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October - a breath of fresh art
New media art is an exciting and integral part of the contemporary art scene in Australia. New media art, as defined by the Australia Council, is a process where new technologies are used by artists to create works that explore new modes of artistic expr...
Artbank was founded by the Australian Government in 1980 to buy Australian contemporary art and rent it out to public and private sector clients. Instead of only seeing Australian art in galleries, Artbank ensures that more Australian art can be seen in m...
Each year the Sydney Festival offers a rich and diverse program spanning all art forms including dance, theatre, music, visual arts, film, forums and large scale free outdoor events. The National Multicultural Festival is held over two weeks and features...
Winner of the 2007 Portia Geach Award. The Portia Geach Memorial Award is recognised as one of the most important celebrations of the talents and creativity of Australian female portrait painters. Winner of the 1992 Portia Geach Award. ...
Ben Snow, Visual Effects Supervisor for Van Helsing (2004) and Pearl Harbour (2001). Hidden behind the scenes in film, television, new media and game production, a number of Australian individuals and companies have been quietly contributing their creati...
Image courtesy of the artist and the National Gallery of Victoria. Contemporary art is defined as art that is current, offering a fresh perspective and point of view, and often employing new techniques and new media. These confronting public art projects...
Bark Painting, Evans Collection, Northern Territory Library. Image courtesy of the Northern Territory Library and the National Library of Australia. Australian Indigenous art is the oldest ongoing tradition of art in the world. ...
Image courtesy of Australian Network for Arts and Technology and Samstag Museum of Modern Art. Wearing textiles and jewellery with embedded technology has undergone a fashionable renaissance with creative designers working across art, fashion, design and...
ReelDance International Dance on Screen Festival (more info)
ReelDance is a project of the Performance Space, supporting innovative choreographic practice that works across disciplinary boundaries of dance, film and new media art.
Blakkbyrd: Australia (more info)
Blakkbyrd: Australia offers musings on contemporary art issues, including street art and urban painting, new media art, blogging and internet resources.
Arts agency established to support the development and promotion of new media art in Australia and elsewhere. With a portfolio which showcases a diverse range of innovative projects, Novamedia provides expert advice to private collectors and public organi
Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Conference (more info)
The MAAP site is a presentation platform to promote excellence and exchange of ideas in New Media Art. It attempts to foster dialogue between professionals who create, experiment, design, and build electronic forms of art. This site has links to the onli
ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology) (more info)
ANAT creates connections and collaborations across art, culture, science and technology. It is Australia's peak network and advocacy body for artists working with science and technology, creating opportunities for innovation, research and development both
Basic Art S. 96 pages. > Addresses new media art as a specific art historical movement, focusing not only on technologies and forms, but also on thematic content and conceptual strategies. New media art often involves appropriation, collaboration, and th...
150 Years: Photography in Queensland from the Gallery Collection Nurreegoo: The Art and Life of Ron Hurley 1946,Äì2002 Mountains and Streams: Chinese Paintings from the Asian Collection...
Wang Jianwei can only be described as an enigmatic artist. Like most contemporary artists in China, Wang began his career as painter, but abandoned that medium in favour of more direct expressive forms. Wang Jianwei has resisted the enormous pressures th...
The beautiful elasticity of the works of New Zealand artist Daniel Crooks expresses a deep fascination with both the materiality and theory of video as a visual medium representing movement in time. This work is called Time Slice, and with it Crooks is e...
Question: How does a Singapore/Perth-based artist and occasional resident of Venice, Kassel, Hong Kong, Gwangju and Adelaide, not to mention Sydney, Sao Paulo and Switzerland, create meaningful and memorable experiences of place? Habitually on the move, ...
Formed in 1991, in New Delhi, by documentary students Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, RAQS have gradually widened their sphere of activity from filmmaking to include new media & digital art practice, photography, media theory, cri...
Yet the high-art staging of operatic spectacle which was heightened as postmodern effect within the Brooklyn Academy productions is transmuted within Dumb Type s presentations. Memorandum transmutes 80s postmodern theatrical spectacles by de-narrating and...
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