SA Designer-makers Turn to Industry
A unique exhibition curated by Steve Ronayne (owner of Aptos Cruz Galleries) held at theJam Factory Gallery in 1996 'South Australia - Emerging crucible of contemporary design' showed just how many local designer-makers of contemporary craft are adopting industrial processes in their work.
Australian Design
Andrew Carter: Theatre Designer to the World
Andrew Carter is a much sought after theatre designer. He is a creator of innovative sets and has received many presitigous commissions.
Australian Design
The Soft Machine
Interview with Andrew Rogers, Director of the ARID industrial design group (within the University of Adelaide's Research precinct). They spoke about the seductive blurrings of boundaries between man and soft machine.
Australian Design
Furniture Design in Western Australia
The present era of contemporary Western Australian furniture design can be thought of as beginning under the influence of David Foulkes-Taylor (1956 until his death in 1966).
Australian Design
Gifted Arts
In 1992 the Premier of WA initiated the Premier's Gift Commissioning Project in conjunction with the Crafts Council of WA inviting artists to design and produce protocol gifts and souvenirs within a lower price range, which though of exclusive design could be manufactured in multiples using light local industrial processes where appropriate.
Australian Design
Serious Fun
Book review Absolutely Mardi Gras Jointly published by Doubleday and the Powerhouse Museum 1997 RRP $29.95
Australian Design
Inventive Australia
Book review Know-how, the guide to innovation in Australia Interactive CD Rom published by Powerhouse Publications, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney NSW Macintosh/Windows RRP $99.95
Australian Design
Seeing a Plant: Being a Plant
Exhibition review Stephanie Radok Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide SA 11 September - 6 October 1996
Australian Design
Petals on a Wet Black Bough
Exhibition review In Remembrance of Things Past... Angela Valamanesh Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre, Adelaide SA 18 October - 1 December 1996
Australian Design
Loungeroom of Ideas
Exhibition review Messy and Restless: Helene Czerny, Julie Duffield, Paul Hoban, Terri Hoskin, Derek O'Connor Contemporary Art Centre Adelaide SA 1- 24 November 1996
Australian Design
Out of the Kitchen
Exhibition review Masters Exhibitions 1996 12-28 September: Greg Geraghty, Johnathon Dady, Paul Dryga, Namchou Chitma 10-26 October: Rhonda Wheatland, Amanda Poland, Helen Stacey, Elizabeth Abbott, Brian Lynch 7- 23 November: Greg Fullerton, Danielle O'Brien, Julia McGuire, Harekrishna Bag, University of SA Museum, Adelaide SA
Australian Design
Wanton Fruits
Exhibition review Barbie Kjar Dick Bett Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart Tasmania 26 November - 10 December 1996
Australian Design
Share-house Art
Exhibition review Tasmania art co-op: recent works from Australian Artist-Run Initiatives The Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart Tasmania 15 November - 8 December 1996
Australian Design
The Nature of Perception
Exhibition review Howard Taylor: Paintings and Drawings Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth WA 1- 22 September 1996
Australian Design
Space Defined
Exhibition review Jewellery by Brenda Ridgewell, New Collectibles Gallery, East Fremantle WA 20 November - 1 December 1996
Australian Design
Counting Digits: Electronic Art will not go away
A witty and wise approach to issues confronting electronic arts by celebrated art theorist and philosopher. He starts by speculating on a contemporary analysis of the first stonecarvings that were not useful directly as tools, but indirectly as symbolic substitutes or stand-ins for some other thing....
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Negotiating Artistic Practice in Late Capitalist Techno-Culture
Whatever art is to become in the realm of consumer electronic culture, it is critical that some sort of autonomy be maintained from the pressures of the technological imperative. Otherwise the politic implicit in the technological manifestation will override the necessary anarchic liberty of art.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Emergent Behaviours: Towards computational aesthetics
Overview of the electronic arts moving from the 1960s to the creation of artificial intelligences. Discusses various artists and their projects.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Holography permeates art and commerce? A question of time
One of the strange novelties of running a large format holography business is the regular telephone calls one receives from inspired and inventive people who clearly see holography as representing some kind of magical solution to often relatively ordinary problems.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Spectres of Cyberspace
A new spectre is haunting Western culture- the spectre of virtual reality. For if we are to properly characterise cyberspace as a postmodern phenomenon, it must be as part of a postmodernism that does not come after the modern so much as assertively re-enacts modernismÕs desire to fold back on itself...
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Is there art on the Web?
