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Five Miles from the Sea

Level 17 Artspace invites you to the opening and exhibition of:

Five Miles from the Sea
Curator: Geoff Tolchard

Artists: George Alamidis, Terri Brooks, Caz Guiney, Jodi Heffernan, Kari Henrikse, Greg Neville, Kirsten Perry, Karenne Rees, Adriane Strampp, Maria Thompson, Geoff Tolchard, Peter Wegner



This exhibition is titled Five Miles from the Sea as it investigates the impact of the incursion of non-indigenous peoples – and the marks they have inflicted – upon Australian soil. In deploying their chosen mediums the artists are asked to visually interpret a specific reference point they identify as being five miles from the sea. This will be accompanied by a Google Earth image so viewers can place the artist’s chosen areas into a geographic context.

Who lives five miles from the sea, and how does the impact of settlement appear in the eyes of the twelve participating artists? With some artists beginning their lives in different parts of the globe – and since chosen to make Australia their home – it will be interesting to observe whether their perspectives differ to those who were born and bred here: will it reveal any notions about being a ‘multicultural’ country, or a society that is considered as being Twenty-First Century?

Hope we see you there!

Kirsten Rann
Director/Curator
Level 17 Artspace Victoria University City Flinders Campus
17/300 Flinders Street Melbourne 3000 AUSTRALIA

OPENING NIGHT
TUESDAY 19 APRIL, 6-8PM

Creating an Online Portfolio

Article

Link to article

"One of the questions many students, designers and creative professionals often ask is 'What is the quickest and easiest way for me to get my folio online for people to see?'.

In the past 10 or so years, since the digital revolution really began in earnest, a number of web-based platforms have been developed by companies and parties the globe over allowing creative individuals from all backgrounds the ability to set up their own online spaces whereby they can showcase and discuss their work.

It is only really in the past year or so though that some of these platforms have really established themselves as cutting edge - extremely easy to use, cheap (if not free) to set up, open to endless variances of customisation, technically sound and clean and seamless in their execution. There are however undoubtedly still some fairly average products out there...."

'Being at Bundanon'

Exhibition Kari Henriksen

SixthSense technology

You may all want to have a look at this video

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.

Interested in receiving a FREE exhibition space?

In 2010 the Northcote Town Hall will once again become a Hub Venue for the Darebin Music Feast. Applications are sought from artist/s interested in exhibiting visual art works (on the theme of music) as part of the 2010 Darebin Music Feast. The selected artist/s will be given free access to the Darebin Music Feast Hub Venue (the Northcote Town Hall Foyer/Bar) to exhibit their selected works. Complete an Exhibition Venue Application. Applications Close: 4:00pm Friday 11th June 2010. For an application visit www.darebin.vic.gov.au/dmf

Contact: Craig Rogers

Festivals and Cultural Events Coordinator
Phone: (03) 8470 8211
Mobile: 0419 764 107
Fax: (03) 9261 4807

New blog site

This is the link to my new blog site.
This site will be developed further over the next few weeks.
Folio 2008 will be deleted at the end of June.

Light box drawing in sand

I received this link in an email from Greg Wayn last night.

The video is worth a look.

" quite extraordinary... made by a 24 year old girl taking part in a "You've got talent' show in the Ukraine and describing the trauma of invasion of the country...
all made on a light box and drawn in sand..."

view video

( http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vOhf3OvRXKg#t=00 ).

Imaging The Apple

Artists included

BILLY APPLE, PETER BURKE, JON CAMPBELL, ROSS COULTER, HOLLY CRAWFORD, PENELOPE DAVIS, KATE DAW, KIM DONALDSON, JANENNE EATON, STEVE ELLIS, ANDREW ERDOS, JUAN FORD, SUE FORD, CLARK V. FOX, TIMOTHY GAEWSKY, MARTIN GANTMAN, MICHAEL GEORGETTI, ELIZABETH GOWER, DENISE GREEN, GUO HAO & THEA RECHNER, JAYNE HOLSINGER, NATASHA JOHNS-MESSENGER, KATE JUST, LARRY KAGAN, BILLY T JAMPIJINPA KENDA, SARDI KLEIN, RICHARD KOSTELANETZ, KEVIN LAVERTY, BEN MATTHEWS, ROB MCKENZIE & KAIN PICKEN, JOHN R. NEESON, YOKO ONO, MARY LOU PAVLOVIC, AMY PIVAK, PAUL ROSS, ANDREAS SÖDERBERG, SPOONBILL, CHARLES TASHIRO, BRIE TRENERRY, NICO VASSILAKIS, DAN WABER, CARA WOOD-GINDER, MAX YAWNEY, ANNE ZAHALKA

