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Peter Lundberg (Art forum)
No full textPeter Lundberg will speak about his personal experiences living and working as a sculptor and curator around the world; working within the community of sculptors, working with sculpture organizations around the world and developing sculpture parks such as ‘Sculpture for New Orleans’. He will discuss travelling the symposium circuit, creating sculptures in strange new places, and the challenges and surprises of working in countries where you don’t speak the language! He will also talk about the value of apprenticeships; working for other artists to learn the ropes, and welcome any questions from the audience. For the last two years Lundberg has exhibited in China and Australia and has numerous permanent sculptures in both countries. This year Peter was the recipient of the prestigious Nord Art Prize in Germany, selected from more than 250 artists, and is currently working with Senator Bill Carris of Vermont in the development of a free sculpture park.
As a part of the next Ten Days on the Island festival (March 15-24 2013) there will be a large scale installation by international award winning, Tasmanian based sculptor Marcus Tatton, at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens - Tatton@RTBG. Marcus has invited Vermont based artist and curator Peter Lundberg to curate Tatton@RTBG. Marcus’ impressive and arresting work has gained attention nationally through its exposure in public exhibitions and private collections, and this major visual arts project will be one of the cornerstone works of the Ten Days 2013 programme. The installation of 8 large artworks will commence in late 2012, with the ten days of festival to be the final days of installation
Nigel Helyer (Art Forum)
No full textNigel is an independent sculptor and sound-artist. He is the director of a small multi-disciplinary team “Sonic Objects; Sonic Architecture” with an international reputation for large scale sound-sculpture installations, museum interactives and new media projects. Nigel’s practice is actively inter-disciplinary linking creative practice with scientific research and development. Nigel is Artist in Residence at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies during 2012,collaborating with scientist Dr Mary-Anne Lea on a new series of work: Bio_Logging.
Nigel’s activities include; the development of a ‘Virtual Audio Reality’ system in collaboration with Lake Technology (Sydney) and the ongoing ‘AudioNomad’ research project in location sensitive Environmental Audio at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales.
Nigel will discuss several of his recent projects that operate in the nexus of Art, Science the Environment and Community and which attempt to form complex, multi-vocal works which map and track our place in a world in flux. More info see: http://www.sonicobjects.co
Neil Berecry-Brown (Art Forum)
No full textNeil Berecry-Brown is said to have gone feral. An artist and farmer, he has done time in institutions (Curating and Education with the Vancouver Art Gallery Extension Department); served on the board of Artspace Sydney and directed artist-run initiatives, Synapse Art Initiatives and Gosford Art Flux Forum.
Previously a psychologist, he helped establish the Masters course in Art Therapy at the University of Western Sydney and was later employed as a consultant within the program. A recovering academic following twenty years teaching art history, theory and studio (Sydney College of the Arts and College of Fine Arts, Sydney, with some work at the universities of Western Sydney and Newcastle.)
Currently he is Director of Brown’s Cows Art Projects and engaged in polyvalent art practice. This open-ended quest is for discovery of rural attributes pertinent to contemporary art and finding strategies of meshing locally inflected practice with global dynamics. Past and present projects will be described to present a polyvalent strategic model of contemporary practice: of imbeddedness outside the system. The work is part of an ongoing, and open-ended process of identifying the rural, or local, as a specific paradigm of cognition and of poetic resonance, which might provide an imaginative antidote, and dialogical foil, to prevailing orthodoxy. The presentation will examine work with the Mangrove Mountain & Districts Country Fair, as a model event that meshes contemporary art, community engagement and new rural initiatives
Brian Ritchie - UTAS open day (Art forum)
No full textBrian Ritchie will talk about what it was like growing up in Milwaukee, being one of the pioneers of punk, traveling the world in a weird rock band, playing music at the North Pole and Macchu Picchu, smoking cigars, moving to Tasmania, working at both the most radical and most traditional of museums and why mixing music and art is not as simple as it seems.
Curator of MONA FOMA (Museum of Old and New Art Festival of Music and Art) in Hobart, Tasmania. Brian Ritchie is founding bassist/multi-instrumentalist of the seminal American alternative group Violent Femmes. He moved to Australia in 2006 and formed “The Break” modern Australian surf band with three members of Midnight Oil. Brian is also a licensed master of shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). Extra-musically he operates an Asian teahouse Chado-the Way of Tea
Antarctic vignettes VI: Leslie Russell Blake — Mawson’s forgotten geologist.
