[spectre] [BAM New Media] Under_score: Net art, Sound, and Essays from Aust ralia

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Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) presents Under_score: Net Art, Sound, and
Essays from Australia at http://www.bam.org/under_score, an online
exhibition showcasing the works of nine Australian artists for whom the
internet has emerged as one of the most significant arenas for artistic
experimentation and multimedia production. The exhibit is part of Next Wave
Down Under, BAM's month-long celebration of Australian arts and culture.

The works presented here represent a vast diversity of approaches,
technologies, applications, and aesthetics, but with few exceptions,
coalesce thematically around "the body", a persistent theme which at the
beginning of the new millennium is present more than ever in discussions of
art, the sciences, and the media. From Francesca da Rimini's diary-like
reflections and confrontational rants concerning erotic relations, power,
and sexual taboo in GashGirl, to the richly layered dream-like 3D spaces and
soundscapes in Melinda Rackham's empyrean,  Australian artists are helping
to define new modes of electronic writing and reading, multimedia,
performance, image making, and sonic production. Other artists include John
Tonkin, MEZ, Paul Brown, geniwate, Ian Haig, Honor Harger, Adam Hyde, zina
kaye, Caleb K., Mr. Snow, Gary Zebington, and Jason Sweeney.

In addition, Under_score provides related links to fourteen works by
Australian artists working in a variety of new media formats including
CD-ROM, installation, and performance. There are two innovative online
broadcasters, l'audible and r a d i o q u a l i a, delivering some of the
most compelling sound work in Australia and New Zealand, and select audio
pieces from The Listening Room, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's
award sound art program.

In order to expand the discussion of these works and their significance BAM
has commissioned three online essays by Allen Feldman, an American cultural
and political anthropologist, Australian new media theorist Darren Tofts,
and Australian writer and media critic McKenzie Wark.

Under_score: Net Art, Sound and Essays from Australia, now available at:
http://www.bam.org/under_score

In conjunction with Next Wave Down Under,  BAM commissioned Australian new
media company, Drome to recreate the CD-ROM Making Chunky Move for web
delivery.  The web work explores how one of Australia's most exciting
contemporary dance companies created the dance work Corrupted 2, which made
its U.S. debut at  BAM during this year's Next Wave Festival. The
documentary follows the company from the germ of an idea to the stage,
behind the scenes and beyond, including snapshot interviews with the key
players, dancers, creative collaborators, and other cultural professionals
as well as unique virtual 3-D segments, sound bites, and extensive video
footage.

Making Chunky Move, now available at:
http://www.bam.org/chunkymove


For more information, contact Wayne Ashley, BAM's Manager of New Media via
email at washley@bam.org

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Coming Soon: Arts in Multimedia
New Media installations featuring the works of
Paul Kaiser, Nicolas Tsingos, John Jesurun,
Dan Lee, Kit August, Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen
Starts Nov 20 at BAM's Hillman Attic Studio
http:/www.bam.org/asp/newmedia.asp