Dorkbot CBR June 2009 meeting

Announcing our June meeting in association with Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS), Dorkbot CBR presents Fiona Hooton.

Date: Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30pm
Location: The Fireplace Room, Gorman House Arts Centre
Street: Ainslie Ave. Braddon

Fiona’s career has involved employment as an artist, educator and administrator in both state and national collecting institutions. Over this period of time she has acquired an ongoing interest in Australia’s still and moving image heritage. Currently manager of Picture Australia www.pictureaustralia.org
Fiona will talk to us about how artists can utilise/interface with the Picture Australia Collection.

Dorkbot CBR May/June Meeting

Dear CBR- Dorks,

As we had a meeting earlier this month presenting Tim Plaisted and his work we will skip this months meeting and reconvene on Tuesday June 30. At this meeting Fiona Hooton is scheduled from the National Library’s Picture Australia project. Fiona will talk to us about how artists can utilise/interface with the Picture Australia Collection.

More details to follow in June.

Best Regards,

Alex

Dorkbot Canberra April/May Meeting

Dear CBR Dorks and friends,

We have held over April’s Dorkbot meeting to host an artist talk by Tim Plaisted on Thurs 7th May in the CCAS gallery.

Tim Plaisted is an artist living in Brisbane working with media art. Plaisted’s work has been exhibited in Australia, Mexico, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, UK, USA and reviewed in Artforum. His current work, Careful Messenger (2008) continues an exploration of realtime 3d and game tools in media art from recent works, River’s End (2007) and Handheld (2006). His earlier work, Surface Browser (2004), was commissioned for the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts UK gallery launch and included in “2004: Australian Culture Now” national survey of contemporary art. Surface Browser as well as networkdposition (1999) and 24Hr Coverage (2000) were included in three MAAP (Multimedia Arts Asia Pacific) Festivals in Australia and Singapore.

Tim is in town to install and open his recent work Careful Messenger in the Cube space at CCAS the show opens on Friday May 8 at 6pm.

“Careful Messenger was inspired by my grandfather Stirling Blacket’s time as a dispatch rider in Gallipoli, relaying and confirming messages from command on his horse. In the two-channel work a horse gallops in the left
panel while in the right panel the horse pants exhausted with closed eyes, turning its head towards the viewer. Here Blacket’s horse appears as a modern day messenger, a search engine working overtime for research. In formally combining these two resonating images, the work suggests that the labour and commitments of research and information delivery, is just as critical to us today as Blacket’s missions and should be approached with the same caution and vigilance. “

Tim’s website is http://www.boxc.net/

Date: Thursday, 7th May 2009
Time: 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gorman House Arts Centre
Street: Ainslie Ave. Braddon

Hope to see you there!

Alex

Dorkbot CBR February Meeting

This month at Dorkbot Canberra we welcome Tim Brook.

From Tim’s web site:

Most of the photographs that I use display a basic technical competence, but not all of them. Photographers often ask me why I show photographs that are overexposed or badly composed. The answer, of course, is that I am not showing photographs, I am showing transitions between photographs. It is the relationship between the images that interests me. As individual photographs they may or may not be well composed. I remain fascinated by the subtlety and complexity of spatial relationships when they are juxtaposed in time. A slide-tape piece invites a viewer to make new connections. (http://hingstonbrook.com/01av/tb0101.htm)

Biography

Tim is an independent audio-visual artist—among other things, he makes slide-tape works. He blends colour slides on a screen one after the other to produce a sequence of slowly changing images. He describes each slide-tape work as ‘an invitation to make connections’. He’s been making them since 1980, working with composers, performers, theatrical directors and with other visual artists. Once he worked with a reggae band and once with a Nigerian Rastafarian and four drummers. Now he works mainly with recorded sound and commissioned music.

As a photographer, Tim was originally known for documenting the work of visual and performing artists. Since 1994, most of his work has been a close study of surfaces—their textures, patterns and colours. His corrugated iron series is one result of this study. More recently he has been photographing reflections.

Tim has undertaken researched into online and onscreen communication. He has identified features of new form of language for education online, a language growing out of spoken and written language but going beyond them. Some of these developments involved word usage but many more involved the use of non-verbal elements to make meaning, for example the systematic layering of information in metaphoric learning environments.

Currently, Tim is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University School of Art and a member of the board of PhotoAccess.

Tuesday Feb 24 at 6.00pm in the Fireplace Room, Gorman House.

Be there and be square!

