Faculty Gallery
Faculty of Art & Design (G-Building)
Caulfield Campus
Monash University
The exhibition runs from 11 – 16 December 2008.
Opening Hours: Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 1 – 5pm.
A catalogue of associated material is available online at my new
website: www.vincedziekan.com
The artist acknowledges the support of the Faculty of Art & Design and
the Outside Studies Program (OSP) of Monash University.
Last Chance to see Untethered, at Eyebeam; 540 West 21st Street, New York. September 25–October 25. This week it is one of Artforum’s critics’ choice. http://artforum.com/picks/
Tethered is cyber-law expert Jonathan Zittrain’s term for objects hardwired to perform a single act; “Untethered” presents artworks by artists who unlock items from this proprietary use and redirect them toward aesthetic purposes. Organized by Eyebeam curatorial fellow Sarah Cook, the show includes Eyebeam residents and international artists who playfully transform everyday objects into participatory, otherworldly experiences through technology. The exhibition opens with Thomson & Craighead’s Unprepared Piano, 2004, a glossy… more
Published yesterday on swedish artsite Konsten.net (meaning Theart.net):
Om en konstnär som Kurt Schwitters hade haft tillgång till Internet så hade han sluppit att bli klibbig om fingrarna när han satt och klippte och klistrade ihop sina collage. Han kunde i stället ha använt sig av ett dataprogram som hämtade texter och bilder från nätet och satte ihop dem till nya konstverk. När den brittiska konstnärsduon Thomson & Craighead ställer ut verket ”Decorative Newsfeed” på Studion på Moderna Museet är det i princip det man gör. Läs mer…
This exhibition opened last Thursday at Eyebeam in New York.
Some pics from the show have already been posted as a flickr set here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyebeam/sets/72157607128132407/
There’s also an audio guide here:
http://www.eyebeam.org/podcasts/untethered_full.mp3
Work by:
Danya Vasiliev [RU]
Nicola Unger [DE]
Michelle Teran [CAN] & Isabelle Jenniches [NL]
Nathan Menglef [USA]
Nancy Mauro-Flude [AUS]
Walter Langelaar [NL]
Jesse Darlin’ [UK]
Scot Cotterell [AUS]
Martin John Callanan [UK]
Essays
“Casting Away” by Francesca da Rimini,
“GOD LISTENS TO SLAYER” by Andrew Harper
encoding_experience/10_October_2008_18:00_EST.*
Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts,
University of Tasmania, Hunter St, Hobart.
Exhibition: 10 October – 31 October, 12:00- 17:00 daily EST.
Exhibition Opening: Friday 10 October, 17:30 EST.
encoding_experience/10_October_2008_18:00_EST.* is the first of a series of exhibitions
inspired by the ways in which artists are embracing critical, hands on interventive
strategies towards the understanding of, and experimentation with technology.
The artists in the show open up issues of privacy, piracy and control,
paradigms that are deeply embedded into technology and the way technology
is designed.
Most of the artists favour a collaborative, socio-centric approach to their work,
they have an agenda about thinking through questions such as;
Where does the technology come from? What is the real use of a computer?
What are the social issues around regular access to domestic machines
i.e. game consoles, home stereos and digital cameras.
How do we use and question systems that tirelessly reproduce and augment environments,
image and sound?
Actively engaging with conceptual concerns, DaDa-esque notions of performance,
hacking and intellectual property; encoding_experience presents an insight into
how electronic media and craft knowledge operates in current art practice, not only
in terms of its functionality, but also in regards to artists who have a critical
approach towards the politics, aesthetics and economies coded into these systems.
The concept for this show was initiated and developed by Nancy Mauro-Flude,
in collaboration with Scot Cotterell.
More info
Opening Friday, 12. September 2008 at 7 p.m.
