[Nettime-bold] the lev manovich down australia tour

["geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>]

MORPHOLOGIES: a Symposium on Shape-Shifting and Media Arts

With Lev Manovich, Jeffrey Shaw, Michele Barker, Ross Gibson and Kate
Richards

When Michael Jackson first 'morphed' into an animal using digital software
he seemed to signal that the instability of physical form and shape had
been incorporated into the popular visual imaginary.  But shape shifting
has become a regular feature of the contemporary mutating mediascape, as
forms multiply and transmogrify at an exponential rate.  Yet the
morphogenic development of new media, from cinema to virtual and immersive
space, CD-ROM to DVDROM, interactive art to net art, has not moved in a
clear direction, erasing older media in its wake.  Instead we have a new
ecology of the media arts in which forms overlap, contribute to and mutate
into each other.  This symposium focusses on this altered mediascape and
focusses our attention on its aesthetic, physical and biological
implications.

Morphologies is convened by the College of Fine Arts, Artspace and Ivan
Dougherty Gallery with the assistance of the Goethe Institute.

When: 2-5pm, Friday November 23, 2001

Where: Main Lecture Theatre, EG02
College of Fine Arts,
Selwyn st
Paddington

Cost: $25 or $17 concession (GST Inclusive)

Registration inquiries:
Ivan Dougherty Gallery
Hours: 10am-5pm, Monday-Friday, 1pm-5pm, Saturday
Phone: 9385 0726
Fax: 9385 0603
Email: idg@unsw.edu.au

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The Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at College of Fine Arts,
University of New South Wales, Sydney, in conjunction with Cinemedia /
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, Australia, and ZKM
Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany present

(dis)LOCATIONS

a two-day symposium, with keynote speakers Lev Manovich (at Cinemedia at
Treasury Theatre, East Melbourne) and Peter Weibel (at ZKM, Karlsruhe, in
discussion via video conference).

The effects of the rapid uptake and convergence of new media technologies
are felt and experienced by populations and individuals at the level of
virtual and actual senses of dislocation. Fragmentation of 'community',
urbanisation and the collapse of locale, the erosion of the private spaces
of the sexual and the familial, all have emerged as themes attributable to
the restructuring and divergent flows of new information mediascapes.
(dis)LOCATIONS will address the relation of new media technologies to
emerging and established aesthetics, media forms and their cultural milieus,
over an exciting two day conference.

A limited edition DVD-ROM + book, (dis)LOCATIONS - with work by  Dennis Del
Favero, Agnes Hegedues, Ian
Howard, Susan Norrie,  Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel - will be launched by
Jeffrey Shaw  at the symposium, and also will be on sale for the special
price of $80 (incl gst; RRP $110 incl gst).

Friday 30 November and Saturday 1 December 2001

Cinemedia at Treasury Theatre, Lower Plaza
1 Macarthur Street, East Melbourne,
Australia

cost register by Wed 21 Nov: full $80, concession $25
register after Wed 21 Nov: full $90, concession $35
please note: id required for concession rates

registration enquiries
Megan Cook, College of Fine Arts UNSW
tel (02) 9385 0674 ... fax (02) 9385 0852
email megan.cook@cofa.unsw.edu.au
registration form available online at
www.icinema.unsw.edu.au/exhibitions/dis-locations/dL-conference/registration
.html

symposium enquiries
Charlotte Crichton, Cinemedia
tel (03) 9651 0600 ... fax (03) 9651 1488
email ccrichton@cinemedia.net

PROGRAM

Friday 30 November

5.00 - 5.30pm registration
5.30 - 6.00pm launch of the new DVD-ROM + book (dis)LOCATIONS
in the foyer of Treasury Theatre, introduced
by Jeffrey Shaw,
Director of Visual Media Institute, ZKM,
Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
6.15 - 6.30pm welcome + introduction
Ross Gibson, Creative Director, Australian
Centre for the Moving Image
6:30 - 7.15pm Post-Media Aesthetics
Assistant Professor Lev Manovich, Visual
Arts Department,
University of California, San Diego, USA
7.15 - 8.00pm The Future of Cinema
Peter Weibel, Chairman and CEO of ZKM,
Centre for Art and Media,  Karlsruhe, Germany
8.00 - 8.30pm discussion

Saturday 1 December

10.00 - 10.30am registration
10.30 - 11.30am Opaque Melodies that Would Bug Most People: A Short
History of Dislocation in Six Tracks
Darren Tofts, Chair, Media and Communications,  Swinburne University of
Technology
11.30am - 12.30pm Notes on Memory, Narrative and New Media
Jill Bennett, Senior Lecturer, School of Art History and Theory,  College of
Fine Arts UNSW
12.30 - 1.30pm lunch not included in registration fee
1.30 - 2.30pm Net Affects: Dislocating Shock in Networked Culture
Anna Munster, Lecturer in Digital Media Theory,  School of Art History and
Theory, College of Fine Arts UNSW
2.30 - 3.30pm The Art of Friction
Charles Green, Senior Lecturer, School of Fine Arts,  Classical Studies and
Archaeology, University of Melbourne
3.30 - 4.00pm tea / coffee break
4.00 - 5.00pm The World Turned Upside Down
James Donald, Professor of Media, Curtin University of Technology

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS  Cinemedia gratefully acknowledges the Goethe-Institut Inter
Nationes, Melbourne, for its support of (dis)LOCATIONS. Cinemedia, COFA UNSW
and ZKM thank the participating speakers and artists. Thanks also to Open
Channel.

Cinemedia's Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Federation
Square, Melbourne, is scheduled to open mid 2002.  ACMI will be the premier
national exhibition and discussion center for the screen-based arts.
Cinemedia <www.cinemedia.net >, Centre for Interactive Cinema Research <
www.icinema.unsw.edu.au >, ZKM Centre for Art and Media < www.zkm.de >.

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