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Mike Leggett: Managing Multiple Media

Friday, August 23rd, 2002

RealTime Education Feature: Mike Leggett is a curator and artist currently teaching Media Arts at UTS.

http://www.realtimearts.net/old/rt50/legget.html

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Teaching in a Digital Domain conference ilecture

Saturday, August 10th, 2002

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10 Aug 2002 – 09:15

Speaker:

Ted Snell

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10 Aug 2002 – 09:30

Topic:

Keynote Address: The Future of the Arts and Arts Education in the Digital Age

Speaker:

Roy Ascott

Outline:

The digital age is in a sense behind us – in that the interface is disappearing, or certainly migrating, from a cabled, box-bound environment to a wireless multi-sensory, multi-modal form. Already the hand held has taken ascendancy over the laptop for most young users engaged in

social rituals of exchange and communication. We look to a future in which we wear the computer, and hope for the breakthrough in biochip design, which allows us to carry itself if not directly in the brain. At the leading edge of artistic inquiry our interest is moving from the pixels to particles. It will be moistmedia that is likely to challenge our artistic and design skills and aspirations. In all of this a transdisciplinary approach to arts education is called for. New metaphors, new language, new methodologies will arise.

The first requirement in anticipating these changes is to establish a worldwide (meaning all regions, all cultures) research network at the most intensive level of inquiry. The Planetary Collegium is one model that can be considered: art, science and consciousness research become the three co-ordinates across which new knowledge, new experiences and new varieties of human identity will be engendered.

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10 Aug 2002 – 11:00

Topic:

Response and Discussion & Floor Discussion

Speaker:

Dr Charles Green/Paul Thomas

Outline:

Charles Green, Senior Lecturer, School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology, University of Melbourne.
Floor discussion chaired by: Paul Thomas, Director of the Studio of Electronic Arts, School of Art, Curtin University of Technology.

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10 Aug 2002 – 14:20

Topic:

A Bit of Digital Spectrum

Speaker:

Ken Rinaldo and Amy Youngs

Outline:

Many artists see digital tools as just another tool of expression but working in the digital realm offers unprecedented new ways of visualizing, distributing, controlling and making art. Perhaps for the first time in history we are at a juncture where pure notions of concept and idea can be realized virtually first, before being committed to material. While the benefits of digital tools are exciting they offer both opportunities and challenges, which must be addressed in order to fully understand the implications these tools will have to our visual arts culture.

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10 Aug 2002 – 14:40

Topic:

Computer technologies

Speaker:

Peter Morse

Outline:

Development of a “digital” research and pedagogical culture within a
Creative Arts context requires extensive links to be forged between what might be termed “aesthetic” practitioners and “technical” practitioners. In my view this means coherent links between the arts, computer sciences and information sciences. Research synergies can thereby be established, as well as efficiencies in hardware and software support, programming and content development. The possibilities afforded by digital technologies question the traditional pedagogic domains of the arts and sciences, and new forms of discourse and dialogue need to be established to address these new modes. Similarly researchers in these fields need to be multi-skilled in visualisation and programming, or at least know where to get assistance, in order to realise research projects. I will discuss various examples of these processes occurring at the University of Melbourne.

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10 Aug 2002 – 15:20

Topic:

Finding common ground physical and musical gesture

Speaker:

Lindsay Vickery

Outline:

Since 1996 the School of Dance at the WA Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University has been providing the opportunity for its students to work with interactive electronic technologies particularly in the creation of sound/music. The availability of the unit University-wide through the Studio for Research in Performance Technology (SRPT) has had the unexpected effect of drawing students from a wide variety of disciplines into a multi-arts environment. It has also built up a substantial body of research/performance.
Finding a common ground between the languages of Dance and Sound is a clear focus for the studio and is central to much of the multi-disciplinary work that takes place there. This paper will discuss some of the issues involved in trying to discover such a nexus. It will also give a summary of research being conducted in this field at Edith Cowan University’s Studio for Research in Performance Technology.

