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VIVID LIVE 2011

Mar 29, ’11 10:46 AM

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STEPHEN PAVLOVIC UNVEILS HIS PROGRAM FOR VIVID LIVE  AT SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE 2011 MAY 27 – JUNE 5

2manydjs  / ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI /  THE AVALANCHES DJs /  AZARI & III / BAT FOR LASHES / CHRIS CUNNINGHAM /  CLUB KOOKY  / THE CRYSTAL ARK /  CUT COPY /  DOM / HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE /  LEAVE THEM ALL BEHIND /  OFWGKTA /  SNEAKY SUNDAY / SONNY ROLLINS  SPIRITUALIZED: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE ARE FLOATING IN SPACE /  TAME IMPALA / TOM KUNTZ  / WU LYF /  YO GABBA GABBA! /  CANYONS / THE SWISS / BENI / VAN SHE / FLIGHT FACILITIES / SOFTWAR /  BAMBOO MUSIK / CHANGES / BAG RAIDERS

Sydney Opera House today announced the program for Vivid LIVE 2011, curated by Stephen Pavlovic of Modular.
Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House (May 27 – June 5) is part of Vivid Sydney (May 27 – June 13), the city’s annual festival of light, music and ideas.  Vivid LIVE celebrates Sydney as a leader in the field of the creative and cultural industries both nationally and throughout the region.

Each year, Vivid LIVE asks a different artist or individual to curate a program of events in and around the world’s most iconic venue.
Following Brian Eno’s debut festival in 2009, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson brought their unforgettable downtown New York vibe to Sydney in 2010.  This year local music industry legend Stephen ‘Pav’ Pavlovic, founder of the hugely successful Sydney-based record label, touring company and international brand Modular, brings fresh Australian eyes to this growing international festival.

Sydney Opera House Head of Music, Fergus Linehan says, “Working to realise Stephen Pavlovic’s Vivid LIVE program has been an exhilarating ride for all of us at Sydney Opera House.  Pav is meticulous, tenacious and fearless in his approach and while his season is host to countless artists who are outstanding in their own right, this is a festival that can only be fully understood in its entirety.  It has also been an honour to work with our colleagues at Events NSW to build a festival which we hope will have real meaning for the people of NSW, draw visitors to the city and celebrate the creative powerhouse that our state has become.”

See the full program here

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Ho Tzu Nyen: Earth, at ARTSPACE

Nov 22, ’10 11:32 AM

EXHIBITION: 20 January — 20 February 2011
Opening 6pm Wednesday 19 January
Oren Ambarchi Live Sound Score Performances 7.30pm Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 January

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Ho Tzu Nyen: Earth
Curator: Blair French

Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen creates works that are fields of concrete sensations. In association with Sydney Festival 2011, Artspace presents the first major exhibition of his work in Sydney, including two live sound score performances by Melbourne-based composer and musician Oren Ambarchi accompanying screenings of the title work.

The exhibition features three major video works—NEWTON (2009), ZARATHUSTRA: A FILM FOR EVERYONE AND NO-ONE (2009/2010) and the centrepiece 42 minute work EARTH (2009/2010), a ‘videographic’ remix in three long takes of 17th and 18th century Italian and French paintings in which the human body is penetrated, fragmented and re-arranged.

Ho Tzu Nyen creates audio-visual artworks that translate and compress biographies, philosophical ideas and scientific anecdotes into highly staged and choreographed ‘text-less’ images and sounds that seek to communicate at the level of the nervous system.

ARTSPACE is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

ARTSPACE is assisted by the New South Wales Government through Arts NSW and by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

ARTSPACE is a member of CAOs (Contemporary Art Organisations Australia) and Res Artis (International Association of Residential Art Centres).

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MONA FOMA 2011

Nov 17, ’10 11:02 AM

SEX. ART. ROCK & ROLL.
MOFO AND THE LAUNCH OF MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART
JANUARY 2011
HOBART, AUSTRALIA

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MONA FOMA (MOFO), is Hobart’s cutting edge Festival of Music and Art. Currently in it’s third year, the festival is once again presenting another ground-breaking and frontier-pushing program for 2011.
From January 14-20, curator Brian Ritchie of Violent Femmes and now The Break fame will present an incredible array of massive and amazing music, dance, theatre, visual art, performance, new media – and some art. It’s a mix of first-time appearances, festival favourites and exclusive one-off performances and it’s mostly free.