Duration: 13. September – 1. November 2008
Opening Hours: Tue – Fri 2 – 6 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m – 2 p.m
Osterwalder´s Art Office
Isestrasse 37, 20144 Hamburg, Germany
Tel. ++ 040 486109
above left, Tim Head ‘Dust Flowers’, 2008; above right, Susan Collins ‘Fenlandia, 25th March 2005’
On Saturday 6th September 2008 from 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. as part of the „Rote Punkt“ Gallery Tours Osterwalders Art Office will be showing Susan Collins’ „Glenlandia“ 2 years archive, 12 hrs of moving image projection and Tim Head’s „Wildfire 2004“ Realtime Computer program and LCD Screen.)
Through their parallel working practices Tim Head and Susan Collins explore the properties of digital media in distinct and inventive ways. Susan Collins’ recent work employs transmission, networking and time as primary materials creating digital representations of landscape where each pixel represents a unit of time. Tim Head bypasses image as representation by using solely the prime physical elements of the medium to form the work.
For Tim Head, the elusive and contrary nature of the digital medium and its unsettled relationship with both ourselves and with the physical world forms the basis for recent work. Computer programs are written to generate unique events in ‘real time’ on screens, projections and inkjet prints that focus on the intrinsic properties of these digital media. The programs operate at the primary scale of the medium’s smallest visual element (the pixel or inkjet dot) by treating each element as a separate individual entity. The medium is no longer transparent but opaque.
Susan Collins‘ gradually unfolding, classically romantic landscape images are harvested and archived over the course of the year. They encode the landscape over time, with different tonal horizontal bands recording fluctuations in light and movement throughout the day and with broad bands of black depicting night-time. Stray pixels appear in the image where the moon passes through or a bird, person, car or other unidentifiable object passes in front of the webcam as the pixel is captured. The work is intended to be slow, a reflection on the ever increasing speeds we demand from the internet. Poised between the still and the moving image, the lens and the pixel, the prints explore how images can be coded and decoded using both light and time as building blocks for the work.
Slow Fields is the first time these two bodies of work will be shown together.
Anna Barham, Susan Collins, Nadine Feinson, Joan Key, Charlotte Moth
Curated by Sotiris Kyriacou
5 September – 5 October 2008
One in The Other
45 Vyner Street, London E2 9DQ
New work by Susan Collins in “Work & Play”
The Terrace Gallery and Grounds, Harewood House
09 August 2008 – 02 November 2008
In June 2008 a new Susan Collins pixel webcam was installed overlooking Harewood’s classical ‘Capability’ Brown landscape. The webcam is programmed to record images of the landscape over the course of a year and a series of digital prints have been produced with each image made up of pixels collected over 21.33 hours. The work plays on parallels between these constructed pixel landscapes and the construct of this composed picturesque idyll.
The exhibition Work & Play explores Harewood House and its estate in the wider landscape. A few prints from this new Harewood series will be on display alongside other images of Harewood including watercolours, architectural plans, historic maps and photographs from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Nancy Mauro-Flude will be showing her work and giving workshops at various places over the summer:
Paraphernalia will be shown at: GENRATECH 19-20 July at Hangar in Barcelona, FILE Hipersônica on 5th August and at The House of Natural Fiber, Indonesia. International Yogyakarta New Media Art Festival, 11-20 August.
Nancy will also be giving a 3 day workshop on ‘Bricolage: local and emergent technologies, custom built interfaces in Performance at Critical Path, Sydney, 20 – 22 August.
