Centre for Contemporary Photography
Irene Alessandro
Kati Bottomley
Jana Mare Dickman
Stefan Duscio
Lucy Dyson
Elodie Gaffney
Nina Hutchison
Luke Ingram
Edward Malinowski
Olivia Mcdonald
Alex Mok
Mifumi Obata
Kerry O'Gara
Ellen Ruddell
Koky Saly
Katrina Wilson
Graduate Exhibition RMIT Media Arts at Gallery 1 & 2; Frank Guarino, Cyberspace, at Project Space; Madeleine Griffith, The Ribbon, e-Media Gallery.
Centre for Contemporary Photography
Dates. October 25 - November 16. 2002
Graduate Exhibition RMIT Media Arts
Gallery 1 & 2
RMIT Media Arts presents a group exhibition of sixteen graduate
multi-media artists. This exhibition encompasses a diverse range of
content and process within the media arts including installation,
animation, digital and photographic imaging, video installation and
mixed media works.
Artists: Irene Alessandro, Kati Bottomley, Jana Mare Dickman, Stefan
Duscio, Lucy Dyson, Elodie Gaffney, Nina Hutchison, Luke Ingram,
Edward Malinowski, Olivia Mcdonald, Alex Mok, Mifumi Obata, Kerry
O'Gara, Ellen Ruddell, Koky Saly, Katrina Wilson
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Frank Guarino
Cyberspace
Project Space
Cyberspace has become a catchphrase, indicating a place of
possibility and fantasy where relevant activities of the New Age are
found. In his own Cyberspace Frank Guarino redefines the word as
pictorial space. By juxtaposing the reality of location and position
in relation to the interface and the idyllic image from cyberspace,
Guarino exposes the dis-association of our everyday experience
through the distractions of electronic media.
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Madeleine Griffith
The Ribbon
e-Media Gallery
The Ribbon is an interactive video work inspired by folklore and dark
fairytales. The viewer's participation sets in motion the destiny of
a young female character. (Sound by Carl Anderson)
Opening Thursday October 24, 6-8pm
Gallery hours. Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm
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Photo-Synthesis: Explorations into Contemporary Photomedia
2002 CCP Lecture series
Wednesday October 23 @ 6.30pm
Charles Green
Atlas: Images versus Language
Charles Green begins this lecture with Terry Smith's question: What
has been the fate of the image in modernity? Arguing that a range of
influential contemporary theorists respond overwhelmingly with a
farewell, in the now familiar vocabulary of simulacra, the return of
the real, and the depletion of an image's auratic presence, Green
agrees that this 'image crisis' is best observed in photography and
on the screen. However, the much-vaunted interdisciplinarity of
critical theory turned out to be almost entirely one-way, commencing
with the seismic 1980s importation of theory into art practice, art
theorists today propose different viewpoints - that artists can
produce new knowledge through images, and at the same time that
images must not be reduced to writing. Other theorists argue that we
are on the verge of a new understanding of visuality propelled by new
media. Weighing up approaches to the image and finding them wanting,
Green speculates as to how and why recent international art has
arrived at a conception of itself that is different from both
pre-modern art and postmodernism.
Dr Charles Green is a senior lecturer in the School of Fine Arts,
Classics and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne, and Adjunct
Senior Curator 20th-21st Century Art, National Gallery of Victoria.
He is also an artist, working collaboratively with Lyndell Brown
since 1989. A regular contributor of articles and reviews to
Australian and international art journals, notably Artforum, his book
publications include Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art
1970-94 (Craftsman House, 1995) and The Third Hand: Artist
Collaborations from Modernism to Conceptualism (University of
Minnesota Press, 2001). He is currently working on a major history of
Australian art after 1968.
Image: a work by Madeleine Griffith
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