The Web is unknowingly large and diverse. Lists web sites
Art in the Electronic Landscape
The Artists Interface 1/0
The interface paradigm is at the core of current work by artists in the area of interactive multimedia. All the works in the exhibition Burning the Interface at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, approach the issues of interface design and interaction with the audience or user or interactor in different ways.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Landmark Exhibition: Burning the interface
Exhibition review Burning the interface International Artists CD Rom Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney NSW March - July 1996
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Interactive Phantasmagoria: Pre-Cinema to Virtuality
Exhibition review Phantasmagoria Curated by Peter Callas and David Watson
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Virtual Topographics: an interview with Peter Callas
It is now well accepted that what has been variously dubbed the Ònew mediaÓ, Òelectronic artsÓ, ÒmultimediaÓ, or Òhybrid artsÓ are rapidly changing how we engage with issues of subjectivity, identity, nationality and interactivity.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Living in Second-Natureland: the role of obsession in Technology-based Art.
From a confession of context, the author looks at new definitions where ÔlifeÕ and ÔexperienceÕ are defined as time spent engaging with technology, where ÔspaceÕ and ÔtimeÕ are primary sources for experience; the necessity of obsession and the work of Adrienne Jenik
Art in the Electronic Landscape
The Planetary Collegium: art and education in the post biological era
We live in deeply cynical, distrusting and despairing times...The author calls for a Planetary Collegium to advance the electronic media and its related educational process.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
I couldnÕt do my homework: the cat ate my mouse
The role of computers in the education of young people looking at examples from student in schools in South Australia.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
A Magic Toyshop: an interview with John Bird
John Bird is Associate Professor at the Centre for Animation and Interactive Multi Media at RMIT Melbourne Victoria. Looks at developing technologies and entertainment from a background of this centre for the new media arts.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
The Tasmanian Connection
The electronic landscape in Tasmania is only just beginning to be visibly integrated into the exhibition culture...largely influenced by a young generation of artists recently graduated or arrived at the Art School and Conservatorium in Tasmania.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
In Search of a Continuum
An article curated by the author whereby four artists were invited to select two of their documentation images and write captions for these images after considering issues of control, motion, space and trigger - issues that span old and new technologies in order to discover whether a sense of a continuum of approach and practice may emerge.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Cyb(erotic) transformations
If the human body is disappearing into technology, then technology too is disappearing into flesh. Not just literally integrating into human skin and bone, but incorporated into our psychology and body imagery, creating a body as cyborg.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Fax me your head (in 3D)
Collaborative article by Dorothy Erickson, Jill Smith, Stephanie Britton and Phil Dench. The process of scanning in 2D images of manipulating and combining them in electronic paintboxes and of printing the results is familiar to many artists. Techniques are now being developed that will allow us to do the same thing with three dimensional objects.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Computers, machines, mathematics.
There are 2 specific problems attached to creating 3D computer art. One is funding and the other is often the need for expert and professional assistance. Examines the issues faced by artists working in the area of 3D computer art.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Nigel HelyerÕs Silent Forest
An installation by Nigel Helyer at the Walter McBean Gallery San Francisco Art Institute as part of Soundculture, San Francisco, April 1996.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Skadada@pica
Skadada at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art was an instant success when it was performed in September 1995. It is a dance, music and computer hybrid art performance with works by Katie Lavers, Jon Burtt and John Patterson using innovative MIDI technology with computer graphics, video and manipulated sound keyed in by a live performer.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Waiting for the CyberMuse
Moral: Having the tools available doesnÕt necessarily generate artistic ideas but when the idea is there, the artist will move heaven and earth to execute it.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Bursting with opinions
Book review Critical issues in electronic media Edited by Simon Penny State University of New York Press, USA 1995
Art in the Electronic Landscape
CMCs Open for business
Looks at the role of CMCs Cooperative Multimedia Centres which are rapidly spreading across Australia. CMCs are government seeded consortia of a range of share holders and stake holders, designed to develop and support local and national multimedia industries. They all have a tripartite brief: education and training; research and development; and industry support...
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Electronic art in Australia: do we have critical mass?
Looks at art practice as it has developed since 1987 using the ARTLINK issue in 1987 of ÔArt and TechnologyÕ-(Vol 7 Nos 2 & 3, 1987) as the starting point for what was at that time the mostly unrecognised relationship between art and technology.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Cyber Cultures in Western Sydney
Article with co-curator David Cranswick , Cyber Cultures at the Performance Space Gallery is an on-going exhibition and performance project initiated by Street Level an artist run initiative in Western Sydney.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Electronic Media Collections
Looks at the collection of electronic artworks held by the Griffith University Queensland.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Perth Science Centre employs artists
Opened in August 1988, Perths Scitech Discovery Centre aimed to add a ÔfunÕ environment to the physical and human sciences, with hands-on interactions and experiences. From its inception it employed design graduates to design and make many of its displays.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Playing with the Planet
Digital Arts Film and Television is developing an interactive game based around the filme Epsilon, which award winning director Rolf de Heer produced with Digital Arts in 1995. Producer Sean Caddy previews this most unusual computer game, which has no violence and is a chilling scenario of the crisis in the ecology of planet Earth.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
The Virtual Museum
Looks at Compact Disc Interactive or CDi which allows people to chart their own personal pathways through material.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Negotiating the Museum of Sydney
Review of the new Museum of Sydney whose challenge it was to compose a cultural metaphor for Sydney. It was conceived as a site that lets the visitor experience the jostling versions of what was going on, what it looked, sounded and behaved like.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Open Market: Computer art in China
ÒFrom herbs and opium to Amway and Coca-cola. The market opens and the game starts.Ó
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Loudscreen: Animation network
In an expressive sense animation is as personal a medium as writing. New technologies have the potential to build on this trend...
