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Interactive Lounge
Black Box - October 2001

Screening Program
Craig Baldwin: Spectres of the Spectrum
Waste Screening Program & Call for Entries - October 2001

Exhibition Program
Mabo: The Native Title Revolution - Linden Gallery, January 2001
Unearthed - Dig - Bendigo Art Gallery - 18 Aug - 16 Sept 2001
Experimenta Media Lounge - Blackbox - 18 Oct - 3 Nov 2001
Memory Packs - St Kilda site specific - October 2001
Artist Talks - Black Box October 2001

Internet
The Dig website
Trash Web Project
Waste Online Symposium - 14 October 2001, MAAP

Mesh 2001

Program Details

The experimenta 2001 program will explore the regeneration of culture and the recycling of ideas. The waste, or cultural residue, thematic offers an engaging framework for the kind of cross-media explorations that Experimenta seeks to develop. Waste suggests the underbelly of culture - you can tell a lot about the evolution of a culture by the products and ideas that it discards.

The projects that make up the experimenta 2001 program are underpinned by the exploration of issues such as environmental, corporate and human waste, technical obsolescence, the recycling of culture and cultural residue. These topics offer great scope for artists and participants to grapple with some of the major issues of our times.

The 2001 program will culminate in the experimenta 2001 Festival to be held in Melbourne during October 2001. Kicking off with a launch party held at the Black Box in the Victorian Arts Centre, the event will see three weeks of exhibitions, installations, screenings, forums and talks. The Interactive Media Lounge will be held as an umbrella event of the Melbourne Festival for the Arts.

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2001 Screenings

Screening #1

Craig Baldwin's Spectres of the Spectrum, Cinemedia at Treasury Theatre, Sunday 11 March 2001

Renowned director of Tribulation 99 and Sonic Outlaws, Craig Baldwin returns for a rare screening of his latest work Spectres of the Spectrum and a spoken word performance: Press Play to Agitate...

Experimenta Film & Video Screening Program - October 2001

Venue: Nova Cinemas

A series of screening programs featuring the latest developments in experimental film and video work. Programs include:

A Puddle 200 Years Ago

Curated by Marcus Bergner, Czech Republic, USA, Australia

The films in the Residue program have been selected from Europe, USA and Australia, with many of the European works being from the Czech Republic. There has been a recent significant outburst of new and interesting experimental film work being made in this country, with young Czech filmmakers currently producing films dealing with contemporary issues, permeated with historic and cultural residue. Some new works use elements of the past era under Soviet control to make dynamically creative pathways into the future.

Defunct! (Thailand) Curated by Sarah Tutton, Gridthiya Gaweewong and Kamol Phaosavasdi, Thailand

Sarah Tutton will travel to Thailand in February 2001 on an Asialink residency and will curate a program of Thai film and video in collaboration with Thai artists Gridthiya Gaweewong and Kamol Phaosavasdi, for Experimenta's Waste program.

Mysterious Object At Noon Curated by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand

Apichatpong Weerasethakul weaves together documentary and fiction to create a dream-like storytelling logic quite unlike anything you've seen before. Experimenta presents the Australian premiere of this Thai feature film.

Expired Memories Curated by Ellen Pau, Videotage, Hong Kong, China

If one can recall the British handover of Hong Kong back to the People's Republic of China as an omnipresent topic during the late 1990s, then one is aware that Expired Memories represents only a small selection of the vast amounts of art work created around the historic event. The selection curated by Videotage reveals how the subject of the colonial and post- colonial is and may remain tricky.

Residue

Selection by Experimenta 2001 selection committee of new film and video works. Australian & international program of experimental film addressing personal and cultural residue.

Legs Eleven Curated by the Melbourne Animation Posse, Australia

A program of experimental animation to tease the far reaches of your imagination.

Tension Between Real and Virtual Curated by Yi Won-Kon, Korea

This program presents video by established and emergent media artists in Korea who are struggling to find a new way of self-identification in a digital and multi-cultural era. In partnership with Multimedia Art in Asia Pacific (MAAP) 2001.

Excess Curated by Wu Meichun, China

A Chinese film & video program that addresses the theme of excess. In association with Multimedia Art in Asia Pacific (MAAP) 2001.

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2001 Exhibition/Installation Program

Mabo - The Native Title Revolution Linden Gallery, January 2001, CD Rom exhibition Produced by Tantamount Productions and Film Australia, this CDRom delves into the Mabo legal case and the important issues it raises for Australians and indigenous people.

Unearthed

Michael Buckley, Moira Corby, Michael Harkin, Brett Maclennan, Sally Prior

This project is the result of 2000 Exhibition Unearthed, where 5 Victorian artists were commissioned to create works about Bendigo’s rich cultural history and local community.

Commissioned interactive works, Bendigo Regional Art Gallery, September 2001
Five works based on the stories of the town of Bendigo

For more information see: Dig website

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Interactive Media Lounge - October & November 2001

Experimenta 2001 Interactive Media Lounge - Australian and international interactive media programs

Venue: Blackbox, October 2001

The experimenta 2001 Interactive Media Lounge will showcase the best of recent Australian and international interactive media works by established and upcoming producers. The work will be exhibited as part of a curated program at the Blackbox at the Victorian Arts Centre, a central city location in Melbourne, in November 2001.

Works will be presented in a relaxed, yet dynamic, media-lounge environment where audiences can take time to view and discuss the works on exhibition. A call for entries will take place in May 2001 to gather the best of local and international works. Entry forms will be available from Experimenta in late April.

Featured Works:

Samsung Project, Lotus Blossom, Young-hae Chang, Korea, 1999 & 2000

These works challenge the space of the web while speaking poetically of love, mishap, loss, and adventure. Winner of the 2001 Webby Award.

