Digital Art Research Experiment (DARE)
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The Digital Art Research Experiment
(DARE) research group investigates
practices and boundaries around the evolution of digital media, as expressed
through the work of its constituent members - five recognised visual artists. It is
a School of Art, Architecture and Design core research concentration.
DARE is going from strength to strength with
publications including an artists' book.
DARE's aims
The Digital Art Research Experiment (DARE) aims to:
- develop research focused on digital media and its cross-overs within the SA School of Art's art and design specialisations
- examine best practice within the digital media industry
- interlink with industry and to undertake collaborative research.
- seek sponsorship as appropriate
- interlink with other relevant research disciplines within the University in order to develop innovative creative work
- develop a research profile for the School of Art, Architecture and Design and the DARE group
- promote the group's research outcomes through exhibitions.
About the researchers
Olga Sankey
An
ongoing interest in the relationship between image and text continues to inform
Olga Sankey's work. Much of it is concerned with how
stories and narratives are constructed and her interest in the gaps in
communication which arise from errors in translation and interpretation is at
least in part due to her bilingual upbringing.
Sankey uses both digital and traditional printmaking techniques and her work is to be found in many public collections including the Australian National Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia, Parliament House Collection, ArtBank, National Museum of Modern Art - Seoul/Korea and the Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, Lodz, Poland. More…
Di Barrett
Di
Barrett's artwork has been described as 'girls own' exploring a
subtle, androgynous, erotic tension. Her work often
questions classical notions of sexuality and the conventional aesthetic
standards within a predominantly heterosexual culture.
Di's arts practice addresses women's issues through guises of fantasy or reality. Her area of expertise is photography: history and contemporary practice. Both the themes and the presentation of her artwork are often viewed as controversial. She believes her arts practice continues to make a significant contribution to the ongoing critical debate in contemporary photography art practice. More…
Greg Donovan
'A work of art is about identifying. It is part of a political and cultural environment involving the selective process of choosing to do certain things. The making of art is not only grounded in the development of applied and manipulative skills but linked in a process of identification to a particular time and space. It is a visual, historical and cultural language with destabilising potential.'
Greg Donovan's research and studio practice explores the connection between social inequality defined by space and notions of cultural displacement and its representations. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally with works held in public and private collections. Greg has been an exhibiting artist and teacher since 1978. He is a Senior Lecturer, Portfolio Leader of Teaching and Learning, and Program Director in the School of Art, Architecture and Design. More…
Andrew Hill
Andrew Hill has an active career as a professional
visual and community artist, working primarily with peoples from diverse
cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
Since 2001 he has been exploring the theme of 'Réfugié', producing paintings and digital images that visually describe and analyse the experiences of Australia's new and emerging refugee communities - primarily the African, Middle-Eastern and former Yugoslavian.
Andrew has produced a series of works focused on the plight of refugees and their emergence as new communities in South Australia, an outcome of the visual arts research he is undertaking within the African and Middle-Eastern communities.
Mark Kimber
Mark Kimber is interested in cultural idenity and
its relationship to photography. His areas of expertise are digital
photography and contemporary analogue.
He also has a strong interest in early photography and
is researching 19th century
photographic techniques such as the Daguerreotype, Ambrotypes and Tintypes.
Central to his role as an educator and researcher in photography is 'the understanding of the collapse of the boundaries of photography, its infiltration, and its inclusion via the computer in the media network.'
Exhibitions
embody-meant
From
4 September-17 October 2010, DARE members
exhibited in a
collaborative exhibition with academic staff from the Australian
National University
School of Art at
Flinders
University Art Museum,
Adelaide, South Australia. The exhibition
investigated how notions of self are constructed
physically and psychologically and how such perceptions are being recast and
presented through digital processes.
Transmission
From 7-31 August 2007, DARE members held the exhibition Transmission, featuring painting, photography and printmaking mediated through digital processes in the SASA Gallery.