[spectre] EtherWorlds

[EAF Director]

EtherWorldsAdamNash
EtherWorldsMelindaRackham
EtherWorldsWeb3dArt2005

6PM 02 JUNE-02 JULY 2005

GALLERY TALKS BY MELINDA RACKHAM & ADAM NASH
4.00PM FRIDAY 03 JUNE

ADAM NASH Scorched Happiness
Adam Nash is an internationally recognised net-based artist working 
in realtime 3d multi-user space as a live performance medium. His 
work attempts to explore the visual, sonic and spiritual qualities 
that are native to 3d cyberspace. Currently, networked multi-user 3d 
computer games are enjoying great popularity as entertainment, and 
multi-user cyberspace is increasingly being used for educational and 
scientific purposes. Because shared cyberspace is a relatively new 
and unfamiliar space, it is natural that initial work in this area 
has been interested in mimicking real space, or exploring the 
relationship between physical presence and virtual presence by 
recreating the human form as avatar. But there has been little work 
done investigating the potential of shared networked space as a site 
for live virtual performance art on its own terms. Using Julia 
Kristeva's text "Toccata and Fugue for the Foreigner" (from Stranger 
to Ourselves) as a basis, Scorched Happiness is an attempt to develop 
a live performative vocabulary that is native to shared cyberspace. 
Another of Nash's works, Pale Shining Winter, is exhibited as part of 
the WEB3DART2005 program. Futher details on the work of Adam Nash can 
be found at www.yamanakanash.net
MELINDA RACKHAM Empyrean
Melinda Rackham is an artist, writer, curator and media consultant 
based in Sydney, Australia, who has been working online since 1995 
and is the producer of -empyre- online media forum. Her practice has 
investigated the aesthetic, technological and philosophical aspects 
of online identity, locality, sexuality and community, as well as 
viral symbiosis and trans species relations. Her writing appears 
online and in a wide variety of print journals. Her web works have 
been shown widely nationally and internationally. Empyrean is the 
zone of electronically constructed 3 dimensional space, a virtual 
geography populated by textual entities. It is a parallel universe, 
an etheric arena beyond space and time - a world of gaps and 
intervals, fluidly traced by interactions with others, rather than 
rigidly mapped by terrritorialising agents. This zero space is 
transversed by in-tensions, relations, attractions, and transitions 
between energetic avatars. Here we are softly embodied avatars, 
navigating through a series of scapes without the regular markers of 
order and normalcy. Further information on Melinda Rackham and her 
work can be found at www.subtle.net
WEB3DART2005 www.web3dart.org
Web3dArt is an exhibition aimed at presenting a selection of the best 
3d works in the period 1999-2005. The 2005 selection is juried by 
Prof. Karel Dudesek, Head of the Postgraduate Course at the College 
of Design and Communication, Kent, UK, Melentie Pandilovski, Director 
of the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, Taylor 
Nuttall, Director of the Folly, Lancaster, UK, and Martin Schmitz, 
Germany. It features a range of artistic, research, commercial and 
student projects which have been selected on the basis of operational 
functionality, content within 3d visualisation, and the innovation 
shown in the use of 3d. Web3dArt is the only international show of 
its kind and has become the biggest collection of three dimensional 
art and design sites ever assembled. Participants come from a broad 
range of countries including Australian artists Melinda Rackham, Adam 
Nash, Martin Thompson, Jason Nelson. Web3dArt has been presented 
worldwide including in Germany, Macedonia, USA, Slovenia, UK and 
France. WEB3DART2005 was first presented at the International Web3d 
Symposium at the University of Wales 29 March-1 April.

Phone EAF Director, Melentie Pandilovski, for further details  +61 
(0)8 82117505

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