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[Nettime-bold] Alchemy Tutor's Presentations |
Dear ANAT members and colleagues, As a reminder, to follow is information on forthcoming events and presentations by tutors of ANAT's forthcoming project Alchemy: International Masterclass for New Media Artists and Curators. Alchemy is due to commence on 8 May, 2000 at the Brisbane Powerhouse - Centre for the Live Arts. Further information about the masterclass and other public events to coincide with this project will follow shortly. #======================================================# 1. MARKO PELJAN: Presented by ACCA, ANAT and Experimenta Media Arts DATE: 5 May 2000 TIME: 6pm COST: $5 and $3 conc (+ACCA/Exp members) VENUE: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Dallas Brooks Drive, South Yarra, Melbourne 2. JOHN TONKIN: THE BUNKER#2 - Personal Eugenics DATE: 5 May 2000 VENUE: Linden Gallery, 26 Ackland Street, St Kilda, Melbourne An exhibition presented by Experimenta Media Arts and Linden Gallery 3. GEERT LOVINK: "Directions for Cyberculture in the New Economy" DATE: 12 May 2000 TIME: 10am - 12 noon VENUE: Conference Room, University of Queensland Library, Brisbane Presented by M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture and the Media and Cultural Studies Centre at the University of Queensland, in association with the ANAT and the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy. #======================================================# 1. MARKO PELJAN: Presented by ACCA, ANAT and Experimenta Media Arts DATE: 5th may TIME: 6pm COST: $5 and $3 conc (+ACCA/Exp members) VENUE: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Dallas Brooks Drive, South Yarra Marko Peljan is a performance and communication artist and writer based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He founded the art group Projekt Atol in 1992 and is currently programs coordinator of Ljudmila (Ljubljana digital media lab). His most recent work Makrolab was a feature of Documenta X and was recently installed at Rottnest Island as part of the Art Gallery of Western Australia's Home project. His visit to Melbourne is assisted by the Australian Network for Art and Technology. Makrolab is a wind and solar powered research station capable of providing three people with indepednent life support for 40 days. Although physically isolated, it is linked through various communication networks. '...the creative communication of individual forces to converge into a scientific /psychic entity that results in the creation of an insulated/isolated environment understood as a vehicle to achieve independence from, and a reflection of, actual entropic social conditions.' (Peljhan) INFO: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art PH: +613 9654 6422 FAX: +613 9650 3438 ONLINE: www.artnow.org.au SNAIL MAIL: Dallas Brooks Drive, South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia, 3141 BOOKINGS: 03 9654 6422 #======================================================# 2. THE BUNKER # 2 PERSONAL EUGENICS John Tonkin Wayne wants to become intelligent, cultured, sporty. Chuck wants to become bold, courageous and sexy. Tessie wants to become worldly, wicked and wanton. Who said self-improvement had to be hard work? Now you can change with just a few clicks of the mouse! Evolve yourself and others quickly and without pain. Achieve in only seconds what would take nature generations… Personal Eugenics is a part of meniscus (http://www.johnt.org/meniscus); a series of three web based works informed by the enlightenment sciences of physiognomy, anthropometry and eugenics. The works explore ideas relating to subjectivity, scientific belief systems and the body. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, it's arts funding and advisory body. WHERE: Linden Gallery, 26 Acland Street, St Kilda WHEN: May 5 – 28th OPENING: Thursday May 4, 6 - 8pm GALLERY HOURS: Wed - Sun, 1 - 6pm For more information contact Marion Harper, The Bunker Coordinator TELl: (03) 9525 5025, FAX: (03) 9525 5105 EMAIL: experimenta@experimenta.org URL: www.experimenta.org Experimenta Media Arts gratefully acknowledges the support of the Australian Film Commission, Cinemedia and Arts Victoria. #======================================================# 3. GEERT LOVINK: "Directions for Cyberculture in the New Economy" DATE: 12th May TIME: 10am - 12 noon VENUE: Conference Room, University of Queensland Library M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture and the Media and Cultural Studies Centre at the University of Queensland, in association with the Australian Network for Art and Technology and the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy are proud to present a morning with Geert Lovink. The early, mythological phase of digital culture is now rapidly running out of its utopian energies. Law and order are taking command over the last pockets of digital wilderness. The taming of the cyberculture by "click 'n mortar" businesses and their willing government executors took only a few years. The time of institutionalisation, mega mergers and security paranoia has arrived. These new conditions, driven by the current hyper-growth, have an as yet invisible effect on the cultural new media sector (arts, design, education), which had perceived itself for so long as "ahead of the wave". To prevent Internet from turning into a nightmare (from which it then has to awake), neither the utopian vision has to be eliminated, nor do we need to withdraw to the apocalyptic pole, which states that the world and its network will collapse anyhow -- with or without our interference. The conflict between utopia and negativism needs to be played out. The deeper we are drawn into the Virtual, the more there is a need to stage its inherent paradoxes and contradictions. Programme: 10.00 a.m. Keynote speech by Geert Lovink "Directions for Cyberculture in the New Economy" 10.30 a.m. Respondents: Greg Hearn (Department of Communication, Queensland University of Technology) David Marshall (Media and Cultural Studies Centre, University of Queensland) 11.00 a.m. Panel discussion and audience questions Geert Lovink - Greg Hearn - David Marshall Entry is free for all members of the public. Some refreshments will be available before the event. Geert Lovink: The career of Dutch media theorist and activist Geert Lovink, who is currently based in Canberra, Australia, spans an impressive range of new media activism and digital art projects and boasts a great variety of publications both on- and offline (for a text archive see <http://thing.desk.nl/bilwet>). A member of Adilkno, the Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge, a free association of media-related intellectuals established in 1983, he is perhaps best known as a co-founder of the freenet 'Digital City Amsterdam' (<http://www.dds.nl>) and of the international 'nettime' circle (<http://www.nettime.org>), which is both a mailinglist for online theorists and activists and the starting-point for a series of meetings and publications. Lovink is also a co-organiser of major new media and digital arts conferences such as Next Five Minutes 1-3 (1993/96/99; <http://www.n5m.org>), Metaforum 1-3 (Budapest 1994-96; <http://www.mrf.hu>), Ars Electronica (Linz 1996/98; <http://www.aec.at>) and Interface 3 (Hamburg 1995). He has recently been based at De Waag, the Society for Old and New Media (<http://www.waag.org>) where he is responsible for the theory section. He started Hybrid Workspace (<http://www.medialounge.net>) in 1997 - a series of temporary media labs at the arts exhibition Documenta X in Kassel/Germany, which continued in Manchester (1998) and in Helsinki in the contemporary arts museum Kiasma (<http://temp.kiasma.fi>) and is planned to take place in Paris (La Villette) in December 2000. A recent project is the Tulipomania Dotcom conference, to take place in Amsterdam in June 2000, which will focus on a critique of the New Economy. Geert Lovink visits Brisbane as a participant in Alchemy, an International Masterclass for New Media Artists and Curators, which is organised by the Australian Network for Art and Technology (<http://www.anat.org.au>) in association with the Brisbane Powerhouse - Centre for the Live Arts from 8 May to 9 June 2000. M/C and the Media and Cultural Studies Centre are highly grateful to ANAT and Geert Lovink as well as the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy for making this event possible. 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