KISS OF ART SERIES 2 [11x26min
episodes]
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KISS
OF ART S02 EP1 Laurence Malstaff, Amy Barclay
EXPERIMENTA
Laurence
Malstaff
The
“Nemo Observatory” is captivating
in a way that is simultaneously disconcerting
and hypnotic. Lawrence Malstaf (Belgium) utilizes
five fans and a walk-though PVC cylinder to create
a localized cyclone. Thousands of bits of polystyrene
fly about through the air, with the observer situated
right in the middle of it all—literally
in the eye of the storm. Regardless of whether
he/she focuses on particles whirling all about
or looks past the flurry of material off into
the distance, the tempestuous circumstances seem
to exert an extraordinarily calming effect. This
high-energy spectacle suddenly becomes a uniform,
almost spellbinding sensory impression. With his
“Nemo Observatory,” Lawrence Malstaf
has succeeded in producing a high-impact allegory—an
apt symbolic representation of our ever-more-rapidly
changing world and our attempt to maintain our
composure amidst the storm. The Golden Nica in
INTERACTIVE ART goes to “Nemo Observatory.”
Amy
Barclay
Administration
& Communications Coordinator at Experimenta Media
Arts Melbourne Area, Australia | Fine Art Sunday
Lights presents a conversation with the curator
of Experimenta Media Arts, Amy Barclay. Experimenta
is a Melbourne based arts festival focussing on
new or innovative forms. Barclay was previously
a curator of International Art Exhibitions at
the National Gallery of Victoria.
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KISS
OF ART S02 EP2 David Elliott, Hiroshi Ishiguro,
Michael Burton
David
Eliott
David
Eliott (born UK 1949) Artistic director of the
17th Biennale of Sydney. He is a cultural historian
whose main interests concern contemporary art,
Russian avant-garde and the visual cultures of
central and Eastern Europe, Asia and the non-western
world from the late nineteenth century. Beginning
in the early 1980s, he formulated a series of
pioneering exhibitions in one of the first programs
to integrate non-western culture with contemporary
art. He has published a large number of books,
articles and catalogues on these subjects and
has curated many exhibitions. He has also written
extensively about the present-day role and function
of museums and contemporary art.
Hiroshi
Ishiguro
Hiroshi
Ishiguro is a director of the Intelligent Robotics
Laboratory at Osaka University, Japan. A notable
development of the laboratory is the actroid,
a humanoid robot with lifelike appearance and
visible behaviour such as facial movements. Ishiguro
has made an android that resembles himself. Ishiguro's
recent creations look like normal people. Robots,
according to Ishiguro are poised to move from
factories into daily life. The hope is that robots
will one day help people with a multitude of tasks.
Michael
Burton
Michael
Burton (born UK 1977) works on the edge of speculative
design and art. He creates objects, images and
films as insights into richly imagined scenarios
of the future. His work explores health and climate,
challenges and the choices we face in evolving
as a species. Burton exhibits internationally,
most notably at the Museum of Modern Art, New
York. He leads a collaborative practice, working
with organisations and individuals including scientists,
performers, choreographers, designers and architects.
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KISS
OF ART S02 EP3 Bill Fontana, Tim Coldwell Circus
Oz,
Bill
Fontana
Bill
Fontana (born USA 1947) is an American composer
and artist who developed an international reputation
for his pioneering experiments in sound. SInce
the early 70’s Fontana has used sound as
a sculptural medium to interact with and transform
our perceptions of visual and architectural spaces.
He has realized sound sculptures and radio projects
for museums and broadcast organizations around
the world. His work has been exhibited at the
Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne,
the Post Museum in Frankfurt, the Art History
and Natural History Museums in Vienna, both Tate
Modern and Tate Britain in London, the 48th Venice
Biennale, the National Gallery of Victoria in
Melbourne, the Art Gallery of NSE in Sydney and
the new Kolumba Museum in Cologne. He has done
major radio sound art projects for the BBC, the
European Broadcast Union, the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation, National Public Radio, West German
Radio (WDR), Swedish Radio, Radio France and the
Austrian State Radio.
Tim
Coldwell Circus Oz[Melbourne]
It
started out as an unconventional theatre collective
in Melbourne in the late 1970s. Now, Circus Oz
is a successful Australian performance company
and a perennial favourite on the international
touring circuit. Proudly Australian with a delightfully
irreverent, larrikin humour, Circus Oz set the
benchmark for a generation of circus performers.
Much more than breathtaking tricks, it came complete
with a strong social conscience.
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KISS
OF ART S02 EP4 Momoyo Torimitsu, Serge Spitzer,
Angelica Mesiti,
Momoyo
Torimitsu –
Momoyo Torimitsu, based in New York since 1996,
playfully critiques contemporary Japanese culture
through works in sculpture, installation and video.
She has performed and exhibited widely, including
performances on Wall Street in New York and exhibitions
in ISEA 2008, National Museum of Singapore, Momenta
Art, New York, Museum of Cotemporary Art, Sydney,
Tate Gallery, London and City Museum of Modern
Art Rome. Fighting the never–ending corporate
battle, Miyata Jiro is a realistic, life–size
robotic ‘salaryman’ (the Japanese expression for
a white–collar worker), complete with suit, polished
shoes, unwavering smile and spectacles. Rather
than bow or shake hands in a traditional businessman’s
greeting, he lies flat on his stomach and crawls,
focused and commando–style, up the footpath of
a metropolitan business district.
ANGELICA
MESITI Born Sydney 1976 Lives & works Sydney
Angelica Mesiti is a video, performance and installation
artist based in Sydney. Her works take everyday
environments and attempts to discover their unseen
potential through displaced activities like performance,
dance, costume and music. She was a founding member
of the Sydney artists run Gallery Imperial Slacks
during which time she curated the two part video
publication Serial 7's. She has held solo shows
at Mori Gallery (2003) and Rubyare Gallery (2004)
and her work has been shown in Australia and overseas
including; O.K Video Festival (2005), National
Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Game On (2006)
for the Next Wave festival, Gertrude St Contemporary
Art Space, Melbourne and the touring show PLAY:
Portraiture and Performance in Recent Video Art
from Australia and New Zealand, (2006) shown at
The Performance Space Sydney, Adam Art Gallery
New Zealand and Perth Institute of Contemporary
Art. She has been employed by the College of Fine
Arts as a casual lecturer in the Time Based Art
department since 2001. Mesiti is also a member
of the collaborative group The Kingpins, who have
exhibited and performed in museums nationally
and overseas including the Liverpool Biennial
2006 - UK, The Palais de Tokyo and Nuit Blanche-Paris
2006, Contemporary Art Centre - Vilnius, Lithuania
and Zacheta National Gallery of Art - Warsaw 2006,
Transmodern Age Festival, Maryland, Baltimore
USA 2006, South Korea, 2004 Taipei Biennale, Taipei
Fine Arts Museum, Super Delux Tokyo 2004.
Serge
Spitzer
Serge
Spitzer (born Romania 1951) is an American artist
who uses sculpture, site-specific installations,
works on paper, photography and video to question,
explore and reflect on the shared reality everywhere.
What ties his works together since the 1970s has
been the challenging of assumptions. He gives
a clue to this by calling his works 'reality models',
alerting the viewer to the possibility that what
we are looking at is perhaps an altered or amplified
aspect of the world around us. Whether transforming
architectural spaces by flooding them with hordes
of unexpected, incongruous objects, or arranging
a seemingly endless piece of thread into a tangle
of lines as a 'drawing', Spitzer manages to gift
his audience with a sense of wonder.
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KISS
OF ART S02 EP5 AES+F, David Kousemaker, Eduardo
Kac,
AES
+ F
Russian
based photo-conceptualist group AES (made up of
artists Tatyana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovitch, and
Evgeny Svyatsky). The artist collective combines
conceptual architecture, graphic arts, animation
and photography to create fantasy worlds combining
classical western mythology with contemporary
global consumerism. Their acclaimed work "The
Feast of Trimalchio" retells Petronius's epic
poem from the "Satyricon" for a twenty-first century
audience. Using the imagery of high-fashion, cinema,
lifestyle magazines, and luxury design, "The Feast
of Trimalchio" is an Olympic-sized orgy of wealth
and pleasure.
Eduardo
Kac
Eduardo
Kac (born Brazil 1962) is an American contemporary
artist internationally recognized for his interactive
net installations and his bio-art. Kac considers
himself a "transgenic artist," or "bio artist",
using biotechnology and genetics to create provocative
works that concomitantly explore scientific techniques
and critique them. In 1997 Kac was the first person
to have a microchip implanted in his body. He
did this in the context of his work "Time Capsule",
as a form of social commentary, in that it causes
us to think deeply about the relationship we hold
with technology
David
Kousemaker
David
Kousemaker works as part of art collective 'Blandid'
with Tim Olden. Both are interaction designers
with overlapping interests when it comes to interface
design. Experienced in realizing projects in different
areas of the creative digital field, 'Blendid'
is most interested in designs that allow for digital
technology to escape the more traditional interfaces
and bridge the gap between the physical and the
virtual. "Touch Me" (2004) is an interactive installation
which generates images that are created by interacting
with a plate of frosted glass.
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KISS
OF ART S02 EP6 Chloé Lefebvre & Jean Dubois, Grégory
Lasserre, Christopher Fulham,
Chloé
Lefebvre & Jean Dubois –
Jean DuBois and Chloé Lefebvre are Canadian–based
artists who have worked in close collaboration
since 2001. Their work involves interactive installations
that explore the relation between the spectator
and the screen. The observer can obtain a level
of intimacy with the fictional characters the
artists have created through lyrical encounters
facilitated by touch-screens and other technology.
Bringing attention back to the globally uniting
matter of air as the elixir of all life, Jean
Dubois & Chloé Lefebvre’s By Means of a Sigh is
an interactive screenbased video installation,
designed for exhibition within a public arena,
that invites empathy for oneness in humanity and
the destruction of the other. Two faces in profile
look at each other from two sides of a large screen.
Each blows a gum bubble of ever–changing size
and fragility. Viewers are prompted to call a
number on their phones, which links them to one
of the faces onscreen; blowing gently into the
receiver directly affects the life of one bubble.
Grégory
Lasserre (Scenocosme) -
Scenocosme is the French artist couple Grégory
Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt. Their work uses
music and architecture to create interactive artworks
in which the spectator is invited to be at the
centre of a musical or choreographed collective
performance. A hybrid of plants and technology,
Akousmaflore is an enchanting hanging garden that
expresses its sensitivity to gentle human touch
or close proximity by singing in response. Embracing
the notion that inanimate objects can react when
given human attention, and testing the boundaries
by which the everyday world is experienced, Akousmaflore
reaches out and communicates through a ream, a
chorus or an acoustic vibration.
Christopher
Fulham Born
1973, Perth Western Australia Lives and works
in Canberra Practicing across a range of time-based
media including digital video and photography
Christopher Fulham's work has been exhibited both
in Australia and internationally. He divides his
time between art-making and his work as a lecturer
in Video and Internet Art at the ANU. Among the
many shows he has appeared in are Gradations of
Light, CarriageWorks, Sydney (2009), Urban Screens
08, Federation Square, Melbourne (2008), BOOM
Taiwan-Australia New Media Arts Exhibition, Taiwan
(2007), Forecast, National Gallery of Australia,
Canberra (2006), and Mobile Journeys, Opera House,
Sydney (2005). Recently his work has been shortlisted
for the John Fries Memorial Prize, Churchie Emerging
Art Prize and the Phoenix Prize for Spiritual
Art. He is currently developing the pre-show program
for the ARC cinema at the National Film and Sound
Archive (NFSA) and his work is touring nationally
as part of Experimenta's 2010 International Biennial
of Art. His work is an exploration of the environment
around him; transforming everyday moments into
sublime and engaging works that promote a sense
of reflection and invite the viewer to reconsider
the ordinary with fresh perspective. The images
presented such as Australian beach goers, views
from a train, or shoppers descending an escalator,
are commonplace, yet Christopher's engagement
with his subject matter creates a space of intimate
observation, and a sense of wonder and playfulness.
His aim is to create an experience that is not
about narrative, place or subject but rather it's
an attempt to give rise to a sense of the ebb
and flow of time and life. In the strange quasi
public/private space that his work creates, the
confluence of time and space creates a theatre
of the everyday.
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KISS
OF ART S02 EP7 Shen Shaomin, Laurent Mignonneau
and Christa Sommerer, David Hines (UK), Joyce
Hinterding (AU),
Shen
Shaomin
Shen
Shaomin (born China 1956) has connected art and
life, craft and the mechanical, in major sculptural
installations covering themes of war, futuristic
crisis, scientific abomination and the manipulation
of nature. One of the most critically and socially
aware of contemporary Chinese artists, his works
use ancient Chinese culture to comment on contemporary
ecological issues, politics and technology. In
the early 2000s, Shen created a series of imaginary,
'extinct', monstrous creatures made from bone.
In 2010 Shen has presented a hypothetical meeting
of the most significant communist leaders in history
whose life-sized bodies rest in crystal coffins.
Laurent
Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer Laurent
Mignonneau (born France 1967) and Christa Sommerer
(born Austria 1964) are internationally renowned
artists who have been collaborating since 1992.
Their intuitive interface designs apply scientific
principles to explore themes of artificial life
through interactive computer installations. They
work as researchers and professors and are currently
heading the department of Interface Cultures at
the University of Art and Design in Linz. Their
work has been called "epoch-making" for developing
natural and intuitive interfaces and for applying
scientific principles such as artificial life,
complexity, generative systems and nanotechnologies
to their innovative interface design.
David Hines (UK), Joyce Hinterding (AU)“EarthStar”
examines the elementary, mystical qualities of
the sun. Installation visitors are treated to
an up-close-and-personal encounter—seeing,
hearing and smelling the heavenly body that dominates
our solar system. A hydrogen-alpha telescope captures
fantastic images of the sun’s chromosphere;
VLF antennas pick up the star’s radiation,
which is converted by an amplifier into a soundtrack.
And while all that’s going on, the installation
space is being suffused with synthetic aromas
meant to suggest ozone.
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KISS
OF ART S02 EP8 Chris Henschke Synchrotron, Isobel
Knowles and Van Sowerwine,
Chris
Henschke
Chris
Henschke is a Melbourne-based artist who has been
working with digital media for the past fifteen
years. His main areas of research are in art /
science relationships, interactive and hybrid
media and experimental audio. Henschke is in a
creative partnership 'Topologies' with Donna Kendrigan.
His works have been shown in Australia and internationally.
"Fissure" is a work inspired by geological illustrations
and cross sections digitally recombined to create
an enormous vinyl collage across the walls of
the Federation Square Gallery, Melbourne. Henschke
also has created a mural commission for Synchrotron,
which stretched 20 m long.
Isobel
Knowles and Van Sowerwine Isobel
Knowles (born Australia 1980) and Van Sowerwine
(born Australia 1975) is a Melbourne-based collaborative.
Artist Isobel Knowles's multidisciplinary practice
encompasses animation, music video, installation,
visual art, film soundtrack and music. Van Sowerwine
works across the areas of stop-motion animation,
interactive art, sculpture and photography. Her
work explores ideas of childhood and its darker
underpinnings. Both artists have screened, exhibited
and performed nationally and internationally.
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KISS
OF ART S02 EP9 Gerfried Stocker, ARS Electronica
Gerfried
Stocker
Artistic
Co-Director of the Ars Electronica Festival
Gerfried
Stocker was born on January 26, 1964 in Judenburg
/ Austria. In 1991, he set up the x-space team
to carry out interdisciplinary projects. Out of
this came numerous installations and performance
projects at the nexus of interaction, robotics
and telecommunications. Stocker was also responsible
for the conception of radio network projects and
the organization of worldwide “Horizontal
Radio.” Since 1995, he has been CEO of the
Ars Electronica Center and, since 1996, jointly
with Christine Schöpf, artistic director of Ars
Electronica.
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KISS
OF ART S02 Ep10 Sophia Vari-Botero
SophiaVari-Botero
"Born in 1940 in Vari near Athens. Lives and works
in Paris and Pietrasanta in Italy Figurative at
her beginnings as sculptress in 1975, Sophia Vari
gradually finds an intense plentitude in freeing
herself from the subject in order to measure herself
against Time and Space. She discovers with passion
the structure of the planes, the monumental. Her
forms becom tangled, gather themselves, soar skywards,
kink, unfold in extension, merge in ease. As Greek,
she refuses what is approximate and her sense
of perfection leads her to a rigour in her studies
and search (her numerous journeys incite her to).
Though abstract, her sculptures keep from her
original land a certain classicism.
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KISS
OF ART S02 Ep11 Fernando Botero
Artist
Fernando Botero
"Fernando Botero's distinctive style of smooth
inflated shapes with unexpected shifts in scale
is today instantly recognizable. It reflects the
artist's constant search to give volume presence
and reality. The parameters of proportion in his
world are innovative and almost always surprising.
. Today Fernando Botero divides his time between
Paris, New York and Tuscany. His paintings, sculptures,
and drawings are exhibited and represented in
museum collections throughout the world. We
meet with Botero on his 80th birthday where he
has prepared a unique exhibition of his personal
collection in the Tuscan town of Pietresante in
front of the Michaelangelo Cafe."
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KISS OF ART SERIES 1
[26x26min episodes] |
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP01 Mike Stubbs , Peter Callas
MIKE
STUBBS - WHITE
NOISE EXHIBITION
Mike
Stubbs' work encompasses film, video, mixed media
installations, performance and curation. He has
won more than a dozen major international awards
including first prizes at the Oberhausen and Locarno
Film Festivals, and in 1999 he was invited to
present a video retrospective of his own work
at the Tate Gallery, London.He has produced installation
group Granular Synthesis (Venice Biennale, 2002)
and curated new media programs for various international
festivals.
PETER
CALLAS - VIDEO
ARTIST
PETER
CALLAS has utilised a wide variety of electronic
and digital media for over two decades to create
an ongoing series of cultural 'portraits', making
work from varied locations, often during sustained
periods of residence, in locations such as Papua
New Guinea, Japan, the United States, Germany,
Brazil, and India, as well as Australia. In 2002-03
Asialink toured 'Peter Callas: anti-terrain',
a major solo exhibition of Callas' video and photomedia
works, in art museums throughout Asia including
the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India,
the China Millennium Monument, Beijing, and Galeri
Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP2 Garry Stewart's DEVOLUTION [Dance
Theatre]
DEVOLUTION
- DANCE-ROBOTICS-VIDEO
ART
Garry
Stewart [AUS] & Louis-Philippe Demers [Canada]
& Gina Czarnecki [UK]
2006
Helpmann Award Winners Garry Stewart has built
a reputation for pushing dance- and his dancers-beyond
conventional limits. In Devolution, Stewart collaborates
with Canadian multi-disciplinary artist Louis-Philippe
Demers and UK video artist Gina Czarnecki and
goes one step further, with the introduction of
robotics. Prosthetic limbs, large-scale ambulating
robotic creatures, robotic spines and a kinetic
set and lighting design-is the relationship between
machine and body symbiotic or antagonistic? Exploring
concepts of mutation and evolution, the nature
of consciousness and co-habitation, Devolution
pushes ADT's extraordinary, dancers in new directions,
creating a unique world the likes of which theatre
has never produced before.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP3 Julien Maire, Drew Berry
JULIEN
MAIRE
Born
in 1969 in Metz, France, Julien Maire currently
lives and works in Berlin. Maire? work has been
exhibited internationally in solo shows at galleries
including Diderot Gallery, France; Francoise Knabe
Gallery, Germany; Jacqueline Moussion Gallery,
France; and group shows including Les Rencontres
Internationales de la photographie, Arles, France;
and Hull Time Based Art, Hull, UK.
DREW
BERRY
Drew
Berry is a 3D digital animator who creates complex
biomedical visualisations for the Walter and Eliza
Hall Institute (WEHI), Australia's flagship centre
for medical research. Born in New York, he relocated
to Australia where he gained a Bachelor of Science
at the University of Melbourne. He went on to
receive a Master of Science for his work in studying
human cells using time-lapse microscopy. The innovative
and elegant approach to 3D biomedical animation
that he has engaged in while at WEHI has seen
his work transcend the boundaries of medical research.
Berry's animations have been exhibited at the
Centre Pompidou, Paris, the National Museum of
Australia and, most recently, as part of SIGGRAPH
2003 in San Diego, USA. His animations have also
been included in numerous documentaries for Channel
4, PBS and ABC. Focusing primarily on visualisations
of cells, DNA and proteins, Berry's work has enabled
a large audience to understand the microscopic
workings of the human body while illuminating
the mysterious landscape of the body at cellular
level.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP04 Stanley Kubrick Exhibition
STANLEY
KUBRICK EXHIBITION
Jan
Harlan - Malcolm McDowell-Christianne Kubrick.
Long
time Stanley Kubrick collaborator Jan Harlan encapsulates
the stunning life and career of Kubrick through
pictures, home movies and poignant and insightful
comments from some of cinemas most prominent creators
and commentators. Christianne Kubrick painted
for her husband's films; the paintings seen in
the Harford's apartment in Eyes Wide Shut are
hers; as are the various paintings in the Cat
Lady's apartment in A Clockwork Orange. Kubrick
was born in Germany in 1932 into a theatrical
family. She was trained as a dancer and actress
but always wanted to be a painter. Success in
her earlier career as a dancer and actress led
to her being cast in Paths of Glory by Stanley
Kubrick. They married in 1958. The Kubrick family
moved to England in the 1960s where Christiane
continued to paint and exhibit.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP05 Meart
MEART
- Rat
neurons in Atlanta, USA operating a robotic arm
in Perth Australia mimicking the "artistic process"
of drawing a portrait.
Guy
Ben-Ary - Born and educated in Law in Israel before
moving to Australia where he became director of
the Image Analysis and Acquisition Facility (IAAF)
at the Institute for Anatomy and Human Biology
at the University of Western Australia.
STEVE POTTER Assistant Professor in the Laboratory
for NeuroEngineering. This is a collective research
unit within the Department of Biomedical Engineering
shared between Emory University and the Georgia
Institute of Technology.
Philip
Gamblen - Kinetic Artist. Oron Catts - Artist
and curator, Artistic Director and co-founder
of SymbioticAThe Art & Science Collaborative
Research Laboratory, School of Anatomy & Human
biology, University of Western Australia. Founder
of the Tissue Culture & Art Project (1996).
STUART
BUNT After training as a Zoologist at Oxford,
Stuart was the photographer for a number of expeditions
to the Andes, the Seychelles and the farflung
corners of Europe. Settling down to research in
the U.S.A., Stuart started unique work on the
regeneration of the spinal cord, work that continues
to this day.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP6 Werner Nekes, Goya Tangale
WERNER
NEKKES
Eyes,
Lies & Illusions contains more than 500 historic
objects, books, prints, instruments and optical
ephemera drawn from the Werner Nekes Collection.
This extraordinary collection began in the mid-sixties
when Nekes, a German experimental filmmaker and
professor, started collecting examples of optical
phenomena as teaching aids. The Nekes Collection
has since grown to become one of the world's most
important and encyclopaedic private collections
of pre-cinematic media, housing more than 20,000
objects.
GOYI
TANGALE , WANTED
POSSE
Featuring the stars of the 2005 international
hip-hop festival The stars of Breakin' Convention
2005, the annual international hip-hop dance theatre
festival at Sadler's Wells appear in Australia
for the first time ever for an evening of inspired
hip-hop, breaking, popping, and beats. France's
astonishing Wanted Posse perform their electric
production Bad Moves-a showcase of what the body
is capable of doing 'when scored to melodious
beats', in a surreal world of humanoids, living
in a parallel universe. Wanted Posse won the coveted
2001 World Breakdancing Championships.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP7 Phillip Norton, Bernie Searle,
PHILIP
NORTON Poetry
Philip
Norton is originally from Chicago and was runner-up
in Mark Smith's first ever slam series final at
the Green Mill in 1984. He then left for Japan
where he lived for 6 years, performing at the
Kyoto Connection and teaching Modern Poetry at
the Kyoto University of Education.