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10 Aug 2002 – 16:00

Topic:

Floor discussion

Speaker:

Chaired by Mike Philips

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11 Aug 2002 – 11:00

Topic:

Response and Discussion

Speaker:

Edward Colless, Head of Art History and Theory, Victorian College of the Arts

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11 Aug 2002 – 11:40

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Floor Discussion

Speaker:

Chaired by Suzette Worden

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11 Aug 2002 – 14:00

Topic:

Auto-Creativity V1.5: A slash and burn transmedia compression codec for artists and designers.

Speaker:

Mike Philips

Outline:

Auto-Creativity V1.5 develops a critical, analytical and deep understanding of the transformative qualities of digital media, which is developed in parallel with, and intrinsically linked to, practical production skills that question traditional media practice and explore new paradigms for a ‘New Media’ practice.
Auto-Creativity V1.5 embraces the paradigm shift that defines digital practice and enables the effective use of emergent methods and tools of digital media production. By integrating the theory and practice of digital media production within an On-Line synchronous and asynchronous mind-set Auto-Creativity V1.5.will fully embrace the potential of “being digital”.
Auto-Creativity V1.5 offers a Twenty First Century “Vision in Motion”

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11 Aug 2002 – 14:20

Topic:

Training, careers, ideas

Speaker:

Julianne Pierce

Outline:

How does an emphasis on technical training and vocational skills affect the generation and exploration of ideas. What is the role of an organisation like ANAT in developing models for research and development, both in the acquisition of skills and creative thinking?

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11 Aug 2002 – 14:40

Speaker:

Philip George

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11 Aug 2002 – 15:00

Speaker:

Julian Goddard

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Tags: BEAP, Digital age, education, Roy Ascott
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Teaching in a Digital Domain

Saturday, August 10th, 2002

Teaching in a Digital Domain, developed by Paul Thomas Director of BEAP in collaboration with the Forum for Electronic Arts Research (FEAR) Australian Council of Universities of Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) in collaboration with the Australian National Council of Creative Arts (ANCCA).

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Technology Park Function Centre

Saturday 10th August 2002

John Curtin Gallery Bankwest theatre

Sunday 11th August 2002

This two-day electronic arts education forum will address issues relevant to the current research/innovation agenda in the arts.

It will be based on an open discussion of current pedagogies and future possibilities of spatial practices in the arts. Teaching practices in the new digital domain and the challenges it presents to the arts will be examined in a forum that brings together electronic arts lecturers from various convergent disciplines along with international speakers.

The forum will look at ongoing strategies for future collaborations between institutions within this area. These collaborations will be to define discipline research strategies that will explore the role of the new digital technology in framing research goals within the arts.

Teaching in a Digital Domain Forum for Electronic Arts Research (FEAR) Australian Council of Universities of Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) in collaboration with the Australian National Council of Creative Arts (ANCCA).Electronic media massages our everyday lives and structures our work environments. Simultaneously global and intimate in reach, it is now the organising locus of contemporary practices, ideologies and consciousness. This is why the thematic focus of the inaugural Biennale for Electronic
Arts Perth (BEAP) is LOCUS.
The Biennale, through this forum, will examine the locus of electronic media in art schools, and the resulting nexus between art, science, technology and pedagogy. The forum includes key note and specialist speakers, along with generous opportunities for the open discussion of current pedagogies and future possibilities in the arts.
This two-day electronic arts education forum will address issues relevant to the current research/innovation agenda in the arts.
The forum will look at ongoing strategies for future collaborations between institutions within this area. These collaborations will be to define discipline research strategies that will explore the role of the new digital technology in framing research goals within the arts.