Tracey

Dorkbot CBR Wed Jan 28 meeting cancelled

Dear Dorkbot CBR People,

We have been unable to secure a speaker for this month ( wed 28th January) so we will have to cancel this months meeting. Sorry about this but hope to see  you at the Feb meeting -speaker almost confirmed. ( =

Best Regards,

Alex and Tracey

Call for Talks/Workshops Dorkbot CBR 2009

Dear CBR dorks,

Happy New Year! I hope that 2009 is treating you well.

Are any of you keen to give a talk or presentation this year to your fellow CBR dorks
on an interesting bit of technology/software/materials or project past or present?

Or can you suggest someone who we should approach to do a talk/ workshop?

If so please drop me a line and suggest a date that would suit you from the options below.

We will be meeting in the Fireplace Room at Gorman House in collaboration with Canberra Contemporary Art Space  for Dorkbot this year all times are 6-8pm; have moved the slot to 6pm so that people coming straight  from work can make it.

Jan 28 (wed)
Feb 24 (tues)
Mar 31 (tues)
April 28 (tues)
May 26 (tues)
June 30 (tues)
July 28 (tues)
Aug 25 (tues)
Sept 29 (tues)
Oct 27 (tues)
Nov 24 (tues)
Dec 15 (tues)

You can contact me on ad.gillespie at gmail.com and alex at alexandragillespie.net

Best,

Alex
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http://www.alexandragillespie.net
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandragillespie/
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotcbr/

Dorkbot Canberra November Meeting

For this months Dorkbot we are heading to Ice Lab!

Icelab is a small commercial design studio specialising in interactive onscreen work, mainly websites and interactive pieces for museums, public and private-sector organisations. Icelab [and Dorkbot] members Michael Honey, Nathan McGinness and Max Wheeler will show some recent projects, and talk about working in the commercial design world and how it both connects and distances one from the dorkbot milieu.

Location:

3/1 Gordon St
The Metropolitan
Canberra City, ACT 2601
61620241

http://icelab.com.au

Date:

Tuesday 25th November
5:30 pm

Hope to cyu there!

Alex

Dorkbot Canberra October Meeting

This month at Dorkbot Canberra we welcome Josh Wodak.

Josh will be presenting the Interaction+Interface Designs he made
for the collaborative interactive installation ‘Emergence’
(www.buildyourownbeing.com). He will be showing a range of Designs that
formed different techniques+strategies for exploring the themes+issues
within ‘Emergence’ and in interactive electronic art at-at-large. The
prototype of ‘Emergence’ premiered at the Sydney Opera House (SOH) Studio
in 2005 and the full version was staged in 2007 at the SOH Studio,
Melbourne Arts House and Canberra Street Theatre.

Josh (www.arch-angle.net) is a writer, artist and interaction designer
working in electronic+media arts. From a filmmaking and music
composition+performance background, in 2003 he began making interactive
installations with fellow intermedia artists, designers, social
scientists, engineers and technologists. Since 2004 he has been doing a
practice-based-research PhD at the ANU on interactive electronic
installation art. His films, AV performances and interactive installations
include stagings at Sydney Opera House Studio (2005+2007), Sydney Festival
(2006+2007), Melbourne Arts House (2007), National Museum of Australia
(2005+2006), ANU School of Art (2004) and numerous film festivals,
performance spaces and nightclubs around Sydney and Canberra.

Tuesday Oct 28 at 5:30pm in the Fireplace Room, Gorman House.

Hope to see you there!

Alex

Dorkbot Canberra September Meeting

This month we are pleased to present Clem Baker-Finch talking at Dorkbot Canberra.

Clem is an academic in the Computer Science Department at ANU.  His
Computer Science research interests are inscrutable and esoteric, but
he is also an artist and postgraduate student in Photography and Media
Arts at the ANU School of Art.  He will talk about Vigil, an
interactive installation in Domain 2007, and perhaps some other
Dorkbot-ish work that he’s been doing lately in his ample spare time.

Tuesday Sept 23 at 5:30 in the Fireplace Room, Gorman House.

Be there and be square!

Alex and Tracey

Links from ISEA talk part 2

Hi All here are some of my favourite presentations/works/exhibitions from ISEA.

-Alex

• Syntfarm http://syntfarm.org
• Man with a Movie Camera : The Global Remake http://dziga.perrybard.net
• Moonwalk Full Dome Projection http://www.clea-t.de/moonwalk.html
• The Tibetan Book of the Dead Live http://www.goldensunfoundation.org/TBOD.htm
• Experimenta Play ++ Exhibition http://www.experimenta.org/top_experimentaPlay.html
• Cloudland http://www.cloudland.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
• Walkersdorf -Centre of the World http://www.wd8.org