening Hours: Tue - Fri, 10am – 6pm Sat, 11am - 4pm

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Lux Lucis Ut Sanus - "making tangible the seemingly invisible materiality of sound"

by Zoe Drayton

The Auckland Film Archive is pleased to present a new exhibition curated by The Audio Foundation. OPENING: 3 Sep, 6 pm 3rd Sep – 30th Sep 1st Floor, 300 Karangahape Road, Newton, Auckland Hours: Mon-Fri 11am - 5pm, Sat 11am - 4pm Seeking to underline the acoustic perspective in a predominately visual culture, the Audio Foundation asked five artists to explore the notion of transforming light or optical information into sound. Included with the exhibition will be a limited edition CD showcasing the artists. Featuring: Adam Willetts Solarbotic Guitar Solo 3 was performed on the back porch by a simple, solar powered robot rolling around on a saucer balanced on the strings of an electric guitar plugged into a small, battery powered amp. A human did not touch this guitar at all during the performance. Adam Willetts is a musician and artist whose practice shifts casually between hi-tech and handcrafted as he explores relationships and interfaces between people, technology and popular culture. His use of DIY electronics, radio, computers and game controllers creates dynamic and surprising live performances that carefully balance elements of fragile beauty with violent eruptions of static, electromagnetic interference and feedback. He also creates sculptures in a variety of mediums including ceramics and electronics. Adam has been performing and exhibiting throughout New Zealand and internationally since the late 1990s featuring at numerous festivals and exhibitions including, Lines of Flight 2006 (Dunedin), TASIE 2006 (Beijing), S3D 2007 (Auckland), and Cloudland at ISEA 2008 (Singapore). Joyoti Wylie Joyoti Wylie was born in Rawene, New Zealand in 1975. She graduated from Auckland School of Art and Auckland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Visual Art in 1997. Director of artist initiative and gallery 'rm 3' with 5 others from 1997-2002. Works with photography, video, sound and performance. Has exhibited throughout New Zealand and internationally. Currently Head of Art Department at Michael Park Rudolf Steiner School. Most recent performances were at Auckland City Art Gallery, St Paul Street Gallery and the Blue Oyster Gallery performance series. Kim Pieters in collaboration with Peter Stapleton Kim Pieters is an abstract painter with a long history of commitment to photography, improvisational film and music. Her work in all of these art forms predominantly finds its point of departure in her interest in the deictic experience the encounter of human perception and technology with the 'real'. She engages particularly with those realms of the real that allude to chance, the trace and notions of the sublime. What is of especial importance to her is that moment of space where the proximity with something in its first instance cannot be named, coded or rationalized. Peter Stapleton is a musician and sound artist with an extensive involvement in New Zealand experimental music, playing and recording with bands such as rain, flies inside the sun, sleep, a handful of dust and currently with eye and PSN electronic. He runs the Metonymic label which specializes in improvised music and has provided the sound component to a number of visual installations and soundtracks to short experimental films. Peter also curates Lines of Flight, a festival of experimental music and film. Stella Corkery Stella Corkery is an artist and multi instrumentalist whose practice extends from the mid 80's with the groups Angel Head, Queen Meanie Puss, Fake Purr and White Saucer. She has had releases on labels such as Xpressway, Flying Nun , Siltbreeze and CLaudia. She created two record labels, Girl Alliance to primarily document the nascent Riot Girl scene of the mid 90’s and a more experimental label Pink Air. While also self releasing her own solo projects under the name Sweetcakes she now composes and records as ARROWS with a Pink Air 12” lathe to be released shortly. As a visual artist she has exhibited in New Zealand with Cuckoo, Testrip, Fiatlux, Artspace and www.academy.co.nz Andrew Clifford Andrew Clifford is an artist, freelance writer, and works as a curator at The University of Auckland's Centre for New Zealand Art, Research and Discovery. His own art practice is primarily concerned with making tangible the seemingly invisible materiality of sound, often through the invisible presence of radio and the subliminal effects of light. He has performed and exhibited in venues throughout New Zealand and Australia. He is currently a board member for the Audio Foundation and between 2003-2007 co-curated New Zealand's longest-running international sound-art festival, Altmusic. As a writer, he has mostly focused on art and music and has made contributions to a long list of publications locally and abroad, including The New Zealand Herald, NZ Listener, Pavement, White Fungus, Real Groove, Rip It Up, Vogue Living, Art & Australia, Art World, Eyeline, and many more. He has also provided essays for books, gallery and academic publications, most recently contributing to the John Reynolds monograph Certain Words Drawn and the Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader. Clifford's involvement with radio is not just an experimental one. Between 2002-2007 he produced more than 100 programmes for Radio New Zealand, preceded by 10 years producing and presenting a variety of programmes for 95bFM, including Art on Air. As a curator, he has coordinated music programmes and sound-art exhibitions for a number of galleries, including the Auckland Art Gallery, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Artspace. www.filmarchive.org.nz www.audiofoundation.org.nz

