ISEA2013 Art Event Overview

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Art Exhibitions:
- 107 Projects/College of Fine Arts (COFA)
  - Works include:
    
    Experimental Body Extension Manufac...
    [Gazzola] [Granjon]
    (Art Exhibition) (Electronic / Robotic Object) (Participatory Art Event)
    Future Calls The Dawn Chorus
    [Shaw] [Hansen] [Gillam] [Malcolmson]
    (Art Exhibition) (Installation Art) (Sound Art) (Video Art)
    If a system fails in a forest…
    [Leimbach] [Brown]
    (Art Exhibition) (Bio Art) (Electronic / Robotic Object)
    The Trans-Emotion Room (2013)
    [Wildman] [Park]
    (Art Exhibition) (Video / Animation Installation)
    MYRIAD (2012)
    [Kronemyer]
    (Art Exhibition) (Bio Art)
    Sneaky Time
    [Migliozzi] [Samanci]
    (Performance Art) (Art Exhibition)
    HOLOSHOP: Drawing And Perceiving In...
    [Dawson]
    (Art Exhibition) (Interactive Monitor-Based)
    oprahagogo (2005)
    [Morrison]
    (Art Exhibition) (Video Art)
    RE-COG-NITION (2013)
    [Cook]
    (Art Exhibition) (Installation Art) (Video Art)
    What the Frog’s Nose Tells the Fr...
    [Brain]
    (Art Exhibition)
    Cave Light (2013)
    [Hetherington]
    (Art Exhibition) (Screening) (Video Art)
  Powerhouse Museum
  - Works include:
    
    3 Exhibitions at the Powerhouse Mus...
    [Moncrieff] [Catts]
    (Art Exhibition)
  ANAT (Australian Network for Art & Technology) and Powerhouse Museum
- If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research would it? _Albert Einstein
  Presented by ISEA2013, the Australian Network for Art & Technology and the Powerhouse Museum. Synapse is an initiative of the Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) and the Australia Council for the Arts that supports collaborations between artists and scientists.
  Artists and scientists approach creativity, exploration and research in different ways and from different perspectives; when working together they open up new ways of seeing, experiencing and i... [Read more]
- If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research would it? _Albert Einstein
  Presented by ISEA2013, the Australian Network for Art & Technology and the Powerhouse Museum. Synapse is an initiative of the Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) and the Australia Council for the Arts that supports collaborations between artists and scientists.
  Artists and scientists approach creativity, exploration and research in different ways and from different perspectives; when working together they open up new ways of seeing, experiencing and interpreting the world around us. For the past decade the Synapse initiative has provided over 30 Australian artists with the opportunity to pursue speculative creative research projects with scientists and medical researchers in Australia and beyond. This exhibition provides a snapshot of the diverse and fascinating research that participating artists and scientists have pursued over the past five years. [Read Less]
- An exhibition of old and new media. Campbelltown Arts Centre has brought together 5 creative innovators from the analogue and early digital eras to mentor, collaborate and exchange ideas with 5 ‘new generation’ artists from various disciplines – art, sound and performance – who have chosen these technologies as the most appropriate channel of enquiry for their current work, or have a practice reliant on engagement. The focus is on conversation, participation and interaction as a means of informing us, the audience, how we communicate, or respond to art. Presented by Campbelltown Arts ... [Read more]
- An exhibition of old and new media. Campbelltown Arts Centre has brought together 5 creative innovators from the analogue and early digital eras to mentor, collaborate and exchange ideas with 5 ‘new generation’ artists from various disciplines – art, sound and performance – who have chosen these technologies as the most appropriate channel of enquiry for their current work, or have a practice reliant on engagement. The focus is on conversation, participation and interaction as a means of informing us, the audience, how we communicate, or respond to art. Presented by Campbelltown Arts Centre and ISEA2013. [Read Less]
- Firstdraft, in association with ISEA2013, present this new edition of Firstdraft’s NIGHT DEPOT series. This work will focus on the notion of ‘advanced technology’ – after Sydney writer / thinker Nick Keys – and feature artists who build sound-making devices from readily available items in order to ‘advance’ their own artistic and musical goals – in a sense also ‘advancing’ towards a form of technological equilibrium. Brisbane collective Golden Solution, in residency at The Depot in the lead-up to this event, will present new work developed on-site. Performing alongside a... [Read more]
- Firstdraft, in association with ISEA2013, present this new edition of Firstdraft’s NIGHT DEPOT series. This work will focus on the notion of ‘advanced technology’ – after Sydney writer / thinker Nick Keys – and feature artists who build sound-making devices from readily available items in order to ‘advance’ their own artistic and musical goals – in a sense also ‘advancing’ towards a form of technological equilibrium. Brisbane collective Golden Solution, in residency at The Depot in the lead-up to this event, will present new work developed on-site. Performing alongside alongside Golden Solution, each with their own unique sound making apparatus, will be some of Australia’s most exciting practitioners in this area: Benjamin Kolaitis, Peter Blamey, Alex Cuffe and Pia van Gelder.(Kolaitis, van Gelder and Michael Candy (of Golden Solution) are also participating in Campbelltown Arts Centre’s Catching Light project for ISEA2013.) [Read Less]
- Press Release
  30 MAY 2013. Fast Internet is changing Australian society by connecting the nation’s scattered population – and it is also transforming Australian art.
  
