Month: September 2013

Julie-Anne Long at Bundanon (Video essay)

Performer Julie-Anne Long describes with Virginia Baxter, the experience of being an artist-in-residence at the Bundanon Trust studios, on the banks of the Shoalhaven River in New South Wales Australia. Together they discuss the process of preparing a new performance work involving character, costume, movement and music. Photographs by Heidren Löhr. (10-minutes)

2009
Mike Leggett

Thinking Through the Body (Video essay)

‘Thinking Through The Body ArtLab 08’ is an interdisciplinary research project exploring the use and potential of touch, movement and proprioception (the sense of ones position and volume in space) in body-focused interactive art practices. Project participants are: Catherine Truman, Garth Paine, George Khut, George Khut, Jonathan Duckworth, Lian Loke, Lizzie Muller, Maggie Slattery and Somaya Langley. The project has been supported through the Australia Council, Inter-Arts Offices ‘ArtLab 2008′ initiative and generously supported by Campbelltown Arts Centre, the Bundanon Trust and Performance Space. (11-minutes)

2009
Mike Leggett

From Botany to Bundanon (Video essay)

2011
Mike Leggett

The Dutch artist Jan Hendrix meets with local naturalist, Jim Wallis. Jim has been studying the fauna and flora of the Bundanon Trust property on the banks of the Shoalhaven River in New South Wales since the mid-1970s. He shares his archive with Jan during this the artist’s third residency. Hendrix develops further his ideas using the flora of Bundanon upon which many of his prints and sculptures are based. A resident of Mexico City for the past 35 years, his new work is informed by the botanical specimens collected by Joseph Banks in Botany Bay in 1777, some of which are found on the Shoalhaven. (12-minutes)

Multiplying options

2002
Mike Leggett talks to Megan Heyward
In RealTime No 49, Mike Leggett talks to Megan Heyward about her interactive CD-ROM ‘of day, of night’
Megan, your new interactive work of day of, night follows on from I am a Singer, the CD-ROM which you completed in 1996. Like other artists with a fascination for a field that has been called “interactive cinema”, you continue to examine the operation of memory and the construction of identity in the subject. More

I’ve grown accustomed to your interface

2013
Darren Tofts

RealTime Media Art Archive was launched in 2013 with an Introduction to this online resource by Darren Tofts. “Media art has been well represented as a contemporary art phenomenon in publications such as Artlink, Mesh, Photofile, 21C and World Art. The sub-titles of some of these magazines even changed to reflect and accommodate the digital post-age we lived in, but thankfully avoided way-cool U.S. monikers like “Wired” or “Mondo 2000” to do so. RealTime has been no different, incorporating both “techno” and “media” arts as part of its remit from the start.” More