Grid Gallery

About the project | EnergyAustralia has launched Grid Gallery, Sydney’s first permanent and public media-based gallery space dedicated solely to the exhibition of media art. Leo Burnett and New Media Curation have been commissioned to manage the gallery space and work with the community to display art.

Photography by | Aram Dulyan

Memory Flows @ Newington Armory

Memory Flows is an ongoing and distributed media art project of the CMAI, funded by the Inter-Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and the University of Technology, Sydney's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Starting in June 2009, it will flow into and be distributed through exhibitions, groups shows, events, spaces – building its own full flow along the way, for a full exhibition in 2010, at the Newington Armory at the Sydney Olympic Park. The first distribution of Memory Flows works and works in progress were with Image Ecologies at UTS and with Liquid Architecture (Australia's foremost Sound Art Festival) at Performance Space at the Carriageworks site.

Photography by | Nathan James, Lightpop

Bienalto House Launch

Bienalto House is an experience design firm specialises in web analytics, user experience, and online marketing.  They changed lodgings from their Spencer Street offices to a gorgeous warehouse on Riley Street in Surry Hills, hiring NMC to curate new media works to include an interactive experience for their VIP clients!

Curated for the space by | Deborah Turnbull, placed by Hurol Inan, Zafer Bilda and Matt Cummings

Artists Represented | Ian Gwilt, Chris Bowman, Steph Rajalingham, SoapBox Project

Special Thanks to | Creativity and Cognition Studios and Urban Aid @ UTS

Photography by | Aram Dulyan

EXPERIMENTA UTOPIA NOW | The Nauru Elegies, by Annie Kwon and Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky)

This project looks at the combination of unique qualities that make a remote place like
the island of Nauru a core member of the 21st century global economy: It explores an island
in a state of environmental collapse. The music component of the Nauru Elegies reflects colonial and postcolonial issues facing the digital economy of the 21st century translated into a string quartet, composed by Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky, while the architectural component conceptualized by Annie K. Kwon spatializes and formalizes otherwise invisible economic flows and irreversible ecological devastation.

www.experimenta.org

Exhibition Venue| Blindside Gallery, Nicholas Building, Level 7, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Dates| 19 February – 6 March. Opening night February 18 6:00pm -8:00pm.
Times| 10-5 daily

Public Programme| Friday 5 March @ 8pm | Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) | Shed4 Warehouses | Docklands, Melbourne| www.moshtix.com.au 

Curated by| Daine Singer (Experimenta) and Deborah Turnbull (NMC)

Photographs by| Deborah Turnbull

Nauru Elegies, a prototype by Annie K. Kwon and Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky)

'The Nauru Elegies: A Portrait in Sound and Hypsographic Architecture' is a technical synthesis of a live string ensemble, projected high-definition video footage, digital animation and live internet feed. It is an orchestration of content retrieved and processed in multiple localities including research in New York City, documentation in Nauru and performed by local musicians. It is a statement of technology and media processes in the 21st century that is exponentially progressing to a more dematerialized and delocalized state.

Audio and video recordings will be taken with the most current and mobile digital technologies in addition to the exploration of medical isosurf modeling techniques appropriated in architectural form and rendering. Economic dynamics will be mapped using current open source satellite and geospatial technologies including NASA World Wind to map hypsometric and bathymetric contours. The Nauru Elegies is realized in multiple technical layers, a manifold performance that has identifiable localities held by a complex global structure.

Text contributed by Paul Miller and Annie Kwon via KWON MILLER PRODUCTIONS.

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Installation photographs by: Aram Dulyan

Mini-conference photographs by: Deb Turnbull