The ISEA2013 program will take over greater Sydney and beyond, with the announcement of projects at Powerhouse Museum, The Rocks Pop-Up, Carriageworks, 107 Projects, the College of Fine Arts UNSW, COFA’s Kudos Gallery, Tin Sheds Gallery, Verge Gallery, UTS Gallery and DAB LAB, Artspace as well as a Parramatta hub and projects linking Darwin, the Tasmanian Wilderness and Indonesia to Sydney.

The 19^th International Symposium on Electronic Art — presented by the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) and supported by Destination NSW to align with Vivid Sydney — will showcase the best media artworks and future-focused ideas from Australia and around the world, Friday 7 to Sunday 16 June 2013 at venues across central and outer Sydney, and Darwin.

The ISEA2013 EXHIBITIONS PROGRAM will showcase the works of over 150 innovative Australian and international artists.

The Powerhouse Museum will also be a major exhibition hub for ISEA2013. Already announced is Experimenta Speak to Me – 5^th International Biennial of Media Art featuring Wade Marynowski and Jess MacNeil. Exhibiting alongside this is the first survey of ANAT’s Synapse initiative that has provided over 30 Australian artists with the opportunity to pursue speculative creative research projects with scientists and medical researchers in Australia and beyond. The Synapse: A Selection provides a snapshot of the diverse and fascinating collaborative projects that participating artists and scientists have produced over the past five years and includes works by Keith Armstrong, Helen Pynor and Peter Clancy, George Poonkin Khut, Mari Velonaki, Erica Secombe, Ken+Julia Yonetani, Nola Farman, Chris Henschke and Kirsty Boyle.

International leaders in the BioArt field, SymbioticA, the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts based at the University of Western Australia, will present their first major Australian exhibition bringing together the works of 15 artists from different disciplines semipermeable (+). Featuring sworks specially commissioned for the exhibition including Nigel Helyer and Oron Catts – the groundbreaking artistic interventions range from protocells, infection and DNA through to skins and garments, to borders and state control at The Powerhouse Museum.  

ISEA2013 and the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority present Electronic Art Pop-Ups, a special instalment  in the ongoing pop-up program at The Rocks. ISEA2013 has selected six outstanding artworks from across the globe to bring the latest in contemporary art into the heart of this historic area of Sydney.

Electronic Nights will transform Parramatta’s River Foreshore with interactive artworks, performances and food, presented by ISEA2013 and Parramatta City Council. Over two nights, Friday 15 and Saturday 16 June from dusk to late, encounter interactive artworks along the riverbank that explore movement and sound, electrical generation, multi media performance and art and roaming data projections.

Projects include Grobak Padi 2013 an intimate exchange between cultures and cities through a fusion of food, film and dance using ‘gerobak’ – traditional Indonesian food carts. Wired up carts will link Sydney and Yogyakarta, Indonesia, live via multi-channel links, along with in-cart video art and a multimedia dance spectacle by artists Michael Hornblow (Australia), Agung Gunawan (Indonesia) and Tony Yap (Australia/Malaysia).

Keith Armstrong’s collaborative work, facilitated by the Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE), Long Time, No See? is an opportunity for the public to create possible futures through data mapping and a smartphone App on local walks throughout Parramatta City.

Darwin and Sydney will be connected through The Portals, a curated program of five telematic artworks distributed across these two cities. As large screens proliferate in our environment can we imagine a different way of using these resources aside from broadcasting TV? This project connects the extensive urban infrastructure of The Concourse in Sydney’s Chatswood with communities in Darwin in real time across two large public screens through networked and interactive artworks, via high speed broadband. The Portals includes live art, visual art, e-literature, interactive performance, sound art and community engagement.

Other exhibitions will showcase the diversity of electronic art practice including the week-long collaborative production of an expanded Durational Book being created at the State Library of NSW by 6 artists, including Chris Caines and Megan Heyward, the meeting of electronic art and architecture at the Tin Sheds Gallery, a sound art exhibition at UTS Gallery, experiments in cinema at COFA-UNSW’s iCinema and an exploration of place and representation at COFA’s Kudos Gallery, with the interactive installation Juxtaposition, combining two radically different environments: the Tasmanian wilderness and the extreme urban development of Hong Kong. In an apparently endless stereoscopic 3D giga-pixel panoramic montage, the two locations merge seamlessly from one into another as the observer turns the circular ‘screen’ to control both the viewpoint and the related soundscape.

