Artist Presentations

TiYC (Travel if You Can)

6-7pm, Fri 30th Sep
7-8pm, Sat 1st Oct

TiYC (Travel if You Can) is a performance featuring projected Flash animation, recorded interviews and musical performance. It is driven by a series of stories told by people who have recently tried to migrate to Australia and looks at their conditions and experiences relative to the theme of “home, exchange and solitude”. We live in a world of changing environments, varying conditions of global travel and social complexities that are today intensified by an ever increasing “political gap” between continents. The people who have contributed their stories to this project were able to openly discuss their situation and encouraged to speak freely expressing their views on issues relating to freedom and their international rights of passage.

Artists
Damian Castaldi

Venue
Black Box Theatre

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Listening to place

11am-1pm, Sat 1st Oct
3-5pm, Sun 2nd Oct

This work seeks to explore acoustic space with electro acoustic aids. Through audio feedback the sound engineer and performer will play and explore the acoustic properties of the space they are in. The process of composition and performance is an exercise in conscious listening and collaboration between performer, space and engineer.

Four speakers will be set up in the space all facing inwards (placed to measure to ensure cancellation and wave harmonization). The performer will be placed in the centre of the speakers with an open mic and contact mics on his body. Through voice and mic feedback the audio engineer and performer will collaborate to explore the aural properties and sound of the space. The work will play out like a performer/audio engineer/space jam but the only aural properties being voice and feedback. In order for this to take place the performer and engineer will need to engage in processes of conscious listening. It is hoped that this process will allow the audience to open out their listening and experience the space and listening in a way that they have not before.

Artists
Clare Andreallo
John Andreallo

Venue
The Dark Room, Crackhouse

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Songbirds [Performance]

4.30-5.30pm, Fri 30th Sep
Songbirds are a type of sound-activated electro-acoustic sculpture, capable of both listening to their environment and producing sound. Woven into a physical network of sound and space, masses of these songbirds will perform complex, emergent patterns.

Artists
Joe Mariglio

Venue
Pacific Park

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2nd Order Perceptions, Noo Tropics and the Last Frontier

11am-12pm, Sun 2nd Oct
Presentation of the artist’s current research project on so-called 2nd order perceptions (perceptions of perceptions) which aims to secure these from the vague field of introspection to make them accessible and communicable by the help of internet-based peer review. Method: Web archive with a visual catalogue of key figures (highly abstract 3D animations), crowd sourcing, risk assessment. Long term idea: open source tool for self-empowerment in cognitive field.

This talk will present the first results from project phase 1, based on the artist’s own 2nd order perceptions, and contextualize its relevance for the netculture by showing the current crossovers between research on the brain as social organ, and most recent developments in the web 2.0 sector.

Artists
Nina Stuhldreher

Venue
Elderly Citizens’ Centre

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My robot has more artistic integrity than I do

3-4pm, Sun 2nd Oct
This presentation focuses on the overlap between fine arts and engineering, specifically in the hobbyist, hacker and electronics community.

We will be exploring the motivations and inspirations of members of the Canberra Hackerspace, a community workshop where members have access to tools and resources for researching and developing personal and group projects.

Many of our members work in the IT industry and have little to no background (or even interest) in contemporary art. Nevertheless, many of our members produce work which could be mistaken for art. We will present some projects that we believe blur the line between craftsmanship and art, with varying degrees of artistic intent.

Using these examples we will discuss how our members see their work, how the community sees their work, and where they draw inspiration from. We will also talk about how our community influences work, and ask how Hackerspaces might attract greater numbers of artists, and encourage more conscious artistic expression.

Artists
Angus Gratton & Adam Thomas

Venue
Elderly Citizens’ Centre

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The Hackerspace Movement

1-2pm, Sat 1st Oct
In the past few years, Hackerspaces have sprung up in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Perth & Adelaide. Born from a world-wide movement, Hack- erspaces are communities of makers, hackers, artists and enthusiasts. Members come together to work on art & technology projects, share ideas & knowledge, and host workshops & tutorials.

In Canberra, Make Hack Void has rapidly evolved from talking on the internet, to talking in a pub, to talking in a food court, to talking in a different pub, talking in a school, and finally to having their own real life Hackerspace workshop (amazingly, they’re even still talking to each other!)

Two MHV members will relate their experience kickstarting a community, ex- plain what Hackerspaces are and what happens there, persuade you to get in- volved or start your own, and show how you might do that.

Artists
Angus Gratton & Adam Thomas

Venue
Elderly Citizens’ Centre

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