This multimedia exhibition will feature work by architects, artists and designers: Morgan Veness, Haruka Kokubu, Didier Ryan, German Perez Tavio, Malou Dunkley, Patrick Santamaria, Billy Ryan, Sam Painter.
Described as a ‘forecast of dream shapes from concept to reality’ which will explore ‘evolving shapes, surreal qualities, elevated perceptions and floating sensations’, the exhibition will include contributions [...]

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‘designed in Hong Kong’  is shaping global creativity
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Hong Kong designers bring a feast of world class design to London.
In a capital city famous for its long and all-embracing relationship with design, this celebration of the work of leading Hong Kong designers took place in three well-known venues - Harvey Nichols, a [...]

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‘I thought, this is a man who could cope with Wagner, who operates with these incredibly long arcs and spans of time … And underneath an apparently static surface, there is a whole subculture of torrents and energies flowing’.
(Esa-Pekka Salonen, musical director, Los Angeles Philarmonic, commenting on the choice of Bill Viola for [...]

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Production Line was staged in Off the Kerb, an exciting, newly established artist-run space.
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Beck Wheeler
Hey, Hey, Which Way?
4 - 30 March 2008
Über Gallery
52 Fitzroy Street St Kilda, Victoria Australia
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Game On at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) is an exciting exploration and celebration of the development of video/computer game technology from the earliest electronic game, Spacewar, in 1962, played on a giant computer, to present day games and into the future. Game On looks closely at the relationship between design and [...]

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Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
An exhibition which explores the impact of Standardized, Mass-Produced Colour on Contemporary Art with works by 44 Contemporary Artists
March 2 - May 12, 2008
The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery
Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Black in Fashion: Mourning to Night
NGV Australia at Federation Square from 8 February - 24 August 2008
NGV International on St Kilda Road from 29 February - 31 August 2008
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Mad Cortes, Sydney (fashion house)
est. 2000
Mira Vukovic (designer)
born Yugoslavia 1973, arrived Australia 1996
Berlin dress 2003–04 autumn–winter Berlin collection 2003–04
rayon, acetate, polyester, metal, elastic
71.0 cm (centre back); 33.5 cm (waist, flat)
Purchased, 2005
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Kate McCurdy
As the 2008 L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival has shown, [...]

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Pete Elliot
‘USAF - RAT’
Digital Sketch
2007
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Colin Wood
If you are ever tempted to think that car designers aren’t wedded to their calling, just ask what they do in their spare time. A recent exhibition in Melbourne gave a glimpse of the answer when a group [...]

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Mother of all evils 2008
3150mm x 2470mm
Synthetic polymer paint on vinyl
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Kate McCurdy
Beginnings
Beck Wheeler was born in Germany, and raised in the small suburb of Beach Haven in Auckland, New Zealand. A ‘quietly creative’ family, Beck grew up in a house [...]

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JIM LAMBIE (Scottish, born 1964)
ZOBOP
2006
Vinyl tape
Dimensions variable
Fund for the Twenty-First Century
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Anne Paterson
Russian-born artist, Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944), used vibrant colour to stimulate emotions. He believed art had spiritual values. Paintings were compositions, alternative music for the senses. Henry Matisse (1869-1954), [...]

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‘Tomb Raider and Lara Croft’ © & TM Core Design Limited 2002-2003.
Courtesy of Eidos Interactive Limited.
All Rights Reserved.
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Anne Paterson
An interactive history
Game On at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) is an exciting exploration and celebration of the [...]

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Nick Cave, 2007
Photograph by Polly Borland /Original painting by Tony Clark
Commissioned by the Arts Centre in 2007
Australian songwriter/musician Nick Cave is appearing at the Victorian Arts Centre in an exhibition that shows the many sides of his talents: aural and visual, writing and performing. Being able to view a collection that attempts to delve deep [...]

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Nick Cave, 2007
Photograph by Polly Borland /Original painting by Tony Clark
Commissioned by the Arts Centre in 2007
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Australian songwriter/musician Nick Cave is appearing at the Victorian Arts Centre in an exhibition that shows the many sides of his talents: aural and visual, writing and performing. Being able to view a [...]

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