In this issue
NEW IDEAS: New media Exhibition & Design Forum
The Garden of Forking Paths in Burnie
Face to Face in Bundaberg and touring with Asialink
Line of Lode (Angelica Mesiti) at QUT
Reading the Body (Sue Healey) at QUT
Mobile Screenfest: 'shot on mobile' festival
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Wow! Are we busy this month at d/Lux.
Not only have we moved offices to the lovely Lilyfield artshub, we
have exhibitions galore on this month, including NEW IDEAS, a
Historic Houses Trust initiative for Sydney Design 2010. Full
details are below.
With the release of the iPad and other new platforms, mobile
technologies are continuing to emerge as areas of innovation and
creativity. Following the success of last year's Razorhurst GPS
device game, we have some d/Lux/Mobile projects underway that we are
very excited about—but more about THAT at a later date.
As early as 2005, d/Lux/MediaArts created the Mobile Journeys
initiative to explore mobile screen capabilities—including the
creation of a mini-series shot for mobile in conjunction with the
South Australian Film Corporation and a mobile film-making master
class—and we have continued to explore this area under the d/Lux/
Mobile banner.
In this spirit, we are pleased to support Mobile Screenfest,
Australia's first 'shot on mobile' film festival, who are asking
everyone to submit film, video or photographic entries shot on mobile
phone. More info below.
By the way, you may also have noticed that we are Twittering and
Facebooking away. Come and join us there; we'd love to hear from you.
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NEW IDEAS: NEW MEDIA EXHIBITION & DESIGN FORUM
As part of Sydney Design 2010, the Historic Houses Trust, d/Lux/
MediaArts and COFA have collaborated to produce NEW IDEAS, a digital
media exhibition exploring themes of heritage conservation and
historic interiors through the history of Government House. Run by
the Historic Houses Trust, both events come under the NEW IDEAS
banner, which stands for NEw Ways of Interpretation to DEvelop AccesS.
NEW IDEAS Exhibition
Government House from 28 July—8 August 2010. FREE ENTRY.
Making use of Government House's environs and collections, artists
from d/Lux/Media/Arts and COFA evoke different facets of the site's
history through digital storytelling and new media technology.
Participating artists include Damian Castadi and Solange Kershaw,
Carolyn McKay, John A Douglas, Cassandra Hard Lawrie and Joey
Ratcliffe, and Richard Fox (d/Lux/MediaArts), as well as staff and
students from COFA. Read more
NEW IDEAS Design Forum
Thursday 5 August from 6pm—8pm
General $35 | Conc $30 | Students $20. Tickets may be purchased
through HHT
This public forum will showcase the use of digital media and
technology in interpreting the past. Chaired by Chris Winter (Manager
New Services, Innovation Division, Australian Broadcasting
Corporation), the forum panel includes Dr E. Kate Armstrong, Timothy
Hart, Sarah Barns, Professor Ross Harley, Dr. Caroline Butler-Bowdon
and d/Lux’s own Neil Jenkins. Read more
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THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS IN BURNIE
Artists have always been early adopters of technology, stretching the
bounds of the possible, and gaming has been no exception. In The
Garden of Forking Paths, curator Neil Jenkins has drawn together
seven notable games—both historic and contemporary—that break the
orthodox set of rules.
Virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier's 1983 Moondust game designed
for the Commodore 64—widely considered the first art video game and
the first interactive music publication—allows the player to guide a
spaceman around the screen creating strange patterns and abstract
ambient sounds. In Puppet Motel, Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang
create a virtual world of interactive vignettes populated with
Anderson's stories, songs and imagery, and beautifully crafted into
an immersive environment by Hsin-Chien Huang. Based on the Little Red
Riding Hood tradition, The Path by Tale of Tales is a terrifyingly
beautiful game in which the player chooses one of six little girls to
journey deep into the forest to grandmother's house, but will she
stray from the path and meet her wolf ?
The Garden of Forking Paths is on at Burnie Regional Gallery from 27
July to 12 September.
[Image: box cover from The Path, Tale of Tales]
Read more
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FACE TO FACE IN BUNDABERG AND TOURING WITH ASIALINK
Face to Face: Portraiture in a Digital Age, featuring portraits by
fourteen Australian artists in a range of media from digital
photography to video and interactive installation, has been
successfully travelling around Australia as part of our d/Tour
program. The next stop on the national tour is Bundaberg until 29
August, and then to Gosford later in the year..
But Face to Face will also travel further afield.
d/Lux/MediaArts has partnered with Asialink to showcase Face to Face
in Bankgok in September, Singapore in December and Manilla in 2011,
offering an opportunity to introduce people in the Asia region to the
work of these very talented contemporary Australian artists.
Face to Face is on at Bundaberg Regional Gallery until 29 August and
Gosford Regional Gallery in November, and will tour with Asialink
during 2010/2011.
[Image: time and motion study, 2006, interactive installation, John
Tonkin]
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LINE OF LODE (ANGELICA MESITI) AT QUT
Inspired by the grandeur of Broken Hill’s physical landscape and the
unique place it occupies in our cultural consciousness, Angelica
Mesiti has used this outback mining town in the far West of NSW as
the location for The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day.
Focusing on social groups, both animal and human that inhabit an
Australian outback town, this work is a meditation on the connections
that link them to their landscapes and therefore each other.
The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day is on at Queensland
University of Technology until 20 July and again from 20 October—3
November 2010
[Image: courtesy the artist]
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READING THE BODY (SUE HEALEY) AT QUT
Reading the Body by Sue Healey explores the collaborative narrative
possibilities between text and movement. How does poetry influence
the reading of the language of movement and in turn, the body?A
single screen/double projection installation that juxtaposes a filmed
dancer with a poem - Reading the Body.
The installation offers a cinematic and spatial rendering of the body
and the text of the poem. Inspired by the whimsical nature of the
text, curious animations of bones and organs partner the dance,
revealing the body for scrutiny.
Reading the Body is on at Queensland University of Technology until
20 July and again from 20 October—3 November 2010
[Image: courtesy the artist]
Read more
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MOBILE SCREENFEST: 'SHOT ON MOBILE' FESTIVAL
Mobile Screenfest is the first festival in Australia where all films
AND photographs will be shot entirely on mobile phones. You have
until 22 August to shoot and upload your ‘shot-on-mobile’ film, video
or photograph to win a share of the over $10,000 in prizes. Entry is
FREE at www.mobilescreenfest.com.au . All finalist entries will be
judged by a celebrity panel and screened on the 21st September 2010
at the Factory Theatre in Sydney in partnership with The Sydney Fringe.
The festival is the brainchild of Avnesh (Avi) Ratnanesan of Araya
Pictures in conjunction with Professor Karl Bardosh from New York
University, one of the world’s leading experts in cell phone filmmaking.
Well, what are you waiting for? Get shooting!
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