The MONA FOMA 2011 Festival line up includes:

Philip Glass and Wendy Sutter [USA]
Grinderman [Australia/UK/USA]
Botborg [Australia/Germany]
Speak Percussion [Melbourne]
Chiharu Shiota [Japan/Berlin]
Brook Andrew [Sydney]
Amanda Palmer [USA]
Neil Gaiman, FourPlay Sting Quarter &Eddie Campbell [USA/Australia/UK]
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion [USA]
BalletLab [Melbourne]
Wire [UK]
Groupe F [France]
Roman Signer [Switzerland]
Gelitin [Austria]
Ana Prvacki [Serbia/Singapore]
Health [USA]
Monanism – the Exhibition

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Philip Glass and Wendy Sutter [USA]

Philip Glass [legendary composer/pianist]. Considered one of the most influential composers of late 20th Century. Widely acknowledged as the composer who brought art music to the public. Wendy Sutter [cello virtuoso]. Internationally acclaimed soloist, muse and partner of Philip.

MOFO 2011: The duo will present an intimate evening of Glass compositions. Solo piano, a cello suite ‘Songs and Poems’ and duets each include discussions by the composer. A unique relationship: Glass and his muse Sutter.

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Grinderman [Australia/UK/USA]

Australian rock and roll royalty. Formed 2006 as a follow-on from post-punk group Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Nick Cave [vocals. electric guitar. keyboards]. Warren Ellis [electric bouzouki. mandocastor. violin]. Martyn P. Casey [bass]. Jim Sclavunos [drums].

MOFO 2011: These stalwarts guarantee to make Prince’s Wharf 1 throb with noise and poetry.

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Amanda Palmer [USA]

Amanda Palmer: [composer/pianist/performer/ukulele basher]. Came to prominence with the American cabaret/rockband Dresden Dolls. Has moved on to a highly successful and diverse solo career ranging from music>film>theatre>dance. Her confrontational and unorthodox relationship with the audience breaks down the usual performer/crowd barriers and leads to all kinds of interactions.

MOFO 2011: Will appear solo and in collaboration with several other artists.

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BalletLab [Melbourne]

Formed 1999. Confrontational dance troupe present a trilogy of MONA commissioned new work. Regular MOFO performers, their piece in the inaugural MOFO was SO intense it had to be moved indoors after witnesses to the sound check/rehearsal got anxious and started to cry. One of the most inventive choreographic visionary companies working in Australia. Strikingly contemporary in nature and physically idiosyncratic.

BalletLab’s work pushes performance boundaries and invents movement vocabularies that reference contemporary culture: a transforming often provocative and polarising experience for the audience, the art form and the performer.
Blending, juxtaposing and twisting classical, romantic, baroque and contemporary dance forms, the visual impact of the movement and the provocative conceptual based imagery and design play equal parts within BalletLab’s unique choreography.

Find out more about MONA FOMA

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Underground Cinema – Halloween

Nov 8, ’10 9:52 AM

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2010, Australia, Halloween, Melbourne, UGC, Photography – Dan Murphy

“It can’t rain all the time…”

During a weekend where Melbourne experienced a significant amount of rain, it seemed somewhat appropriate to attend the spooky Underground Cinema event for Halloween. Especially as the mystery film was revealed to be the 90s goth/crime cult classic: The Crow.

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2010, Australia, Halloween, Melbourne, UGC, Photography – Dan Murphy

Approaching the secret location characters from the film came to life to interact with you. Whilst waiting in line, small excerpts from the film were re-enacted by the characters standing by: skatebaording past or clutching to a faux grave stone. With so much happening around you, it cannot be helped but to become swept up in the energy and excitement. The Underground Cinema creates an environment where guests are encouraged to be invloved in the scene they create: rather than just a viewer.