Over the summer Martin’s work will be found at several places, including:
Eleven will be screened 24 June at the 30th Moscow International Film Festival
Location of I will be at both Whitstable Biennale and Live Art Falmouth
THE LAST SHOW at FIELDGATE GALLERY:
TERRY ATKINSON
STUART BRISLEY
TIM HEAD
Curated by Richard Ducker
Private View: Friday 13th June 2008, 6-9pm
Exhibition dates: June 14th – July 13th 2008
Gallery opening hours: Friday to Sunday, 1-6pm
Tim Head, Dust Flowers, detail © 2008
FIELDGATE GALLERY
14 Fieldgate Street
London
E1 1ES
http://www.fieldgategallery.com
07957228351
This year’s website now online
BA Show
Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 May, 10am-5pm
Monday 19 – Thursday 22 May, 10am-8pm
MA/MFA Show
Thursday 5 & Friday 6 June, 10am-8pm
Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 June, 10am-5pm
Monday 9 – Wednesday 11 June, 10am-8pm
The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
+44 (020) 7679 2313
slade.enquiries@ucl.ac.uk
15 December 2007 – 26 January 2008
Multiplicities is the first group exhibition at ARC Projects featuring half the current roster of sixteen artists – four based in the UK and four in Bulgaria. This is the first exhibition in a Sofia gallery for mid-career international artists Susan Collins, Alec Finlay, Thomson & Craighead and Mare Tralla. This is also the first occasion their work will be seen alongside that of their Bulgarian peers Luchezar Boyadjiev, Alla Georgieva, Ivan Moudov and Kamen Stoyanov.
“Multiplicities” is a term borrowed from mathematics, which speaks of the condition of being multiple, the relation between a number of identical objects or entities; It has also been used by theorists Gilles Deleuze and Manuel DeLanda to describe how our perceptions of reality change through time, in a constant flow of variety and heterogeneity at a single point in space. Multiplicities can encompass the relationship between original artwork and copy, but also how artists transform supposedly fixed meanings during the process of viewing the work.
Multiplicities showcases new and recent works, all multiples and limited editions, including prints, objects, Internet transmissions, and photographs. The exhibition captures the multifaceted approaches of contemporary artists to traditional genres such as the treatment of landscape, the self-portrait and the still life, or abstraction. Multiplicities also reveals the artists’ commentaries on the historical legacy of movements including Dada, Pop, and Socialist Realism. Works include a re-enactment of Vera Mukhina’s iconic sculpture from 1937; Self-portraits as Lenin; Fortune teller readings from cups of Turkish coffee; A hybrid of carnation and electric fan; Sexually suggestive cushions; Decorative live Internet newsfeeds; The visual cacophony of contemporary Moscow; Colonies designed for different species of bird; Webcam images of the quintessential Scottish landscape.
ARC Projects, 4th Floor, Boulevard Vitosha 90, 1463 Sofia, Bulgaria
www.arcprojects.org
Multiplicities is from 15 December 2007 – 26 January 2008
Exhibition open Wednesday – Saturday, 3 – 8 pm
Seasonal closure from 23 December, open again 3 January
Martin John Callanan’s Sonification of You will be at 8th Pixxelpoint Festival, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 7-15 December 2007. Also an artist’s talk. [PDF: Festival Program, includes translation of Sonification of You into both Slovenian and Italian]
Pixxelpoint is one of the most successful and renowned festivals of new media art in Slovenia and also abroad. Its purpose is firstly, to bring the information technology and new media art closer to the general public, and secondly, to raise awareness about a different potential to use computer among the young. In previous editions the festival had a big media response and over 3000 visitors visited it every year, so this is a challenge for the organizers to further expand it and trespass the boundaries of the gallery space which has become too small for all the projects which are to be carried out. The exhibition of new media art projects, as the central event of the festival will be mounted at City Gallery Nova Gorica but will include also other locations (Mostovna, Kulturni dom Gorica (Italy) and DAMS (Italy)), besides we will also include a symposium on the given topic, as well as workshops run by guest-lecturers. Accompanying activities will include numerous concerts by well-known music performers.
Photo © fisher hart
Chaser by Susan Collins is one of a series of contemporary artworks and illuminations commissioned for the GLOW ’07 festival Newcastle Gateshead.
Chaser transforms the top windows of the Tyne Bridge Tower in Gateshead into a rapidly moving light circuit of intense colour. Visible across the river Tyne in Newcastle, Gateshead and beyond, the animation will continually ‘chase’ around the building as the colours gradually shift over time.
Tuesday 4 – Monday 17 December 2007
Every evening 5pm – late
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