Link to the exhibition website

ARTS IN THE OPEN

ARTS IN THE OPEN – Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne

Arts in the Open provides an informal opportunity for all Visual Arts Department staff and students to come together for a day out in the sun to collect visual information. Works will be further developed in consultation with relevant staff once back in the studio. The final works will be shown in an exhibition at the A Space Gallery Preston campus.

Excursion

• Thursday 11^th March 2010 10:00am – 3:00pm.
  

• Please meet at 10:00am outside the Observatory Cafe. Nearest tram stop is opposite the military barracks on St Kilda road. BYO picnic lunch or purchase it from the café on site. Please be advised that if it is raining we will meet inside the Observatory.
  

Things to do on the day…

• Make studies / sketch on location. Collect as much reference material as possible. Use a viewfinder (stiff card with a cut out of the centre) if you like.
  

• You may wish to bring a variety of media to use in your journal including, watercolour, gouache, coloured pencils, pastels, markers, graphite and charcoal, chalk etc.
  
• Take photographs.
  

• Bring collected resources to the following class.
  

Exhibition

• All Visual Arts, Illustration, Cert IV in Design, Photoimaging and Graphic Design students will participate in the show.
  
• Final works are to be submitted for exhibition at A Space Preston no later than Monday 17^th May. It will need to be dry or 'fixed' ready to hang or pin to the wall.
  

• Opening night is Thursday 27^th May at 4pm. The exhibition will run until Friday 16^th July.
  

  Map - Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
  

Apollos View

Policy for Apollos View Accommodation is to collect and exhibit contemporary Australian art.

Currently a small collection of work by contemporary Australian artists is part of the features of the house @ Skenes Creek.
The collection includes artists currently exhibiting in Australia and overseas. This collection will continue to grow over the next few years.

Artist included are:

Terri Brooks Profile (view artist website)
Adriane Strampp Profile (view artist website)
Kari Henriksen Profile (view artist website)
Geoff Tolchard Profile (view artist website)
George Alamidis Profile (view artist website)

I.d cards In Sofia Bulgaria

Four panels and four large prints of the work "I.d" by "George Alamidis" have been included in "WORK IN MOTION" An exhibition Curated by Per Pegelow and Etta Gerdes.

1st -19th of June at:
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate
15, ljuben karavelov st. Sofia Bulgaria.

The I.d cards and works on paper were delayed by Bulgarian customs, and were not on the gallery walls for the opening of the show.

The work arrived at "The Red House" three days late and is now part of the exhibition.
Work In Motion: on Migration, Mobility and Labour.


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The media art exhibition “WORK IN MOTION - migration, mobility and labour” intends to pool various artistic approaches in a pulsating art show. Click to view more...

Work In Motion: on Migration, Mobility and Labour
"From The Red house program information"
Media art exhibition curated by Per Pegelow, following a concept of Etta Gerdes and Per Pegelow; curator of the commissions to the show - Yovo Panchev

The current change in global living conditions by new ways of communication and transport - often called globalization - is enabled by certain developments within the media. The view of this development with all its social and economic issues is represented by mass media in a way that leads to a phenomenon Jean Baudrillard calls "hyperreality", where the perception of mass media products starts to replace the independent view on the common reality. Baudrillard suggests that the "production of alternative media" is a way back to a clear and more independent perception of reality.
The media works of this exhibition do exactly this - (re-)producing a clear view on social lives within the European and North American nations in times of rapid "globalisation". The media art exhibition pools various artistic approaches in a pulsating art show.

In the programme: WorldWideWalks Sofia (Peter d'Agostino, United States, interactive installation), I.D. (George Alamidis, Greece, installation of 140 ID cards), In - Formation (Aufstellung) (Harun Farocki, Germany, video), Losers and Winners (Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken, Germany, documentary film about the deconstrucktion of a coal factory), etc. With the special participation of Stanimir Genov and Vikenti Komitski. In partnership with The Red House the Interactive Arts e.V.

