News and Reviews
Online Workshop series
1st-2nd October, WF Building, AUT City Campus
CoLab is running a series of workshops in association with Mohawk Media,
covering online tools and marketplaces for creative entrepreneurs. Join
us in October to learn about taking your art online and growing a
sustainable business.
Juggling multiple projects and a growing team? Learn about free online
tools that make up the ultimate Business Management Toolkit.
Want to be the next Karen Walker? Learn about the new wave of print on
demand tools and spaces to sell your work globally with the Fashion
Designer’s Toolkit.
Making music, artwork or writing a book? Come along to the popular
Creative Online Toolkit developed in association with the People In
Your Neighbourhood project from the British Council.
Want to make a name for yourself? The join us for a Social Media Masterclass and learn how to manage your brand online.
These workshops will be run by Helen Baxter, MD of Mohawk Media,
international keynote speaker, and XMediaLab mentor. She reports on
technology for the g33k show, is a judge in the NZ Yahoo!Xtra Digital
Strategy Awards, and has been strategist and creative columnist with
the MsBehaviour Files for the Big Idea.
To register attendance please email CoLab Workshop Coordinator katrina.bell@aut.ac.nz
Colab will welcome Diana Burgoyne to our residency program this August where she will be presenting a workshop and performance and collaborating with New Zealand artists Raewyn Turner.
During her residency with us Diana Burgoyne will give a performance/lecture and presentation with Raewyn Turner on the 27th August, 5-6pm at the ST PAUL St Gallery and facilitate two workshops entitled CREATIVE ELECTRONICS, introducing participants to electronics as it pertains to a variety of mediums in addition to investigation of electronics as new media practices, on Saturday 21st and Saturday 28th August, WS512, 9am-4pm, in association with the LIVE. REPEAT. PLAYBACK. programme.
You can visit Diana and Raewyn working on their collaborative projects in the Fishbowl working lab facilitated by CoLab, WT502 from 23rd September- 3rd September. They will later exhibit in the MIC Toi Rerehiko Gallery on K'rd, 3rd September - 9 October.
Mash-up, warp, bend, twist.... CoLab (the interdisciplinary creative technology centre at AUT University and The Big Idea website (the online home of New Zealand’s creative community) are calling for applications from creative practitioners and artists interested in being The Big Idea’s first online artist-in-residence. Intrigued? Read on . . .
This June, Script to Screen in association with CoLab and Nga Aho Whakaari will run a digital media workshop. Up to nine selected teams will spend a weekend producing a 2-minute story-based project for the mobile phone or internet, under the tutelage of experienced practitioners Laurent Antonczak, Bevin Linkhorn, Simon Marler and Pita Turei.
The workshop is open to teams of 1-3 who need to cover the key skills to produce the project.
CoLab, in partnership with Film Auckland invites you to attend our second ENVISAGE Program THURSDAY 27TH MAY, 6-8 PM at AUT focussing on new developments and opportunities in 3D FILM and ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES. With industry speakers including Tim Coddington from Yogi Bear, the movie recently filmed in 3D in Auckland.
In the months of May and June CoLab are pleased to announce the following upcoming workshops in association with CoLab:
CREATIVES ONLINE TOOLKIT Workshop with the British Council. A workshop for creatives with Helen Baxter from Mohawk Media.
and the DIGITAL MEDIA WORKSHOP with Script to Screen and Nga Aho Whakaari. A workshop open to teams of 1-3 who need to cover the key skills to produce a 2-minute story-based project for the mobile phone or internet.
Jack Ox has been engaged in the practice of music visualization for over 30 years, with a distinguished history of international exhibitions examining intermedia and metaphor as methodologies of representation to show how the problematic area of data representation has reunited art and science in fruitful ways. On Tuesday the 20th April at AUT University, Rm WT 705, WT Tower, Jack Ox will deliver a presentation entitled ‘Visualization and the Art of Metaphoric Mapping in Science and Art’. Through examples of computer-aided visualization, she will discuss the philosophical implications of models and taxonomies of representation and speculate on ways to train artists to work between domains, helping to create languages of multi-modal representation that facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration.
Photo courtesy of the Jack Ox website
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.
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