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ANAT NEW MEDIA LAB 2005 concludes_
Date 7th October 2005
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ANAT NEW MEDIA LAB 2005 concludes
Melbourne (Victoria), 3 – 15 October 2005
Staged in the MEAT MARKET multi-genre contemporary art space in North Melbourne, the ANAT New Media Lab 2005 was a two-week full time intensive laboratory for Australian new media arts practitioners. Facilitators for the Lab were internationally renowned new media artists Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki, both from the US, and Victoria’s Adam Nash.
The ANAT New Media Lab Create_Space was launched on Saturday October 8, by Lesley Alway Director of Heide Museum of Modern Art and Chair of the Visual Arts/Craft Board Australia Council,. Gaye Swinn, artists and senior multimedia lecturer at RMIT also spoke at the launch.
ANAT's Executive Director DR MELINDA RACKHAM, Create_Space artists, and the facilitators for the lab also attended the launch.
Create_Space New Media Lab participants and facilitators held an open day towards the end of the Lab, giving the public the opportunity to mingle with artists, and discuss the individual artists' practice, working within the Create_Space hothouse and the role of creative development time for artists.
ANAT would like to thank everyone who contributed to making Create_Space a success. In particular, ANAT would like to thank the Create_Space Project Officer, the facilitators, and all the artists who participated with such enthusiasm in the Lab, and wish everyone success with the future development of their artistic practice! Our thanks go out to:
Project Officer
Jane Hindson
Artists
Tim Plaisted (Qld)
Somaya Langley (ACT)
Matt Gardiner (Vic)
Troy Innocent (Vic)
Alexandra Gillespie (Vic)
Sarah Neville (SA)
Patricia Adams (Qld)
Tim Barrass (Vic)
Andrew Burrell (NSW)
Shiralee Saul (Vic)
Facilitators
Jonah Brucker-Cohen (US)
Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, and Ph.D. candidate in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College Dublin. He also worked as a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe. He received a Masters from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and worked as an Interval Research Fellow creating interactive networked projects. His work and thesis focus on the theme of "Deconstructing Networks", which includes projects that attempt to critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. He is co-founder of the Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA Group) and a recipient of the ARANEUM Prize sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Art, Science and Technology and Fundacioin ARCO. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications including Wired Magazine and Rhizome.org and his work has been shown at events such as DEAF (03,04), UBICOMP (02,03,04), CHI (04) Transmediale (02,04), ISEA (02,04), Institute of Contemporary Art in London (04), Whitney Museum of American Art's ArtPort (03), Ars Electronica (02,04), and the ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe (04-5).
Katherine Moriwaki (US)
Katherine Moriwaki is an artist and researcher investigating clothing and accessories as the active conduit through which people create network relationships in public space. After receiving her Masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, Katherine co-developed and taught the groundbreaking collaboration studio "Fashionable Technology" at Parson's School of Design. Currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networks and Telecommunications Research Group at Trinity College Dublin, her work has appeared in IEEE Spectrum Magazine, and numerous festivals and conferences including numer.02 at Centre Georges Pompidou (02), Break 2.2 (03), Ubicomp (03,04), eculture fair (03), Transmediale (04), CHI (04), ISEA (04), and Ars Electronica (04). She is a 2004 recipient of the Araneum Prize from the Spanish Ministry for Science and Technology and Fundacion ARCO.
Adam Nash (Victoria, Australia)
He is currently undertaking a Master of Arts by Research at the Centre for Animation and Interactive Media at RMIT University, Melbourne, and researching multi-user 3D cyberspace as a live performance medium.
His work as a programmer, composer and lead performer in Virtual Humanoids, an acclaimed live and online cyber performance piece seen in Australia and the UK, led him to his current interest in virtual performance. He was composer, programmer and performer with The Men Who Knew Too Much from 1994-2001, including several national and international tours. He has also worked as composer/sound artist with Not Yet Its Difficult, Theatre Of Hell, and Adam Bronowski. He has performed drums keyboards and vocals with many musical groups and bands in Australia and Japan, including Japanese noise-chaos collective Proud Flesh, Melbourne electro-dub outfit Half Yellow, Brisbane’s Choo Dikka Dikka (responsible for the legendary underground hit ‘Cyclone Destroys Expo’) and Melbourne Concrete Poetry group Arf Arf, among others.
He is currently Program Coordinator and Teacher of the Advanced Diploma of Arts (Multimedia) at RMIT University. He has been a writer and reviewer for Digital Media World magazine, and editor of the Computers and Internet department at LookSmart. He was also a Project Officer at com.IT, a community charity he helped to establish that recycles computers and redistributes them free to NFPs domestically and overseas, where he teaches programming and multimedia. He is fluent in the Japanese language.
ANAT NEW MEDIA LAB 2005 concludes
Melbourne (Victoria), 3 – 15 October 2005
Staged in the MEAT MARKET multi-genre contemporary art space in North Melbourne, the ANAT New Media Lab 2005 was a two-week full time intensive laboratory for Australian new media arts practitioners. Facilitators for the Lab were internationally renowned new media artists Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki, both from the US, and Victoria’s Adam Nash.