BERNI
SEARLE
Berni Searle was born in 1964 in Cape Town, South
Africa, where she currently lives and works. She
studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at
the University of Cape Town, completing her MA
in 1995. In 2003 she was presented with the prestigious
Standard Bank Young Artist Award (South Africa),
with a resulting solo exhibition, Float, which
toured nationally. In 2004 Searle was short-listed
for the international Artes Mundi award. Other
solo exhibitions have included A Matter of Time
at the UC, Berkeley Art Museum, 2003; Presence,
Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, 2004;
and About to Forget, Michael Stevenson Contemporary
Art Gallery, Cape Town, 2005. Recent group exhibitions
include Hang In There, My Dear Geum-Sun, Busan
Biennale, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Seoul,
2004; Min(e)dfields, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel,
2004; 5th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum,
China, 2004; and Always a Little Further at the
51st Venice Biennale, 2005. Berni Searle is represented
by Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP08 Dr Jeffrey Shaw, Keiko Kimoto
JEFFREY
SHAW
Professor
Shaw is a foundation Professor for Media Art at
the University of Art and Media, Karlsruhe and
the foundation Director for the Research Institute
for Visual Media at ZKM, Centre for Art and Media,
Karlsruhe. Under his direction the Research Institute
for Visual Media has become, alongside the MIT
Lab, USA, the GMD, National Research Centre for
Information Technology, Germany and KTH, Royal
Institute of Technology, Sweden.
KEIKO
KIMOTO
Tokyo-based
Keiko Kimoto employs mathematical tools and computer
programming methods such as the visualization
tools of Nonlinear Dynamical System to create
Imaginary Numbers. Kimoto seeks to avoid representational
context, instead, she strives to visually express
transitions in the world that are not replications
of nature as seen by the human eye. Kimoto has
exhibited her work throughout Japan, including
the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
Tokyo Art Projects, Inc/Mika Gallery, New York,
hosted a solo exhibition of her work in 2004.
In late 2005, Kimoto will commence lecturing in
the Department of Visual Communication Design
at Musashino Art University.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP09 Peter Bosch & Simone Simons, RAPHAEL
LOZANO-HEMMER
PETER
BOSCH & SIMONE SIMONS
Peter
Bosch studied psychology at the Universities of
Leyden and Amsterdam (1976-83) and sonology at
the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (1986-87).
Simone Simons studied in the audio-visual department
of the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam
(1980-85). Since 1990, however, they have focused
their attention on the development of 'music machines'
that by balancing at the edge of order and chaos
possess certain creative powers.
RAPHAEL
LOZANO-HEMMER
Rafael
Lozano-Hemmer was born in Mexico City in 1967.
In 1989 he received a B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry
from Concordia University in Montr?l, Canada.
He is an Electronic artist who develops large-scale
interactive installations in public space, usually
deploying new technologies and custom-made physical
interfaces. Using robotics, projections, sound,
internet and cell-phone links, sensors and other
devices, his installations aim to provide "temporary
antimonuments for alien agency". His work has
been commissioned for events such as the Millennium
Celebrations in Mexico City (1999), the Cultural
Capital of Europe in Rotterdam (2001), the United
Nations' World Summit of Cities in Lyon (2003),
the opening of the Yamaguchi Centre for Art and
Media in Japan (2003) and the Expansion of the
European Union in Dublin (2004). His work in kinetic
sculpture, responsive environments, video installation
and photography has been shown in two dozen countries,
including Art Basel Unlimited (Switzerland), the
Sydney Biennale (Australia), the Liverpool Biennial
(UK), the Shanghai Biennial (China), the Ita?
Cultural (Brazil), the Istanbul Biennial (Turkey),
the ARCO art fair (Spain), Bienal de la Habana
(Cuba), Architecture and Media Biennale (Austria),
Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico), the Mus? des
Beaux Arts (Canada), European Media Art Festival
(Germany) and others.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP10 Stelarc & Shilpa Gupta
SHILPA
GUPTA
Gupta
has exhibited in many international exhibitions
including Art Meets Media-Adventures in Perception,
ICC Tokyo, 2005; 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale,
2005; ISEA, Tallinn Estonia, 2004; Asian Traffic,
Asia-Australia Art Centre, Sydney, 2004; Transmediale,
Berlin, 2004; Edge of Desire, Asia Society, New
York, and Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth,
2004; Video Brasil, St Paulo, Brazil, 2003etc.
STELARC
Stelarc
is an Australian artist who has performed extensively
in Japan, Europe and the USA- including new music,
dance festivals and experimental theatre. He has
used medical instruments, prosthetics, robotics,
Virtual Reality systems and the Internet to explore
alternate, intimate and involuntary interfaces
with the body. He has performed with a THIRD HAND,
a VIRTUAL ARM, a VIRTUAL BODY and a STOMACH SCULPTURE.
He has acoustically and visually probed the body-
having amplified brainwaves, blood-flow and muscle
signals and filmed the inside of his lungs, stomach
and colon, approximately two metres of internal
space. He has done twenty-five body SUSPENSIONS
with insertions into the skin, in different positions
and varying situations in remote locations.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP11 Dennis Del Favero, Anouk van Dijk,
ANOUK
VAN DIJK
Anouk
van Dijk, born in 1965, in The Netherlands, graduated
from the Rotterdam Dance Academy in 1985. For
almost a decade she was a lead soloist with companies
including the Rotterdam Dance Group and Amanda
Miller's Pretty Ugly Dance Company. Having started
to choreograph works as early as 1989, Anouk van
Dijk has created 15 full evening works and more
than 20 shorter choreographies, receiving critical
acclaim from international press and audiences
DENNIS
DEL FAVERO Queen
Elizabeth II Fellow
Dennis
Del Favero was born in Sydney. He has had numerous
exhibitions including solo shows at Munchner Stadmuseum,
Munich; ViaFarini, Milan and Neue Galerie, Graz.
