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The World Is Everything That Is The Case
Dennis Del Favero: Magnesium Light
2012
The World Is Everything That Is The Case
31 May - 5 August 2012
Developed for the ISEA2011 Istanbul exhibition Uncontained, the traditional suitcase is used as a paradoxical transmigratory symbol for this exhibition. The suitcase is analogous to transportation and distribution, packing and unpacking, compression and the uncompressed. The suitcase is inextricably linked to the use of telecommunications, databases and digital media, which through its compressed shipment of information can impose on the location, culture and immateriality of cyberspace, a parallel culture of sameness to those suitcases of the early explorers and the migrants that followed. This will be the Australian Premiere after its inaugural presentation at ISEA2011 in Istanbul, Turkey in late 2011.
Participating artists: Karen Casey, Mark Cypher, Tina Gonsalves, Mark Guglielmetti, Nigel Helyer and Mitchell Whitelaw.
Curated by Vince Dziekan, Paul Thomas and Sean Cubitt
Forum - experimental new media
Friday 1 June, BankWest Theatre, John Curtin Gallery
1:00-4:30pm
Focusing on the works and ideas presented in these two exhibitions, the speakers will discuss the curatorial premise and how experimental new media presents opportunities for global interaction and expression.
Speakers include: Paul Thomas, Vince Dziekan, Mark Cypher, Karen Casey and Nigel Helyer.
Refreshments provided. Please RSVP- gallery@curtin.edu.au
Karen Casey, Meditation Wall, video projection, suitcase installation containing laptop and EEG headset, 200 x 600cm
Meditation Wall is an immersive environment designed to illicit meditative or trance-like mind states. The work was created using a custom designed video interface that generates effects from both real time and pre-recorded brainwave Electroencephalograph (EEG) data. The software utilizes the artist’s EEG to control and manipulate original sound and image files, producing a changing audiovisual sequence inspired by the colours, patterns and sounds of Istanbul and the Australian desert.
Mark Cypher, Propositions 2.0, 2011, Suitcase containing sand, Kinect camera, projector, games engine software 300 x 300 x 300cm
The installation Propositions 2.0 will enable participants to interact with and generate different landscapes based upon the manipulation of sand in a suitcase. A Kinect camera interfaced with a games engine interprets the sand’s surface, this then provides the topology for a virtual landscape. As the participant finishes their ‘landscape’ it is added to a cumulative sculpted surface of a world. The surface of the world and indeed the piece as a whole is not a lasting and pure statement of fact, but rather a cumulative series of propositions that articulate an immensely networked topography.
Tina Gonsalves, Chameleon, 2008-2010, Emotionally interactive video project exploring emotional contagion 300 x 300 x 300cm
This work contains six screens displaying video portraitures of six subjects shot around the world. The video portraits respond to the facial emotion expression of the audience (using facial emotion expression technology developed by the MIT Media Lab). This triggers the portraits to respond, via intelligent emotional algorithms that mimic how we socialize (developed with neuroscientist Chris Frith). The work develops moods and temperaments, constantly shifting the emotional landscape.
Mark Gugliemetti, in collaboration with Indae Hwang, Travelogue: A recording of minute expressions, 2011, Digital media installation, electronic components, LCD displays, software, code 20 x 80 x 60cm
The work uses site-specific information, in this case Turkish government census data collected on tourism in Turkey during 2010, to seed or initialise the “world”, carpet and documentary. The underlying code transforms this data into an infinite array of modulating patterns of light and colour, that recalls Islamic art, specifically carpet making, and “virtual worlds”. The visualizations celebrate the enfolded potential in cultural migration, both human and digital.
Nigel Hellyer, Weeping Willow, 2011, mixed media and audio, 250 x 130cm
Weeping Willow is an audio installation that examines the complex relationship between two empires, Britannia and Cathay employing the vehicle of the ubiquitous Blue Willow pattern, a commodity that taps deeply into the Orientalist psyche of the European empires. The work appears as a series of fragments (physical and sonic) that coalesce to tease out the trade of images, concepts and material goods that simultaneously illuminate and obscure inter-cultural understanding.
Mitchell Whitelaw, Local Colour, 2011, cardboard, vinyl, dimensions variable
This work uses generative processes and digital fabrication to address the relationships between growth, materiality, locality and the network. Bowl forms are generated using a simulated growth process - a software model that has been used to model both cancer tumors and urban sprawl. Here this process is materialised using cardboard produce boxes - containers that both enable trade and colourfully display their local origins. These forms are framed by a network diagram in which our familiar hyperconnectivity disintegrates into localised islands.
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Dennis Del Favero: Magnesium Light
1 June - 5 August 2012
Experimental new-media artist Dennis Del Favero presents Magnesium Light, a two-part video project investigating the interrelationship between war and identity.
In You and I, Del Favero engages with the possible fantasies that surrounded the infamous Abu Ghraib photographs of 2006.
Todnauberg is a video work dealing with the encounter in 1969 between the Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor Paul Celan and the German philosopher and Nazi collaborator Martin Heidegger in 1969.
Dennis Del Favero, Todtnauberg, 2009, video still, courtesy of the artist
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PEOPLE OF THE SUN AND SHADOW: the art of the Spinifex People
23 August - 12 October 2012
The Spinifex Arts Project was established in 1997 as part of the Native Title documentation process. Both Native Title paintings, the Men’s Combined and the Women’s Combined, document the entire Spinifex area showing claimant’s birthplaces and important stories that traverse and give form to the area. The Spinifex artists continue to paint traditional stories and document kinship responsibilities with acrylic paint on linen, often using a vibrant, unrestricted palette.
DofA 2012
1 November - 14 December 2012
The John Curtin Gallery in partnership with Curtin’s School of Design and Art is proud to present the work of graduates from the School’s Postgraduate Program. This is an annual project that has been ongoing since the Gallery’s inception in 1998.
Paintings by Peng Liu, installation view from SoDA11, John Curtin Gallery, 2011
Access Gallery
2012
Heart + Hope
1 June - 31 August
Heart + Hope - Cambodia features the work of artists Kate Koivisto Wheeler, Samith Pich, Kate Leslie, Michael Doherty, Daniela Dlugocz, Sue Leeming, Alley Michelle and Corina Jasmin, who have joined forces to raise awareness of the human rights issues in Cambodia. The artists were invited to present new work in response to images and information gathered by visitors to Cambodia from the charitable organisation Hagar International.
Kate Koivisto Wheeler, Play, 2012, acrylic, Cambodian silk and permanent marker on canvas, 656 x 46cm
Chase Clark, A Place of Refuge. 2012, inkjet on aluminium ed 1/5
Riverview Children's Foundation, Selah, 2012, inkjet on aluminium, ed 1/5
Kate Leslie, Temple of Light, 2012, acrylic and oil on canvas, 120 x 71cm
Sue Leeming, Hagar, 2012, oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm
