<nettime> Some new Australian stuff

[McKenzie Wark <mwark@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au>]

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"We no longer have roots, we have aerials."
http://www.mcs.mq.edu.au/~mwark
 -- McKenzie Wark 


CD ROM LAUNCH

METABODY: From Cyborg to Symborg
Jeffrey Cook  Sam de Silva   Gary Zebington
Merlin Integrated Media

THURSDAY 21 AUGUST at 6pm
ARTSPACE Sydney
43 - 51 COWPER WHARF ROAD
WOOLLOOMOOLOO NSW 2011

The Metabody CD ROM examines the territory of the human-machine interface:
the avatar or digital self-representation in cyberspace, the robot or
automata (and now cyborg) through the ages, and the extended body as
performance/installation site connected to other bodies and sites around
the world. The CD ROM also features an archive of the work of Stelarc. It
will be appearing as an installation with muscle analysis hardware at this
year's ISEA97 in Chicago in September.

Merlin Integrated Media is a group of programmers and digital artists who
have come together to collaborate on performances and to provide support to
the arts community. In 1994, the three founding members of Merlin, Jeffrey
Cook, Sam de Silva and Gary Zebington, began collaborating with Australian
performance artist Stelarc, to develop performances that allowed
participation and interaction with audiences locally and globally over the
web.

Writers * Jeffrey Cook & Gary Zebington * Graphic Design * Gary Zebington *
Interface & Programming Design * Jeffrey Cook & Sam de Silva

This project was produced with the assistance of the AFC.
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CD ROM LAUNCH

PLANET OF NOISE
Brad Miller & McKenzie Wark

THURSDAY 28 AUGUST at 6pm
ARTSPACE Sydney

WARNING You are now in freefall towards a planet of noise. A planet
orbiting no sun. WELCOME: Here, where stories burn, and spaceships, on
re-entry. WELCOME: Here, where all things lie, in exile from their future.
PLEASE NOTE IN PASSING THE FOLLOWING POINTS OF INTEREST: Here is the
datasphere not promised. Here is love lost not found. Here are the dark
side enlightenment. Here is love lost not found. Here is the difference.
Here is the disenchanted magic kingdom.

JETTISON ALL DESIRES. PLEASE BOARD THE LIFE RAFT NOW.

Conceptualisation * Brad Miller & McKenzie Wark  * Realisation * Brad
Miller * Aphorisms & additional sound * McKenzie Wark * Original sound
design * Jason Gee & Derek Kreckler * Original voice * Khym Lam Additional
3D models * Horst Kiechle * Additional system support * Lloyd Sharp *
Additional hardware & support * Jeffrey Cook & Sam De Silva * Project
Officers *  Michael Hill & Andrew Traucki

This project was assisted by the Art Research & Development Fund of ANAT.
Produced with the assistance of the AFC.
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EXHIBITION OPENING

MOBILITY IN AN ARTIFICIAL CITY
Margie Medlin

OPENING TUESDAY 26 AUGUST at 6pm (runs  to AUG 30)
ARTSPACE Sydney

This project originated with the design of an artificial city, constructed
in a computer environment. This imaginary city is positioned on the border
of North America & Mexico, with the following featured locations: the
house, the market place, the border town, the transit zone and the
deportation centre. It represents a complex environment of architectural
spaces and photographic images; where cameras within the computer program
move around and through the models.

The work is continually adjusting the whole space from a playground to a
simple and bold geometry. This quasi built-form, which can be fully
perceived from a single vantage point, challenges the architectural notion
of interior and exterior space, as it is possible to see inside and outside
one image, as interior and exterior blend into a cacophony of space
rearranging itself. The image is not attempting to reach a point of
understanding - it is simply unfolding and collapsing space.

This large-scale process-oriented installation will be projected into the
space using thirty-five 8mm, 16mm and video projectors. This project has
been generously supported by Arts 21 through Arts Victoria and the
Australia Council.
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Artspace
The Gunnery
43 - 51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Australia

tel +61 2 9368 1899
fax +61 2 9368 1705
e-mail artspace@merlin.com.au
URL http://www.culture.com.au/scan/artspace/

Director: Nicholas Tsoutas
Administrator: Panos Couros
Curatorial Assistant: Kristen Elsby

Artspace gratefully acknowledges the VACF of the Australia Council and the
NSW Ministry for the Arts



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