ADA Mesh Cities is a series of events held over 2013-15. It proposes to address the role of media arts in the city, exploring key issues such as urban space, social engagement, memory and speculative futures through a series of symposia and artist workshop tours. The latest event in the programme is the ADA BookSprint November 23-28 2015.
Space : Network : Memory – the 9th ADA Symposium looks at digital art and the social space and asks; What roles are digital networks playing in our ability to reveal and understand layers of a city? How does this affect contemporary practices in art, architecture and related fields? REGISTRATIONS OPEN
The full programme for the 8th ADA Symposium in Dunedin = Space: Network : Memory. Three days of presentations, panels, discussions and activities with national and international artists and academics. This event happened 13-15th September 2013 in the Dunedin Warehouse district (Vogel Street) and at Otago Polytechnic
A roundtable discussion event was held at The Physics Room Gallery on the 30th of March. This was to begin the research project with a thorough grounding with the projects and artist communities operating already in the this space. A group of fifteen discussed their work and the alignment with proposed themes as part of the launching of this project.
Space : Network : Memory sought proposals for provocations, panel participation and presentations of work engaging with aspects of the broad range of practices and approaches necessary for rethinking the contemporary city, the networks that surround and emerge from it, and the memories it holds.
DECEMBER, 2010. Burn was held at Greenbench art project space in 2010 with support from The Physics Room and coincided with the Aotearoa Digital Arts Network Energetics and Informatics symposium. The exhibition included oil paintings, photographs, video and assemblage exploring the relationship between art and oil as part of a wider discourse about energy and information […]