Month: November 2016

Image Con Text

1983
60 mins

 

 

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A videotape version of the Image Con Text performances was made in 1983 archiving both presentation performances and thus extending their meanings to later audiences. Interactive study utilising the dynamic linking of the digital format continued the process, with analogue to digital transfer by the Rewind project (University of Dundee 2005) and distribution via DVD and the Web.

 

Camouflage Cultures: beyond the art of disappearance

2016
Mike Leggett

Camouflage Cultures: beyond the art of disappearance Ann Elias, Ross Harley, Nicholas Tsoutas (eds) Sydney University Press, Australia. sydney.edu.au/sup 215 pp., b/w col. illus. $US40 ISBN 9781743324257 (pb) reviewed for Leonardo Journal of Art Science and Technology Digital Reviews (LDR)

Contributors of this volume first presented at an international conference and exhibition of contemporary art held at the Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney in 2013. A keynote by Roy R Behrens, artist and pioneer researcher in the field, (whose books were previously reviewed in LDR; June 2010 and Jan 2012), introduced the ubiquity of camouflage, leading the discussion developed over the past decade away from the kind of military applications with which the term is more commonly linked towards other researches. As a milieu for the sciences, arts and humanities, assiduously riffing on terms like mimesis, deception, falsification, disguise, even delusion, enable this collection of stimulating essays derived from the conference to encounter a wide range of practical applications for the term camouflage. 

Siteworks: strategic intervention in art and science dialogues

2015
Deborah Ely & Mike Leggett

Siteworks is a research program auspiced by the Bundanon Trust, centred in an Australian bush location three hours drive south of Sydney. The first in 2009 brought fluvial geo-morphologists onsite for several months prior to an event that brought together other earth scientists with local, national and international artists, professional performers and a site-based artist and director. During each of the two days entitled Ten Trenches, presentations from all participants, was followed by a series of performances. 

In the following years this pattern was adopted for Siteworks, looking above the ground as well as beneath it. (Presented at Balance/Unbalance 2015, ASU Phoenix)