12 years, 11 months

Expressions of interest regarding works surrounding ADA Symposium 2009

by Douglas Bagnall

The next ADA symposium will be in Wellington next June. If you are interested in doing or showing something in loose association with it, please contact me soonish. If you just want to present something at the symposium itself, do nothing yet. This is for people who want to do an exhibition or an evening show or something like that. This is not a Call for Proposals. Don't gather references and support material and fancy quotes. Just say what you might like to do, and be ready to discuss it later. Douglas

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Invite reminder: HAPPY BAG PICADO workshop @ Artspace Auckland :: next wednesday 10 am

by Karin Hofko

HAPPY BAG PICADO ARTSPACE workshop wednesday / 27th of August 2008 / 10:00 am - 1:00 pm 300 Karangahape Road, Newton, Auckland 1010 / (09) 303 4965 Create a Happy Bag Portrait and a Plastic Flag: Explore drawing, picado , experimental body positioning and living installations. Run backwards in circles inside out. This event is held in conjunction with Rikrit Tiravanija's exhibition magazine station no.5, Artspace, NZ. Up to 20 spaces available! We would love to see you at the plastic mayhem :) Brydee & Karin If you are interested contact us: brydee(a)orcon.net.nz hello(a)kir-royal.net

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Call for papers and presentations

by Clothieri

OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS Intercreate research centre SCANZ 2009 Raranga Tangata Symposium: Interconnections Govett-Brewster Art Gallery February 7th and 8th 2009 New Plymouth Aotearoa New Zealand Interconnections Chaos theory, Complexity, Cybernetics, Post-structuralism + Pasifika, Aboriginal, Indigenous, Indian, Asian, Polynesian and Maori Knowledge and Belief systems Proposal deadline: October 15th 2008 Further information: http://www.intercreate.org/scanz/symposium.html We are seeking papers and artist presentations which interrogate, examine, tease, put forward, discuss, postulate, propose, analyse, synthesise, combine, hybridise, expound and tickle ideas around the above subjects. The symposium will be held at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery on the final weekend of the SCANZ residency. Papers will be considered for peer reviewed publication in the SCANZ book to follow the residency and symposium. Paper presentations at the symposium are expected to be 20 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. The symposium is all in¹ everyone will experience all sessions. Proposals for artist presentations are open in terms of format - we expect but do not limit proposals to documentation in the form of video, DVD, CD, animation, website, speech, text, image, software, code and Open Source projects. Schedule: October 15th 2008: Abstracts for papers or artist presentation abstracts due January 19th: Full papers due for peer review January 26th: SCANZ starts Friday 30th January 2009: start of writers focus week February 4th: pre-symposium writers arrive February 7th and 8th 2009: Symposium - papers and presentations given February 2010: Publication launch Contact: Ian M Clothier i.clothier(a)witt.ac.nz For more information: www.intercreate.org/scanz/symposium.html This communication - including any attachments - may contain legally privileged information, and is confidential to the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient you should delete the communication and contact the sender immediately. If you have received this e-mail in error, you must not read, copy, disseminate, distribute or otherwise use or disclose any part of this communication, or any information on matters or persons to which it refers. WITT reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications sent through its network.

