Art Forum Program
Semester 2 2000
July 14 - September 29
A Melbourne based painter, Stieg’s work is included
in Death and Decoration at Plimsoll Gallery. The talk will concentrate
on his recent work looking at the use of the "black subject". He is represented
in many important collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New
York, National Gallery of Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
You can see examples of Steig Persson’s work at www.contemporaryart.com.au
21 July Blair French
Blair Frence is a writer and curator based in Sydney. He is editor of Photo Files: An Australian Photography Reader (Sydney: Power Publications and the Australian Centre for Photography, 1999) whilst his most recent curatorial project is the exhibition of photo and video art Perfect Strangers opening at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne in early August (2000). Blair is presently writing a PhD thesis at the University of Sydney on the photographic image in contemporary Australian art.
28 July Fiona Murphy
A Victorian ceramicist, Fiona Murphy will be
at the School of Art as a visiting scholar for a one week period over
July and August. She will be talking about her current exhibition at Christine
Abrahams Gallery (14th July 10th August), and will also show slides
of work included in the Frankfurt International Craft Triennale in September,
and "Return to Beauty" in the recent Adelaide Festival.
Peter Whyte trained as a graphic designer in
Melbourne and currently works as a photo/graphic designer in Hobart. He
was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1999 to study digital imaging in
USA, Europe and Asia, and research into export markets for Tasmanian markets.
11 August David Rosetzky
Melbourne based artist David Rosetzky will screen and
discuss his recent video portrait work in relation to advertising, art
and screen culture. David is a founding member of the artist run initiative
1st Floor artists and writers space in Melbourne. He has exhibited in
Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Glasgow, Edinburgh, New York, Dunedin and
Copenhagen. His work is included in Heart on Your Sleave at the Plimsoll
Gallery.
18 August Jennifer Craik
Jennifer Craik is currently a Visiting Fellow
at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the ANU, Canberra. She is
on leave from the School of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Griffith
University, Brisbane. Her research interests are in the fields of cultural
studies and cultural policy: primarily, fashion, tourism, media policy
and cultural development, which are themes of a book she is currently
writing. This paper will explore playfully how the Aussie body is constructed
and projected through the ways in which it is clothed.
Alessio Cavallaro is producer and co-curator of new media projects, Cinemedia at Federation Square, Melbourne. Until recently, Alessio was Director of dLux media arts, one of the Australia's leading screen arts organisations; co-editor of OnScreen, the screen and techno-arts supplement in RealTime arts magazine; and an inaugural member of the Australia Council's New Media Arts Fund. Alessio will provide a preview of the new Screen Gallery at Federation Square. The gallery, due to open mid 2001, will be Australia's premier international screen arts exhibition venue, an immersive space where multimedia practice and theoretical speculations about all forms of the moving image will be in constant energetic re-negotiation. The presentation will include examples of recent experimental screen-based artworks.
One half of the design team "Ovo Design" Ruth will speak about the duo's designs and some of the theoretical ideas behind their work, in particular the body of work exhibited at Object galleries in February, 2000 and then subsequently exhibited at the Salone del Mobile in Milan in April in the invitation-only Satellite section and the Olympic Arts Festival in Sydney. She will also include a discussion of her latest research into new materials and processes for lighting which include both craft and mass production techniques. www.ovo.com.au
8 September Rod Bamford
Rod Bamford designs ceramic products for mass production and makes sculptures based on more idiosyncratic intellectual interests. Both endeavours share an interest in the evolution of contemporary ceramics in a ‘post industrial’ era and reflect his interest in the way that technological, information and organisational factors associated with industrial development alter our social understanding of the creative process and the relationships we have to objects, particularly domestic objects and spaces. Rod has undertaken a number of international residencies and his teaching positions include Head of Studies (Fine Art and Ceramics) at the National Art School, and Visiting Lecturer at Ohio State University. Rod will be at the School of Art as visiting scholar for a one week period.
15 September Mid Semester Break
22 September Judith Blackall
Judith Blackall is the Head of Exhibitions and Artistic programming at the Museum of Contemporary Art. She will talk about her many years of experience working in the Italian artworld from 1981 1997, including many years experience running the Arthur Boyd Studio for Australian Artists in Tuscany.
29 September Angela Ndalianis
Angela Ndalianis is senior lecturer in cinema and new media studies at
Melbourne University. She is currently completing a book on the relationship
between the seventeenth century baroque and contemporary entertainment
media. Her presentation will explore some of the formal, cultural and
aesthetic parallels that exist between the seventeenth century baroque
and contemporary entertainment forms - which themselves are characterised
by a neo-baroque logic. Drawing on examples ranging from C17th painting,
sculpture and theatre to late C20th/early C21st films, comics, and theme
park attractions, this paper will outline how some of these overlaps reveal
themselves.