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: : "Unearthed" Project, Bendigo
: : The Observatory
: : Bunker
: : Convergence
: : Mass Observation Movement
: : Orbital
: : MESH 14
: : Screenings

"Unearthed" Project, Bendigo

Five Victorian artists have been commissioned to create new works for an exhibition which will see Experimenta and Bendigo Art Gallery collaborating for the first time. The Exhibition is provisionally titled "Unearthed" and will build on the success of last year's "Byte Me" exhibition to bring interactive New Media art to regional Victoria, as well as vice versa: bringing regional Victoria into New Media art.

The artists who have been commissioned are Michael Buckley, Moira Corby, Michael Harkin, Brett McLennan & Sally Pryor

The artists involved have been selected to produce innovative works that mine the natural and cultural wealth of the region for their inspiration. Production has already commenced and will continue until early 2001, which is when a scrapbook following the progress of the five works' production phase will go online at the Experimenta website.

Their work will be exhibited at Bendigo Art Gallery between 18 August and 16 September, 2001. The show itself will go on to tour regional centres in late 2001-2002.  

LINK TO WEBSITE

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The Observatory

A tender document was distributed in late July to commission an experimetal filmmaker/group of filmmakers to create a new interactive work for the On-line Gallery situated on the Experimenta web site.

The project is aimed at extending the successful filmmaker's skills and creative base in a professional mentorship context by encouraging the filmmaker to experiment with the convergence of media technologies in the digital domain.

Twelve submissions were tendered and reviewed by the selection committee, with the final selection being Dirk de Bruyn's animated exploration of the practice of experimental filmmaking.

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Bunker

The Bunker Project was a series of 5 new media installations held at Linden Gallery throughout 2000. The Bunker Project presented a program of challenging and original Australian interactive installations, which are immediately engaging - driven by concept rather than purely by technology. The series aimed to encourage further discourse around media arts and screen culture. 
 

6th - 30th April

Denis Beaubois "Group Stare"

4th - 28th May

John Tonkin "Personal Eugenics"

2nd - 25th June

Bill Hart "Sleeper"

28th July - 20th Aug 

Meagan Evans and Lisa Young "Virtual Kelly"

22nd Sept - 15th Oct

Luke and Cass Wigley "Pal-9000"

The Bunker was a collaborative project between Experimenta and Linden arts centre and gallery, showcasing the creative abilities of Australian digital media artists. 

The Bunker Project has been made possible by a grant from the City of Port Phillip Cultural Programs Board through its Cultural Development Fund.

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Convergence

Experimenta and OPENChannel continue to foster debate and discussion through this forum series.

Convergence 1- y2k a post mortem

Live Webcast generously sponsored by Screen Education at Cinemedia
OPENChannel

On Thursday 30th March 2000 Experimenta Media Arts and Open Channel presented the first in this year's series of three forums. The global impact of the Millennium Bug runs deep in the commercial and cultural community. "Y2K" offered consumerist societies not only a sense of ending but also a future based on mythologies of millennial promise. What were the official responses to the Y2K phenomenon and what was the effect of prophesy on the public imagination and the personal psyche of the electronic age? This post-mortem examines the relationship between millennial tension, popular culture, information technologies, artists and the media, the psychology of mass panic and cultural anxiety, and the Millennium Bug as metaphor for collective apocalyptic fears.The Speakers' forum papers are now available in PDF, click on title to download.
Felicity Colman (writer and lecturer) Doomsday will always be in the future, even if it is a future that is past...
Peter Petherbridge (Consulting Director, eMERGE) The Year 2000
Dr. Dominic Pettman (writer, lecturer and cultural critic) Debugging the Millennium (or "I'm ok - I have a Mac")

The Convergence webcast was sponsored by connect.com.au
and produced by Cinemedia Screen Education.

Convergence 2 - Citadel Forum at: Melbourne International Film Festival Club

Melbourne International Film Festival Who Weekly Club - Friday, August 4, 2000 - 8pm 

Experimenta Media Arts presented a forum for MIFF at the Festival Club exploring the citadel and its impact on filmmaking and arts practice. This conversational forum aims to facilitate discussion amongst the participants in regards to the city in the information age and contemporary art/architectural practice in hyper modern cities.

Speakers included :
US filmmaker, Jem Cohen (Experimenta and MIFF's international guest) in conversation with Ross Gibson, writer, filmmaker, producer of multimedia environments and Creative Director of Cinemedia Screen Gallery at Federation Square and Scott McQuire, an Australian Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the School of Social Inquiry, Deakin University. Chaired by Anna Dzenis, Lecturer, Cinema Studies Department, Latrobe University and Editor, OnScreen, RealTime.

Held in conjuction with the Citadel screenings at Melbourne International Film Festival

Experimenta Media Arts gratefully acknowledges the generous support of 
The Lux - Centre for film, video and digital art (UK)

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Convergence 3 - Mass Observation Movement

presented by Open Channel and Experimenta Media Arts

Curated by Mandy Vuksanovic & Keely Macarow

Warning: You may be PHOTOGRAPHED

In public & private domains, we are increasingly monitored, watched and recorded; on our roads, street corners and in the workplace. Major public events come and go with surveillance technology remaining in place. Is this paranoia? Who is being watched and why? Curiously juxtaposed, individuals are choosing to employ new technology to broadcast the minutiae of their daily lives on the Internet for the world to see, expressed also in the revival of reality TV.

A forum, chaired by Mandy Vuksanovic, took place on Thursday October 26th at Treasury Theatre.

The Speakers :

Jude McCulloch, Police Studies, Deakin University, Melbourne, Zina Kaye, Artist, Sydney & Roger Clarke, Visiting Fellow, ANU, Canberra, Information Sciences.

Video clips of the forum and PDF downloads of speaker papers can be accessed at www.openchannel.org.au/mom

A Screening took place at 6.30pm, Thursday 26 October.

Generously supported by AFC, Cinemedia, Arts Victoria, The Reichstein Foundation

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Orbital

Visions of a future Australian landscape

London 2 - 9 July 2000 Lux Gallery Centre for Contemporary Photography Hoxton Square London, England

Melbourne 6 - 29 July 2000 205 Johnston St  Fitzroy 3065 Melbourne, Australia

The Orbital program was curated by Experimenta's Artistic Director, Keely Macarow, and was designed as an interdisciplinary media arts exhibition for the Australian arts and cultural program "Heads UP" for Australia Week in London. Orbital was held simultaneously in Melbourne and London and features five new media art works by Australian artists Nicola Loder, Megan Jones, Nigel Helyer, Margie Medlin, Brook Andrew and Raymond Peer. 

These time-based media installations harness virtual, spatial and sculptural environments and examine contemporary Australia's social, political, geological and topographic landscape in a bid to reconcile a more humane and sustainable landscape for future generations of Australians. 

Go to the ORBITAL page

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MESH 14

Experimenta's on-line journal Mesh has been a leading exponent of filmmakers, artists, writers and theorists working in Australian screen and media arts culture. The 14th edition of Mesh explores globalisation and the impact on media arts.

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