PROGRAM (subject to change)
FRIDAY 19 AUG
| 8.45–9.15AM |
REGISTRATION |
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| 9.15–10.15AM |
Plenary: Ross Harley, NIEA, chair Stephen Jones, COFA, Introduction and Background Donald Brook, Flinders, keynote speaker, Experimental Art Discussant: Zanny Begg |
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| 10.15–12.15PM | FORMATIVE TECHNOLOGIES | POLITICS/HISTORY | OPEN SESSION | |
| Douglas Kahn Militarism and the Arts, Technology and Science in the United States c. 1970 |
Kathy Temin Experimentation and Provocation: Personal and collective dialogues with the Holocaust in Contemporary Art practice |
Kerry Thomas & Karen Profilio Smoke and mirrors: beyond a naturalistic explanation of experimentation in art education |
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| Joyce Hinterding Loops and Fields: An experimental approach to energy and objects |
Zanny Begg Art and Revolution |
Louise Fowler-Smith Changing Perceptions –the new Land/Eco Art, ILIRI and the Creative Laboratory |
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| Dennis Del Favero & Maurice Pagnucco Artificially Intelligent aesthetics: recent experimental studies |
Michael Goldberg Cracking the “Black Box”:Experiments in Financial Capitalism |
Bonita Ely Improvisation in the visual arts |
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| Tim Barker Experiments with Time:Technology, Art and Temporality |
Ian Howard Physical Barriers, Virtual Freedoms- protection vs creativity amidst a global crisis |
John Conomos Outside the Canon : Experimental Arts, the Academy and Transdisciplinarity |
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| 12.15–1.15PM |
LUNCH/ iCinema SCREENING: SCENARIO* |
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| 1.15–2.45PM | AGENCY/MATERIALITY | EXPERIMENTAL HUMANITIES | BIO ART/SENSE PERCEPTION | |
| Petra Gemeinboeck Thinking Machines or Why Matter Matters |
Stephen Muecke What Drives the Experiment? |
Andre Brodyk Experimentation as attitude and the idea of the lab |
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| Mari Velonaki Multi-Objective Evaluation of Cross-Disciplinary Experimental Research |
Erin Brannigan Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A:The Anatomy of a Work of Art |
John Tonkin Thinking about Thinking and Making |
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| Ellen Balka Artistic Experimentation and Tacit Knowledge: Applying Insights from Visual Art Practices to the Study of Large Scale Computer Infrastructures |
Edward Scheer Scenario: A Posthuman Fairy Tale |
Jondi Keane The Science of Our Own Fiction: Affective experiments enacted through creative research |
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| 2.45–3.00PM |
BREAK |
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| 3.00–4.30PM | EXPERIMENTS IN COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE | AFFECTIVE EXPERIMENTS | URBANISM & DESIGN | |
| Adrian Mackenzie Populations, data and probabilistic processes in experimental knowing |
Jennifer Biddle A politics of proximity: Tjanpi and other experimental Western Desert art |
Jo Russell-Clarke The Legacy of LandscapeUrbanism: experience over experiment |
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| Anna Munster “Hahaha” – 186,775,728 views. Emerging collectivities of publics, emerging experiences of affect across viral media. |
Kirsten Hudson Taste My Sorrow – A material exploration of elegy and empathy |
Mathieu Gallois Reincarnated McMansion |
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| Pia Ednie-Brown Architecture on Wire: Vitality and Experimental Life |
Jennifer Deger Borrowed rites and the gift of grief: a Yolngu experiment with video art |
Selena Griffith Nexus, Collaborative Innovation and Community. Designing Social Ecologies for Change |
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4.30–5.00PM |
BREAK |
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| 5.00–7.00PM |
Keynote: James Crutchfield, UC Davis/Art-Sci Lab and David Dunn, Art-Sci Lab Pattern Discovery: Insects, Sound & Climate |
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| 7.00PM |
CONCLUDES |
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SATURDAY 20 AUG
| 9.00–9.30AM |
REGISTRATION |
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| 9.30–10.10AM |
Amy Balkin Public Smog and Other Place-Based Projects |
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| 10.10–10.50AM |
Mischa Kuball Urban Lab- Site Specific Interventions in Public Spaces |
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| 10.50–11.30AM |
Chris Bosse More with Less |
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| 11.30–11.45AM |
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| 11.45–1.15PM | URBAN CONSTRUCTION | NEW MATERIALITIES | HEALTH/BODY |
| Richard Goodwin Denatured Contingency:The New Engine of Sustainability |
Victoria Vesna Vibration Matters:Collective Blue Morph Effect |
Sherryl Ryan Art under the microscope:artist and scientist observing cancer histology using a two-head compound microscope |
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| Tim Schork Engaging Material(In)formation |
Paula Dawson Holographic Materiality |
Michael Garbutt The Heraclitus Project |
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| Heike Klussmann & Thorsten Klooster B l i n g C r e t e |
Paul Thomas New Material Agency |
Leah Heiss Therapeutic Art Practice: How experimental art practice can radically inform the development of therapeutic technologies |
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| 1.15–2.15PM |
LUNCH |
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2.15–4.15PM |
ECOLOGY/SUSTAINABILITY | EXHIBITING | EXPERIMENTAL DISCOURSE & PRACTICE |
| Stephen Healy Ethics for an Experimental Age |
Kathy Cleland New Media Audiences:agency and experimentation in the gallery space |
Jim Hamlyn & Lesley Punton Experiments in Situated Knowledge |
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| Linda Williams Environmental art, the Aeolian harp and Gregor’s metamorphosis |
Su Ballard Curiosity killed the cat:accidental encounters in the art gallery |
Cat Hope Experimentalism is Dead:Long Live Experimentalism |
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| Lyndal Jones Propositions for an uncertain future: The Avoca Project: art, community and climate change |
Marco Pasqualini de Andrade The Experimental Unit: A Brazilian Pioneer Proposition |
Kate Macneill & Barbara Bolt Unintended consequences? Experimentation, art and ethics |
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| Nigel Heyler with John Potts EcoLocated – and other adventures in the wide blue yonder |
Charles Green Producing the Experimental: Mega-Exhibitions and Contemporary Art |
Julian Priest Participatory Empirical Aesthetics |
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| 4.15–4.45PM |
BREAK |
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| 4.45–6.15PM |
Plenary: Terry Smith, Pittsburgh/NIEA, chair, Experimentality in Contemporary Art Discussants: Jill Bennett, NIEA & Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, MCA |
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| 6.15PM |
CONCLUDES |
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*NB: Entry to Scenario screenings is limited to 5 persons per session due to the nature of the work. Bookings essential. See conference page on Scenario screening booking details.
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