Electrofringe
2003 & 2004, Newcastle, NSW, part of the This Is Not Art Festival
Electrofringe 2003
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// collision // collusion // extrusion // Newcastle, NSW, part of the This Is Not Art Festival The following is a summary of activities. and fashioning future tools and toys. Co-directed by Gail Priest & Vicky Clare |
Electrofringe 2003 offered over 50 workshops, panels, presentations and masterclasses involving over 100 artists from around Australia sharing ideas on how, why and with what they make new media art.
Areas of focus were:
Game Art - pushing game interfaces and game culture into new areas of aesthetics, content and interactivity
Sound - focussing on surround sound audio spatialisation and patching, from scratch to advanced
AudioVisual - integrations of sound and visuals utilising multiple methods ranging from lo-fi to hyper-hi-tech
Culture Talk - interrogating screen and new media culture for growth and sustainability
Text in New Media - integration and tensions between text and tech
Installation - manifesting virtual worlds
Australian-based artists included: Alex Davies, Luke Collison (Dsico), Linda Carroli, Camilla Hannan, Van Sowerwine, Hannah Clemmen, Garry Bradbury, Wake Up and Listen, Kat Mew, Rebecca Cannon, Richard Brown, Donna Hewwitt, Chris McCormick, Daniel Heckenberg, Casey Rice, Wade Marynowsky Spoole, Lisa Gye, Lawrence English, Julian Knowles, Nick Deacon, Anne Walton, David Noyze, HyperSense, Robin Fox, Rawbone, Kim Bounds & Dale Newson, Steve Law & Tim Webster, Emile Zile, Luke Illet, Richard Allen, Mistral Tide, Future Eater, Kipper and more…
International guests included:
• Jonah Brucker-Cohen (USA) - installation and subversive interface artist whose work focuses on physicalising the hidden machinations of digital technology. Jonah presented a masterclass, a workshop and showed his latest installation PoliceState - 20 remote controlled toy police cars that respond to information sent from FBI surveillance software.
• Marije Baalman (Ned/Ger) - sound artist presented a masterclass in Wave Field Synthesis - a 3D audio spatialisation method and showcasing surround sound works by Berlin artists. (in partnership with the Goethe Institut Inter Nationes)
• DJ Olive (USA) & Janek Schaefer (UK) - experimental turntablist (co presented with Sound Summit)
• the-phone-book Ltd (UK) creatied wireless art using our most accessible and ubiquitous tool - the mobile phone proving that you can make art just about anywhere. (in partnership with the Australian Network for Art and Technology)
Screenings - Nightly sessions of experimental screen and video art including; ElectroProjections - 3 programs of works by young and emerging Australian artists - Big City Paranoia, Glitch Glam & Violence, Objectified; 4 noise programs; excerpts from the Reelife Film Festival; Microcinema - USA festival of innovative screen works and Resolution TV – activist TV screenings.
corpo[real] & [ill]uminations - 2 programs of screen works from 2 September to 9 October 2003 at Newcastle Regional Art Gallery.
FraGGed - a game art exhibition featuring Anita Johnston, Cory Arcangel, Josephine Starrs + Leon Cmielewski, Richard Allen + Kris Jasper, Kipper showing hacks of Nintendo Entertainment Systems, subversive/activist games, modified game engines and screenings of visual exerpts by Australian and International artists.
Curated by Thea Bauman. John Paynter Gallery, 90 Hunter Street, Newcastle. 2 - 6 Oct 10am to 6pm, 10 –12 & 17-19 Oct
QuantaCrib - presented by the NotArtCadets Collective and operated as a hybrid performance space designed to enable new media artists' to interact with traditional media artists' in one dynamic space.
Portasonde - site specific sound workshop, where local emerging artists will mine the Shepherd Hill coastline for sounds. (in partnership with dLux media arts)
Electrofringe 2003 Co-Directors Gail Priest & Vicky Clare
Sub-Coordinators
Game Art Coordinator, State Representative & FraGGed Curator: Thea Baumann (Queensland)
State Representative and SPA[v]CE Coordinator: Alan Bamford (Victoria)
State Representative: Cat Hope (Western Australia)
SPA[v]CE Coordinators: Shannon O'Neil (New South Wales), Alistair Riddell (Australian Capital Territory)
Audiovisual Coordinator: Wade Marynowsky (New South Wales)
Patching Software Coordinator: Luke Collison (New South Wales)
Tech Staff: Ben Byrne & James Tulczyn, Matt Barker
Image & Web design: Mass Media
Electrofringe 04
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replicate, automate, infiltrate Newcastle, NSW, part of the This Is Not Art Festival The following is a summary of activities. Co-directed by Gail Priest, Wade Marynowsky, Emma Stewart |
Electrofringe 2004 offered over 95 workshops, panel discussions, masterclasses, showcases, exhibitions, screenings and performances investigating the latest approaches to sound art, audiovisual fusions, screen-based explorations, new media performance and interactive installations.
