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13/6/2002

Four exhibitions

Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Fitzroy

Vera Möller
LABLAND
Gallery One

A litter of mice were discovered in Vera Möller's studio and left for an afternoon to freely move between a group of objects Möller had been producing during the previous twelve months. The images invite a variety of conceptual associations. They are reminiscent of artificial miniature landscapes (dioramas) and at the same time might just as easily be associated with a variety of sci-fi or futuristic 'toyland' vistas. The status of the baby mice remains ambiguous - sleeping, suckling, dead, drugged etc. It is also unclear as to the level of intervention involved. Have the subjects of the images been deliberately choreographed or, as was actually the case, were the subjects free agents in their association with these objects/fields in which they were photographed? The actual scale of the animals and the 'sculptures' remains teasingly unclear.

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Daniel Crooks.
TIME SLICE
Gallery Two

Time Slice explores alternative visual perceptions of space/time by blurring the line between still and moving images. Thin slices are extracted from a moving image stream and then spatially and temporally offset. This technique is applied to both still and moving images and while conceptually similar the visual outcomes are quite distinct: photographs that progress through time and videos of frozen moments that move. Both trigger a perceptual shift in our viewing of the space/time continuum, graphically revealing the underlying rhythms and patterns of physical motion.

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Jo Scicluna.
timespace04:timelapse2002
Helen Mcpherson Smith Project Space

'Studies by psychologists have found a distorted time sense among people waiting for elevators, and distorted always in the same way. If the subject says, "I had to wait ten minutes," the real duration might have been two minutes. Do elevators really cause us to abandon our basic ability to measure short intervals of time? Or do we choose to exaggerate for emotional effect...If that delay didn't really last ten clock minutes, it reached ten minutes on some other scale'.
- James Gleick, Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything

Jo Scicluna's timespace04:timelapse2002 is the final project of a 12 month series which investigates the interrelationship between mechanical and personal time. The central subject of the series is a public clock. Its digital display appears 'imperfect' however, lacking a few elements, making some numbers unreadable. It appears to gain and lose time, and even pause indecisively. Yet overall, this vulnerable and deceptively inaccurate timepiece still manages to keep time. In a 3-screen video projection a looped segment of the clock is juxtaposed alongside images of architecture and urban ephemera. Fast-forward and slow-motion editing produces a discrepency intended to inspire a sensation of perceptual and physical displacement in the spectator. How does the architecture of the everyday determine and disrupt our collective sense of personal time?

With support from the Gordon Darling Foundation, RMIT University and Bunnings.

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Melinda Rackham.
LINE
e-Media Gallery

line (http://www.subtle.net/line), by Australian net artist Melinda Rackham, is about being online - who we are and how we communicate as our daily working and social lives move between metropolis and cyberpolis. We are not tied to a geographical zone, rather drawn across globalised email time zones, becoming shifting physical, emotional and virtual nodes in the fluid electronic network of the World Wide Web. line is simultaneously an Internet site tracking the intimate electronic email relationship between two remote users and a gallery installation. A laser beam intersects a wall mounted book of interwoven photographic architectural images from urban, industrial and rural landscapes, paralleling the emotional and physical ties to local geographical community with ethereal online communications.

Credits: Authored, images & text: Melinda Rackham; Photography: Melinda Rackham and Mark Rossiter; Java & Javascrip: Mark Rossiter; Laser and sensor: Richard Manner; Metal podium: Karin Findeis.

Curated by Daniel Palmer.

Opening. Thursday June 13, 6-8pm

Gallery hours. Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm

Centre for Contemporary Photography
205 Johnston St
Fitzroy Vic 3065
+613-9417-1549
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