ISEA2013 will feature two programs of sound art performances: Macrophonics II by Donna Hewitt, Julian Knowles, Wade Marynowsky, and dancers, presented in association with UTS; and Polysonics, with performances by Michaela Davies, Ian Andrews, Garry Bradbury, Shane Fahey, Evan Carr, David Carr, Hamish Stuart, Leah Barclay, Garth Paine at ABC, Studio 22.

For full program details visit www.isea2013.org

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its funding and advisory body.

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ISEA2013 Director, Jonathan Parsons is available for media interviews.

ABOUT ISEA INTERNATIONAL

Founded in The Netherlands in 1990, ISEA International (formerly Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts) is an international non-profit organisation fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organisations and individuals working with art, science and technology. The main activity of ISEA International is the annual International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA).

www.isea-web.org

ABOUT ANAT

For the past 25 years, the Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) has been a catalyst for experimentation and innovation across art, science and technology. ANAT champions artistic excellence by supporting professional artists and fostering a culture of creative risk-taking, secures the necessary resources to enable artists to pursue creative research and realise groundbreaking artworks, and communicates the importance of creative experimentation and expression within the arts and — increasingly — in broader society. www.anat.org.au

ABOUT VIVID SYDNEY

Sydney will once again be transformed into a spectacular canvas of light, music and ideas when Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark from 24 May – 10 June 2013. Colouring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections; performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the Vivid Ideas Exchange featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers. Vivid Sydney is owned and managed by Destination NSW, the NSW Government’s tourism and major events agency.
www.vividsydney.com

CONTACT

ISEA2013: www.isea2013.org
ANAT: www.anat.org.au
TWITTER @isea2013 + hashtag #isea2013
FACEBOOK:  facebook.com/isea2013

MEDIA

For high resolution images, biographies, interview opportunities or more information contact:

Tiani Chillemi | Decode Media
Phone:  0415 822 343
Email:  tiani@decodemedia.com.au

The Wikileaks founder will address conference delegates and a small public audience via live video link from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

ISEA2013 will showcase the best media artworks and future-focused ideas from around the world across greater Sydney from 7 – 16 June.

Central to ISEA2013 is a three-day conference featuring over 200 speakers and keynote addresses from global leaders in the fields of art, science, technology, media and communications exploring the theme: Resistance is Futile.

Julian Assange has a unique insight into the futility, or otherwise, of resisting the incursion of the digital into every aspect of our lives.

In systems under constant and multiple pressures there will always be leaks. Wikileaks exists because of this, embracing the digital, exploiting the ubiquity of digitised information: Resistance is Fertile.

Artists creatively investigate the possibilities and push the limits of new technologies, helping us to imaginatively experience and critically reflect on their implications for life in the 21st century.

The ISEA2013 program explores the ways art and new technologies are used in the service of power, protest and resistance.

ISEA2013 conference delegates receive entry to this Special Keynote address. A limited number of tickets will be made available to the general public through the ISEA2013 website from 9.00am, Monday 20 May 2013.

For full program details visit www.isea2013.org

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its funding and advisory body.

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ISEA2013 Director, Jonathan Parsons is available for media interviews.

CONTACT

ISEA2013:  www.isea2013.org
ANAT: www.anat.org.au
TWITTER: @isea2013 + hashtag #isea2013
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/isea2013

MEDIA
For high resolution images, biographies, interview opportunities or more information contact:

Tiani Chillemi | Decode Media

Email:              tiani@decodemedia.com.au
Twitter:           @tianichillemi
Web:                www.decodemedia.com.au

ISEA2013 Sydney is the world’s opportunity to peek in to the future of art, technology and science – from human cameras to Blade Runner scale Media Facades exploring innovation through a program of exhibitions, performances, talks, workshops and a 3-day conference featuring the most brilliant new ideas in the world today.

The 19^th International Symposium on Electronic Art presented by Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) and supported by Destination NSW to align with Vivid Sydney will showcase the best media artworks and future-focused ideas from Australia and around the world, Friday 7 to Sunday 16 June 2013 at venues across greater Sydney.

The second of three program announcements includes the MCA, COFA, UNSW, Carriageworks, Performance Space, Artspace, Customs House and the Seymour Centre as well as roving locations throughout the city.