New link for books

Great resource for artist/Illustrator Books

A Journey Round My Skull

"Unhealthy book fetishism from a reader, collector, and amateur historian of forgotten literature." Recent obsessions: illustration and graphic design.

work on paper (under construction)

The starting point for these works is my digital collection of correspondence from the past. Letters, notes, stamps and envelops amidst other things.

I find the handwriting particularly interesting because my own lacks any of the refined qualities found in the collection. Visual tension is created between the personal message and the stamps and other approval signs. This visual tension becomes much more sinister when you note that the information contained has been checked and approved by a government sensor.

Your Documents Please at 2B Galleria in Budapest

Show opens 28-11-08

"Your Documents Please" Update

The latest news from Daniel Georges
about the show "Your Documents Please"




"We are pleased to announce the publication of images from "Your
Documents Please" in the November issue of the Italian fashion
Magazine "Amica". Works by Akane Kirimura, Liliana Rusu, Luisa
Sartori, Corrine Bayraktaroglu, and Beata Wehr were reproduced.

After a snafu that held it in customs for a week or two, the
"documents" are in Budapest, thanks to Mitsuo Toshida and László Böröcz.

The show will open at 2B Galeriá November 28- December 30,
2008 with reception at 6PM, Nov. 28th.

2B Galeriá (http://www.pipacs.hu/2b/2b.html)
Ráday utca 47
Budapest IX. ker.

As always, the on-line catalogue, schedule and other information
is available at http://yourdocumentsplease.com .

Best Regards To All,
Daniel"


"Your Documents Please" ID exhibition will open August 2 - August 17, 2008 at ZAIM In the Cafe and 4th Fl exhibition space, Yokohama, Japan. (http://za-im.jp/php/news+article.storyid+328.htm )

August 11 - August 16 Galerie Paris ( http://galerieparis.net/ ) 1
block from ZAIM will make more exhibition space available so that all works in the exhibition will be on view.

A symposium with participating artists, Ichi Ikeda, Choi Song Gyu, and Mitsuo Toshida will take place on the evening of the Aug. 2 opening at ZAIM. For further information in Japanese, see the attachment.

As always, the catalog and schedule are available at:
http://yourdocumentsplease.com/

Exhibition Venues 2008-09

April 4, 2008 - April 20, 2008
Museum of Arts and Crafts - Itami, Itami-shi, Japan

August 2, 2008 - August 17, 2008
ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan

Late November - December, 2008
2B Galéria, Budapest, Hungary

January 2009 (tentative)
Galerie Kurt im Hirsch, Berlin, Germany

February 2009
GALÉRIA Z - Bratislava, Slovakia

April 17, 2009
May 8, 2009, Galería Ajolote Arte Contemporáneo, Guadalajara, Mexico

Jodi Heffernan

I know...I know.... it's been a long time between posts.
But I do have something new to announce.

Jodi Heffernan has a new website (still under construction) with past, and more recent work.

Here's a little bit about her:
Jodi studied BA (Fine Art) Printmaking Honours RMIT 1991, Dip Ed Latrobe Uni Bendigo 1988, BA RMIT 1987. She has held two solo shows at Dianne Tanzer Gallery 1997and 1995 and has been selected for over 20 group exhibitions around Australia and internationally including Anhui University, Hefei 2003, China, Museum Miastra Ostawa, Poland 1998.

Jodi's work is represented in NGA, AGNSW, Arts Victoria, State Library of Australia, and various tertiary & municipal collections in Australia and in France, Poland, and UK.

Jodi has taught Printmaking, Drawing and Context and Culture in the Visual arts department at NMIT for ten years. Previous to this she was employed as a work Education teacher at Chisholm Institute.

Artisan Books 4th Annual Artist Book Exhibition.

The theme this year is "Into The Fold" and will feature the work of 30 book artists from around Australia and beyond.
The exhibition will run from the 2nd until the 30th of August 2008.

For those of you who are interested in artists books this exhibition is held at Artisan Books and it is worth a look...

"Your Documents Please"

The website for this group exhibition has been launched please have a look.

There is a huge number of contributors to this exhibition, I'll be able to remove my list of artists and replace it with this link to the show.

Next show will be in August 2, 2008 - August 17, 2008 ----- ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan.