Current Issue - vol 31 no 4, 2011
Phenomena
Edited by Stephanie Britton This issue examines some unusual aspects of our lives and how people, insects and colour are connected in strange ways through art. Science of the visible and invisible colour spectrum in humans, animals, fish, insects throws light on contemporary artistic works. The world of insects is emerging as a template for a new field of investigation,'insect media' including swarm or distributed intelligence. Colour and its changing meanings and uses,...
Winsome Q
An artword/science-fiction/murder-mystery novel by Donald Brook, serialised for free on the Artlink website, with a new chapter each fortnight. Read it here.
The Awful Truth About What Art Is
A groundbreaking book that proposes a radically new answer to the questions What is art? and How do we know whether something is a work of art?
Adelaide Fringe 2012 - Artlink Pattern & Complexity launch at RiAus
28th February 5.30 - 7.30pm
Paul Downton, architect, writer, urban evolutionary and author of the forthcoming book ‘Making Wholes in Pieces: Urban fractals, pocket neighbourhoods and the seeds of Ecopolis’ on pattern in urban environments, is the Guest Speaker at the launch of Art, Pattern and Complexity, a special issue of Artlink magazine dedicated to Alan Turing and also an exhibition of the same name. more
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Artrave - Comment, upcoming events, people, news and views
Artrave - Art at Splendour
Jimmy McGilchrist and Jordana Maisie provided unexpected and tantalising visual hooks to accompany the musical highlights of the Splendour in the Grass music festival at Woodford, Qld in August 2011. Close Encounters, Maisie’s large, shiny UFO, best viewed at night when the spacecraft seemed to hover benevolently above the masses,...
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Future Issues
Pattern and Complexity
Guest editor Margot Osborne - (March 2012)
Pattern and complexity in art parallel latest scientific thinking in biology and neuro-science; can be cultural metaphors for the tensions between order and chaos.