The ISEA2013 EXHIBITIONS PROGRAM, will showcase the works of over 150 innovative artists from Australia and around the world. In partnership with Carriageworks, ISEA2013 presents Alex Davies (Australia) Very Near Future large scale mixed reality / interactive cinema installation which will question what is real or virtual, fact or fiction. In partnership with Performance Space, Body Fluid II (Redux) by John A Douglas (Australia) a performance and video installation in which the artist presents the monotony of his daily dialysis treatment as a sublime act of self-transformation.

Artspace presents in association with ISEA 2013 an exhibition featuring Mari Velonaki (Australia), Petra Gemeinboeck & Rob Saunders (Australia) and Simon Ingram (New Zealand). The Media Facade Exhibition curated by M. Hank Haeusler & Martin Tomitsch at Customs House showcases six seminal media façades through large light posters and moving images as well as a selection of new media façade projects from around the world. The exhibition is organised by the Media Architecture Institute and Customs House in collaboration with Vivid Sydney and ISEA2013.

The ISEA2013 TALKS PROGRAM in collaboration with Vivid Ideas will inspire new thinking and creative paradigms through provocative speakers including program highlight - Stelarc (Australia) presented by ISEA2013 and MCA, in partnership with the National Institute for Experimental Arts at COFA, UNSW. ISEA2013 proudly collaborating with Vivid Sydney presents Mark Hosler, Negativland (US), Fee Plumley (UK/Australia), Kate Chapman (USA), Genevieve Bell, Director of Interaction and Experience at Intel Labs (Australia/US) and ISEA2013 Keynote by Brian Rogers on Perception, Art & Illusion (UK).

Electronic music will be showcased during performances at NEW WAVE: SOUND presented by Seymour Centre and Vivid Sydney in association with ISEA2013, 7 – 8 June. The two day intensive program features emerging and established artists showcasing their most innovative work. The Seymour’s intimate Sound Lounge will feature non-stop performances from midday to 11pm on Saturday the 8th June presenting acts such as The Noise, Infinity room, Frostbyte and Collarbones.

Roving interactions with Touchy known as the human camera will happen across the city. Hong Kong / Tokyo based artist Eric Siu uses photos or ‘Touch-Snaps’ to remind us of the ephemeral richness of togetherness, and challenge the disembodying nature of social media, which dehumanises physical contact.
“I am a human camera. If you touch me, my shutters open and I take a photo!”
Touchy

Prepare for citywide disruption as Australia’s notorious tactical media art group pvi collective (Australia) takes over the streets of Darlinghurst during Deviator, presented by ISEA 2013, Performance Space and National Art School. During the twilight hours, immerse yourself in an outdoor game experience and become an urban ‘deviator’, temporarily transforming the city into a playground.

Stereopublic (Crowdsourcing the Quiet), an attempt to both promote ‘sonic health’ in our cities and offer a public guide for those who crave a retreat from crowds, is coming to Sydney. It will recruit members of the public as ‘earwitnesses’. Sound artist Jason Sweeney will then create an individual quiet sound piece for you and your location, sending it back to you in exchange for your participation. Once this exchange is complete, your city-specific location will be placed on an ever-growing virtual soundmap of Sydney.

The City Data Slam, run by creative producers at Carbon Arts, will bring together leading national and international data art practitioners to jam with Sydney’s sustainability data over the last weekend of ISEA 2013 in Object Gallery’s new workshop space, designed by ARUP’s urban informatics group.

Join dLux MediaArts and Dorkbot as part of ISEA2013 for Art Hackfest, an open-source hackfest that creates an environment for new artistic experiences and collaborations over two days. During this event artists, designers, techies and more will come together in Sydney and in the satellite locations of Darwin and Byron Bay to explore the participatory nature of technology and art.

For full program details visit www.isea2013.org.au. For registrations visit https://www.etouches.com/ehome/index.php?eventid=56480&.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its funding and advisory body.

This is the second of three program releases.
MEDIA KIT DOWNLOAD HERE
ISEA2013 Director, Jonathan Parsons is available for media interviews.

