Re/Pair

Re/pair is a living lab contemplating the anxiety of feeling unanswered in an interactive world. Feelings of frustration and rejection are here addressed with interactive technology, specifically creative robotics, allowing us to “Re/Pair” communication between humans and machines.

Curated by Deborah Turnbull Tillman, Re/Pair presents experimental projects by some of Australia’s leading robotic artists.

ISEA2015: Disruption

"In January 2015, I was recruited as Exhibition Production Manager for the ISEA2015 art program in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I began to think about how I might approach this paid contract as a reflective case study for practice-based research, experimental curating, prototyping, and the business side of New Media Curation. I saw the potential for ISEA2015 as a platform for further working through a reflection-in-action approach to curating."

- p. 189 of Turnbull Tillman, Deborah and Mari Velonaki (2016). 'Disruption and Reflection: a curatorial case study.' Chapter 12 in England, David, et al. (Eds.). Curating the Digital: Space for Art and Interaction. Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Springer International: 2016. P. 181-201.

Denouement for Musify+Gamify

Curated by Ollie Bown and Lian Loke, with the exhibition produced by NMC, Musify+Gamify looks at contemporary perspectives on 'play', where musical play and game play coincide, from the 20th century music revolutions in sonic liberation and participation, to the new digital interactive technologies that allow built environments to become dynamic experiences.

Denouement is a curated set of gamified film clips created by emergent practitioners,
namely the students of undergraduate media arts course SOMA34124. It was staged as a curatorial intervention designed in 4 stages: 1) studio consultations; 2) pre-production tasks (securing partners, venues and understanding of the study); 3) production tasks (exhibiting and evaluating); 4) post-production tasks (documentation and iteration with reflective exercise).

Photos by Lucy Tillman Photography, 2015.

Organised Cacophony

An End of Year Festival showcasing the interaction design of a variety of students from the Sydney Design Lab, University of Sydney and in collaboration with the Rocks Pop-Up.

New Media Curation and the staff at the Design Lab Sydney have answered the call for content at the Rocks PopUp spaces for their annual End of Year Exhibition. This call stands for a need to re-enliven, rework and rejuvenate historical spaces with contemporary artwork. At this time, The Rocks sits adjacent to one of the most famous harbours in the world and is managed by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority. It is a lively commercial, tourist, and artistic destination for visitors to and residents of Australia. It has been able to maintain this reputation based on an ever-evolving sense of community, of multiple identities clustered around change, growth and renewal.

Now that we have carved out a space for ourselves in the Sydney-scape, we will utilise contrast to contextualise the concept of community, and articulate that idea through the metaphor of distributed nodes and networks. Our tools utilise these frameworks, our physical site mirrors this idea in that it offers one central space with the opportunity to infiltrate or infringe on other spaces. We will exhibit some of the designs of the studio masters in the central space, with the works of the students distributed throughout The Rocks PopUp sites. This layered metaphor mirrors the history of The Rocks itself and will be communicated through a series of interactive works for the public to engage with and enjoy.

Photography courtesy of | Faculty of Design, Architecture and Planning | University of Sydney 

CCS Public Art, Evaluation and HCI Workshop

A 2-day workshop on Public Art, Evaluation and HCI with a focus on interactivity as an artistic attribute.