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Erica Seccombe’s Talk

Thanks so much to Erica Seccombe, who came and spoke about her very interesting project ‘Nanoplastica’, which is now showing at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space. Erica’s talk covered how the work developed whilst undertaking an artist-in-residence supported by an artsACT new work grant at the ANU’s Department of Applied Mathematics.

Installation view 'Nanoplastica'

We look forward to seeing Erica at our regular meetings.


Add comment July 2, 2008

Dorkbot Canberra June meeting - speaker Erica Seccombe

This month dorkbot is pleased to present Erica Seccombe talking about
her Nanoplastica exhibition currently on at CCAS.

Erica Seccombe is a Canberra based artist who is currently exhibiting
work created using a unique scientific program called Drishti. Her
project began in 2006 at the ANU’s Department of Applied Mathematics
with an artist-in-residence supported by an artsACT new work grant.
Since then she has been extremely priviledged to work with Associate
Prof. Tim Senden and Dr Ajay Limaye as they have developed the very
lastest X-ray microcomputed tomograph technology alongside a volume
rendering visualisation program called Drishti. From her first day of
learning how to change the light bulb in a multi-milliondollar
microscopic X-ray to animating volumetric transfer functions and time
series; this journey has resulted in Erica’s exhibition Nanoplastica
at CCAS.

Erica will talk in the CCAS gallery amongst her work.

See you there at 5:30 pm Tuesday 24th June.

-Alexandra Gillespie and Tracey Meziane-Benson


Add comment June 17, 2008

Dorkbot Canberra April Meeting - Speaker Ben Lippmeier

Announcing our April meeting in association with Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS), Dorkbot CBR presents Ben Lippmeier.

Date: Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Location: The Fireplace Room, Gorman House Arts Centre
Street: Ainslie Ave. Braddon

Ben Lippmeier is a final year PhD student and occasional lecturer in Computer Science at the ANU. One of his favorite pastimes is writing programs to draw animations, and then passing it off as useful work. He also maintains the ANU Plot graphics library that he will demonstrate.

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Add comment April 10, 2008

March dorkbot cbr meeting - Speaker: Benjamin Forster

Announcing our March meeting in association with Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS), Dorkbot CBR presents Benjamin Forster, member of dorkbot cbr and BEAM.
Date: Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Location: The Fireplace Room, Gorman House Arts Centre
Street: Ainslie Ave. Braddon 

Tracey:  What are you thinking about presenting at the meeting this month?

Benjamin: My plan is not to give a formal presentation but rather to facilitate a conversation around the issues of machine creativity, and perhaps more generally the externalisation of the art-making process. I will probably show the development of my own drawing machine, along with the work of some other relevant artists, for example Harold Cohen’s AARON.

Biography: Benjamin Forster (b. 1985 Sydney Australia)

Since a young child Benjamin Forster has been obsessively intrigued by drawing.  This obsession led him to undertake formal education in Visual Arts at the Australian National University in 2004. Continuing this study, Benjamin has just recently commenced his Honours of Visual Arts majoring in Printmedia and Drawing. As a complement to his education, and interest in visual arts, Benjamin currently works as a museum assistant at Canberra Museum and Gallery. Over the last two years his investigation of drawing, both as a physical act and also as a cognitive process, has culminated in his attempts to teach a computer to draw. Benjamin’s work has been exhibited in several group exhibitions, as well as being projected on buildings around Canberra as part of the Beam Group.


Add comment March 22, 2008

February dorkbot cbr meeting - Speaker: David Broker

Announcing our February meeting in association with Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS), Dorkbot CBR presents David Broker, Director CCAS.
Date: Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Location: The Fireplace Room, Gorman House Arts Centre
Street: Ainslie Ave. Braddon
Cost: There is a $3 door donation to cover room hire. BYO snacks to share
Presentation overview statement:
I will be talking about the process by which I was slowly seduced by a number of artists who have taken part on the new media revolution. Beginning in the early 1990s I will recount a personal history of contact with digital artists, naming names and making some startling confessions on behalf of other people. This is not always a pleasant story but hey … its interesting and it raises many important issues in relation to digital media, its uses, misuses and muses.
Biography:
David Broker is a writer, curator, and currently, Director of Canberra Contemporary Art Space. He began his career in the arts at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia where he was administrator and co-editor of Broadsheet magazine and moved on to become Deputy Director of Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art in 1996. David has curated and managed many exhibitions including, Beauty 2000 at the IMA in 1998, Primavera 2002 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the IMA/Ssamzie Space International Residency Exchange in Brisbane and Seoul in 2004, and in 2007, Streetworks an exhibition of work by Shaun Gladwell and Craig Walsh toured by Asialink to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. Having completed a Bachelor’s Degree Visual Arts majoring in Photography and Film at the University of South Australia David’s keen interest in art theory lead to an auxiliary career as an arts journalist. His articles and reviews have been published in periodicals such as Artlink, Art Monthly, Broadsheet, Eyeline and Photofile, and he has contributed to books such as Shoosh! A History of the Campfire Group (IMA 2005) and Ray Cook Photographs – Dairy of a Fortunate Man (QCP 2007). For many years David has also produced and presented arts radio shows on 4ZZZ in Brisbane and 5UV in Adelaide.

Add comment February 18, 2008

2nd dorkbot cbr meeting - 30 January 2008

Thanks to all who came along to the first dorkbot CBR meeting!Announcing our second meeting in association with Canberra Contemporary Art SpaceDorkbot Canberra presents Mitchell Whitelaw on the 30th January 2008.Date: Wednesday, Jan 30, 2008.Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pmLocation: The Fireplace Room, Gorman House Arts Centre.Street: Ainslie Ave. BraddonCost: There is a $3 door donation to cover room hire. BYO snacks to share.


Add comment February 1, 2008

1st dorkbot cbr meeting - 12 December 2007

Come along to Dorkbot CBR’s first meeting.Meet other media/arts/technology dorks in your area.Hear Dorkbot CBR’s upcoming plans for next year.Wednesday, December 12, 20075:30pm - 7:30pmLocation: Meeting Room, Gorman House Arts Centre look for the dorkbot signs.Street: Ainslie Ave, BraddonCity/Town: Canberra, Australia There is a $3 door donation to cover room hire and snacks!Hope to see you there.


Add comment February 1, 2008

dorkbot cbr meetings

  • 30 January 2008: Mitchell Whitelaw
  • 26 February 2008: David Broker
  • 25 March 2008: TBC
  • 30 April 2008: TBC
  • 27 May 2008: TBC
  • 24 June 2008: TBC

Add comment February 1, 2008

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