ABOUT ISEA INTERNATIONAL

Founded in The Netherlands in 1990, ISEA International (formerly Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts) is an international non-profit organisation fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organisations and individuals working with art, science and technology. The main activity of ISEA International is the annual International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA).

www.isea-web.org

ABOUT ANAT

Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) supports artists and creative practitioners engaging with science and technology, within Australia and beyond. Our innovative program includes immersive residencies, professional development labs, online research tools, publications, seminars and workshops. For over two decades, ANAT has strategically incorporated cross discipline collaborations into its programming to increase the benefits for the artists it supports.

www.anat.org.au

ABOUT VIVID SYDNEY:

Sydney will once again be transformed into a spectacular canvas of light, music and ideas when Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark from 24 May – 10 June 2013. Colouring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections; performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the Vivid Ideas Exchange featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers. Vivid Sydney is owned and managed by Destination NSW, the NSW Government’s tourism and major events agency.

www.vividsydney.com

CONTACT

ISEA2013       www.isea2013.org
ANAT              www.anat.org.au
TWITTER      @isea2013 | hashtag – #isea2013
FACEBOOK   facebook.com/isea2013

The 19^th International Symposium on Electronic Art presented by Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) and supported by Destination NSW to align with Vivid Sydney will showcase the best media artworks and future-focused ideas from Australia and around the world, Friday 7 to Sunday 16 June 2013 at venues across greater Sydney.

ISEA International, founded in The Netherlands in 1990, fosters interdisciplinary exchange among culturally diverse organisations and individuals working with art, science and technology. Last seen in Sydney in 1992, the annual International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) returns 21 years later to deliver another ground-breaking event.

In that time, digital art has moved from the margins to become part of the fabric of everyday life. At once ubiquitous and unnoticed, resistance to electronic art has proven futile — it now lies embedded in the heart of our contemporary cultures. The symposium events will infuse the city’s social, digital and physical infrastructure.

A highlight of the program is the Australian premiere of test pattern, a stunning large-scale immersive installation by renowned Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda. Carriageworks and ISEA2013, proudly collaborating with Vivid Sydney, the Southern Hemisphere’s largest celebration of light, music and ideas, co-present test pattern at Carriageworks from 8 June until 1 July 2013. Like many of Ikeda’s electrifying works, test pattern represents the intense energies of the massive data flows that increasingly shape our globalised world.

Ikeda recently staged a similar installation at The Armory in New York, described by The New York Times as a ‘sublime spectacle’ and ‘spectacular, trippy and fun’. New York Magazine described Ikeda’s work as ‘an extreme and elaborate visual and sonic environment’.

In addition to test pattern, Ryoji Ikeda will perform datamatics 2.0, a one-night only event at Carriageworks on the evening of Friday 7 June 2013. This is a new full-length version of Ikeda’s acclaimed audio-visual concert.

WATCH Ryoji Ikeda video 

Also central to ISEA2013 is a stimulating program of artists’ presentations, creative dialogues and critical debates that will unearth the latest thinking and ideas in contemporary culture.  The three-day ISEA2013 Conference will feature over 200 speakers, as well as eight 8 keynote addresses from global leaders in the fields of art, science, technology, media and communications.  Topics to be discussed include emerging cultural forms such as bio-art, data representation, robotics, augmented realities and urban and virtual ecologies.

The Opening Keynote address will be by Michael Naimark, a New York-based internationally renowned pioneering media artist.  The conference will take place from Tuesday 11 to Thursday 13 June at The University of Sydney.  Registrations for early bird discounts are available now, bookings are essential: http://www.isea2013.org/events/conference/.

The ISEA2013 TALKS PROGRAM, in collaboration with Vivid Ideas, will inspire new thinking and creative paradigms through provocative speakers such as Italian media critics and hacktivists Alessandro Ludovico and Paolo Cirio, whose infamous online project Face to Facebook involved stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition software, and then posting them on a custom-made dating website.

The ISEA2013 EXHIBITIONS PROGRAM, will showcase the works of over 150 contemporary artists from Australia and around the world in venues throughout inner Sydney, Parramatta and Campbelltown.  Exhibitions include: Experimenta’s Speak To Me at the Powerhouse Museum, Catching Light at Campbelltown Arts Centre, and Running the City at UNSW Galleries, COFA.

Performances and Workshops will engage and entice audiences at events including Night depot #3 at First Draft, Chip Music Festival, Breathing Monster featuring Myriam Gourfink and Kasper Toeplitz, and Theta lab featuring George Khut and James Brown.

