Nine artists have been short-listed for the inaugural $75 000 Premier of Queensland’s National Art Award in New Media. Peter Alwast (QLD), Julie Dowling (WA), Anita Fontaine (QLD/NL), David Haines and Joyce Hinterding (NSW), Natalie Jeremijenko (QLD/USA), Adam Nash (VIC), Sam Smith (NSW), John Tonkin (NSW) and Mari Velonaki (NSW) are the artists short-listed for the inaugural award.
On 31 October 2008 the Award will be presented to one of these exhibiting artists. The exhibition and Award will be presented every two years and the award-winning works will become part of the Queensland Art Gallery’s permanent collection.

Accompanying the Award is the $25 000 Premier of Queensland’s New Media Scholarship, to be presented to an emerging Queensland-based new media artist to support travel and study.

Expressions of interest for the travel and study scholarship are available
at www.qag.qld.gov.au/new_media

Submissions due: 5 September.

The Award exhibition will be on display in GoMA’s new media gallery.
1 November - 8 February.
http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/coming_soon/premier_of_queenslands_national_art_award_in_new_media

6.30PM central court
CELEBRITY TALK in association with Adam Cullen: Let’s get lost

Amanda Stewart writer, performance poet, vocalist and sound artist is joined by Jim Denley, one of Australia’s foremost improvisers of new music. Amanda Stewart’s powerful and energetic performances range from more contemplative poems written for the page to those incorporating tape, abstraction and extended vocal techniques. Amanda Stewart and Jim Denley first started working together in the late 1980’s. This was an exhilarating time for both of them - Jim was interested in what his music instinct could learn from language and Amanda what her language instinct could learn from music. Their excitement came from the creation of, for them, new types of song - symbiotic words and music. They would go on to expand the scale in the group Machine for Making Sense which started in 1989. They have continued to do duos for the last 20years.

7.30PM Centenary Auditorium
SPECIAL VIDEO SCREENING in association with the Amanda Stewart and Jim Denley performance
Machine for Making Sense by Stephen Jones
The group Machine for Making Sense have been producing exploratory music and interdisciplinary work in Sydney and around the world since 1989. The group includes: Jim Denley (flutes, saxaphone and voice), Chris Mann (voice and text), Rik Rue (samples and tape), Amanda Stewart (voice and text), Stevie Wishart (violin, live electronics, hurdy-gurdy and voice).

The Art Gallery of New South Wales

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SAN JOSE - 01SJ: A GLOBAL FESTIVAL OF ART ON THE EDGE

A biennial, global festival of art on the edge that takes place in San Jose, CA, 01SJ is North America’s newest and largest festival of digital arts showcasing ground-breaking installations, interactive performances, and new cinema. 01SJ is about vibrant audio and visual participatory experiences – experiences that will entertain you, spark your imagination, perhaps challenge you and, at the very least, make you consider how the contemporary world is evolving.
Dates: June 4 - 8 2008

Black Canyon and Earth Field, 2008
David Haines and Joyce Hinterding
Video projection, graphite, paper, speakers
01SJ Biennial: Superlight, San Jose Museum of Art, May 10 - August 31, 2008

A video and sculptural installation, which is concerned with energy forces in the world at large. David Haines and Joyce Hinterding present a vivid cinematic sequence of a failed oil mining ghost town in the Australian outback coupled with the ghostly audio of the electromagnetic soundscape from the artist’s field recordings. The artists also present some of the unusual sculptures they have made for detecting and listening to the normally unheard world of the electromagnetic in the museum in real time. The installation is part esoteric laboratory for ghost-busting and part metaphorical commentary on the speed of our modernity.