Gordon Hookey, 'A Painting for the Underdawg' (detail), 2005, oil on canvas, 133.0 x 250.0 cm. Purchased 2005. NGA.
Gordon Hookey, Djon Mundine & Peter Sharp discuss whether or not Aboriginal ways of seeing have managed to change the way non-Aboriginal Australians see the land. Or are they simply appropriating something which is not theirs?
When: May 22, 2012
Where: COFA lecture theatre: EGO2
Cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road
Paddington, NSW
Hours: 6-8 pm
Brad Miller, Plasma_flow (detail) 2012.
School of Design Studies Lecturer Brad Miller is participating in Vivid, May 25- June 11, 2012.
Plasma_flow is a spectacular large-scale interactive projected installation and uses adaptive surround sounds to reinforce the user experience of interacting with a cloud of highly charged particles. The installation will emulate a Fluid/Particle system and is accessible for real time interactive via a series of Infrared light sensitive cameras, capturing input from participants as they traverse the space. Their traces will be projected as a swirling storm of particles and dyed fluids in response to their movements. The configuration is designed to be site specific and response to the unique qualities of the Cleland Stores and the Rocks.
School of Art Senior Lecturer & Director, Imaging the Land International Research Institute (ILIRI), Louise Fowler-Smith, began the Tree Veneration Society a little over a year ago. Receiving a City of Sydney Matching Grant for $5000 for the project, the Tree Veneration Society have now been invited to participate in the Chippendale BEAMS Festival which will occur in September. The Chippendale BEAMS Festival is the Festival of the Chippendale Creative Precinct (CCP).
Louise Fowler-Smith says, “The aim of this project is to honour all cultures in our multi-cultural society, at the same time as drawing attention to the importance of the natural environment.”
Little Joe Woman Head Office are looking for a Graphic Designer.
It is a casual position, 1 to 2 days a week designing all marketing material and managing online graphic content.
If interested please send a cover letter, resume and portfolio to Natalie.
SM, UNSW’s own zine, is on the hunt for a new editor (paid casual position, approx. 8 hrs a week)
If you have a passion for zines, are keen to expose an alternative student scene at UNSW and in Sydney, have an eye for editing and illustrations and a way with words and wit, then SM wants you.
Deadline: May 21, 2012
More info can be found here or contact Susan with any questions.
The School of Literature and Language Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand invites abstracts from interested parties for the 9th Literature and Ecology Colloquiumtitled ‘MOUNTAINS OF THE MIND’: South African and Related Landscapes and Ecology.
The colloquium is to be held on the 5th, 6th and 7th of October 2012 at the Nirox Foundation, Cradle of Humankind, Gauteng, South Africa.
Jack Condon and Rebecca Karageorgos (detail)
Somewhere between light and dark is the truth of who and what we are. There is no sense in showing darkness without beauty or gorging ourselves on the beatific without the pain that is part of everyday reality. We’re caught in a sphere of great familiarity and at the same time, a great distance. A sphere where the past and present have been removed and all that remains is a cutout pretending to be something more than the stillness of the moment.
Opening: Tues, July 10, 5- 7pm
When: July 10- 12, 2012
Where: Kudos Gallery
6 Napier St, Paddington, NSW
Hours: Wed to Fri, 11am – 6pm, Sat, 11am – 4pm
Tel: (02) 9326 0034
Skye Wagner (detail)
Blessed be the infinite form that illuminates the will of understanding.
Let us systemize our threads of meaning,
so that we might understand that each of us is a point in space;
a branch on the tree of binary space partitioning.
Let us be guided to a set of intersecting points
and seek orbital momentum in all aspects of being.
May computational geometry and linear algebra bless our perception.
May we come together and know we are together.
May we sufficiently compact mass
to form a super conductor,
making new light in another dimension.
Field of gravity give us your fundamental power,
illuminating time with relativity.
Lets us maintain the entanglement of our particles
and harmonize our entities interaction.
Know that to be a cosmological constant
one must oscillate with dynamic instability.
Opening: Tues, July 3, 5- 7pm
When: July 3- 7, 2012
Where: Kudos Gallery
6 Napier St, Paddington, NSW
Hours: Wed to Fri, 11am – 6pm, Sat, 11am – 4pm
Tel: (02) 9326 0034
Understood as a purely human concern, this enquiry into innate tendencies towards lived experience explores the illogical leap between the nature of matter and the act of attributing meaning to it. A product of countless close discussions undertaken during a 6 month stay in Berlin in 2011, meaning/matter will harness an open interaction between discipline and point of view.
Opening: Tues, June 19, 5- 7pm
When: June 19- 30, 2012
Where: Kudos Gallery
6 Napier St, Paddington, NSW
Hours: Wed to Fri, 11am – 6pm, Sat, 11am – 4pm
Tel: (02) 9326 0034