He has participated in various major international
exhibitions including Sex and Crime, Sprengel
Museum, Hannover; Kriegszustand, Battle of the
Nations War Memorial, Leipzig (joint project with
Jenny Holzer), 1996; Der anagrammatische der Korper,
Kunsthaus Muerzzuschlag, Muerzzuschlag, 1999;
Future Cinema, 2002, ZKM, Centre for Art and Media,
Karlsruhe. Del Favero hold an Australian Research
Council QEII Fellowship and is Co-Founder and
Co-Director of the Centre for Interactive Cinema
Research at the University of NSW and Artist-in-Resident
at ZKM. His CD-ROM multimedia work has been published
by Hatje Cantz and during 2001 he co-curated and
co-edited with Jeffrey Shaw (dis)LOCATIONS, an
interactive DVD-ROM and Book: part of the ZKM
Digital Arts Edition series. His video and multimedia
work is the subject of a survey exhibition and
book by the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, the Ivan
Dougherty Gallery, Sydney and UNSW Press pulished
in 2004. Del favero is represented by the Mori
Gallery, Sydney and Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP12 Mari Velonaki, Isaac Julien
MARI
VELONAKI
Mari
Velonaki is a media artist working in the field
of interactive installation. In the last eight
years her work has been engaging spectators with
digital characters in interplays activated by
sensory triggered interfaces (breath activated,
electrostatic charge measurements, artificial
vision systems and speech recognition). Areas
of research include robotics, distributed and
decentralised systems and human/machine interaction.
ISAAC
JULIEN
Isaac
Julien was born in London, England, where he currently
lives and works. Julien attended St Martin's School
of Art, graduating in 1984. He founded the Sankofa
Film and Video Collective in 1983-84, and was
a founding member of Normal Films in 1993. He
was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001 for
The long road to Mazatl?, 1999, made in collaboration
with Javier de Frutos. Earlier works include the
documentary Looking for Langston, 1989; the Cannes
prizewinning Young soul rebels, 1991; and Frantz
Fanon: Black skin and white mask, 1996. Isaac
Julien is a visiting lecturer at Harvard University
and the Whitney Museum of American Arts' Independent
Study Program. He is currently Visiting Mellon
Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. In
2001 Julien was the recipient of the MIT Eugene
McDermott Award in the Arts. In 2003 his video
installation Baltimore won the Grand Jury Prize
at the Kunstfilm Biennale, Cologne. Exhibition
venues in 2005 include Centre Georges Pompidou,
Paris; MAK Center, Los Angeles; Irish Museum of
Modern Art, Dublin. A re-working of Paradise Omeros,
titled Encore (Paradise Omeros Redux), 2003, is
currently being shown at Tate Modern, London,
UK.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP13 Justine Cooper, Alex Davies,
JUSTINE
COOPER
Born
in Sydney, Australia and currently residing in
New York, interdisciplinary artist Justine Cooper's
artwork investigates the intersections between
culture, science and medicine. She moves between
many forms of media - animation, video, installation,
photography, as well as medical imaging technologies
such as MRI, DNA sequencing, Ultrasound and SEM
(scanning electron microscopy). Her work has been
internationally recognized and exhibited in over
sixty shows and screenings.
ALEX
DAVIES
Born
in 1977, Alex Davies currently lives and works
in Sydney. Awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts with
Honours from the College of Fine Arts, University
of NSW in 2001, Davies has since been researching,
developing and presenting audio-visual installations.
Davies? practice spans a diverse range of
media including film, network, realtime audio-visual
manipulations and responsive installations; his
current practice is based around the development
of evolving audio-visual installations in which
individuals and dynamic environmental factors
shift the conditions of a controlled space. Davies
work has been exhibited nationally and internationally
including: drift, ISEA, Helsinki, Tallinn, &
Stockholm, 2004; Swarm, 2004 Australian Culture
Now, ACMI, Melbourne, 2004; Filter Feeder, Primavera,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2003; and
Radiotopia, Network Event, Ars Electronica Festival,
Linz, Austria, 2002
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP14 Brian Gothong Tan, Ian Haig,
BRIAN
GOTHONG TAN
Brian
Gothong Tan was born in the Philippines in 1980
and grew up in Singapore, where he trained in
fine arts, multimedia and animation. Working extensively
with multimedia for theatre productions, he received
the Singapore Young Designers' Award for Multimedia
in 1999 and 2000. His first solo exhibition, Heavenly
Cakes and Sentimental Flowers, was held at the
Singapore Art Museum in 2003.
IAN
HAIG
Ian
Haig works at the intersection of visual arts
and media arts. His work explores the strangeness
of everyday reality negotiated through subject
matter that is at times perverse and provocative.
His practice focuses on the psychopathological
relationship to technologies and the human psyche,
often exploring the themes of the body, mutation
and devolution through the lens of low cultural
forms. He works across media, including installation,
video, animation, web, sculpture and drawing.
His work has been exhibited in galleries and video/media
festivals around the world. Including exhibitions
at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art,
Melbourne, The Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide,
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Artec Biennale
- Nagoya, Japan, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris,
Art Museum of China, Beijing and The European
Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany. In addition
his animation and video work have screened in
over 120 Festivals internationally.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP15 Minim ++ , ULF LANGHEINRICH
MINIM++
Kunoh
and Chikamori have been creating artworks together
as minim++ since 1996. Their works have been exhibited
extensively throughout Japan and also internationally
at Siggraph, Ars Electronica, the International
Film Festival Rotterdam, and the 3rd Seoul International
Media Art Biennale.
ULF
LANGHEINRICH
Ulf
Langheinrich began studying at the Dresden Academy
of Fine Arts in 1978, the same year that he was
called to do his military service in the National
People's Army of the GDR. In the early 1980s he
studied industrial design, and carried out audio-experiments
using organs and harmoniums. His request for his
citizenship of the GDR to be dissolved was granted
in 1984, and he moved to Göttingen, where he established
a recording studio and took up photography. From
1985 to 1990, he taught drawing, painting and
photography. Based in Vienna since 1988, he continued
to exhibit paintings and drawings, holding a solo
exhibition at the Kunsthalle Exnergasse and putting
out a catalogue of his work. He designed musical
soundscapes for various film and video projects
and produced experimental concerts for Vienna's
Kunstradio. During this time, he was also involved
in the founding of the multimedia group Pyramedia,
and joined the board of directors of the independent
cultural organisation WUK. In 1991 he founded
the groundbreaking audio-visual performance and
installation duo Granular Synthesis with Kurt
Hentschlager. Granular Synthesis have presented
their evolving body of work extensively in Europe
and the United States.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP16 Liz Hughes EXPERIMENTA, Martina
Mrongovius,
LIZ
HUGHES
Liz
has directed documentaries and TV drama for the
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association,
Disney Television and Channel Seven. She directed
three episodes of Short Cuts, winner of the Australian
Film Institute award in 2002 for Best Children's
TV Series. As Artistic Director of Experimenta,
Liz curated the highly successful Prototype exhibition
and co-curated Experimenta? 2003 major exhibition,
House of Tomorrow, touring nationally and internationally
in 2004 and 2005. She was one of three curators
for the Seoul International Media Art Biennale
in Korea in 2004-2005.