Get PDFLeslie Russell Blake was a young Australian surveyor and geologist of great talent who made an outstanding contribution to our knowledge
of Macquarie Island whilst a member of Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) during 1911–1914. He was a member
of the five-man team that spent nearly two years on Macquarie Island establishing their base at the northern end of the island. Blake spent
much of his time away from the base surveying and making geological observations. His topographical map of the island was the standard
until modern techniques such as aerial photography, satellite imagery, airborne synthetic aperture radar and GPS technology enabled the
island to be mapped in detail. During the First World War Blake served with the Australian Imperial Forces and was awarded a Military
Cross for a survey of the front line before the attack at Pozières. His death just days before the end of the First World War meant that he
never finished writing up his scientific notes. It says much for the quality of his field reports that Douglas Mawson was eventually able
to publish the work. Sadly, the fact that it was not published until 1943, and then only under Mawson’s name, meant that Leslie Russell
Blake has been largely forgotten
The impacts of past climate change on sub-Antarctic nearshore ecosystems
Get PDFPleistocene glacial–interglacial cycles would have resulted in drastic changes in the structure of sub-Antarctic littoral ecosystems. Genetic
data indicate that the large kelps that dominate intertidal and shallow subtidal sub-Antarctic shores today (such as Macrocystis pyrifera
and Durvillaea antarctica) were extirpated from these high latitude regions by sea ice scour during glacial maxima. These macroalgae, and
their associated faunal communities, were able to return to the sub-Antarctic islands during interglacial periods by drifting at sea in the
path of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. During glacial maxima, sub-Antarctic littoral communities would have been severely reduced,
comprising mainly ice-scour hardy taxa such as small and/or seasonal macroalgae, and mobile molluscs
Robin Fox (Art Forum)
No full textFrom neurobiology to cochlear implants, from analog synthesizers to audio controlled lasers, Robin Fox’s work knows no boundaries and no borders. He works across the spectrum from live interactive computer music performance to the creation of synaesthetic audio-visual environments. He makes soundtracks and video/light works for numerous dance company’s, has exhibited large-scale photographic works, recently conducted a residency with the Bionic Ear Institute in Melbourne and recently designed and installed a giant Theremin style public interactive instrument installation. Far from a simple description of his practice Fox’s lecture/artist talk serves to contextualize his work through the lens of synaesthesia, audible and visible electrical signal equivalence and the history of electronic and visual musics
Grace Cochrane : Archives and anniversaries: write it down, take a pic - or someone else will make it all up later (Art Forum)
No full textArt forum October 19th 2012. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Tasmanian Ceramics Association, Grace Cochrane will give an illustrated talk that considers ceramic practice in Tasmania in the context of its history. Using the example of this and other anniversaries (including, in Tasmania, the founding of Salamanca Place and the Franklin River protests) and her experience of recent exhibition and publication projects, she will discuss the importance for contemporary artists of archival documentation of significant events. At the same time, she will refer to some of the wider changing relationships in the crafts between art, design, industry and the marketplace and the interface between traditional and new technologies.
Now an independent curator and writer, for nearly 20 years Grace Cochrane was a curator at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. She lived in Tasmania from 1972-1986, and was involved in the development of crafts organisations, art centres and new education and funding opportunities. She graduated with a MFA (1986) and PhD (1999), and was member of the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board, 2008-2011. She was awarded the Visual Arts/Craft Board’s Emeritus medal (2001) and a D.Litt from the University of NSW (2007). In 2010 she was appointed Adjunct Professor at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, and Visiting Professor at the University of Lincoln, UK. Author of The Crafts Movement in Australia: a History (1992), recent exhibitions include Smart Works: Design and the handmade, Powerhouse Museum (2007); White gums and ramoxes: ceramics by Merric and Arthur Boyd, Bundanon Trust (2009-2012); and Potters Cottage: a tribute, Manningham Art Gallery, Melbourne (2012)
Joel Zika (Art forum)
No full textJoel Zika is a Melbourne based print and new media designer. Using multiple projection installation and large format digital imaging he creates work based on popular entertainments and the spaces of cinematic horror.
His work is featured in the touring show ‘Dreamweavers’ opening at the Plimsoll Gallery, he is represented by Dianne Tanzer Gallery in Melbourne.
Joel Lecturers in Visual Communication at Deakin University and is completing a PHD at Swinburne University entitled ‘The translation of cinema into space’.
Zika will discuss his research into the history of the Ghost Train and the works it has inspired. This overview of his field research examines the major role that dark popular entertainments have played in shaping popular cinema and new media. He will also preview some new investigations into contemporary sites of horror and heavy metal subculture
Anna Phillips (Art Forum)
No full textAnna Phillips’s investigations and art making have been informed by her interest in the materiality and plasticity of transformative materials such as detergent, plastic and feminine beauty products. By the introduction of certain processes, either physical or alchemical, she creates alternative means of expression and visualization of feminine identity and representation. Phillips presentation will focus on her work from the last decade, which includes her exploration of the mundane and low status material plastic bags. Phillips answered the challenge set by Roland Barthes in Mythologies, (1957) that plastic has only been valued as a medium of imitation. Barthes contended that plastic could be “jewels as well as buckets”.
Philips response to this task has taken her in the last ten years to some of world’s major consumer hotspots, Paris, Germany, Rome and South Korea, to study and collect plastic bags, not only to learn the origins and molecular matrix of this substance, but also to learn of its mythological connections to classical history, and marvel at its great array of aesthetic selection and visual appeal in Asia