Artrave

What is happening in our art schools? For the past few years anecdotal evidence has been coming in from all over Australia of threats to painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles and other so called 'fine art' courses as well as news of courses that have been closed or savagely cut.

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Art Gallery of South Australia 31 October 2003 - 26 January 2004 Curated by Vivien Johnson

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Virtual Adelaide

One of the leading interactive groups to come out of Britain is the Blast Theory who are making interactive gaming projects, installations and mixed reality projects in various major cities of the world. They were based in Adelaide from January to March 2004 under the South Australian Premiers Thinkers in Residence Program in partnership with various other major Australian art corporations. Through the use of real and virtual city cityscapes there is an overlapping of concepts of time and space, with a focus on ideas of absence and presence amongst players online and those on the streets.

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Wet Culture - Playing With Codes

Melentie Pandilovski, the Director of the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, sees the current manifestation of the word experimental in Experimental Art Foundation as relating to biotechnology, consciousness and the places taken up by artist in scientific places where experiments are the usual tasks at hand. In a move away from dry hard-wired technologies the last five years has seen a rise of wetwork and a new subculture within science as artists find new roles in scientific laboratories and ask fresh moral, ethical and aesthetic questions.

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The Queensgate Car Park

The Australian Centre for Concrete Art Henderson Street, Fremantle Launched on December 2003

Margaret Moore

Primavera 2003

Exhibition of Young Australian Artists Museum of Contemporary Art 17 September - 30 November 2003

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Like many of the people at Balgo, Elizabeth Nyumis early life was a nomadic existence with her family group on the Canning Stock Route. Whe her mother died she walked with her father into the old Catholic mission at Balgo. She began painting for Warlayirti Artists in 1988. Recently a very successful painter, she was invited to show at the 2004 Biennale of Sydney. OBrien examines Nyumis life and work.

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The Museum is the Message

The fifteen artists involved in Inside SAM's Place all acknowledge the shared language of art objects and museum artefacts.

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To Begin With: Five Tasmanian Artists

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