[spectre] IDEOLOGY of the IMAGINARY in the 21st century

[EAF Director]

The EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION in association 
with the 2007 Adelaide Film Festival presents

IDEOLOGY of the IMAGINARY in the 21st century
a symposium and exhibition project exploring 
cross issues of art, culture and new media.


  1st and 2nd MARCH
10am - 4pm at the MERCURY CINEMA
Lion Arts Centre, North Tce, Adelaide

ADMISSION FREE. LIMITED SEATING. PLEASE REGISTER 
Email your name, address, and how many attending 
to <mailto:info at eaf.asn.au>info at eaf.asn.au

Full Program 
details <http://www.eaf.asn.au/2007/symposium.html>http://www.eaf.asn.au/2007/symposium.html

BRIEF 
Despite the numerous "tech-specific", or "future 
looking" events, appearing daily on the world 
stage, it is worth noting that we are almost at 
the end of the first decade of this century, and 
yet the discourses which we are using are quite 
old - postmodern at its best!

The Symposium is therefore aimed at defining the 
concepts and processes characteristic for the 
beginning of the 21st century. Some of the themes 
the speakers are urged to visit: What are the 
decisive theoretical and practical developments 
of this decade? How has the ideological framework 
of images shifted in the 21st Century? How can we 
measure the real power of these images? Are some 
aesthetic categories or concepts of the late 20th 
century already obsolete? Are there new 
categories appearing on the horizon

Bio-technology and other wireless, or less so, 
technologies are offering themselves to us quite 
openly, but perhaps more important are the 
hidden, underlying processes in our society, 
which we seem to constantly neglect.

Symposium convened by Melentie Pandilovski


SPEAKERS 
Andreas Ströhl . Tania Fraga . Mark Pesce . 
Melentie Pandilovski . Paul Majkut . Hélène 
Frichot . Anna Munster . Friedrich Kirschner
+ video appearance by Roy Ascott

ROY ASCOTT \ Syncretic Strategies
A pioneer of cybernetic and telematic art, Ascott 
is an internationally renowned artist, theorist, 
and educator. Roy Ascott is the founder and 
President of the Planetary Collegium, the 
Director of its CAiiA-Hub, and Professor of 
Technoetic Art in the University of Plymouth, 
England. He is Visiting Professor in Design|Media 
Arts at the University of California Los Angeles. 
AscottÅfs work has been shown at the Venice 
Biennale, Centre Pompidou Paris, Ars Electronica 
Linz, V2 Holland, Milan Triennale, and European 
Media Festival, Osnabrck.

TANIA FRAGA \ Envisioning Possibilities for Computer Art & Design
Tania Fraga is a Brazilian architect and artist. 
She holds a PhD on the Communication and 
Semiotics Program at the Catholic University of 
Sao Paulo (PUC) with a Post Doctoral at 
CAiiA-STAR. She was Professor and Co-ordinator of 
the Graduation Studies of the Art Institute at 
University of Brasilia, Brazil, from 1987-2004 
and member of the Advisory Research Committee of 
the Banff New Media Centre in 2003, Canada. She 
was Visiting Scholar at the Computer Science 
Department at The George Washington University, 
Washington DC, 1991/1992 and Artist-in-Residence 
at The Bemis Foundation, USA, 1986, with a grant 
from the Fulbright Commission.

HÉLÈNE FRICHOT \ An Ethico-Aesthetics for Wet Architectures
Helene Frichot is a senior lecturer in 
architectural design and theory at RMIT 
University, Melbourne, Australia. While 
architecture is her first discipline, she holds a 
PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sydney. 
Helene co-curates the RMIT University 
Architecture + Philosophy Public Lecture Series 
<<http://www.architecturephilosophy.rmit.edu.au>www.architecturephilosophy.rmit.edu.au>

FREIDRICH KIRSCHNER \ Playing games differently
Friedrich Kirschner is a filmmaker, visual artist 
and board member of the Academy of Machinima Arts 
and Sciences. He re-purposes computer games to 
create animated narratives and interactive 
performances. His work has been shown at various 
international animation festivals and 
exhibitions, including the ZKM Karlsruhe, the 
American Museum of the Moving Image in New York, 
the Ottawa international Animation festival and 
the Seoul Media Art Biennale. He also published 
machinimag, an online magazine focussing on the 
development of the emerging art form of machinima 
moviemaking. 
<<http://www.zeitbrand.net>www.zeitbrand.net>

PAUL MAJKUT \ Cool Media, Cold Consequences
Paul Majkut, an award-winning investigative 
journalist, is Professor of Literature in the 
College of Letters and Science, National 
University, San Diego, California, and 
international lecturer. Majkut has twice been 
awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.

ANNA MUNSTER \ Crowds, Power and Portable Media
Anna Munster is a writer, artist and lecturer in 
the area of electronic and new media arts and is 
a Senior Lecturer at the College of Fine Arts, 
University of New South Wales.

MELENTIE PANDILOVSKI \ The Fundamental Change
Melentie Pandilovski is the Director of the 
Experimental Art Foundation. He was initiator and 
Director/Curator of the annual Skopje Electronic 
Arts Fair, the first internet and media art 
manifestation in the Balkans, and has written 
extensively on the present state of media arts 
and the future of technology and arts.

MARK PESCE \ Appropriations and Distributions
One of the early pioneers in Virtual Reality, 
Mark Pesce is a writer, researcher and teacher. 
The co-inventor of VRML, Pesce is the author of 
five books and numerous papers on the future of 
technology. He is currently an Honorary Lecturer 
at the University of Sydney, and is a judge on 
The New Inventors a nationally syndicated ABC 
television program in Australia. He maintains 
several blogs, including Hyperpeople, which deals 
with the enormous changes in media, and 
Yeschaton, which tracks developments in the 
sciences.  He is currently working on a film-Man 
With a Movie Tube-drawn entirely from 
appropriated YouTube clips.  His Sydney 
consultancy, FutureSt, develops media strategies 
for a rapidly changing technological environment.

ANDREAS STRÖHL \ Apparatus Images-How the 
Apparatus Swallows Meaning and Projects Ideology
Andreas Ströhl was Director of Cultural Program 
of the Goethe Institute in Prague until 1997 and 
since 2004 has been Director of the Munich 
International Film Festival.


EXHIBITION

TANIA FRAGA, Responsive Membrane
2 MARCH - 5 APRIL (11 - 5 Tuesday - Friday, Saturday 2 - 5)

LEV MANOVICH, Soft Cinema
2 MARCH - 5 APRIL (11 - 5 Tuesday - Friday, Saturday 2 - 5)

http://www.eaf.asn.au/2007/manovich_fraga.html#

Presented in conjunction with the Symposium The 
Ideology of Imaginary in the 21st Century in 
association with the 2007 Adelaide Film Festival.

Curated by Melentie Pandilovski

This project has been supported by the Australian 
Government through the Australia Council, its 
arts funding and advisory body.

-- 
EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION curates its 
exhibition program to represent new work that 
expands current debates and ideas in contemporary 
visual art. The EAF incorporates a gallery space, 
bookshop and artists studios.

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the Commonwealth Government through the Australia 
Council, it arts funding and advisory body and by 
the South Australian Government through Arts SA. 
The EAF is also supported through the Visual Arts 
and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the 
Australian, State and Territory Governments.