From: "geert lovink" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: the lev manovich down australia tour
MORPHOLOGIES: a Symposium on Shape-Shifting and Media Arts
With Lev Manovich, Jeffrey Shaw, Michele Barker, Ross Gibson and Kate
Richards
When Michael Jackson first 'morphed' into an animal using digital software
he seemed to signal that the instability of physical form and shape had
been incorporated into the popular visual imaginary. But shape shifting
has become a regular feature of the contemporary mutating mediascape, as
forms multiply and transmogrify at an exponential rate. Yet the
morphogenic development of new media, from cinema to virtual and immersive
space, CD-ROM to DVDROM, interactive art to net art, has not moved in a
clear direction, erasing older media in its wake. Instead we have a new
ecology of the media arts in which forms overlap, contribute to and mutate
into each other. This symposium focusses on this altered mediascape and
focusses our attention on its aesthetic, physical and biological
implications.
Morphologies is convened by the College of Fine Arts, Artspace and Ivan
Dougherty Gallery with the assistance of the Goethe Institute.
When: 2-5pm, Friday November 23, 2001
Where: Main Lecture Theatre, EG02
College of Fine Arts,
Selwyn st
Paddington
Cost: $25 or $17 concession (GST Inclusive)
Registration inquiries:
Ivan Dougherty Gallery
Hours: 10am-5pm, Monday-Friday, 1pm-5pm, Saturday
Phone: 9385 0726
Fax: 9385 0603
Email: [log in to unmask]
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