Upcoming events, workshops, and conferences, as well as archived happenings.
Julianne Eason and Carl Pavletich In this talk, Shades Arcade share backstories about and responses to a range of their digital artworks and interventions that challenge participants to question their interactions within indeterminate environments. Works include the Lover and the Lookout, an unmanned follow spot that scans, detects and follows passersby. Playing a simple game […]
Dr Maggie Buxton & Kim Newall Traces_COVID19 is an online work emerging out of a 2020 interarts research project. From May to September 2020 the artists journeyed on more than 150 walks along one 10km stretch of beachfront in Whangarei, Te Tai Tokerau | Northland. Each journey was documented via poetry, printmaking, sketching, painting, photography, […]
Finn Petrie Motivated by the notion of material hermeneutics, what philosopher Don Ihde describes as the interpretative practices of scientific visualisation, Retipora (A Network of Pores) was an early experiment within my practice exploring shared existences between biologies and digital technologies. A cloud of data-points visualising a rock-face within Ross Creek (Ōtepoti) is pushed through […]
Max Schleser Nature reclaiming architectural requiems The experimental Cinematic Virtual Reality experience is an exploration of a former German industrial coal and steel production site, which transformed into a public park in 1994. The last shift was worked on the 4 April 1985 and the former ‘Wirtschaftswunder’ turned into an industrial wasteland. The ironworks are […]
Pam McKinlay with Henry Greenslade The Iceberg sensor project is part of the ongoing Ice is Cool series by Pam McKinlay started in 2018. To highlight the connection between tailpipe emissions and glacial ice melt (1 kg of CO2 equates to 12kg of ice melt)[i] we created a visual CO2 indicator-gizmo in the shape of […]
Paul Dunham Click::REVU blends physical and abstract characteristics of the Optophone, an early sonification device designed to “substitute the ear for the eye” by making optical signals audible. The work creates an illusory presence of the device through a scanner mechanism from a multifunction printer. The work depicts a form of optophonics informed by a […]