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2010, Australia, Halloween, Melbourne, UGC, Photography – Dan Murphy

Be quick to get tickets to the Underground Cinema’s final event for 2010 – tickets can be purchased here

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2010 Melbourne International Arts Festival

Aug 26, ’10 3:38 PM

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Sinead O’Connor, John Cale, Robert Lepage, Jack Charles, Hotel Pro Forma, Michael Clark Company, Thomas Adès, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Akram Khan Company, The Black Arm Band & Beck’s Festival Bar

The 25th Melbourne Festival, and the second under the artistic direction of Brett Sheehy, announces a dynamic and emotive program of work from some of the finest creative minds of our times. Over 16 days, from 8 to 23 October, the Festival presents an unparalleled feast of music, dance, theatre, opera, visual arts, multimedia and outdoor events from renowned and upcoming Australian and international companies and artists.

Festival highlights this year include free outdoor aerial spectacular K@osmos; Hotel Pro Forma’s awe inspiring, large-scale operatic spectacle, Tomorrow, in a year, featuring the groundbreaking music of electro-pop masters The Knife; world renowned recording artists Sinead O’Connor (in her exclusive Australian performance), John Cale and Meshell Ndegeocello; one of Australia’s most highly regarded performers in his one-man show, Jack Charles V The Crown; the residency of British composer, Thomas Adès, the most inventive contemporary composer of his generation. As part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival: Beck’s Festival Bar at the Forum Theatre, will be featuring some intriguing acts: Boredoms (Japan), Low (USA), Ponzu Island (Australia), The Drones (Australia), Dead Meadow (USA) and more.

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Boredoms

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Ponzu Island

The Festival features two Australian premieres. come, been and gone, the bold new dance work from the world renowned Michael Clark Company featuring the music of the legendary David Bowie with Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and Brian Eno and internationally revered director, film maker and actor Robert Lepage’s  magical journey to modern China with The Blue Dragon, a heart-wrenching love story told with Lepage’s trademark striking theatrical vision.

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Come, Been and Gone, Simon Williams, Photography: Jake Walters

The Festival closes with a one-off spectacular finale, Seven Songs to Leave Behind, a unique concert featuring international music legends Sinead O’Connor, John Cale, Meshell Ndegeocello and Rickie Lee Jones, with award winning Indigenous artist Gurrumul Yunupingu and festival favourites Black Arm Band and Orchestra Victoria at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Oct 23.

For more info see the festival site here

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Undergound Cinema – Taking Cinema out of the Cinema

Aug 10, ’10 3:17 PM

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Underground Cinema is a secret film screening event held in undisclosed locations throughout Melbourne. The locations and even the films identity are kept a mystery. Undergound Cinema are not your average cinema experience, as they describe arriving at one of their locations alike “walking onto a film set, with live performances recreating elements of the movie you’re about to see”. Dressing up, according to the selected theme, is much encouraged: the team believe that “you have to shake things up a bit and have a little fun doing it”.
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Bunny & the Bull set, Undergound Cinema 2010
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Find out about their next grand event here
 Underground Cinema is a Secret Squirrel Production – a young and dynamic event consultation company creating progressive and bespoke events from street art mural launches and festival lounges to product launches and birthday bashes. It’s not just an event; it’s a tailor made world that takes place in undiscovered locations, created by a professional, dedicated and offensively talented team.

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Inaugural Jerwood Moving Image Awards Winners

Apr 9, ’08 3:52 PM

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Winner: Sea Change by Rosie Clements and Joe King

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In an attempt to support and promote the myriad disciplines that fall under the umbrella term ‘digital moving image’, this year the Jerwood Moving Image Awards was established to provide a platform for exploring and debating the artform as it exists today, as well as its future prospects.

Of the 350 entries received, three winners were selected by the judging panel as leaders in their field: Sophie Clements, Johnny Kelly and the creative partnership of Rosie Pedlow and Joe King. They have each received £10,000 as winners of the first ever major award in the UK for artists working in the relatively new discipline of digital moving image.

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Winner: Procrastination by Johnny Kelly

Digital moving image is a ‘uniquely exciting creative discipline of almost limitless possibility,’ says Roanne Dods, Director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. She adds that ‘the three winning films wonderfully fulfil the potential of putting digital technology in the hands of the artists, and will hopefully encourage audiences, artists and critics alike to engage more closely with this artform’.