MARTINA
MNGROVIUS
A
graduate of Applied Physics at RMIT University,
Martina Mrongovius is a Melbourne-based artist
who has specialised for the last few years in
holographics. She has been working and researching
at the cutting edge of this new technology with
specialists and professionals around the globe.
Mrongovius artworks have been diverse, ranging
from short films and animations to comic books
and holograms. Recent exhibitions of her work
have been held at Experimedia, State Library of
Victoria, 2002, The Foundry, London, 2002, and
as part of Next Wave, Melbourne, 2004.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP17 Adam Elliot [Harvey Krumpet] ,
Sue Broadway,
SUE
BROADWAY
Strange
Fruit - Synchro Swim, It's like air ballet. You
won't see anything like it.?
The
Wharf, UK Move over Esther Williams. Australian
synchronized swimming routine over four metres
above the ground. A world premiere from these
aerial wonders.
HARVIE
KRUMPET - ADAM
ELLIOT
Adam
Elliot has become one of Australia's most celebrated
animators - and certainly our most successful
short filmmaker. His touching trilogy of short
films - Uncle, Cousin and Brother - have built
his international recognition as a master storyteller.
His shorts trilogy has participated in over two
hundred film festivals and won over fifty awards
- including four AFI awards. But it is Adam's
latest short film, Harvie Krumpet, that has ensured
his name will be remembered after his exciting
Oscar win at the 2004 Academy Awards. The little
plasticine character Harvie beat three of the
giants of the animation industry - Disney, Pixar
and 20th Century Fox - to win the coveted 'best
animated short film' award. Harvie Krumpet is
narrated by actor Geoffrey Rush with a cameo by
Kamahl.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP18 Gina Czarnecki , Simon Barley
GINA
CZARNECKI
Gina
Czarnecki is a British new media artist whose
hybrid artworks result from intersections of film,
video and computer-generated imagery. Until recently
she headed the postgraduate course in Electronic
Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art,
Dundee. Beginning her career as an animator, Czarnecki
embraced new media technologies, producing installation
works such as Versifier, which was exhibited at
ACMI as part of Remembrance + the Moving Image.
BAMBUCCO
- SIMON
BARLEY
Simon
Barley founded Bambuco in 1998. His artistic background
is in spatial design for theatre and dance, and
installation sculpture. His motif, especially
in dance, was use of vertical space. It still
is. In 1993, while sitting by the Yarra River
in Melbourne, he began thinking about building
his own bridge over the river*. A material that
was light and inexpensive was needed. For the
next two years Simon researched bamboo construction,
mainly in SE Asia, and experimented with different
systems and adaptations. 1995 marked his seventh
year as designer in residence with the contemporary
dance company, Danceworks. Together they presented
this first foray into large scale bamboo installation
and performance ? Bridge ? built for Melbourne
International Arts Festival over a two week period
followed by a season of aerial dance performance.
Curiously, the audience seemed more captivated
by the two week construction process than by the
spectacular performance?he idea of bamboo construction
as performance began here.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP19 Brett Graham, Meschac Gaba,
BRETT
GRAHAM & RACHEL RAKENA
Brett
Graham is one of New Zealand's most exciting and
accomplished sculptors, highly regarded for his
ability to abstract complex historical and cultural
ideas into formally strong and beautiful sculptural
forms. . In the last decade Graham has exhibited
extensively, locally and internationally, as well
as being regarded as a leading authority on contemporary
Maori sculpture.
MESCHAC
GABA
Meschac
Gaba was born in1961 in Cotonou, Benin, and now
lives and works in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
He began studying art in Zossou Gratien? workshop
in Cotonou and then at the Rijksakedemie van Beeldende
Kunsten, Amsterdam from 1996 to 1997. His work
has been featured at the 3rd Kwangu Biennale (2000),
the 2nd Taipei Biennial (2001), Berlin Biennial
(2001), Documenta XI (2002), the 50th Venice Biennale
(2003), Africa Remix (2004-2005) and has been
included in exhibitions in Belgium, China, France,
Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, South Africa and
Switzerland. His most significant exhibition to
date is his ?useum for Contemporary African Art?
(1997-2002), which traveled all over the world
to museums in Amsterdam, Germany, France, Belgium,
Switzerland and the United States. Creating works
in painting, sculpture and installation art, Meschac
Gaba is one of the most innovative artists of
African descent exhibiting internationally. His
artistic strategy is diverse and complex, and
is best known for his correlation of economic
power, commercialism, globalism, public space
and the role of the western museum.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP20 Monica Maimone STUDIO FESTI, Jean-Baptiste
Duperray, Compagnie des Quidams,
STUDIO
FESTI - MONICA
MAIMONE
Studio
Festi. The European tradition of the open-air
theatre extravaganza is unparalleled in the world
of outdoor performance. In a specially-commissioned
world premiere presentation, the great Compagnia
di Valerio Festi performs a site-specific masterpiece
Il Cielo che Danza (The Dancing Sky). Studio Festi's
magical production sees dancers appear from the
heavens, emerge from the river and traverse the
parkland.
Compagnie
des Quidams - "Herberts Dream" [France] Jean-Baptiste
Duperray
Herberts
Dream Visually stunning? The London Season White
figures on stilts emerge from the shadows and
slowly transform into majestic four metre high
illuminated beings. As the strains of beautiful
original music float over the park, these enormous
and ethereal creatures begin a strange and enchanting
magic rite to raise the moon. Herbert? Dream has
cast its magic over 400 times around the world.
Now it? your turn to fall under its spell.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP21 Gideon Obarzanek CHUNKY MOVE,
Hany Armanious
GIDEON
OBARZANEK CHUNKY MOVE
Melbourne-based
Chunky Move was founded by artistic director Gideon
Obarzanek in 1995 and has been the State of Victoria's
flagship contemporary dance company since 1998.
Chunky Move's work constantly seeks to redefine
contemporary dance within an ever-evolving Australian
culture.The company's work is both diverse in
form and content; to date the company has created
a number of works for the stage, site-specific
projects in its home city of Melbourne, and new
media and installation works.