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Tags: ACUADS, consciousness, digital, education, Electronic Arts, pedagogies
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BEAP02 – The Aesthetics of Care iLecture

Monday, August 5th, 2002

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05 Aug 2002 – 09:00

Topic:

Welcome

Speaker:

Oron Catts

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05 Aug 2002 – 09:15

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Morning Session

Speaker:

Prof Lori Andrews

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05 Aug 2002 – 10:00

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The Aesthetics of Cruelty vs. the Aesthetics of Empathy

Speaker:

KDThornton

Outline:

“As we understand more the import and effects of our physical composition we move from a time of corrective nurturing (religion, psychoanalysis, therapy) to corrective “naturing” (pharmaceuticals, EST, genetic modificaitons) …. Our relationship to ourselves dictates our relationships toward other creatures and our ecology, more generally. Our ethics with human culture do not easily translate to the needs and values of all biological forms”
Thornton, in her art practice, critiques concepts of anthropology, community and observational science using house flies; investigates the seven deadly sins within the modern pharmaceutical industry and witnesses the resurrection of a chicken.

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05 Aug 2002 – 10:20

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A complicated balancing act? How can we assess the use of animals in art and science?

Speaker:

Stuart Bunt

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The ethics of animal use in scientific experimentation has been, and continues, to be widely debated. Absolutist positions forbidding all such research as immoral or specist, hinges on the relative balance of harm versus good. Stuart Bunt from the School of Anatomy and Human Biology UWA, will discuss the inherent difficulties of using such an approach, and the particular ethical and scientific challenges presented when such rules are applied to the use of living material in art works.

Related site:

http://www.fishandchips.uwa.edu.au

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05 Aug 2002 – 10:40

Topic:

Cute Robots/Ugly Human Parts (A post-human aesthetics of care)

Speaker:

Laura Fantone

Outline:

The role of art in relation to bio-politics; increasing solidarity and empathy among species; a Dada of the human genome; art that develops and aesthetic of care and recognition for non-human elements and intelligence. What to do in the era of biotech?!

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05 Aug 2002 – 11:25

Topic:

Breeding for Wildness

Speaker:

George Gessert (presented by Adam Zaretsky)

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By bringing art to evolution, and to ornamental plants in particular (which constitutes a major expression of genetic folk art) we may deepen awareness of the social, psychological, and ethical issues involved in directing evolution. . Gessert is an artist, scholar and is a member of the editorial board of Leonardo MIT Publication. In this paper he discusses his work over the last twenty years breeding plants that recall their wild ancestors rather than the overbred and kitsch of the commercial breeders.

Related site:

http://www.geneart.org/gessert.htm

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05 Aug 2002 – 11:45

1500 mins

Topic:

Recombinant Aesthetics (adventures in paradise)

Speaker:

Andre Brodyk

Outline:

New media-art reveals the dissolution of immutable self-contained organic entities. It presents all entities as genomic sites, permeable mediums of ‘genetic’ exchange susceptible to continuous engineered transmutation. Brodyk discusses art based coding mechanisms modelled on interpretations of genetic engineering processes used in biotechnology applications to new media art.

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05 Aug 2002 – 12:05

2100 mins

Topic:

Gene Packs

Speaker:

Peta Clancy

Outline:

Clancy explores the scientific processes used in the field of genetic engineering with the ethical implications of imaging her own chromosomes and the development of artificial chromosomes as a gene delivery method. Clancy is a member of body manufacture a multi-disciplinary group of artists exploring and critiquing the field of genetic engineering.

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05 Aug 2002 – 13:30

900 mins

Topic:

Performance “The Dissecting Eye”

Speaker:

Julia Reodica

Outline:

Every eye has its blind spot.

Through the ages, incomplete visions have prompted mystics, philosophers and scientists to probe through the viscous liquid. What has been revealed are truths and lies about the super/natural world. The power of the eye and gaze, still not fully understood, continues to be a source of inspiration and fear. The live performance explores the physical structure and cultural symbolism of the mysterious eye.
Bay Area Artist, Julia Reodica, is also a Life Sciences Intern and Exhibit Facilitator at the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco, California.

