Current Issue - Vol 32 no 1, 2012

Pattern & Complexity

Guest edited by Margot Osborne

Pattern and complexity in art parallel the latest scientific thinking mathematics and biology and can be cultural metaphors for the tensions between order and chaos. The works discussed are part of a global resurgence in the use of highly complex forms created, often with advanced technology, as paintings, digital imagery, 3D art, interactive works and public art interventions. Some reflect fundamental building blocks of our reality in the...

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Current Features

Exhibitions to Watch
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Patterns that Connect
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Socially engaged FIFO art? IASKA's Spaced
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Editorial
Curator, scholar and guest editor Margot Osborne is interested in the current resurgence of pattern and complexity in the practices of contemporary Australian and international artists and the way the... More...

Mesne: Stitches in the Air: computational craft
Media artist, techno-evangelist and digital nomad Fee Plumley responds to Mesne Design Studio's lacemaking environment 'Pricking Version 2.0' which is their answer to the question "what happens if you... More...

Fractal food
John Walker is the founder of Autodesk, Inc. and co-author of AutoCAD. In Fractal Food he discusses the marvel of fractal forms (complex shapes which look more or less the same at a wide variety of sc... More...

Caroline Durré: Reforming the earth
Drawing Studio and Program Co-ordinator at Monash University Stephen Garrett examines the optically challenging artworks of Caroline Durré which blend patterns and perspectives.... More...


Artlink goes to China

Artlink Indigenous II, our forthcoming annual June mega-issue, is being launched in China at the biennial Australian Studies Conference being held in July this year  at Xihua University in Chengdu, Sichuan province. 

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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?

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Three acclaimed value-packed special issues from 1990, 2000 and 2010, on Aboriginal and Torres Strait contemporary art. A ready-made up to date history of this vibrant cultural arena.

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Artrave - Comment, upcoming events, people, news and views

Artrave - |||32_1/32_1_art 75|l||| Animalia Are animals are the new humans or are they just new fodder for our entertainment? If a push to get human rights legally extended to other animals is successful, the performances of whales at Seaworld in the USA may soon be outlawed as slavery. Two upcoming world premieres show different sides of this coin. I Am N...
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Future Issues

Indigenous #2: guest co-editors Stephanie Radok and Daniel Browning

Second in annual mega-issue series, survey of new developments in the field - new art, debates, exhibitions, projects and publications.

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