Experimenta Social #43:
Communication and Deep Time
Sat 19 Aug, 5.00 – 6.30pm
Free event | Booking essential
Experimenta Social and Melbourne Conversations, in collaboration with Library at the Dock, present two special conversations as part of the Now or Never Art Trail.
The discussions investigate how we connect and care for one another and how we might collectively thrive across physical and digital realms, now and into the future.
Communication and Deep Time explores the relationship between language and code. Referencing ancient and speculative imaginaries, the discussion examines how the nuances of cultural expression, empathy and bias are conveyed through diverse vocabularies and sentient technologies.
Communication and Deep Time responds to concepts investigated within Georgie Pinn’s interactive artwork ECHO/OHCE and Michaela Gleave’s commission Of sky and sea presented at Docklands 17-20 August as part of the Now or Never Art Trail. Each artwork offers a different perspective on notions of reciprocity, vulnerability and voice within our future past.
Speakers: Exhibiting artist and creative technologist Georgie Pinn, commissioned artist Michaela Gleave, and Boon Wurrung senior elder and founder of the Boon Wurrung Foundation N’arweet Carolyn Briggs.
Details:
Sat 19 Aug, 5.00 – 6.30pm
Library at the Dock, Level 2, Performance Space
Access: Auslan interpretation
Co-presented by Melbourne Conversations and Experimenta Social.
About the Speakers
Michaela Gleave
Michaela Gleave is a contemporary artist who's conceptually driven practice spans numerous mediums and platforms including digital and online works, installation, performance, photography, sculpture, and video.
Michaela GleaveBediagal/Wangal Country
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Michaela Gleave is an artist based in Bediagal/Wangal Country, Sydney, Australia. Gleave’s conceptual practice spans numerous mediums and platforms including digital and online works, installation, performance, photography, sculpture, and video. Her projects question the nature of reality and our innate relationship to time, matter, and space, focusing particularly on the changing intersections between art, science, and society.
Gleave’s work has been presented extensively across Australia and internationally. She has developed major performance and installation works for the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Dark Mofo Festival, Hobart; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Bristol Biennial, UK; TarraWarra Art Museum, Melbourne; Carriageworks, Sydney; and Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne among others. Gleave has been awarded residencies at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York City, Tokyo Wonder Site in Japan, as well as CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Australia.
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Georgie Pinn
Georgie Pinn is an artist driven by empathy, using immersive tech and storytelling to connect people, break down prejudice and inspire new forms of creative expression.
Georgie PinnTurbal Country
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Georgie Pinn is an artist based in Turbal Country, Brisbane, Australia, with over twenty-five years of experience generating creative audiovisual content for broadcast, digital, virtual and cultural public events.
Pinn’s creative practice is driven by empathy, using immersive tech and storytelling to connect people, break down prejudice and inspire new forms of creative expression. She combines immersive interactive technology with art, film, animation, sound design and projection mapping to create unique interactive experiences in public space. The audience is invited to embed themselves into her artworks, with their movement and imagery manifesting audio visual layers in real time. Pinn’s work is intimate. The technologies she uses are personalised and personified. Her artwork allows audiences to express themselves and connect with one another.
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N'arweet Carolyn Briggs
N'arweet Carolyn BriggsBoon Wurrung Country
VIC
Carolyn is a Boon Wurrung senior elder and is the chairperson and founder of the Boon Wurrung Foundation.
A descendant of the First Peoples of Melbourne, the Yaluk-ut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung, she is the great-granddaughter of Louisa Briggs, a Boon Wurrung woman born near Melbourne in the 1830’s.
Carolyn has been involved in developing and supporting opportunities for Indigenous youth and Boon Wurrung culture for over 40 years.
In 2005, she established the Boon Wurrung Foundation, which has been responsible for significant work in cultural research, including restoration of the Boon Wurrung language. The Foundation also helps connect Aboriginal youth to their heritage.
Carolyn has worked across numerous communities for over 40 years and is currently completing her Doctorate in Philosophy researching assisting urban indigenous youth to understand indigenous knowledge.
Her cultural knowledge and experience has been recognised by communities throughout Australia. These achievements have been recognised by:
- Being Awarded the National Aboriginal Elder of the Year in 2011 by the National NAIDOC Committee;
- Being inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2005;
- Being entered into the 2012 and 2013 “Who’s Who Australia”;
- Being appointed an Elders in Residence at RMIT University 2017;
- Being inducted into the 2017 Victorian Aboriginal Honour Roll.
She is the author of “Journey Cycles of the Boon Wurrung: Stories with Boonwurrung Language”.