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05 Aug 2002 – 13:50

1200 mins

Topic:

The Ethics of Looking

Speaker:

Redmond Bridgeman

Outline:

For John Berger, the mutually regarding look between humans and other animals has been largely extinguished; replaced by a gaze that see animals as raw material: a focus for human sentimentality, a resource, or objects of human knowledge. Addressing the work of a number of artists, this paper will explore the considerations appropriate to the development of an ethics of looking_, one that escapes the isolating gaze Berger describes. It will be argued such an aesthetic would involve an interplay between visualisation technologies, with their capacity to expand and organize our experience of the world, and visual art’s speculative role on the limits and nature of visual experience.

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05 Aug 2002 – 14:10

900 mins

Topic:

The Laboratory as an Art Studio

Speaker:

Marta De Menezes

Outline:

Menezes discusses her artistic practice in the lab – using DNA labelled with flurochromes to paint the nuclei of human cells, imaging techniques that allow the visualisation of brain activity and creating live butterflies with wing patterns, never seen before in nature.

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05 Aug 2002 – 14:30

1800 mins

Topic:

Meart – The semi living artist (Aka Fish & Chips)

Speaker:

Guy Ben-Ary/Thomas DeMarse

Outline:

Meart (AkA Fish & Chips) is an on going research & development project conducted in SymbioticA. Meart is a bio-cybernetic project exploring aspects of creativity and artistry in the age of biological technologies. It is assembled from neurons (from embryonic rat cortex) – “wetware”, grown over multi electrode array, software and visual art output device (robotic arm) – hardware. In this talk, Guy Ben-Ary presents the current state of research in the development of a “semi-living artistic entity”.

Related site:

http://www.fishandchips.uwa.edu.au

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05 Aug 2002 – 15:00

1500 mins

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Topic:

An emergence of the Semi-Living

Speaker:

Ionat Zurr

Outline:

Modern biology enables us to objectify living systems and to create Semi-Living beings. As wet biology art practitioners Ionat Zurr and Oron Catts are acutely aware that the Semi-Living beings they create are dependant on their care for survival and well-being. In this presentation Zurr explores the extent to which the TC&NA (Tissue Culture and Art) project can morally manipulate and exploit living and biological systems for human-centric activities. Will the emergece of the Semi-Livings make our society a more caring one or will life become objectified even further?

Related site:

http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au

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05 Aug 2002 – 15:45

1200 mins

Topic:

The Fine Art of Creating Life

Speaker:

Amy Youngs

Outline:

Youngs uses electronics, kinetics, sound, insects, plants and pixels to create art about the complex relationship between technology and our changing concepts of nature and self. Her work engages viewers in a visual, tactile and auditory realm, to elicit a dialogue regarding the relationship between technology and our changing concept of nature and self. That technology can simultaneously ruin, reveal, reinvent and repair nature is a paradox Young investigates in this presentation.

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05 Aug 2002 – 16:05

1500 mins

Topic:

The obscured ideologies of Artificial Life: An analysis of the construction and representation of nature through the work of Mark Latham.

Speaker:

Grant Taylor

Outline:

The politics of the “idea” of nature and its social construction are ideas manifest in Mark Lathams’ art. The digital machine is perceived as a moral free zone, yet is always historically and culturally mediated through scientific discourses and Western attitudes towards nature. Taylor explores the ethical debates of biology virtually created.

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Tags: anthropology, Empathy, ethics, genetic
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BEAP 2002 Conference series: The Aesthetics of Care

Monday, August 5th, 2002

THE AESTHETICS OF CARE?

The artistic, social and scientific implications of the use of biological/medical technologies for

artistic purposes.

Presented by SymbioticA: The Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratory

& The Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 5 August 2002.

The Aesthetics of Care? Symposium is part of the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP) 2002.

http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au/publication/THE_AESTHETICS_OF_CARE.pdf

Tags: aesthetic, biological art, care
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