Art in the Electronic Landscape
MM in Queensland education
Multi media education requires a wide range of resources. In Queensland the Bachelor of Multimedia at Griffith University draws on the expertise of 5 faculties and colleges
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Arts Queensland
In March 1996, Arts Queensland presented Giles Consulting report on the state of play in multi media to a packed public forum at the Museum of Modern Art. Outlines the recommendations.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Mom's Long Arms: The Art Institution Reaches Out
Art and Design Education A letter from Noel Sheridan to the editor Stephanie Britton. One of the main reasons for coming to Perth (Western Australia) was to get away from art education...
Art & Education
Art?
Art and Design Education For 2 years now, being busy about other things, I have not thought much about art education; and this abstinence seems not to have been injurious to anybody. But the thing nags. It ought to be possible to say something so manifestly enlightened and reasonable about art education that every rational person will agree and productive action will follow as the night follows the day.
Art & Education
The Balloon Man Cometh: A Salutary Tale
Art and Design Education A brief overview of the Australian Art and Design School phenomena today suggests that, given that educational philosophies are couched in the language of diversity, they still appear to be dominated by a referential and almost umbilical attachment to the early moderns...
Art & Education
Art Schools Academe 2001
Art and Design Education By what criteria do we judge the success of visual arts courses?
Art & Education
Crisis in Queensland
Art and Design Education The Queensland College of Art and its dubious future.
Art & Education
Amalgamation chaos at College of Art
Art and Design Education A student view See also article by Effemera Phaxx in this issue of Artlink.
Art & Education
Aboriginal and Islander Art Course: More than survival
Art and Design Education Written with Penryhn Henderson Discusses the Associate Diploma of Art (Aborigine and Torres Strait Islander) being offered at the Cairns College of TAFE in Far North Queensland and now in its 8th year.
Art & Education
More Exotic More Humane: World Music
Art and Design Education at the Victoria College of Arts.
Art & Education
Computer Art: Critical issues in teaching
Art and Design Education In attempting to teach something called computer art, we inherit our critical base from art history and another from engineering. Not only are these traditionally at odds with each other, but neither of them, nor a combination of the two, are adequate for our historical moment.
Art & Education
Mini-theories? Film and Video Education
Art and Design Education It would be beneficial for the educational sector to look at an integration with the low-budget, grass roots end of existing film practice and make links with other film makers and independent festivals both nationally and internationally that are responsive to the work.
Art & Education
From Solving to Setting Problems: Project-based Design Education
Art and Design Education The strength and vitality of post secondary design education programs in Australia arguably derives from the established tradition of project based learning.
Art & Education
Freemasonry or Free Interchange?
Art and Design Education A new model for training architects and designers.
Art & Education
Government Help Available
Art and Design Education Looks at the various government schemes which are available to art and design graduates and undergraduates.
Art & Education
Rites of Passage - Queensland Mergers
Looks at the Brisbane College of Advanced Education's art programmes more popularly known as the Kelvin Grove Art School and the Carseldine expressive arts department who joined forces in May 1990 on the occasion of the amagamation of B C A E with the larger entity of Queensland University of Technology.
Art & Education
A Sociology of Art... Why Does Art Look (or Sound) Like it Does?
Analytical perceptions for a new century. The artist - the creative thinker. The mechanics of thinking. Rational and irrational mechanics of thinking. Aesthetics and sociology - the conjugal relationship etc The critics best friend or friends must necessarily be the artist!
Art & Education
Modernism and Post Modernism in Asian Art
Review of conference at the Australian National University Canberra, 22 -25 March 1991. Organised by the Humanities Research Centre and the Department of Art History ANU.
Art & Education
Rescue
ACCA the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art affiliates with Monash University.
Art & Education
Learning to be Naive
Review of works of Malcolm Otton at the Naive Galleries Woolhara NSW
Art & Education
Problems with Art Publishing in Australia
Art writing and payment to writers and how this influences who writes for what!
Art & Education
Distribution - Who Will Tame the Bete Noir?
The case for a viable national infrastructure.
Art & Education
An Alternative Model in Academia
Art publishing out of the Power Institute.
