I only just had a quick look at this, its quite dense but may be of interest, otherwise lookaway. theres a lot of sound and dubhustler/jason sweeney is good. Also www.nextwave.com in Australia are seeking submissions for next festival may 2002.
Its the kids from Fame. >From: "dub hustler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [BAM New Media] Under_score: Net art, Sound, and Essays from >Australia >Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 02:31:32 +0000 > >Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) presents Under_score: Net Art, Sound, and >Essays from Australia at http://www.bam.org/under_score, an online >exhibition showcasing the works of nine Australian artists for whom the >internet has emerged as one of the most significant arenas for artistic >experimentation and multimedia production. The exhibit is part of Next Wave >Down Under, BAM's month-long celebration of Australian arts and culture. > >Artists include Francesca da Rimini, Jason Sweeney, Melinda Rackham, John >Tonkin, MEZ, Paul Brown, geniwate, Ian Haig, Honor Harger, Adam Hyde, zina >kaye/Caleb K./Mr. Snow and Gary Zebington. > >The works presented here represent a vast diversity of approaches, >technologies, applications, and aesthetics, but with few exceptions, >coalesce thematically around "the body", a persistent theme which at the >beginning of the new millennium is present more than ever in discussions of >art, the sciences, and the media. Australian artists are helping to define >new modes of electronic writing and reading, multimedia, performance, image >making, and sonic production. > >In addition, Under_score provides related links to fourteen works by >Australian artists working in a variety of new media formats including >CD-ROM, installation, and performance. There are two innovative online >broadcasters, l'audible and r a d i o q u a l i a, delivering some of the >most compelling sound work in Australia and New Zealand, and select audio >pieces from The Listening Room, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's >award sound art program. > >In order to expand the discussion of these works and their significance BAM >has commissioned three online essays by Allen Feldman, an American cultural >and political anthropologist, Australian new media theorist Darren Tofts, & >Australian writer and media critic McKenzie Wark. > >Under_score: Net Art, Sound and Essays from Australia, now available at: >http://www.bam.org/under_score > >In conjunction with Next Wave Down Under, BAM commissioned Australian new >media company, Drome to recreate the CD-ROM Making Chunky Move for web >delivery. The web work explores how one of Australia's most exciting >contemporary dance companies created the dance work Corrupted 2, which made >its U.S. debut at BAM during this year's Next Wave Festival. The >documentary follows the company from the germ of an idea to the stage, >behind the scenes and beyond, including snapshot interviews with the key >players, dancers, creative collaborators, and other cultural professionals >as well as unique virtual 3-D segments, sound bites, and extensive video >footage. > >Making Chunky Move, now available at: >http://www.bam.org/chunkymove > > >For more information, contact Wayne Ashley, BAM's Manager of New Media via >email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ><a message from..> >~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Each person is the offspring of their >works, as passivity makes its bed, >so shall it lie in it (Debord). > >::currently onsite at {Para//elo} hub, SA >http://www.doppio-parallelo.on.net > > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
