Archive for July 29th, 2008
29
Jul
08
dinner at Chimes
29
Jul
08
Mare Tralla
Mare Tralla is an Estonian artist interested in the cultural differences of eastern europe from her perspective as an Estonian living in London but working between. She spoke of the history of feminist digital art in Estonia emphasising the contradictory ideas of local nationalism with the breakup of USSR at a time when there was general globalisation. She also expressed difficulty in defining cybefeminism.
29
Jul
08
woman needs tractor
Irina presented the work of Boryana Rossa in her absence and this video was a highlight of the panel.
29
Jul
08
LOCATING CYBERFEMINISM
I was very excited to see that there was a group presentation with cyberfeminism in the title. Irina Aristarkhova, Boryana Rossa, Margaret Tan, Mare Tralla, and Min Cheon presented their work under the ubertitle locating cyberfeminism.
As i was listening to the presentations, I was forced to face my own confusion as to a definition of what cyberfeminism actually is. I sippose i had always had a fairly limited definition of artists working with the web as a tool/medium for expressing “feminist” views and ideas in a creative context. Some of the works pesented were web based, but some less so. I think my own dilemma was echoed in question time afterward where there seemed to be some general discussion as to whether cyberfemisim was out in favour of evironmentalism, even that it was DEAD! Is it really soooooo 1990’s?? I feel that the dynamic presentations and discussion served to prove that it was certainly not dead but perhaps lives on in an expanded form.
29
Jul
08
MOBIUM: a bus story
Artist Yasuke Kawamura bought a big bus and MOBIUM was born. He uses the bus to facilitate exhibitions, events and community presentations and it is a wonderful story.
MOBIUM is mobile museum of customize bus.
This is automobile, so it’s able to go various location, and it’s being to research and field work program.
29
Jul
08
charmed
Gavin Sade and Priscilla Bracks presented their work “Charmed”. Matt dwyer couldn’t make it…..bummer. This is an interactive work of gorgeousness commissioned for Experimanta and being exhibited at Sculpture Square in Singapore.
Charmed is an interactive computational media adaptation of images by Priscilla Bracks, from a series titled Refugee from the Human State. These images form a series of virtual worlds that can be accessed via three glowing resin pods. A video tracking device monitors movement enabling the viewer to become a giant influencing the lives of the tiny animated people. By tapping on the screen you cause them to behave
in surprising, funny, perplexing, uncanny, and disarming ways.
29
Jul
08
Vince Dziekan
Locating Media: On spatial associations between digital media and exhibition space
Hiding in the shadows is Vince Dziekan. Vince is an artist from Melbourne but his paper concerned a show that he had curated at Hobart and in particlular the work in the show by Pete Gomes
29
Jul
08
Douglas Easterly, Matthew Kenyon
Exploring the Metahuman through Inverse Biotelemetry
The boys from SWAMP gave a great talk about their work which involves data mining and then taking that data to “power”something.eg The rise and fall of stock/share prices of a large homeware store would determine how much water a plant would get. I love their humour in broaching extremely serious social issues.
