Public Talks

1 - 6 Jun - Jul

Catching Light

Campbeltown Arts Centre
Campbelltown Arts Centre has brought together 5 creative innovators from the analogue and early digital eras to mentor, collaborate and exchange ideas with 5 ‘new generation’ artists from various disciplines ...

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7 - 13 Jun - Jun

Julian Assange - Special Keynote

The University of Sydney
Julian Assange presented a Special Keynote speech at ISEA2013, presented by the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) at the University of Sydney on Thursday 13 June 2013 at 5.30pm.

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8 Jun

Mapping Culture - Fee Plumley, Kate Chapman, Brenda L Croft & Cheryl L'Hirondelle

Museum of Contemporary Art, The Forum
Indigenous Australians use 'songlines' to navigate the land, with lyrics describing landmarks and waterholes. Honey bees perform a 'waggledance' to share the location of nectar, water and new habitats. And you? You're just addicted to Google Maps.

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8 - 15 Jun - Jun

Tracker - Margaret Seymour

Articulate Project Space
In Margaret Seymour’s new work concerned with power and surveillance in contemporary society, three robotic ‘video objects’ follow people around the gallery.

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8 Jun

Genevieve Bell

Museum of Contemporary Art, The Forum
Dr. Genevieve Bell is an anthropologist and researcher with 15 years of experience driving innovation in the high tech industry.

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8 Jun

iCinema Talks Program

Galleries 1, The John Niland Scientia Building
Dr. Sarah Kenderdine examines two exhibition installations that integrate high-resolution digital archaeological datasets (photography and 3D architectural models) with immersive, and interactive display systems.

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8 Jun

Mark Hosler / Negativland

Museum of Contemporary Art, The Forum
Mark Hosler is a founding member of the American audio visual collage group Negativland. Since 1980 Negativland have been creating records, video, visual art works, radio, and live performance, using appropriated sound, image and text.

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8 - 9 Jun - Jun

Running the City - Artists' Talks

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
This talks series features Australian and international artists, who address the psycho-physical dynamics of our inhabitation and utilisation of city spaces.

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8 Jun

Paolo Cirio & Alessandro Ludovico

Museum of Contemporary Art, The Forum
The Hacking Monopolism Trilogy

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9 Jun

ISEA2013 Artists' Talks

Museum of Contemporary Art, The Lounge
We have selected artists from the ISEA2013 and Vivid exhibition programs to come together on a range of key thematic topics to discuss the role artists play in creatively investigating the possibilities and pushing the limits of new (and old) technologies.

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9 Jun

Stelarc - Meat, Metal & Code: Engineering Aliveness & Affect

Museum of Contemporary Art, Veolia Lecture Theatre
Stelarc explores alternative anatomical architectures.

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10 Jun

Holoshop: Drawing and Perceiving in Depth Forum

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
In this forum, chaired by ISEA2013 Keynote Professor Brian Rogers, investigators and researchers of the Holoshop project will discuss the development and perceptual effects of Holoshop.

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10 Jun

Richard Goodwin - Porosity Studio

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
Architect and artist Richard Goodwin discusses the outcomes of the latest Curating Cities Porosity Lab.

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11 Jun

Light Logic

Conny Dietzschold Gallery
Ernest Edmonds’ exhibition Light Logic, combined with associated event Light Logic and the Future of Digital Art, featuring Prof Mike Stubbs, Director of FACT (Foundation of Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, UK and Prof Ross Harley, Dean of COFA, UNSW and Co-Chair of the ISEA2013, in conversation with the exhibiting artists.

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15 Jun

The Portals - Artists' Talk

Sydney / Darwin
This artists' talk, part of The Portals project and chaired by Dr Kathy Cleland, Co-Chair of ISEA2013, will explore the cultural possibilities that could emerge as high speed networks are rolled out across Australia, and help us find ways to insert culture and diversity into the heart of the new infrastructure.

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16 Jun

Night Depot #3 - Artists' Talk

Firstdraft Depot
Following on from Saturday night's performance, Firstdraft Depot will host all the performers for a round of presentations and discussion.

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