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hybrid<life>forms
Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
http://www.montevideo.nl
March 31 - May 12, 2001
Opening Friday, March 30, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

installations: Michele Barker, Kate Beynon, Justine Cooper, Brenda L Croft,
Linda Dement, Wade Marynowsky, Tracey Moffatt & Gary Hillberg, Patricia
Piccinini, Melinda Rackham, Rea, David Rosetzky, Robyn Stacey
web works: Zina Kaye, Anita Kocsis,  Mary-Anne Breeze, Francesca da Rimini,
Gary Zebington
computer animation: Fay Maxwell Owen-Greene
In collaboration with the Australian curators Josephine Grieve and Linda
Wallace, the Netherlands Media Art Institute has organised the exhibition
hybrid<life>forms: Australian New Media Art. Most of the Australian artists
will be presenting new work which has never previously been seen in Europe.
hybrid<life>forms takes the viewer into the lush undergrowth of contemporary
Australia: strange confessions, dark memories, hybrids. As has been the case
for its flora and fauna, Australia's isolation has had peculiar effects on
its artists too. They bring invisible life to the surface in various ways,
producing unexpected results.
The enormous diversity and vitality of technological growth is central to
hybrid<life>forms. Like Europe, Australia has been quick to pick up on new
developments. Australian artists immediately went in search of the worlds in
and behind the computer, reflecting upon and experimenting with the complex
distinctions and connections which created a sanctuary for new visions. The
artists in the exhibition reflect on both digital media and cultural and
social life.

Patricia Piccinini's work The Breathing Room reflects on the tensions which
arise as soon as new technological developments (electronics, biochemical
and gene technologies) enter everyday life. In "The Breathing Room" we seen
fragments of a body, moving pieces of skin, accompanied by quiet breathing.
What we see is recognisable, but not wholly real. Suddenly, without any
clear reason, the images appear to be caught up in panic. In her photo
series west/ward/bound Brenda L Croft throws light on how black and white
live together in contemporary Australia. In general, the Aboriginal people
are portrayed as exotic, alien, other. With her work, Croft makes it
personal.
Justine Cooper's installation and videowork Rapt lets us see the inside of
the body. Making use of 'Magnetic Resonance Imaging,' Cooper scanned her
body. She manipulated the results into a poetic vision of a world in which
we literally live. Tracey Moffatt, well known in The Netherlands, acquired
wide recognition with her videoworks Night Cries and Heaven. In her new
work, Artist, (in collaboration with Gary Hillberg) she sets before us the
Hollywood stereotype of the creative, tortured and suffering artist.
Outtakes of artists from classic Hollywood films, documentaries and TV
programmes, crossing the screen in quick montage, show us the different
stages of inspiration, creation, and subsequently the destruction of
paintings. In a comic manner, Artist breaks through the romantic aura that
Hollywood has created around artists. After the production of a number of
CD-roms, including Cyberflesh Girlmonster and In my Gash, multimedia artist
Linda Dement returns to photography with her project Euridyce. Like her
CD-roms, her digital photographs exhibit her macabre and immediate manner of
working. Seen from a feminist perspective, representatives of "monstrous
femininity" encompass desires, revenge and violence. With Euridyce, Dement
demonstrates that photography still has much to offer. This serie of images
has been produced in response to Kathy Acker's story Eurydice in the
Underworld.

This project is assisted by the Australia Council, the Australian
Government's arts funding & advisory body, through its Audience and Market
Development Division and New Media Arts Fund, the Prins Bernhard
Cultuurfonds

For more information and visual materials: NIM: Marieke Istha
(Communications), Annet Dekker (Exhibitions): tel. +31 (0)20 623 7101; fax:
+31 (0)20 624 4423; e-mail info@montevideo.nl
The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 1:00 through 5:00 pm Free
admission.

For more information on the artists and all works to be shown, see the
websites of the artists involved.

Michele Barker, Pr?ternatural (2000)
http://www.liquiddna.com

Mary-Anne Breeze
http://netwurkerz.de/mez/datableed/complet/index.htm
http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker

Justine Cooper, Rapt I & II (1998)
http://justinecooper.com

Brenda L Croft, west/ward/bound (1999)
http://139.230.40.45/Imm3330/group08/Brenda/index.html

Linda Dement, Eurydice (2000-2001)
http://sysx.org/dement

Wade Marynowsky, There Goes the Neighborhood (2000)
http://www.projectroom.com/islacks/

Zina Kaye
http://laudanum.net/
http://laudible.net        (mr. snow & zina kaye)
http://observatine.net

Anita Kocsis
http://www.anat.org.au:80/projects/login/anat_anita/neonverte/

Patricia Piccinini, The Breathing Room (1999/2000), Synthetic Orgasme 2
(2000)
http://www.patriciapiccinini.net

Melinda Rackham, empyrean (2000)
http://www.subtle.net

Rea, Don't Shoot Till You See The Whites Of Their Eyes... (1999)
http://www.culture.com.au/boomalli/blakkweer/index.html
http://www.nga.gov.au/Retake/Retake.htm
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cultural-studies/html/exchanges.html

Francesca da Rimini
http://sysx.org/gashgirl
http://www.thing.net/~dollyoko
http://www.thing.net/~dollyoko/LOSDIAS/INDEX.HTML
http://www.thing.net/~dollyoko/ID/TEXT/LN01.HTM

Robyn Stacey, Sydney 1886- 1997 (1999), Great Big Piece of Turf (1996),
Green Room I (1999), Waratah (2000), Surface Tension (1998), Plum Lotus
(1999), Tulip (1999)
http://www.stillsgallery.com.au

Gary Zebington
http://murlin.va.com.au/eyespace
http://murlin.va.com.au/eyespace/bodyssey

Melinda Rackham

floating alone in the e_scapes
immersed in finite emptiness
hungry voids of nothingness..
http://www.subtle.net/empyrean


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