DAB Culture Watch-er
Supported by: UTS School of Design, Architecture and Building
Culture Watch-er | Deborah Turnbull
A blog for UTS students in need of a little culture...
Live to air | 26 August 2010
Launch Event | Thursday 26 August 2010 @ Fraser Studios | 10-14 Kensington Street | CHIPPENDALE
UTS Students and Staff welcome!
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This is a blog for UTS Students in need of a little culture in their lives and unsure where to find it. Believe me, there is a LOT to do in this fair city of ours, and this site will attempt to keep you abreast of it all, from the big 3 culture icons (sculpture, painting & architecture) to literature, theatre, films, fashion, and everything in between!
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Beta_space
Assimilate, by Damian Hills
Location | Beta_space | Level 1 - Cyberworlds Gallery | Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Exhibition Dates | 28 August - 15 October 2010
Relevant Links | www.betaspace.net.au | http://www.ultimosciencefestival.com
Launch Date and Public Programme |Derek.Williamson@phm.gov.aubr />
What | Art-Science Speed Dating | When | Friday 27 August 2010, 6-8:30pm | Where | Powerhouse Museum, Sydney – various locations | Who | Featured as part of the Ultimo Science Festival, this event includes speakers Matthew Connell, Damian Hills, Matthew Huynh, and a special viewing of SEISX human seismograph installation, and Face to Face.
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Stuff on Walls interview, with Jordana Maise, on Julia Burns Drifting prototype.
image courtesy of Julien Phalip
image courtesy of the artist, Damian Hills
Next up @ Beta_space: Assimilate, by Damian Hills
About the Artwork
The assimilate project is an online collaborative environment that allows participants to visually construct narratives in a 3D virtual space. The installation at the Powerhouse Museum, at Beta_space in the Cyberworlds Gallery features an expressive and physical touch table interface, whereby up to four participants can collaboratively narrate an ongoing story using online media obtained through an internet keyword search. Point and click morphs into a more physical drag and drop method, as interactivity is experienced on a new plane.
About the Research
How does narrative collaboration work? In this instance, Hills is exploring how search results can be styled into generative behaviours that visually self-organise while participants make choices about the narrative outcomes and their associated behaviours. The playful interface promotes conversation and role-playing as meaning and connotation are cycled through a continuous process of search result feedback and narrative template selection.
Artist Biography
Damian Hills is a multimedia developer with over 10 years industry experience. He has worked on a wide range of projects for industries including medicine, education, government, film, and games, in Australia, US and Europe. After completing a Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing at UTS in 2006, Damian joined CCS as a PhD student in 2008 to research interactive narrative and storytelling systems and how they can be applied to conversational systems of a multi-modal collaborative nature.
Drawing on such diverse fields such as narratology, cybernetics, and multimodal interaction, this research aims to investigate a model for how multi-modal interface and conversational information systems can assist in the production of meaning and sense-making for collaborative storytelling applications. A key component is the development and evaluation of a storytelling system, assimilate.net.
Acknowledgements
This research is funded by Australasian Center for Interaction Design (ACID) as a part of the 'Our Content' project that aims to develop a reusable framework for generative content systems. A special thank you to the Education and Public Development department at the Powerhouse Museum, namely Derek Williamson, who collaborated with Matthew Connell (Senior Curator, PHM) and Deborah Turnbull (New Media Curation) to produce a joint launch and public programme during the Ultimo Science Festival.
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From January 2007 – January 2009, Deborah acted as curator and administrator for this prototype interactive exhibition space in the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. She inherited this practise from CCS PhD student Lizzie Muller, who conceived of the idea with CCS Director Ernest Edmonds and PHM Head Curator, Matthew Connell. Managing this space provided Deborah with her first consistent curatorial practice in Sydney since researching and writing her Master’s on how technology can augment traditional art practice through the University of Sydney.
She is regularly invited back to guest curate shows of special interest to the research, the museum, or to NMC.
Grid Gallery
This month's brief | The Visualisation of Sound | Robert Shearing, Jonathon Lau, Salvatore Panaterri & Kjell Bjorgeengen and Elke Reinhuber
Exhibition Dates | 2 August- 5 September 2010
September Brief |"Her"story | CLOSED
October Brief | Biodiversity IS an Art | Submissions close 28 August 2010
Location | Grid Gallery | Crnr Erskine & Sussex, Sydney CBD
image courtesy of Aram Dulyan and Leo Burnett
Grid Gallery
This month's brief | The Visualisation of Sound
What does sound look like to you? How would you diagram something that is intrinsically felt and understood by your neural pathways as audible; as sound or noise?
In celebration of our August partners, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, we called for film clips on all things sonic, be it sound, noise, or music. Congratulations to the exhibiting artists on the screen:
Robert Shearing | Jonathon Lau | Salvatore Panaterri & Kjell Bjorgeengen | Elke Reinhuber
Don't forget to visit our Online Gallery.
About the project | EnergyAustralia will launch 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.
Director of New Media Curation, Deborah Turnbull, says: This project is intriguing because it is physically, architecturally and virtually situated; and has been conceived this way from the structure’s preliminary planning 10 years ago. The architectural structure of EnergyAustralia’s Substation 4 houses the physical component at the corner of Erskine and Sussex Streets. The web portal at www.gridgallery.com.au is also a key component; allowing a visitor the chance to view the online gallery, while an artist can submit works.
Each month, a new brief with a unique theme will be released for media artists from across Australia to respond to. Artists will be provided with a specific time frame to submit an idea via sketch synopsis. Feedback will be provided to selected artists, with the opportunity to revise and further develop their final artwork for upload onto Grid Gallery’s 15 metre x 1 metre LED screen, powered by 100% GreenPower.
Fashioning Now: Touring Exhibition
Fashioning Now: changing the way we make and use clothes
Curators | Alison Gwilt and Timo Rissanen (UTS School of Design)
Touring Exhibition | Freemantle Arts Centre, Perth 24 July - 19 September 2010 | curated by Jasmin Stephens
Collaborators: UTS Gallery and Art Collection in collaboration with the London College of Fashion, the Powerhouse Museum and funded by the NSW Environmental Trust
NY Times Article mentioning the Fashioning Now Publication!
Image courtesy of Romance Was Born
Romance Was Born, 2009 Collection
Fashion is often perceived negatively in terms of sustainability and yet one of its inherent qualities is innovation, the search for new solutions. This exhibition explores various ways in which fashion designers, artists and companies are refashioning the act of making clothes for a sustainable future where ‘fashion’ is an inherently positive facet of culture.
The scope of the exhibition extends from high fashion to mass manufacturing, and from products to systems. It attempts to highlight alternate modes of sustainable fashion in addition to the popular options of fashion produced with organic materials or recycled vintage fabrics. Some pieces are not wearable in the traditional sense, but make strong cases for new, improved practices.
Fashioning Now draws on research projects from international creators who are investigating solutions in various areas of the ‘closed loop’ system of production. This exhibition objects are divided into four main categories: source, make, use and last.
Amongst the exhibition objects will be fashion garments and textile objects, digital print photographs / illustrations / drawings and time-based media.
Energy Australia's Smart Home
Venue | Smart Home | Newington Smart Village | Sydney, Australia
Exhibiting Artists | TBA
Image courtesy of Energy Australia
Smart Home
Invited by the Commercial sector Smart Grid at Energy Australia, New Media Curation has been contracted to curate an installation of smart art. The selection of work will boast artistic vision with a relationship to the reduction of waste, the celebration of industrial materials for their sustainable qualities, and their dedication to the tennents of contemporary and emergent design practice.