Art & Education
Funding for Visual Arts Publishing
The Visual Arts/Crafts Board has been grappling with the difficulties facing specialist visual arts publishing in Australia for many years.
Art & Education
A Cornucopia? Arts Publishing in New Zealand
Looks at the impressive range of publications on the visual arts in New Zealand. This is not an exhaustive overview but a thumbnail sketch of this large and diverse topic.
Art & Education
Field of Vision by Janine Burke
Book review Field of Vision:A Decade of Change: Women's Art in the Seventies By Janine Burke Penguin Australia 1990 RRP $40.00
Art & Education
Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the 70s and 80s by John McDonald
Book review Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the 70s and 80s By John MacDonald Craftsman House 1990 RRP $65
Art & Education
A Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture by Richard Apperly
Book review A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture: Styles and Terms from 1788 to the Present by Richard Appleby, Robert Irving and Peter Reynolds with photographs by Solomon Mitchell Angus and Robertson 1989 RRP $39.95
Art & Education
Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert by Geoffrey Bardon
Book review Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert By Geoffrey Bardon McPhee Gribble 1991 RRP $50.
Art & Education
A Selected Book List
Better books etc since 1984 -- a very selective list.
Art & Education
Lyndal Jones Prediction Piece 10
Exhibition review Installation by Lyndal Jones University of South Australia Art Museum 30 May - 22 June 1991
Art & Education
Film Theory Seminars
Exhibition review The Power of Perversion, Film Theory Seminars Media Resource Centre Adelaide South Australia April 8 - May 13 1991
Art & Education
Dadang Christanto
Exhibition review an Installation of the work by Dadang Christanto Contemporary Indonesian Artist University of South Australia Art Museum August 1 - 31 1991
Art & Education
Ginger Riley and Ian Abdulla
Exhibition review (indigenous artists) Koori Perspective 12 May - 31 June 1991 Ian Abdulla 9 June - 31 July 1991 Ginger Riley Munduwalawala 7 July - 31 August Tandanya Adelaide South Australia
Art & Education
Gavin Blake
Exhibition review Gavin Blake: Immaculate Projections North Adelaide School of Art Gallery 23 July - 8 August 1991
Art & Education
Torso, Group Show: Richard Baxter Smith and Bill Doyle
Exhibition review Torso: Gray Street Workshop 25 July - 18 August 1991 Bite: Richard Baxter Smith and Bill Doyle Artzone 31 August - 11 September 1991
Art & Education
Helen Taylor, Judith Dinham, Glen Phillips, Jill Kempson
Exhibition review Helen Taylor See Saw: Part One Delaney Galleries 4 - 26 June 1991 Judith Dinham and Glen Phillips: Nothing More Real to Me, Leaning on Images Perth Galleries 28 April - May 15 1991 Jill Kempson: Threading Light and Land in Tuscany Galerie Duseldorf 17 May - 9 June 1991
Art & Education
Jokes and Jelly
Exhibition review Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery University of Western Australia April 21 - May 26 1991 Simon Gevers: 'perf' Steven Holland: 'a plaintive "Plee-erk"'
Art & Education
The Body in Question: Jewellery
Exhibition review The Body in Question: Jewellery and Metalsmithing Symposium University of Tasmania Launceston July 1991 and related exhibition programme
Art & Education
South of No North
Exhibition review Dick Bett Gallery Hobart Tasmania 17 July - early August 1991 Richard Flanagan Curator
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Boyd Webb
Curated by Jenny Harper Brisbane City Gallery 8 March- 29 April 2001
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The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award
Werribee Park, Victoria 21 March - 13 May 2001
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East of Somewhere
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney 10 March - 29 April
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Liminal Narratives
Zofia Sleziak 31 March - 8 April 2001 The Chapel Adelaide
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The Archibald Prize
Art Gallery of NSW March 2001
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Art of the Sacred Heart
Arts Project Australia Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide 31 January - 25 February 2001
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Anatomy of a Metaphor
Madeleine Kelly Modus Gallery Fortitude Valley, Brisbane 6 - 22 April 2001
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Myth and Machines
Andy Jones Moonah Art Centre Tasmania 16 - 28 February 2001
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Tense Past - Narratives of Gaps and Silences
Julie Gough Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart 17 - 23 February 2001
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Promised Land: Nien Schwarz
Perth International Arts Festival 2001 event The Church Gallery, Claremont
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Lace - Contemporary Perspectives
Anne Farren (Aus), Suzumi Noda (Japan), Pam Gaunt (Aus), Michael Brennand-Wood (UK), Pilar Rojas (Spain) CRAFTWEST Centre for Contemporary Craft Perth International Arts Festival event. 7 February - 24 March

Touring to Kalgoorlie Art Centre July 2001 Interstate and regionally in 2002
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Mildura Palimpsest #4
Mildura, various sites 19 April - 20 May 2001
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