 EXPERIMENTA ILLUMINATION THE LIGHT IN WINTER SCREENING PROGRAM AT FEDERATION SQUARE
Curated exclusively for Federation Square's 'The Light in Winter' Festival, Experimenta presents a short programme of screen based works by Australian and international artists screening on Federation Square's Big Screen throughout June 2012. Experimenta Illumination includes artists Timothy Casten (Australia), Joe King & Rosie Pedlow (UK), Bruce Mowson (Australia), Nicolas Provost (Belgium) and Sandra Selig (Australia). Together these artworks explore curious moments of life and light. King and Pedlow revisit the sighting of 'unexplained lights' in Rendlesham Forest thirty years on; Provost's hypnotically recomposed aerial shots of the Las Vegas skyline reveal its beauty and madness; Selig reflects quietly on the night time; Casten explores the ambiguity of gesture and familiarity on screen; and Mowson films a woman as she experiences Melbourne in a new light. Experimenta Illumination will screen twice daily for the duration of 'The Light in Winter' Festival 1 June - 1 July 2012. This week, 4 - 8 June times will be 2-3.10pm and 5.30 - 6.40om. Check the Federation Square Big Screen schedule for further details. |
 SELECTIVELY REVEALED OPENS IN BANGKOK
Experimenta and Asialink's touring exhibition Selectively Revealed will open at its third venue The Art Centre, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok on 8 June and will continue until 21 July 2012.The exhibition of 14 Australian media artworks continues to investigate the blurry line between public and private in artistic practice. Employing a variety of screen and contemporary video-making techniques, each artist in the exhibition choose precisely what - or what not - to reveal about those around them and themselves.
8 June - 21 July 2012 |
 FILM GIVEAWAY!
Thanks to our great friends at Hopscotch we have a number of double passes to Take This Waltz up for grabs.
To enter, visit our Facebook competition page and don't forget to include all your details.
Synopsis: When Margot (Michelle Williams) meets Daniel (Luke Kirby), their chemistry is intense and immediate. But Margot suppresses the sudden attraction, as she lives a quiet and comfortable life with her husband Lou (Seth Rogen). With her marriage content but more cuddly than carnal, when Margot discovers Daniel is her new neighbour, the certainty about her domestic life shatters. Margot is forced to choose between the comfort of the familiar and the exhilaration of the unknown. Take This Waltz leads us, breathlessly, through the familiar but uncharted question of what long-term relationships do to love, sex and our images of ourselves. It's a funny, sensual and heartbreaking story about a woman struggling to choose between two different types of love.
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OPPORTUNITIES - AUSTRALIA
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AUSTRALIA WIDE: KINGS EMERGING ARTIST PROGRAM OPEN CALL
Kings Emerging Artist Program is now open for artists based in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland. Each artist run space, Kings (Melbourne), FELT Space (Adelaide), First Draft (Sydney) and Level (Brisbane) will select one artist from their state. For the creation of an ambitious new work, each artist will receive a $2,000 production budget and studio residency in the state they live in. Wrapped in technical and curatorial support, all artists will participate an initial workshop at Kings, and exhibit their works at Kings in January 2013.
Deadline: 28 June 2012
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MELBOURNE: SIGNAL ANNOUNCES EOI
Signal's new Expression of Interest (EOI) Program provides an opportunity for artists and arts organisations to propose new projects to undertake at Signal as part of its creative arts program for young people. New ideas and proposals are welcome from artists and organisations of all disciplines for projects that engage young people 13 to 20 years.Signal welcomes proposals from young artists 18 years plus. Indigenous artists and artists from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply. The Signal EOI Program supports artist fees and material expenses up to $20,000. The new EOI process is now simpler for artists to navigate. What Signal want from you is your project idea and they will work with you to make it happen. Information sessions: Friday 8 June, 4pm & Tuesday 3 July, 11am at Signal. Deadline: 29 July 2012 |
MELBOURNE: TRANSDISCIPLINARY IMAGING CONFERENCE 2012
The Second International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture - Interference strategies for art - will be held at Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) over two stimulating days acclaimed professionals explore transdisciplinary imaging. The notion of 'Interference' is posed here as an antagonism between production and seduction, as a redirection of affect, or as an untapped potential for repositioning artistic critique. Keynote speakers include Professor Oliver Grau, Professor at Danube University, Department Chair at Donau University Krems, and Associate Professor Anna Munster, co-Director Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, COFA, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
22 - 23 June 2012
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OPPORTUNITIES & EVENTS- INTERNATIONAL
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| INTERNATIONAL: SEEKING ART AND BIOLOGY/BIOSCIENCES
For many 21st century artists, the Internet's rich supply of public domain images of living organisms (animals, including humans and insects; plants, and even bacteria) has dramatically affected the degree to which biology inspires art. For this exhibition, Vital Signs, Art & Science Collaborations Inc. seek original art inspired by our biological world with a special interest in what lies beneath its surface, and/or reflects upon scientific research questions, processes, ethics, and the stunning discoveries being made today.
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| INTERNATIONAL: OPEN CALL FOR NET ART PROJECTS
Turbulence commissions and presents up to twenty net art projects annually. The goal of these commissions is to support work that creatively explores the Internet as a site of production and transmission. This includes work by individual artists and collaboratives; work that uses the net as a repository and work that explores its possibilities as a conduit. Or both. All artists are encouraged to consider how their project advances creative use of the network.
Deadline for international artists: 30 June 2012
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Experimenta Media Arts gratefully acknowledges the support of the Australia Council, the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body, Arts Victoria, The Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Government, Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia, Screen Australia, Film Victoria and the City of Melbourne.
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Image credit:
Strange Lights, 2010, digital still, D video, single-channel projection from HD digital file, colour, stereo sound 8:05mins, image courtesy the Artists Michael Zavros, We dance in the studio (to that shit on the radio) 2010, video still, courtesy the Artist. Take This Waltz, image courtesy of Hopscotch.
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