[spectre] -empyre- in June: 2004 Australian Culture Now

[Melinda Rackham]

2004  - Australian Culture Now
issues in contemporary practice

-empyre- [http://www.subtle.net/empyre] often collaborates with institutions
and festivals to produce dynamic online forums for physically located events
Throughout the month of June, to coincide with the opening of the 2004
exhibition at the Australian Center for the Moving Image and the National
Gallery of Victoria, we invite you to join online discussions with 25
invited guests - artists, collectives, curators, theorists, and information
professionals.  Over four distinctly themed weeks dialogue will focus on the
form, content and context of the diverse artforms which we are producing
today, inclusive of networked art, painting, performance, television and
print media, data capture, software art, tactical media, game modification,
net.radio, machinima, mobile GPRS work, and video.

June 3 - 9 "click for activism"
Tactical media and political art engages with issues of social change, as
artists as activists utilise their online, gallery, print and performance
and video
practices to highlight current issues. Facilitated by curator Melinda
Rackham, with artists Scott Redford and Sue Dodd, producer Sam de Silva, and
artist teams Escape from Woomera, and boat-people.org.

June 10 -16 "in situ"
As place dissolves in an increasingly connected world what becomes of
situated practice? Artists and curators from multiple disciplines on and
offline discuss site aesthetics the transportability and specificities of
installation.  Facilitated by curator Alexie Glass, with artists Nat and
Ali, Adam Nash, Chris Caines, Zina Kaye and qnoors.

June 17 - 23 "game to game"
How do multi-user games, game mods and machinima fit into a gallery
context? Join this discussion of the art and theory of games and game
technologies. Facilitated by curator Helen Stuckey, with artists Anita
Johnson, Escape from Woomera, Troy Innocent, Rebecca Cannon, and theorist Dr
Melanie Swalwell.

June 24 - 30 "media, mutation, migration and decay"
Should we preserve paintings, performance work, screen media and online
work, or let them fade away? Questions of stability, ephemerality, and
archiving are addressed by those working in the field. Facilitated by
curator Clare Stewart, with artists Damien Frost, Tom Nicholson and David
Wadelton, software artist Tim Plaisted and information professionals
Margaret Phillips and Paul Koerbin from the PANDORA archive.


To read or join in the discussion, go to -empyre- at
http://www.subtle.net/empyre

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http://www.acmi.net.au/2004      2004
http://www.acmi.net.au           Australian Centre for the Moving Image
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au           National Gallery of Victoria
http://www.spinach7.com       Sam de Silva
http://www.escapefromwommera.org       Escape from Woomera
http://www.boat-people.org          boat-people.org
http://yamanakanash.net                  Adam Nash
http://www.madeupstuff.com  Chris Caines
http://thelineahead.net             Zina Kaye
http://fluidtransmissions.va.com.au          qnoors
 http://www.acmi.net.au/lifeSigns          Troy Innocent
http://www.objectnotfound.net        Damien Frost
http://pandora.nla.gov.au           PANDORA
http://www.boxc.net/               Tim Plaisted
http://www.sikofshadows.com Anita Johnson
http://www.selectparks.net         Rebecca Cannon




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