Syndicate: Alchemy: International Masterclass for New Media Artists and Curators

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:28:38 +1030
To: anat@anat.org.au
From: Australian Network for Art and Technology <anat@anat.org.au>


    The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT)

		      announce

		  **   Alchemy   **
International Masterclass for New Media Artists and Curators

Brisbane, Queensland
May/June, 2000

Applications due: 18 February, 2000
Please contact ANAT for guidelines and application forms or visit
http://www.anat.org.au/projects/alchemy


ANAT will hold an International Masterclass for New Media Artists and
Curators for six weeks in May/ June 2000, in association with the new
Powerhouse Live Arts Complex in Brisbane <http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.org>.

Artists, curators and theorists will come together to germinate and
hothouse their ideas, test their hypotheses, develop new processes and
create new works, within the context of an intensive learning environment.
The intention is to provide an opportunity for artists and arts
practitioners from across Australia and around the world to network,
develop new work, devise new forms of collaboration.

Participants will be provided with 24 hour access to a lab., exhibition/
installation, performance space and workrooms in the exciting new
Powerhouse Live Arts Complex, which also opens in May. Highly experienced
curators and artists will provide training and lead workshops for
participants, within the context of a critical production site.  The makeup
and composition of the Masterclass will constantly evolve, as tutors and
participants undertake different aspects of the project.

The Masterclass will engage with a diverse range of topics: from science
discourses to indigenous issues to curatorial practice.  Of particular note
will be the component of the masterclass dedicated to performance and
hybrid practices being developed in collaboration with the New Media Arts
Fund of the Australia Council.  As the project is intended as a dynamic
one, there will be continual opportunities for exchange of ideas.

Alchemy will be divided into thematic areas.  These themes will not happen
in isolation. There will be overlap and confluences between the different
areas.  Participants will be asked to identify two to three themes which
may be of particular relevance to their practice in order to participate in
those components of the Masterclass.  Themes which will be addressed are:

*  Art and Science Collaborations
*  Indigenous artists needs
*  A Digital Region?: collaboration and exchange in Asia and the Pacific
regions.
*  Curatorial Issues for New Media practices
*  Performance and Hybrid Art Practices
*  Artistic practice and the Internet

To culturally contextualise the project,  satellite events - combiinge fora
with open days - will be held, giving the public and media an opportunity
to view the work-in-progress produced by participants.

Throughout the Masterclass there will be a focus on skills development and
skills sharing. The framework for the masterclass will  also address issues
of access to local and overseas works and theoretical issues in order to
contextualise new media work, particularly within an international
framework. In order to take into account the needs of participants, the
program for the project will not be finalised until the participants have
been identified.

ANAT has pioneered intensive skilling programs for artists through its
coordination of annual National Summer Schools in computer media since
1989.  The schools have provided the catalyst for profound conceptual
shifts and directions in practice for participating artists. In 1999 ANAT,
for the first time, ran three National Schools: two National Schools for
artists (one for Indigenous Australian artists and one with a science / art
focus), and one for curators and other artsworkers.

Based on ANAT's experience managing these diverse projects and an ever
increasing number of enquiries internationally about the possibility of
participating in our programs, for 2000 the scope of this concept has been
broadened to develop a more interactive and collaborative approach to the
Masterclass learning environment and, with the support of the Daniel
Langlois Foundation, opened up to international participation.

The intention for this project is for it to be very much a people event. We
are interested in developing an environment which will encourage the
formation of ongoing international collaborations.


Please contact ANAT for guidelines and application forms.
or visit http://www.anat.org.au/projects/alchemy


The masterclass has been generously supported by the Daniel Langlois
Foundation, the Australia Council, the Federal Government's arts funding
and advisory body and Arts Queensland with additional support from the
Government of South Australia through Arts SA, Arts Tasmania and the NSW
Ministry for the Arts.

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