News and Reviews
During Hellen Sky's visit to New Zealand as keynote speaker for CoLab's Misperforming Symposium in December 2009, Mark Webster conducted an interview for NZ-Mac magazine. Here is the article about Hellen...
Australian digital choreographer Hellen Sky works as a performer, director and writer. Her work is interdisciplinary in that it bridges dance, performance, theatre and installation, using an evolving and extending engagement with new technology to carry out internationally recognised performances. These can (and have been) staged around the world.
Recently in New Zealand to present at the Artworks Theatre on Waiheke Island as part of a symposium run by CoLab, I asked Hellen what got her to the point she is currently at...
Xuan (Vin) Cheng has joined CoLab this month on a 16 week AUT/TEC summer studentship. He will work with Associate Professor Frances Joseph, Dr Andrew Ensor and Laurent Antonczak on the development of a video repository to support a number of CoLab projects including the establishment of a multimedia repository for digital content produced via mobile devices.
MISPERFORMING WORKSHOP with HELLEN SKY and BRANDON HUR
CoLab, in collaboration with the School of Art & Design at AUT, is pleased to announce the MISPERFORMING WORKSHOP to be held on Sunday 29th November at Art Works Theatre on Waiheke Island. Keynote speaker of the Misperforming Symposium HELLEN SKY will be running Sunday's MISPERFORMING WORKSHOP also, along with collaborator BRANDON HUR.
The ‘Crossing Wires’ installation provides a window into the seldom seen world of the science laboratory blended with performance exhibition art. The installation will offer the public the opportunity to experience science experimentation and participate in active dialogues on the cultural, social and temporal constructions of our sensed reality.
ISEA2010 RUHR, the 16th International Symposium
on Electronic Art, will take place in the cities
of the German Ruhr area from 20 - 29 August 2010.
DATES
Call for Proposals: June 2009
Submission period: 15 June - 15 September 2009
Tuesday, July 28th, 6pm-9pm at Galatos
Student Fee: $ 5.00
Regular Fee: $ 10.00
(Includes a complimentary wine or beer)
For more info see attached flyer and click here to register
for this event.
Technologies have emerged that radically enhance contemporary
governments/corporations ability to collect and manage individual
citizen/consumer's images and data. These developments have taken
place in a landscape of increasing anxiety regarding corporate profits
and national security. In conjunction with the residency of Matt Kenyon
with AUT's Co-Lab and the concurrent exhibition of his collaborative
work with the SWAMP collective at MIC Tio Rerehiko, we are staging a
panel discussion aimed at extending a critical engagement with some of
the key concerns exhibited by SWAMP and keenly articulated by Matt. This
discussion invites scholars and artists from widely different
disciplines to explore this theme and its continued implications for our
lives today.
Thursday, 23 July, 4pm at MIC Toi Rerehiko,
1st Floor, 321 Karangahape (K) Road.
Currently in Auckland as a resident at AUT University's
CoLab creative technology centre, Kenyon is a mixed media artist
who as half of the collective known as SWAMP (Studies of Work,
Atmospheres and Mass Production) stages witty and satirical
interventions to critique global corporations, consumerism, mass
production and political domination.
As part of his residency he will be giving an artist's talk in
conjunction with an exhibition of SWAMP work running at
MIC Toi Rerehiko until August 22.
This exhibition will include some of the works and works in progress
from a one-week workshop organized by roomservices & James Charlton
(AUT) and is supported by Colab.
The CoVolutions workshop took place in Mimiwhangata Coastal Park,
1st-6th May 2009 with contribution of artists and AUT Creative
Technologies students. Final discussion was held at AUT Campus on 8th
May 2009 with presentations of contributing artists related to their
ongoing work.
More info on CoVolutions project can be found at http://www.roomservices.org/coVol/coVol.htm and http://www.colab.org.nz/3
Participating artists include Hagen Betzwieser - IAT Institute of
General Theory, James Charlton, Janine Randerson, Nick Sprat,
roomservices (Otto von Busch & Evren Uzer), Sonya Lacey, Susie
Thomas and Xin Cheng.
MIC Toi Rerehiko is pleased to present an exhibition by digital media collective SWAMP from 3rd July - 22 August 2009.
This will be the first instance of SWAMP showing in New Zealand
and follows the CoLab residency of member Matt Kenyon. Kenyon has
collaborated with Doug Easterly as SWAMP since 1999. Originally formed
in the United States, the collective has exhibited extensively over the
past decade, most recently at Exit Art in New York City, ISEA2008 in
Singapore and Videotageedia, Hong Kong. Trained formally in painting,
their mutual interests in emergence theory, evolution and popular
culture has led to research, production and lecturing in the realm of
new media. Featuring eight works that span a variety of media, SWAMP’s
Fire Sale exhibition stages a critique of contemporary values through a
medley of interventions and interdisciplinary enquiries.
CoVolutions: New Cartographies for Transversal Ecologies
exhibition will be on at room gallery on K'road 3rd July- 18th July
2009.
This exhibition will include some of the works and works in progress
from a one-week workshop organized by roomservices & James Charlton
(AUT) and is supported by Colab.
The CoVolutions workshop took place in Mimiwhangata Coastal Park,
1st-6th May 2009 with contribution of artists and AUT Creative
Technologies students. Final discussion was held at AUT Campus on 8th
May 2009 with presentations of contributing artists related to their
ongoing work.
More info on CoVolutions project can be found at http://www.roomservices.org/coVol/coVol.htm and http://www.colab.org.nz/3
Participating artists include Hagen Betzwieser - IAT Institute of
General Theory, James Charlton, Janine Randerson, Nick Sprat,
roomservices (Otto von Busch & Evren Uzer), Sonya Lacey, Susie
Thomas and Xin Cheng.
Random Side Panel Image