Hany
Armanious Armanious is known for his methodically
messy installations that game the eye as well
as the mind with circular materialities and metaphors.
His work (shown above) at the Foxy Production
booth was one of the standouts in the Art Positions
section of the Art Basel Miami Beach fair, for
which galleries present a statement exhibition
made by one artist.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP22 Bruce Gladwin, Eric Noel Grouppe
F
BRUCE
GLADWIN - SMALL
METAL OBJECTS
Bruce
Gladwin's "Small metal objects" is the hilarious
yet disturbing tale of two ?mall time' men and
their accidental role in the downfall of a awards
night. The plot looks at respect and the lack
of it in an age when our value is calculated by
our productivity. The action happens in Forrest
Place against a background of real shoppers and
commuters who become extras in the drama. The
audience wears headphones, and actors with radio
microphones move through the square.
ERIC
NOEL - GROUPPE
F
The artistry of acclaimed French pyrotechnicians,
Groupe F, is known throughout the world; they
have lit up the Eiffel Tower, the Stade de France
for the football World Cup, the Olympic Games
in Athens and the 2004 and 2005 New Years Eve
celebrations in London.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP23 Ulik Kahlert, Gerard Vaughan,
NGV,
ULRICH
LE SNOB
Glisssssendo
S.N.O.B.: Service Nettoyage des Oreilles Bouches
(Blocked Ear Cleaning Service) The astonishing
gliding orchestra from Europe. They move swiftly
and silently, morphing as if by magic into transfixing
choreographed routines. And all as they play an
eclectic repertoire ranging from Philip Glass
to Michael Nyman. Catch them before they slide
away.
GERARD
VAUGHAN - NGV GALLERY
Dr
Gerard Vaughan, appointed Director of the National
Gallery of Victoria in 1999, is an art historian
with extensive experience within the international
art and museum worlds. His research interests
are particularly concerned with the history of
taste and art collecting in the 18th and 19th
centuries, ranging from neo-classicism to post-impressionist
painting. After completing his Master's thesis
at Melbourne University on the French post-impressionist
painter Maurice Denis, Dr Vaughan taught art history
at Melbourne University before undertaking doctoral
research at Oxford University from 1981. For fifteen
years from 1983 Dr Vaughan was the London-based
adviser to the Felton Bequests' Committee, and
during the 1980s held several positions at Oxford
University while completing his doctorate on the
collecting of classical antiquities in 18th century
England, under the supervision of Professor Francis
Haskell. From 1989-1991, Dr Vaughan served as
Private Secretary to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford
University. During the early 1990s Dr Vaughan
was Deputy Director of Campaign for Oxford University,
at the time the most successful fundraising program
undertaken in Europe, securing $AUD 1 billion.
He became Director of the British Museum Development
Trust in 1994, and in this role led a ?
million ($AUD400million) development program for
the Museum. Dr Vaughan has been awarded several
fellowships during his career, including Wolfson
College Oxford, a Paul Mellon Research Fellowship
at the Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven;
and has been elected a Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries of London.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP24 Lucy Guerin, Watermill Theatre
UK,
LUCY
GUERIN
Born
in Adelaide, Australia, Lucy Guerin graduated
from the Centre for Performing Arts in 1982 before
joining the companies of Russell Dumas (Dance
Exchange) and Nanette Hassall (Danceworks) She
moved to New York in 1989 for seven years where
she danced with Tere O'Connor Dance, the Bebe
Miller Company and Sara Rudner. Guerin recently
received the 2000 Sidney Myer Performing Arts
Award for achievement by an individual. Other
awards include the Prix d'auteur from the Rencontres
Choregraphiques Internationales de Bagnolet in
France and a 1994 New York Foundation for the
Arts Choreographic Fellowship.
PROPELLER
WATERMILL
THEATRE AND OLD VIC PRODUCTIONS BY PROPELLER Shakespeare's
brilliantly surreal and controversial romantic
comedy gives a glimpse into the complex relationship
between men and women, and subservience and obedience
within marriage. A man playing a boy dresses up
as a girl and a girl played by a boy dresses up
as a bride in this delicious story full of mistaken
identities and transformations. Propeller is fast
becoming the most notable Shakespeare specialists
in the world, Propeller's performances sizzle
with energy and imagination. Propeller's all-male
ensemble format is based on Elizabethan tradition
- men play the roles of women, just as they did
in Shakespeare's time. Performing two of Shakespeare's
greatest comedies of mistaken identity, Propeller
reveal a human truth, exploring beautifully how
being in love with the wrong person reveals genuine
feeling.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP25 Craig Walsh, Lloyd Kaufman
LLOYD
KAUFMANN
Lloyd
Kaufman is many things: producer, director, screenwriter,
editor, composer, actor, and, above all, a renegade
fighting against the further conglomeration and
homogenization of Hollywood. Kaufman is president
and co-founder of Troma Entertainment, one of
the last bastions of independent, low-budget exploitation
films, the kind that bear titles such as Class
of Nuke 'Em High (1986) and Stuff Stephanie in
the Incinerator (1989).
CRAIG
WALSH
Walsh
is an installation artist who has exhibited and
collaborated both nationally and internationally.
Primarily interested in site-specific projects
and the exploration of alternative contexts for
contemporary art, his work often utilises projection
in response to existing environments and contexts.
Walsh has been awarded international residencies
and has exhibited throughout Asia. He has produced
work for festival environments and has recently
completed a range of permanent and temporal public
art commissions in Australia. Recent exhibition
venues include: Havana Biennale, Cuba; Adelaide
Biennial of Australian Art; Sydney Festival; Womad
Singapore/Adelaide; and Queensland Biennial Festival
of Music.
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KISS
OF ART S01 EP26 Scott Redford, Nimrod Weiss
SCOTT
REDFORD
PHOTOGRAPHY
"
I have always liked the way pornography is able
to be understood and be relevant to many people.
So, in a way making this piece was perfectly natural
for me. However I'm not naïve and realize the
piece will be read by some as an attempt to gain
notoriety through shock. This is why I resisted
getting into sex imagery for so long. "
NIMROD
WEISS
Developer
of clever software-driven interactive art installations.
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