Praeternatural, Michelle Barker, Australia, 2000

An interactive museum of natural history. Old Media New, Robin Macpherson, Australia, 2001 A walk through various new media, resetting the context of the word ÔnewÕ in relation to media throughout the ages.

Juvenate, Marie-Louise Xavier, Andrew Hutchinson, Michelle Glaser, Australia, 2000

An interactive narrative unfolds in a progression of poignantly beautiful moments from one manÕs life on a journey through a serious illness toward death or rejuvenation.

Of Day of Night, Megan Heyward, Australia, 2001

An experimental new media work explaining intersections between narrative, interactivity and the unexpected nature of dream experience.

Dream Kitchen, Leon Cmielewski & Josephine Starrs, Australia, 2000

Beneath the surface runs a parallel interior zone populated with inspirited objects.

Road Apple Test, Brooke A. Knight & Owen F. Smith, USA, 1999

Like Ruscha's "Royal Road Test" we threw a Mac SE out of a speeding truck, photographed the debris, and calculated distances, weights and types.

Orchestra of Rust, Chris Henschke, Australia, 1998

An interactive that allows the user to create sound scapes and music via interaction with obsolete machines.

Different Trains, Gennady Revzin, Australia, 2001

An interactive video clip to the sound of Steve ReichÕs "Different Trains", this work is a story about the travels of Jews during WW2.

Journeys, Greg Giannis, Australia, 2001

An experimental interface is used to explore the historical traces of a familyÕs migration.

Spacejunk, Ruth Fleishman, Australia, 2001

"Spacejunk" is a surveillance satellite that has 7 cameras to view the lush, low-tech environments and views that are 2000 kilometres above our heads. We are in search of more space to dump junk in before outer space becomes too congested.

ATM, Felix Hude, Australia, 2001

Website "ATMs are the Great Satan!" - Ayatolla Khomeini. Ever wondered what's inside an Automatic Teller Machine?

Excess Over time, Stuart Bailey, Australia, 2000

Society is structured so that the consumption of goods in our leisure time is the reward for working.

These are the Days, John Tonkin, Australia, 1994

A poetic interpretation of our wasteful contemporary culture.

Q3, Feng Mengbo, China, 1999, video

Become immersed in the excesses of a Quake game.

Underneath, Liu Wei, China, 2000, video

In this work we are able to reflect on the excessive amount of by-product from contemporary culture, and the people for whom this provides a subsistence existence.

Sentiment Express, Shilpa Gupta, Internet/installation, 2001, India, Blackbox, October 2001

… since you are too busy to send a handwritten letter nowadays, you can do so here! Just speak your emotions into the microphone and the rest will be taken care of. Your letter will be handwritten, scented and mailed to the person of your choice, processed in Bombay, which has 16 million people and a lot of unemployment, so lots of cheap skilled labour to do work such as this. This project draws upon the business of creating and nourishing Techno-coolies, and was presented as part of the Century Cities exhibition at the Tate Modern, London in February 2001. Shilpa is a Bombay based multimedia artist and will travel to Australia as a guest of the Festival.

Visit Sentiment Express http://www.sentiment-express.com

Close, Projection and sound based installation, Iain Mott, Australia, 2001

Close explores territories of death and loss in a multi-screen video projection installation that blurs the seperation between viewer and the subject by means of 3-dimensional sound.

Visit Mott's site http://www.reverberant.com

Excelsior 3000: Bowel Technology Project, Ian Haig, Australia, 2001

A series of large-scale futuristic super toilet installation that aims to redefine the relationship of the body and technology.

Visit Haig's site http://media-arts.rmit.edu.au/Ian_Haig/thing.html

ARTISTS’ TALKS

Venue: Blackbox

Dates: October 2001

Artists exhibiting in the Experimenta program talk about their works.

MEMORY PACKS

Opening: Sunday 21 October 11am, 21 October — 4 November, the Memory Packs walk approx. 1 hour concluding at The Benedykt.

Linden Gallery, 26 Acland Street, St Kilda and smaller sites in the City of Port Phillip.

Many traditional cultures have a sacred place that houses ancestral heirlooms, or personal belongings of deceased members of a family. This place serves as a spiritual centre and is an archive for the history of a family. Each object tells a story and assists to record and recount the oral history of a person or family. The Memory Packs project has been collected from individuals and groups in the City of Port Phillip for exhibition in glass cases and shopfronts throughout the area. In partnership with the City of Port Phillip Cultural Development Fund.

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Internet

TRASH WEB FORUM

Presented by Multimedia Art in Asia Pacific (MAAP) and Experimenta

3 - 5 pm Sunday 14 October 2001.

The Trash Web forum will profile artists and writers that are a part of MAAP's Excess program and Experimenta's Waste program, both being held in October 2001. The forum will provide an opportunity for dialogue between audiences, artists, writers and cultural commentators nationally and internationally.

Participants include Kim Machan (MAAP, Brisbane), Di Ball (Brisbane), Melinda Rackham (Brisbane), Toy Satellite/Eyedrink Collective/2 Loops - Andrew Garton Kim Bounds, Jimi Chen (Brisbane), Ian Haig (Melbourne), Gay Hawkins (NSW), Arts Centre Nabi (Seoul), Digital Media Festival (Phillipines), The Loft New Media Art Space (Beijing).

To participate in the forum: http://abc.net.au/arts

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PUBLICATION

Mesh Magazine #15 - Waste

Venue: Experimenta website http://www.experimenta.org/mesh

Collection of critical writings around the theme of Waste.

Mesh #15 writers will probe Australian and international interactive media arts projects which decipher waste products of the information age, adding to the critical discourse around interactivity and media arts culture, and importantly, taking to task the over-abundance of waste products that inhabit media culture and the planet in general, in keeping with the projects and ideas that are represented in the Waste program.