Against 'Neofuturism': Women Artists in Technological Media

Cover of Against 'Neofuturism': Women Artists in Technological Media
0.818
Unfettered actions: Sportification, playgrounds and public art
Feature
David Cross

Published 25 August 2021
0.87
'The work that art does': Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation
Feature
Abigail Moncrieff

Published 25 August 2021
0.75
Yours truly, The Department of Homo Affairs
Feature
Jessie Boylan

Published 25 August 2021
City of Unley 2
0.686
First Nations museum memorials: Daniel Boyd and Yhonnie Scarce
Feature
Erin Vink

Published 25 August 2021
0.844
Counter-monuments: Challenging distorted colonial histories through public art and memorials
Feature

Published 25 August 2021
0.844
Transformative communities: Curation and care
Feature
Rayleen Forester

Published 25 August 2021
Riddoch
0.666
Blue skies, blood moon
Feature
Daniel Mudie Cunningham

Published 25 August 2021
0.8
A close-up of Amazon Acres: Helen Grace
Feature
Fiona Kelly McGregor

Published 25 August 2021

In matters of technology, as in matters of sex, it is easy to assume one's own preferences are universal and normal, and to regard other's tastes as somehow debased or improper.

Buy   or   Subscribe
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

More from this Issue Full Issue Contents

Monica Pellizari's Short Black Look at the Italian-Australian Experience
Feature
Rose Capp

The title of Monical Pellizari's recently completed short film has a characteristically wry double edge. 'Just Desserts (1993)' tempers an unfortunates Australian maxim with distinctive humour. This film is a delight, a consolidation of the stylistic and thematic concerns of her previous 3 films in 13 witty and evocative minutes.

Published March 1993
Aleksi Vellis
Feature
Deb Verhoeven

Aleksi Vellis announced his arrival in the turmoil of early 90s Australian cinema with his debut feature 'Nirvana Street Murder' a restlessly energetic film with cavalier camera moves that are almost as swish as the director himself.

Published March 1993
Domestic Noir Night Out
Feature
Peter Kemp

Surely one of the powers of cinema is the aesthetic redemption of everyday reality, a poetics in motion that can distill and energise mundane objects, be they tiles on a kitchen wall, the fluorescent facade of an airport terminal, a luminously white T-shirt being twisted and tugged or the compact shapeliness of Y-fronts on a young body emerging from bed.

Published March 1993
Wizards of Oz: Into the 90s - Between Documentary and Fiction
Feature
Freda Freiberg

In the incredible shrinking space between 1984 and 2001 the distinction between social-issue documentary and surreal fiction is collapsing - almost as fast as Australian capitalism or Soviet communism.

Published March 1993
Memory and Image: The Multiculturalism in Film Project
Feature
Cecelia Cmielewski

It is diversity, and the celebration of the marginal which makes Australian film innovative. Diversity provides the opportunity for people in Australia to enjoy and reflect on the cultural heterogeneity rather than on the alienating myth with which we are so familiar.

Published March 1993
Wild: Beyond the Deconstruction
Feature
Deane Williams

To begin this discussion of Ross Gibson's new film 'Wild' it may be useful to trace its origins to his 1984 film 'Camera Natura'. The earlier film employed an essay mode to deconstruct the discourses around non-Aboriginal imaging of the landscape.

Published March 1993
Independent Distribution and Exhibition
Feature
Paul Kalina

In the decades prior to the expansion of art-house cinemas and television programming, 'independent distribution and exhibition' denoted a more specific activity than it does in the 1990s.

Published March 1993
Perplexities: Experimenta 1992
Feature
John Cumming

Over 12 days in November 1992, the Melbourne based Modern Image Makers Association (MIMA) held the third Experimenta presenting nearly 200 works of film, video, installation and performance. It included work from Germany, Japan, England and the USA, thus providing an opportunity to assess the current state of 'avant garde' practice and discourse.

Published March 1993
Floral Tributes: The Flower
Review
Peter Hill

Exhibition review The Flower
Curated by Paul Zika
Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts
Hobart Tasmania

Published March 1993
The 7th International Video Festival
Feature
Jan Birmingham

Blotting paper, alchemy or potent cocktail. When radical European film-makers in the 1950s with the Nagra sound recorder and noiseless, hand held camera, the Eclair, launched what they called Cinema Verite, they thought they had discovered a way to film truth on the move.

Published March 1993
"I Am Like You, I Am Different" - Beyond Ethnicity, Becoming Asian-Australian
Feature
Audrey Yue

Beyond ethnicity, becoming Asian - Australian. How does one address issues of ethnicity? What is authenticity?

Published March 1993
Museum Screen Dreams
Feature
Gordon Du Rich

Sydney's new Museum of Contemporary Art has actively integrated film, TV and videos into its programs since opening in 1991.

Published March 1993
 
Guildhouse
NAVA
Sydney Contemporary