Sydney Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef

A worldwide, collaborative installation, established by sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim of the Institute For Figuring in Los Angeles, The Crochet Coral Reef is inspired by geometric models of hyperbolic space, originally developed by mathematician Dr Daina Taimina.

Linking the community through science, mathematics and craft, the project aims to fabricate a whole taxonomy of organic reef-like forms, created by using handicraft techniques that not only look like actual reef but that also draw on the same geometrical characteristics.

*Text from Dhub article: Crochet Coral Reef

Curated by Matthew Connell and produced by InStitches and the Sydney community.

Fashioning Now: changing the way we make and use clothes

Fashioning Now is an exhibition and symposium at University of Technology, Sydney 28 July – 28 August 2009

Investigating the way in which clothing is produced, used and discarded, Fashioning Now is an exhibition and accompanying symposium featuring innovative research projects from Australian and international practitioners.

Through a dynamic array of fashion garments, textile objects, photography, fashion illustration and time-based media, Fashioning Now seeks to highlight the diversity of sustainable solutions currently being explored by designers, researchers and manufacturers, while predicting possible scenarios for a future fashion industry.

The Fashioning Now website is an on-going project that aims to provide further information about the project initiatives, the exhibitors, case studies of best practice and links to helpful resources.

This project has been assisted by the New South Wales Government through its Environmental Trust. Fashioning Now is also supported by the University of Technology, Sydney and UTS Gallery.

Photography by: Aram Dulyan

Image Ecologies - UTS Tower Foyer

Invited Artists: Ernest Edmonds, Brigid Costello, Maria Miranda & Norie Neumark, Sarah Gibson, Ian Gwilt, Eamon Davern

Curatorial Rationale: New Media artwork has moved beyond the recorded mediums of photography and film to encompass interactive, augmented, and generative works due to the appropriation of and reliance on digitization by its practitioners. 

These emergent and evolving art forms exist, in the words of Ron Burnett, as image ecologies. This terminology references the exploratory way in which the average person navigates digital imagery in contemporary society.  This exhibition will explore the collaborative way New Media Research initiatives within UTS are themselves example of creative ecologies.

By providing environments, tools, and instruction, these environments are instilling in their inhabitants (both students and collaborators) the ability to evolve alongside current technology in regard to new media art creation. This exhibition will showcase the production outputs of three leading UTS laboratories and studios: 1) the Creativity and Cognition Studios (FEIT); 2) the Centre for Media Arts Innovation (HSS); and 3) the Visual Communication course for School of Design (DAB).

Curator: Deborah Turnbull

Photographs by: Aram Dulyan

Memory Flows in Liquid Architecture @ Performance Space, Carriageworks

Memory Flows is an ongoing and distributed media art project of the CMAI, funded by the Inter-Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.

Starting in June, it will flow into and be distrubuted through exhibitions, groups shows, events, spaces – building its own full flow along the way, for a full exhibition in 2010. The first distribution of Memory Flows works and works in progress will be with Image Ecologies at UTS and with Liquid Architecture (Australia's foremost Sound Art Festival).

Several Memory Flows sound works will be part of the Liquid Architecture exhibition at Carriage Works (24.06.2009 - 27.06.2009 )and there will be a performance in the Bon Marche Studio on June 25, as a Liquid Architecture event.  The performance will be a distributed event – both in terms of the way the performers improvise with visual and sound material and in the way that it will stream live to the Internet and onto screens in Building 1 during the event, and following the event (for the duration of Image Ecologies) with an edited loop of the event and sound.  The distributed nature and liveness of this performance and its musicality will speak to the space at the back of level 4 in the Tower,  which is itself live, active, and energized by the students who move through it. The distributed nature of the event also speaks directly to the Memory Flows project itself and the way CMAI works through process oriented collaboration, project based and distributed works, and creative practice as research.

Participating artists...Nigel Helyer, Maria Miranda, Norie Neumark, Ian Gwilt, Jacqueline Gothe, Greg Shapley, Chris Bowman, Sherre deLys, Megan Heyward, Clement Girault, Viktor Steffenson, Chris Caines, Shannon O'Neil and Jessica Tyrrell.

Curators...Norie Neumark, Greg Shapley and Deborah Turnbull

Photographs by... Aram Dulyan

Mundane Traces 2008, by Ian Gwilt

The mundane-traces show is a collection of New Media artworks created by Ian Gwilt. Using innovative technologies to re-imagine the graphical user interface as a creative artefact the six individual works explore the graphic user interface in a creative context using augmented reality, rapid protoyping and laser cutting technologies. The result is an intriguing mix of physical and virtual interpretations of the folders, files and scrollbars from the everyday computer desktop.

Curator: Deborah Turnbull

Photographs by: Aram Dulyan