Morphologies Exhibition and Symposium

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Morphologies - Exhibition and Symposium

Exhibition (22 November – 15 December 2001):

This exhibition presented recent digital video work produced at ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; Germany's leading new media research centre and museum. The work, by ZKM artists and Australian artists who have undertaken residencies or fellowships at ZKM, covered a spectrum of generations from that of younger Autralian artists currently working at ZKM to established artists working at the forefront of experimentation in interactive cinema and digital video.

Curated by Nick Tsoutas and Nick Waterlow.
Presented in collaboration with ZKM, Centre for Art and Media.
Exhibition occupies Artspace and Ivan Dougherty Gallery

Works - Artists

	Place Urbanity- a psycho-ethnographic portrait of Melbourne Jeffrey Shaw
	The Panoptic Society or Immortally in Love with Death Peter Weibel
	Sweet Stalking Ian Howard
	Defile Susan Norrie
	Pentimento Dennis Del Favero
	Their Things Spoken Agnes Hegedüs
	Cafe Flesh Video Transmissions SKAN

Symposium on shape-shifting and Media Arts:

When Michael Jackson first 'morphed' into an animal using digital software he seemed to signal that the instability of physical form and shape had been incorporated into the popular visual imaginary. But shape shifting has become a regular feature of the contemporary mutating mediascape, as forms multiply and transmogrify at an exponential rate. Yet the morphogenic development of new media, from cinema to virtual and immersive space, CD-ROM to DVD-ROM, interactive art to net art, has not moved in a clear direction, erasing older media in its wake. Instead we have a new ecology of the media arts in which forms overlap, contribute to and mutate into each other. This symposium focused on this altered mediascape and focuses our attention on its aesthetic, physical and biological implications.

Symposium Program (23 November 2001):

	Keynote Lev Manovich Post-media aesthetics
	Jeffrey Shaw Towards a New Poetics of Cinema
	Michele Barker Monstrous Morphology
	Kate Richards Geomorphologies
	Ross Gibson Gregarious Form - unstable aesthetics and ecological behaviours

Morphologies is convened by the Centre for Interactive Cinema, College of Fine Arts, Artspace and Ivan Dougherty Gallery with the assistance of the Goethe Institute.



	Cafe Flesh Video Transmission



	Place Urbanity



	The Panoptic Society



	Sweet Stalking



	Defile



	Pentimento



	Their Things Spoken