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 apply computational processes to the historical notion of craft?”.

Published March 2012

Not just black and white

Scholar and inaugural director of the new Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre in Katherine Cath Bowdler discusses the work of two indigenous artists Brook Andrew and Gunybi Ganambarr and suggests that they are both operating at a conceptual level as bricoleurs in a globalised world, inventing new juxtapositions of materials and revealing new ways of seeing the world through the prism of local histories and traditions.

Published March 2012

Pipilotti Rist I Packed the Postcard in my Suitcase

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
21 December 2011 – 4 March 2012

Published March 2012

A Meme is born

Adelaide writer and artist Peter Drew looks at various examples of recent street art and the many ways it is circulated and reproduced as a meme in a wired and globally connected world. "As it turns out," he says, "memetics can be very useful in understanding the patterns of street art."

Published March 2012

Patterns that Connect

Published March 2012

The Poliness wall drawings: not quite right

Artist Kerrie Poliness writes about her wall drawing projects, one of which appears in the exhibition 'Art, Pattern and Complexity' at RiAus, Adelaide from 16 February to 16 May 2012. The wall drawings begin with the artist's instructions but are produced with intuition rather than rulers.

Published March 2012

Artrave

Published March 2012

Medi(t)ation - 2011 Asian Art Biennial

1 October 2011 – 1 January 2012
Curator: Iris Shu-Ping Huang
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts?(NTMoFA)
www.asianartbiennial.org

Published March 2012

Socially engaged FIFO art? IASKA's Spaced

Published March 2012

2112: Imagining the Future

Curator: Linda Williams RMIT Gallery, Melbourne 2 December 2011 - 28 January 2012

Published March 2012

Everyday the possible

Sonia Donnellan, Anna Hughes &
Sonja Porcaro
South Australian School of Art (SASA) Gallery
14 August - 16 September 2011

Published March 2012

Choreography of the elements: Janet Echelman

American artist Janet Echelman reshapes urban airspace with monumental, fluidly moving sculpture that responds to environmental forces including wind, water, and sunlight. The artist’s ongoing series of aerial net sculptures started in 1997 when she was in India as a Fulbright Scholar and became fascinated with the beauty and movement of traditional fishing nets. In 2011 her installation 'Tsunami 1.26' hung over the Town Hall traffic intersection in Sydney as a joint initiative of the Powerhouse Museum and Art and About Sydney.

Published March 2012