The fact that the judging panel was led by Wayne McGregor of the Royal Ballet displays the breadth of this new discipline into all areas of the arts. McGregor observes that ‘the staggering diversity of practices that we’ve seen [in the award's entries] from dance film and documentary to animation and video art, reveals a discipline that is vigorously creative and consistently challenging its own boundaries.’

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Winner: Evensong by Sophie Clements

The three winners’ work are prime examples of this blurring of disciplines, as they combine elements of filmmaking, sound design and music, screenwriting, visual arts, as well as animation and digital effects to create the films.
A collection of their work as well as the other five finalists, and twenty-two other shortlisted films can also be streamed online at the Jerwood Moving Image Awards website.

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Game On Gallery

Apr 8, ’08 3:13 PM

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 culture. It examines the many areas of design in this industry, such as graphics, illustration, animation, sound, game design and technology, game consoles and much more.

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Game On

Apr 8, ’08 2:39 PM

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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 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 culture. It examines the many areas of design in this industry, such as graphics, illustration, animation, sound, game design and technology, game consoles and much more.

Game On also examines the importance of computer game culture and its place in society; how it borrows from other forms of creativity such as television, music and movies: for example, GoldenEye (Rare), Star Wars (Atari) and Discs of Tron (Bally Midway), and, conversely, the way in which other creative fields are influenced by games such as Tomb Raider (Core Design) and Resident Evil (Capcom) which have become successful movies. Game On also looks at the impact of particular film genres such as anime and comic genres such as manga.

Game On

Game on exhibition at ACMI

International exhibition at ACMI
This is a worldwide exhibition, originating in London at the Barbican Gallery in 2002. It has already toured the United States, Europe and Asia and more than a million people have seen it. Just like computer games’ design and technology, this exhibition has evolved to keep pace with ongoing developments in the industry.

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The Sims © Electronic Arts Inc. 2002

120 playable games on show
Game On is definitely hands on – a totally interactive experience. We are invited to play! There are over 120 of the most famous video games ever made, in one place and playable. ACMI is the only cultural institution in Australia with a dedicated exhibition space for video games, known as the Games Lab. This comprehensive exhibition is divided into sections which showcase specific areas within the realm of game design and technology, such as Early Arcade Games, Games Consoles, Games Families, Sound, Cinema, Games Culture – USA, Europe and Asia, Multiplayer Games, Online Games and Machinima, Kids’ Games, Character Design, The Making and Marketing of Games, and Future Technology. Running simultaneously with the exhibition, is a rich programme of associated events including gamerthons, watching game artists at work (Tantalus, Interactive), game memorabilia (www.acmi.net.au/collectors), debate on violence in games, choosing good games, and a unique feature of this exhibition – Australian-made games such as the 2007 Game of the Year Puzzle Quest (Infinite Interactive), The Hobbit and The Way of the Exploding Fist (Beam Software)(Melbourne House), and Ty the Tasmanian Tiger (Krome Studios).Game On has something for everyone.

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Mario © Nintendo Co. Ltd

A showcase of games design
From a designer’s perspective, the Game On landscape is vast and provides an inspiring experience. The exhibition is a superb example of how broadly the term ‘designer’ can be applied. From concept development of characters in the games, for example, Sonic (the Hedgehog) created by Sega’s Yuji Naka, and Mario, created by Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamototo, to the marketing of the packaged product, we are able to examine a comprehensive design process, combining the talents of designers from diverse fields.

Game On
The History and Future of Computer Games and Gaming
ACMI Screen Gallery
Thursday 6 March – Sunday 13 July 2008
10.00 am – 6 pm daily; Thursday nights until 9 pm
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne

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Miss Saigon: Lighting and Sound Design

Oct 21, ’07 9:37 AM


Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Boublil and Schönber’s Miss Saigon is touring Australia, giving audiences the chance to view what has been described as ‘one of the most successful musicals in the world’, and ‘seen by over 33 million people, in over 25 countries and played in 12 different languages’. Associate Lighting Designer Richard Pacholski and Sound Designer Peter Grubb explain how they each have contributed to their highly acclaimed representation of Saigon and Bangkok circa 1975.

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Miss Saigon Gallery

Oct 20, ’07 7:36 AM
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