  Leading Australian media artists are exploring the limits of this new creative medium in The Portals, a public art exhibit which opens in Sydney and Darwin on 8 June for the 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2013). ISEA2013 will showcase the best media artworks and future-focused ideas from Australia and around the world from 7 to 16 June at venues across central an... [Read more]
- Press Release
  30 MAY 2013. Fast Internet is changing Australian society by connecting the nation’s scattered population – and it is also transforming Australian art.
  
  Leading Australian media artists are exploring the limits of this new creative medium in The Portals, a public art exhibit which opens in Sydney and Darwin on 8 June for the 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2013). ISEA2013 will showcase the best media artworks and future-focused ideas from Australia and around the world from 7 to 16 June at venues across central and outer Sydney, and Darwin.
  
  The five artworks in The Portals rely on the physics of high speed broadband to link two geographically distant sites in real time: public screens at Chatswood’s The Concourse in Sydney as well as Nan Giese Gallery and the Chan Contemporary Art Space in Darwin.
  
  The program is presented in partnership with Darwin Community Arts, Willoughby Council and Urban Screen Productions.
  
  “High-speed networks are igniting incredible new opportunities for creative practitioners as they are rolled out across Australia,” says creative producer Ricardo Peach, who is curating the program.
  
  Interactive experiences which involve audiences in co-creating the artworks are central to all five projects, which span live art, visual art, sound art, e-literature, interactive performance, augmented and virtual reality, and social media art.
  
  In Metaverse Makeovers (LIVE), the artists are working with nail technicians to makeover members of the public with nail “appcessories” – wearable augmented-reality nail accessories that interact with a companion game app that connects Sydney and Darwin.
  
  “As high speed broadband rolls out around the country, we hope to give it a virtual manicured hand in rethinking and redesigning networked experience, so that it supports greater intimate, immersive, and sensorial connections between participants from different physical locations,” explains artist Thea Baumann.
  
  Other artworks in The Portals include:
  - Shadow Net, which uses Microsoft’s Kinect technology to incorporate the shadows of passers-by in Chatswood and Darwin into a shared, virtual game space;
  - Distributed Empire, a real-time sonic and visual portrait generator that recombines the faces of volunteers in various locations;
  - Is Starlight A Wifi Signal? which encourages audiences in Sydney and Darwin to interact via their mobile devices with a networked performance that includes moving bodies, projections and text; and
  - Enquire Within Upon Everybody, which is inviting audiences in both locations to tweet questions on any subject and see them answered live by the global data stream.
  “The Portals opens up new possibilities for the use of the proliferating screens in our urban environment,” says Jonathan Parsons, Director of ISEA2013.
  
  “Together we will co-create, celebrate and experiment with the burgeoning artistic possibilities emerging in this country as it becomes increasingly connected through high-speed networks.
  
