Events
Australia-Japan Media Art Meeting
5 June 2010 - 6 June 2010
A group of leading Australian and Japanese New Media artists will converge at the Nagoya Art Museum on the 5 June 2010 and in Osaka at the National Art Museum on 6 June 2010. Furthering the well established Australia-Japan relationship in New Media Art, these artists will discuss Australian new media work, bio-art, bilateral collaborative potential, as well as giving workshops and visiting lectures.
The visiting contingent are Alessio Cavallero (ACMI), Dr. Greg More (Monash University), Dr. Troy Innocent (RMIT) and Dr. Mari Velonaki (RMIT). The host Japanese artists are Kiyofumi Motoyama, Dr. Akihiro Kubota, Joe Takeba, Hisako Hara and Atsuhiro Sekiguchi.
Alessio Cavallaro
Alessio Cavallaro is Senior Producer/Curator, New Media Projects, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). Having led the development of new media arts and interdisciplinary arts for over 25 years, primarily as a curator, producer and publications editor in film, video, digital media, radio and sound arts.
Dr. Troy Innocent
Dr. Troy Innocent is a world builder, iconographer and reality newbie. Since 1989, he has been constructing languages and evolving artificial worlds. He has received numerous awards, including Honorary Mention, LIFE 2.0: Artificial Life, Spain (1999); Foreign Title Award, MMCA Multimedia Grand Prix, Japan (1998); and Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica (1992). Innocent is currently Senior Lecturer, Department of Multimedia & Digital Arts, Monash University, Melbourne.
Dr. Greg More
Dr. Greg More is an architect, designer and academic operating at the nexus of art and technology. As AoA Director, he has worked for dECOi Architects in Paris, had films featured in OneDotZero and Resfest International film festivals, and publishes and lectures internationally. He is a lecturer of Architecture + Design at RMIT University within the research laboratory SIAL (Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory). More is interested in the synthetic spaces of contemporary culture, where interactive architectures, digital cinema and videogame environments converge. He is the director of The Agency of Architecture, a design and research entity forging new relationships between the subject and architecture, space and the moving image.
Dr. Mari Velonaki
Dr. Mari Velonaki has worked as an artist and researcher in the field of interactive media since 1995, creating interfaces for intimate and immersive relationships between humans and machines. Engaging the spectator/participant with digital and robotic ‘characters’, she incorporates movement, speech, touch, breath, electrostatic charge, artificial vision, light, text and robotics. Following ‘Unstill Life’ (2000) and ‘Pin Cushion’ (2000), Velonaki collaborated with robotics researchers Drs. Rye, Scheding & Williams on an Australian Research Council art/science project ‘Fish–Bird: Autonomous Interactions in a Contemporary Arts Setting’ at the University of Sydney. ‘Fish-Bird,’ a highly sophisticated robotic artwork, communicate via movement and written text. Following a Australia Council Fellowship, in 2009 Velonaki was awarded an ARC Australian Research Fellowship (2009-2013) to create a new interactive robotic form with the Centre for Social Robotics, ACFR.
| NAGOYA | |
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| Date |
5 June 2010 |
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14:00 - 16:00 |
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| Venue |
Nagoya City Art Museum 2-17-25 Sakae, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Phone: 052-212-0001 |
| Admission |
Admission free *simultaneous interpretation |
| OSAKA | |
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| Date |
6 June 2010 |
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14:00 - 16:00 |
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| Venue |
National Museum of Art, Osaka 4-2-55 Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0005 Phone: 06-6447-4680 Website: |
| Admission |
Admission free *simultaneous interpretation |
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