The ANAT New Media Lab Create_Space was launched on Saturday October 8, by Lesley Alway Director of Heide Museum of Modern Art and Chair of the Visual Arts/Craft Board Australia Council,. Gaye Swinn, artists and senior multimedia lecturer at RMIT also spoke at the launch.
ANAT's Executive Director DR MELINDA RACKHAM, Create_Space artists, and the facilitators for the lab also attended the launch.
Create_Space New Media Lab participants and facilitators held an open day towards the end of the Lab, giving the public the opportunity to mingle with artists, and discuss the individual artists' practice, working within the Create_Space hothouse and the role of creative development time for artists.
ANAT would like to thank everyone who contributed to making Create_Space a success. In particular, ANAT would like to thank the Create_Space Project Officer, the facilitators, and all the artists who participated with such enthusiasm in the Lab, and wish everyone success with the future development of their artistic practice! Our thanks go out to:
Project Officer
Jane Hindson
Artists
Tim Plaisted (Qld)
Somaya Langley (ACT)
Matt Gardiner (Vic)
Troy Innocent (Vic)
Alexandra Gillespie (Vic)
Sarah Neville (SA)
Patricia Adams (Qld)
Tim Barrass (Vic)
Andrew Burrell (NSW)
Shiralee Saul (Vic)
Facilitators
Jonah Brucker-Cohen (US)
Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, and Ph.D. candidate in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College Dublin. He also worked as a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe. He received a Masters from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and worked as an Interval Research Fellow creating interactive networked projects. His work and thesis focus on the theme of "Deconstructing Networks", which includes projects that attempt to critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. He is co-founder of the Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA Group) and a recipient of the ARANEUM Prize sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Art, Science and Technology and Fundacioin ARCO. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications including Wired Magazine and Rhizome.org and his work has been shown at events such as DEAF (03,04), UBICOMP (02,03,04), CHI (04) Transmediale (02,04), ISEA (02,04), Institute of Contemporary Art in London (04), Whitney Museum of American Art's ArtPort (03), Ars Electronica (02,04), and the ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe (04-5).
Katherine Moriwaki (US)
Katherine Moriwaki is an artist and researcher investigating clothing and accessories as the active conduit through which people create network relationships in public space. After receiving her Masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, Katherine co-developed and taught the groundbreaking collaboration studio "Fashionable Technology" at Parson's School of Design. Currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networks and Telecommunications Research Group at Trinity College Dublin, her work has appeared in IEEE Spectrum Magazine, and numerous festivals and conferences including numer.02 at Centre Georges Pompidou (02), Break 2.2 (03), Ubicomp (03,04), eculture fair (03), Transmediale (04), CHI (04), ISEA (04), and Ars Electronica (04). She is a 2004 recipient of the Araneum Prize from the Spanish Ministry for Science and Technology and Fundacion ARCO.
Adam Nash (Victoria, Australia)
Adam Nash is a new media artist, composer, programmer, performer and writer. He works primarily in networked real-time 3D spaces, exploring them as live audiovisual performance spaces. His work has been presented in galleries, festivals and online in Australia, Europe, Asia and The Americas. He is the director, programmer, composer and guiding force behind Scorched Happiness, an online 3D multi-user live performance presented at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) as part of the joint NGV/ACMI exhibition 2004-Australian Culture Now. Recently he has worked as composer and sound artist with Company In Space (www.companyinspace.com) and Igloo (www.igloo.co.uk).
He is currently undertaking a Master of Arts by Research at the Centre for Animation and Interactive Media at RMIT University, Melbourne, and researching multi-user 3D cyberspace as a live performance medium.
His work as a programmer, composer and lead performer in Virtual Humanoids, an acclaimed live and online cyber performance piece seen in Australia and the UK, led him to his current interest in virtual performance. He was composer, programmer and performer with The Men Who Knew Too Much from 1994-2001, including several national and international tours. He has also worked as composer/sound artist with Not Yet Its Difficult, Theatre Of Hell, and Adam Bronowski. He has performed drums keyboards and vocals with many musical groups and bands in Australia and Japan, including Japanese noise-chaos collective Proud Flesh, Melbourne electro-dub outfit Half Yellow, Brisbane’s Choo Dikka Dikka (responsible for the legendary underground hit ‘Cyclone Destroys Expo’) and Melbourne Concrete Poetry group Arf Arf, among others.
He is currently Program Coordinator and Teacher of the Advanced Diploma of Arts (Multimedia) at RMIT University. He has been a writer and reviewer for Digital Media World magazine, and editor of the Computers and Internet department at LookSmart. He was also a Project Officer at com.IT, a community charity he helped to establish that recycles computers and redistributes them free to NFPs domestically and overseas, where he teaches programming and multimedia. He is fluent in the Japanese language.
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