Exhibitions
29 August – 17 October 2008
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Angela Barnett, Andrew Buchanan, Darren Ballingall, Chris MacKellar and Christian Rubino, Immersion 2007, Australia, still image from interactive installation, image © the artists. An Experimenta New Visions Commission |
Experimenta Playground: International Biennial of Media Arts
Gallery 1 & Bestec Gallery 2
Curator: Liz Hughes with Emma McRae
Experimenta Playground showcases the latest work from Australia's leading media artists alongside media artworks from artists around the globe.
The exhibition re-invents the gallery space as an environment of surprise and delightful discovery exploring the notion that play is a means through which we are able to make sense of the world.
Coinciding with the exhibition Experimenta Playground, is the regional forum – Media Art Curating – to be presented in the Bradley Forum located alongside the Museum in the Hawke Building, level 5, on Friday 29 August from 2 – 5pm. The forum will be followed by a reception in the Museum from 6pm. Bookings essential on 08 8302 0870 or email samstagmuseum@unisa.edu.au
More information
Media release (PDF file, 259kb)
Study guide for students (PDF file, 1mb)
A media art exhibition produced by Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne
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William Kentridge, Tide table (detail) 2003, film still. Collection: Art Gallery of NSW, purchased 2005, image © the artist |
William Kentridge: Tide table
Gallery 3
William Kentridge is one of the most significant and internationally renowned artists of our time. Tide table exemplifies one of his iconic animations, where charcoal drawings are made on a single page that is successively amended and filmed. In Tide table, the beach is a site of death and desperation, but also a place for play, passion and spiritual regeneration.
More information
Media release (PDF file, 259kb)
Presented courtesy of the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
31 October – 19 December
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Gareth Sansom, Family trust 1989, tapestry, 275 x 366 cm. Weavers: Andrea May, Hannah Rother, Jennifer Sharpe. Image © the artist |
From here to Eternity
Gallery 1 – 2
From here to Eternity presents a selection of marvellous and splendidly crafted tapestry works from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, regards as a world centre from one of Western civilisation's oldest and riches art forms.
A Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, travelling exhibition.
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Alyce Santoro, Sonic (detail) 2007, audiocassette tape, cotton, image © the artist |
Coded Cloth, New Media Textiles
Gallery 3
Curator: Melinda Rackham
An exhibition of interactive textile, clothing works, jewellery and shoes, this unusual and surprising new genre of media arts practice encompasses anything wearable and technologically integrated.