Electrofringe 2004 presented over 80 artists.
Australian artists included:
Adrian Bertram, Amanda Cuyler, Anna Helme, Ben. Harper, Brendan Slaven, Chris McCormick, Corin Edwards, Dan( ) MacKinlay, David Wolf, Dusan Bojic, Fiona Malone, George Khut, Jasper Streit, Jenny Fraser, Jesse Sullivan, Joel Stern, Lonnie Hutchinson, Louise Terry, Malcolm Smith, Mel Donat, Miles van Dorssen, Nick Wishart, Paul Mosig, Peter Blamey, Rebecca Cannon, Rene Wooller, Richard Allen, Richard Byers, Robin Fox, Roly Skender, Ross Manning, Sarah-Mace Dennis & Svenja Kratz, Shannon O’Neill, Soda_Jerk aka Dom and Dan Angeloro, Tara Pattenden, Tarquin Manek, Thea Baumann, Tim Webster and William Noble.
With spa[v]ce showcases by Dave Noyze & Luke Harrald, Project 1 - Michael Yuen, Mimic Mass & Rosie Dennis, Nicholas Mariette, Patrick King, Sam Smith & Sumugan Sivanesan, Scot.d Cotterell. Plus Uni_lateral - day-long ermerging artist showcase drawing on talent from some of Australia’s leading media arts courses.
International artists included:
Eric Singer - League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots [USA]
HC Gilje - 242.pilots [NORWAY]
Laura Kavanaugh & Ian Birse - Instant Places [CANADA]
Robert Praxmarer - (t)error [AUSTRIA]
nMn - Dorkbot-Ghent [BELGIUM]
Aki Onda - Cassette Memories [JAPAN] presented by room40
WORKSHOPS: Hands on highlights included a workshop with Eric Singer on how to make your own Sensor Based & Robotic Art; the three day process-based Instant Places Project with Laura Kavanaugh, Ian Birse, Anthony Magen & Joel Stern exploring the audiovisual secrets of Newcastle; plus Location Based Gaming facilitated Debra Polson presented in collaboration with dLux media arts’ FutureScreen 04 Mobile project.
PATCHLAB– A dedicated space for visual programming explorations presented in collaboration with Electronic Arts, School of Contemporary Arts, University of Western Sydney.
EXHIBITIONS: There were 3 major exhibitions: Unfiction curated by Rebecca Cannon & Ashley Whamond in collaboration with Rocketart, Matt Gardiner's breathtaking Oribotics at Newcastle Region Art Gallery, a concurrent exhibition at Canberra Contemporary Artspace and installations, a net.art gallery and screen lounge in ProjectSpace.
SCREENINGS: The screening program was a huge hit with another ElectroProjections series: Private Parts, Back to Me, and Devil in the Detail showing experimental screen works from a global call for submissions, as well as the international showcase from Transmediale04 and German Video Art 2000-2002 courtesy of the Goethe-Institut, Machinista's Full Screen Robovision, Reelife, Neopoetry, Resolutionary TV and the Australian premier of US filmmaker Mark Boswell's The Subversion Agency.
QUANTACRIB: A workshop/performance space for improvised, collaborative mayhem.
Electrofringe 2004 Directors - Gail Priest, Wade Marynowsky, Emma Stewart.
Sub-Coordinators
PatchLab: Jasper Streit – University of Western Sydney (New South Wales)
Unilateral: William Noble – University of Western Sydney (New South Wales)
QuantaCrib: Dan McKinlay (Australian Capital Territory)
Rocketart Curators: Rebecca Cannon (Victoria) & Ashley Whammond (New South Wales)
Screening Curators: Gail Priest & Sumugan Sivanesan (New South Wales)
Indigenous Content Advisor: Jenny Fraser (Queensland)
State Representative: Robin Fox (Victoria)
State Representative: Michael Yuen (South Australia)
State Representative: Thea Baumann (Queensland)
State Representative: Malcolm Smith (Northern Territory)
State Representative: Roly Skender (Western Australia)
Tech Staff: Ben Byrne & James Tulczyn
Image & Web design: Justin Fox
Website database: Earle Castledine