CLONE | a performance by Daniel Mounsey & Pyewacket Kazynenko

A performance by Daniel Mounsey and Pyewacket Kazynenko, opened by Stelarc, introduced by Matthew Connell.

Location| Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

Date| Sunday May 29, 2011 @ 6pm

ABOUT THE ARTWORK
In this hybrid performance, Avatars perform with both physical and virtual robots. The physical robot is housed in the Powerhouse Museum's exhibition Engineering Excellence, and is comprised of an articulated head, an artificially intelligent agent attached to a robotic arm. The virtual robots exists on the online platform of Second Life.

Partly programmed and partly improvisational, avatars control automatons and artificial agents collaborate.

CREDITS
The Articulated Head (AH) is part of the 'Thinking Head Project', a Thinking Systems Special Initiative grant (TS0669874) from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NH&MRC) to MARCS Laboratories at the University of Western Sydney, along with collaborators at RMIT; Macquarie University; Flinders University; University of Canberra; the Technical University, Berlin; Denmark Technical University; and Carnegie Mellon University.

Supported by | The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney | University of Western Sydney | Creativity and Cognition Studios, UTS | New Media Curation

Photography | Deborah Turnbull's iPhone

genart_sys | a window on digital culture

genart_sys | a window on digital culture

An exhibition presented by the Australia Council for the Arts and curated by New Media Curation | 28 January - 16 March 2011.

The Australia Council has a strategic priority to build arts content for the digital era. We know that audiences are seeking creative experiences on a wide variety of digital platforms and are keen to connect with these live immersive worlds.

genart_sys showcases 19 innovative artists, collectives and organisations supported by the Australia Council from a broad range of artforms. Theirs is a generative, ever evolving system of art-making, by which artists are innovating and sharing stories and knowledge over space and time, playing and interfacing with audiences across diverse platforms and communities.

Some artists are investigating what we can do with highly portable technologies such as smart phones and wiimotes. Others are playing with unconventional sports like roller derby, with alliances of old and new media like origami and robotics, and even experimenting with a power-tool orchestra. And many are researching new ways to connect with science.

Building digital culture, all these artists are connecting with us across real and virtual platforms, leading us into new territory with exciting examples of how technologies and content can converge.

It’s all about exploring how Australians can differently experience and interact with the arts.

Come in and see; stay online and discuss!

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Photography by: Aram Dulyan

Bienalto House | Lighting up Christmas 2010

Along with these established artists, the Bienalto design team have contributed other lighting projections within the 'Christmas lights' theme.  This event also marks the launch of the new-look website for Bienalto, which neatly encapsulates everything Bienalto does - analysis, strategy, design, content and up in time for Christmas.

Following tradition, Bienalto has brewed another boutique beer for the event, BierAlto II. This American Pale Ale has been brewed by bienalto's own Jack McIntyre who will sample the first bottle for us on the night.

Photography by | Deborah Turnbull & Richard Byers

Photography by | Matt Cummings and Aram Dulyan to follow

Synergies Symposium | Art - Science - Spirituality

The Sydney Symposium ʻSYNERGIES - New Consciousness for our Futureʼ is an event where people from all walks of life can get together with professionals from the worlds of Art and Science, lateral and spiritual thinkers, to engage in discussion and to foster contacts; to stimulate a positive and creative thought process.

Photography by | Deborah Turnbull's iPhone

Art/Science Speed Dating @ the Ultimo Science Festival

Organised by Derek Williamson at the Powerhouse Museum, Art/Science speed dating included a Beta_space project assimilate, by Damian Hills; the Face to Face installation featuring CAM; a collaboration between Matthew Connell and Matt Huyhn resulting in a graphic novel on maths; and a performance by Michaela Davies and Kerry Ambler titled Subsoma.

It was a good night, look for further details in the upcoming PHM quarterly publication, POWERLINE.

Photography by | Aram Dulyan