Category: Lecture

Lecture for AGNSW Contemporary Art Course

“Imagination may be the original interactive multimedia…..” George Alexander

The imagination is a state of conciousness assumed to be possessed by the eye of the artist and compounded with the presence of an audience. But what is particular about the newer computer-based technologies that assume the audience will respond the artist’s presentation? In short, why would we be led to physically interact with the work?

The lecture will explore some recent manifestations of artists’ work and projects within the field called multimedia – on CD-ROM, on the Web, in public spaces – and the development of this genre over the last ten years in Australia and overseas. Reference will be made to exhibits in the new AGNSW show, ‘Space Odysseys: sensation and immersion’ and issues raised during the Symposium associated with the exhibition.

Work to be shown will include: anonymous, Wade Marinovsky, Phillip George, SASS, Luc Courchesne, Linda Dement, Norie Neumark, Linda Wallace, Francesca Da Rimini and Simon Biggs. .