12 years, 11 months

getting hold of a copy of the ADA Reader

by Stella

Hi, I realised I replied to Sonja's question offlist, so if anyone else would like to get a copy of the Reader it is available from: http://www.clouds.co.nz/the-aotearoa-digital-arts-reader/ we will, of course, be flogging copies at ADA events, but, particularly if you're not in NZ, this is a good way to get a book without waiting for the next symposium to roll around (Wellington... it's going to be great...). best, Stella

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ADA reader

by Liz Bryce

Kia ora! Congratulations on the launch of the ADA reader. What a wonderful publication. Not only does it look good, it contains good stuff! (plus pitchas!!) And - the design makes it easy to read - I particularly like the references given a higher focus in the right hand column. Great work Su, Stella, design team and all the contributers. Liz Bryce e - s t u d i o http://www.eikapai.co.nz Dunedin, A o t e a r o a New Zealand Liz Bryce : liz(a)eikapai.co.nz

12 years, 11 months

invitation; VISITORS improv take#2

by Phil Dadson

take#1 was a resounding success with brilliant visitor highlights. take#2 promises even more. Please ear-mark this and pass the info’ on. VISITORS IMPROV (take#2) NZ Trio members, Sarah Watkins (keyboard), Justine Cormack (violin), Ashley Brown (cello), with Chris O’Connor (percussion magic), host a night of improvised music-performance featuring surprise VISITORS (unknown to audience and performers), Tuesday August 26th, Backroom venue of the Wine cellar, St Kevins Arcade, K Rd. from 8.30 – 10.30pm, $5 at the door WELCOME THE UNEXPECTED ! (an event organised in association with the Wine Cellar’s fortnightly Tuesday schedule of extraordinary events) www.sonicsfromscratch.co.nz

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GUY SHERWIN TONIGHT

by Mark Williams

GUY SHERWIN TONIGHT!!! A final reminder about tonights performance by Guy Sherwin (UK) with partner Lynn Loo. Guy is quite simply one of the greatest film artists of all time. Tonight is a must see!! Like a blast of cinematic conceptual art, film artist Guy Sherwin's hand-crafted films explore the elements of film's grain, tone, flicker, sound, light and space. Beautiful, enigmatic, and sensual, these experimental films question our perception of 'light moving in time.' Together with partner Lynn Loo, Guy creates cinematic environments of incredible purity and beauty. Guy Sherwin studied painting at Chelsea School of Art in the 1960s before becoming closely associated with the British avant garde film movement centred on The London Film-makers Co-operative in the 1970s. Sherwin taught printing and processing at the London Filmmaker's Co- op (now LUX) during the mid-70s. His films have been widely exhibited in England and abroad, as part of 'Film as Film' Hayward Gallery 1979, 'Live in Your Head' Whitechapel Gallery 2000, 'Shoot Shoot Shoot' Tate Modern 2002, 'A Century of Artists' Film & Video' Tate Britain 2003/4; also shown on BBC2, Channel 4 and Arte TV France. Solo shows include San Francisco Cinematheque, LUX London, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Image Forum Tokyo. Guy’s visit co-incides with LUX releasing a book and DVD on his work entitled Optical Sound Films 1971 – 2007. Guy Sherwin Friday August 15, 7pm $ 8 / $6 New Zealand Film Archive Wellington PLUS Saturday: This Is Experimental: A festival of experimental film continues ... 3pm Scratching the Surface: Experiments in New Zealand Animation after Len Lye, 5pm: Pragmatic Poetics: A talk/screening on the films of Joanna Margaret Paul, Haiku poetry and Gilles Deleuze 5pm: 80s Super 8 Vibration a collection of experimental Super 8 film from NZ and North America 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

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