  This promises to transport, transfix, transform and translocate participants across this vast continent.”
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- DisSentience speculates on a future where digital technology has pervaded all aspects of daily life, infiltrating even the most mundane and intimate of domestic rituals. The home as we know it, as a refuge for the self and family, is peeled apart to reveal our complacent acceptance of the invasion of technology into our everyday domestic routines and interactions. Every action we make is surveilled by the prying eyes of networked digital technologies, embedded in domestic products, furniture and architecture. The lines between public and private, convenience and infantilisation become ever mor... [Read more]
- DisSentience speculates on a future where digital technology has pervaded all aspects of daily life, infiltrating even the most mundane and intimate of domestic rituals. The home as we know it, as a refuge for the self and family, is peeled apart to reveal our complacent acceptance of the invasion of technology into our everyday domestic routines and interactions. Every action we make is surveilled by the prying eyes of networked digital technologies, embedded in domestic products, furniture and architecture. The lines between public and private, convenience and infantilisation become ever more blurred, as digital sentience and solicitude take over human agency, outthinking, outwitting and outperforming us. [Read Less]
- Within the sonic world there is no separation; sound enters our bodies as vibration, immersive and continuous. Sound is the one fundamental phenomenon that we are immersed in – every living, moving thing is producing sound continually – it flows between distinct elements and binds them together. We experience it both actively, by listening, and also subliminally – and from it we draw conclusions about our world. EchoSonics investigates the close relationship between sound and natural, biological and environmental phenomena through the work of four artists practising within the field... [Read more]
- Within the sonic world there is no separation; sound enters our bodies as vibration, immersive and continuous. Sound is the one fundamental phenomenon that we are immersed in – every living, moving thing is producing sound continually – it flows between distinct elements and binds them together. We experience it both actively, by listening, and also subliminally – and from it we draw conclusions about our world. EchoSonics investigates the close relationship between sound and natural, biological and environmental phenomena through the work of four artists practising within the field of sound art, and combining cultural and environmental issues in their audio-installations. Many of the works suggest the subtle ways in which sounds address us. Presented by ISEA2013 and the University of Technology Sydney. [Read Less]
- Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts 2013.
  ISEA2013 is profiling this year’s Anne Landa Award. Whilst the Anne Landa’s support for video and new media arts is close to ISEA’s own mission, this year’s exploration of the undeniable force of performance in contemporary art also resonates with ISEA2013’s theme ‘Resistance is Futile’. The biennial Anne Landa Award was established in 2004 to honour a former Art Gallery of NSW trustee and enthusiastic supporter of the arts. This year’s exhibition (the fifth) explores performance as a force in contemporar... [Read more]
- Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts 2013.
  ISEA2013 is profiling this year’s Anne Landa Award. Whilst the Anne Landa’s support for video and new media arts is close to ISEA’s own mission, this year’s exploration of the undeniable force of performance in contemporary art also resonates with ISEA2013’s theme ‘Resistance is Futile’. The biennial Anne Landa Award was established in 2004 to honour a former Art Gallery of NSW trustee and enthusiastic supporter of the arts. This year’s exhibition (the fifth) explores performance as a force in contemporary art through the nexus of new technologies. [Read Less]
The Musical Metacreation Weekend:
- Works by: Agostino di Scipio, Shlomo Dubnov, Bill Hsu, Ben Carey, Oliver Bown, Toby Gifford & Andrew Brown, Oliver Hancock, Ben Swift & Andrew Sorensen, Renick Bell, Sick Lincoln, Arne Eigenfeldt, Chris Anderson, Micquel Parera Jaques, Rebecca Cernac, David Kim-Boyle, Brian Kelly, Ivan Zavada, Kenneth Newby, Roger Dean, Benjamin O’Brien, Kerry Hagan, Arne Eigenfeldt & Ajay Kapur, Miles Thorogood & Philippe Pasquier, Fredrik Olofsson. With the musicians: Ben Carey, Roger Dean, Laura Altman, Simon Ferenci, Jon Watts. [Read more]
- Works by: Agostino di Scipio, Shlomo Dubnov, Bill Hsu, Ben Carey, Oliver Bown, Toby Gifford & Andrew Brown, Oliver Hancock, Ben Swift & Andrew Sorensen, Renick Bell, Sick Lincoln, Arne Eigenfeldt, Chris Anderson, Micquel Parera Jaques, Rebecca Cernac, David Kim-Boyle, Brian Kelly, Ivan Zavada, Kenneth Newby, Roger Dean, Benjamin O’Brien, Kerry Hagan, Arne Eigenfeldt & Ajay Kapur, Miles Thorogood & Philippe Pasquier, Fredrik Olofsson. With the musicians: Ben Carey, Roger Dean, Laura Altman, Simon Ferenci, Jon Watts. [Read Less]
Concerts:
- Studio 22, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): Polysonics
- “The 19th [International Symposium on Electronic Art] was recently held in Australia. As part of this large festival, six different artists gathered in front of a live studio audience at the ABC, and we recorded the event. I’ll play four of the acts this week and the remaining two next week. Artists and a description of their work follow in the order that you’ll hear them in this program.” abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/soundquality/sqy-28... [Read more]
- “The 19th [International Symposium on Electronic Art] was recently held in Australia. As part of this large festival, six different artists gathered in front of a live studio audience at the ABC, and we recorded the event. I’ll play four of the acts this week and the remaining two next week. Artists and a description of their work follow in the order that you’ll hear them in this program.” abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/soundquality/sqy-28-06/4720872
  - ABC Radio National shares Australia’s best conversations across a diverse range of topics, including arts and culture, business and current affairs, health, science and technology, Indigenous culture and issues, and religion and ethics.
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Performances:
Public Events:
- Three Exhibitions for Public Space
- Urban Screen Productions and Streaming Museum are pleased to present three exhibitions at ISEA2013 Sydney, curated for public space: Nordic Outbreak, Artistic License in Silicon Valley and Arrival – Departure. This project has been assisted by Willoughby City Council. This project is presented by ISEA2013 and the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) as part of the 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Sydney.
  
  Streaming Museum launched an international tour of Artistic License in Silicon Valley [Read more]

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