Next Wave at Federation Square

23 September, 2008

Next Wave is totally besotted to be presenting two major screen art projects in next week’s Urban Screens Melbourne 08 event at Federation Square. Our two projects, Alec Lewis’ text, form and the Next Wave-curated Our World Writ Large, are works created by young emerging screen artists from around Australia, some of whom featured in the 2008 Next Wave Festival last May.

Details about this international program, and the Next Wave artists’ work, are featured below.

Click here to download the Next Wave program flyer (pdf 377kb).

Urban Screens Melbourne 08
October 3 to 8
Federation Square

Urban Screens presents its third groundbreaking international conference and multimedia exhibition at Federation Square, from October 3 to 8. Next Wave, Australia’s leading organisation for the presentation of the best new work by emerging artists, is part of Urban Screens for the first time this year.

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 will explore the growing appearance of moving images in urban space and the transformation of public culture worldwide, in the context of large new multimedia precincts.

LINKS

Urban Screens Melbourne 08
Urban Screens’ Program

NEXT WAVE’S FEATURED PROGRAM

text, form

Alec Lewis’ text, form explores the seedy underbelly of the Internet. Inspired by a search data log leaked by US Internet giant AOL in 2006, text, form presents a series of disturbingly voyeuristic and intimate vignettes in a highly public arena. Using the Federation Square’s ticker-screens and architectural facade, and combining both video and text, the work investigates the ethical and moral issues around web user database techniques and the dwindling value of anonymity in contemporary culture.

text, form originally featured as part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival.

Screening Times
Friday 3 October—Wednesday 8 October
Nightly, after 9pm
East Shard facade (building next to the 7Eleven), Federation Square

Our World Writ Large

Our World Writ Large is a one-hour program of video-art created by some of the most talented young artists in Australia. Offering up a kaleidoscopic array of observations and ideas about our world today, the program presents a heady mix of narrative styles and artistic tendencies, incorporating everything from animation to performance documentation, special effects to found footage, home video to travel documentation, experimental film and more. Incorporating short video works by Catherine Connolly (VIC), Tamsin Green (VIC), Tom Hall (QLD), Kotoe Ishii (VIC), Isobel Knowles (VIC), Kate Mitchell (NSW), Nathan Pye (VIC), Zoë Scoglio (VIC), Carl Scrase (VIC), Soda_Jerk (NSW) and Julie Traitsis (VIC). Our World Writ Large is an exhibition of challenging, critically engaged and genre-busting videos curated by Ulanda Blair.

Screening Times
Saturday 4 October
8.50—9.50am Big Screen, Federation Square
5.30—6.30pm Atrium Screen, Federation Square

Tuesday 7 October
11am—12pm Big Screen, Federation Square
7—8pm Atrium Screen, Federation Square

Check the Urban Screens’ website for complete program times, updates and changes.

MORE INFORMATION

For more info about Next Wave’s participation in Urban Screens Melbourne 08 email Ulanda Blair, Next Wave’s Special Projects Coordinator, or call the Next Wave office on 03 9392 9422.

Click here to download the promotional flyer (pdf 377kb).

Click here to download the media release.

Video still: Kotoe Ishii Fist 2007, part of Our World Writ Large.