Full details of these events will be profiled on the ISEA2013 website and we’ll be announcing more program highlights in coming weeks. Visit www.isea2013.org regularly to keep up to date with developments as they arise!

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its funding and advisory body.

The full ISEA2013 program will be announced in 3 program releases.

ISEA2013 Director, Jonathan Parsons is available for media interviews.

ABOUT ISEA INTERNATIONAL

Founded in The Netherlands in 1990, ISEA International (formerly Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts) is an international non-profit organisation fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organisations and individuals working with art, science and technology. The main activity of ISEA International is the annual International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA).

www.isea-web.org

ABOUT ANAT

Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) supports artists and creative practitioners engaging with science and technology, within Australia and beyond. Our innovative program includes immersive residencies, professional development labs, online research tools, publications, seminars and workshops. For over two decades, ANAT has strategically incorporated cross discipline collaborations into its programming to increase the benefits for the artists it supports.

www.anat.org.au

ABOUT VIVID SYDNEY:

Sydney will once again be transformed into a spectacular canvas of light, music and ideas when Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark from 24 May – 10 June 2013. Colouring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections; performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the Vivid Ideas Exchange featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers. Vivid Sydney is owned and managed by Destination NSW, the NSW Government’s tourism and major events agency.

www.vividsydney.com

CONTACT

ISEA2013       www.isea2013.org
ANAT              www.anat.org.au
TWITTER      @isea2013 | hashtag - #isea2013
FACEBOOK   facebook.com/isea2013

ISEA2013 SYDNEY |  FIRST PROGRAM RELEASE

This first round of program announcements features a diverse mix of local and international, early career and established groundbreaking artists at venues and events across greater Sydney:

Exhibitions
TEST PATTERN [NO.5] – RYOJI IKEDA Presented by Carriageworks and ISEA2013, 7 June
DATAMATICS [VER.2.0] – RYOJI IKEDA Presented by Carriageworks and ISEA2013, 8 June – 1 July
EXPERIMENTA SPEAK TO ME Presented by ISEA2013, June 2013
CATCHING LIGHT Presented by Campbelltown Arts Centre and ISEA2013, 1 June – 6 July
RUNNING THE CITY Presented by ISEA2013 and COFA at UNSW Galleries, 7 June – 27 July

Performances
NIGHT DEPOT #3 Presented by First Draft in association with ISEA2013, 15 June
CHIP MUSIC FESTIVAL Presented by Campbelltown Arts Centre in association with ISEA2013, 8 June
BREATHING MONSTER – MYRIAM GOURFINK & KASPER TOEPLITZ Presented by Performance Space and National Art School in partnership with Critical Path and Dancehouse in association with ISEA2013

Talks
MICHAEL NAIMARK – ISEA2013 KEYNOTE Presented by ISEA2013, 11 June – 13 June
ISEA2013 / VIVID TALKS – ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO and PAOLO CIRIO Presented by ISEA2013, proudly collaborating with Vivid Sydney, 8 June

Workshops
THETA LAB – GEORGE KHUT & JAMES BROWN Presented by ISEA2013, dLux Media Arts and The Rocks Pop Up (Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority), 7 June – 10 June
THE SUSTAINABILITY OF FUTURE BODIES – CRITICAL PATH Presented by Critical Path and ISEA2013 in partnership with Performance Space, 15 –20 June
MOTION CAPTURE OPEN LAB – GARTH PAINE Presented by Critical Path and ISEA2013 in partnership with Performance Space, 15 June – 16 June
THE DANCING BODY OF THE FUTURE PART II – PAUL GAZZOLA Presented by Critical Path and ISEA2013 in partnership with Performance Space, 18 June – 20 June
WRITING – MYRIAM GOURFINK Presented by Critical Path and ISEA2013 in partnership with Performance Space, 18 June – 20 June

PROGRAM: Stay tuned for more program announcements.

Visit www.isea2013.org and join the email newsletter list for regular updates.

In the meantime, if you are looking for travel tips and information on Sydney and Australia, please visit our partners websites:

If you have any questions, please contact isea@anat.org.au.

You now have an extra 2 weeks to upload your 300 word abstract, please submit your proposals at www.isea2013.org/submit.

If you have any questions for the Academic Committee, please email isea@anat.org.au.

Join us for informed dialogues, dynamic debates, enlightening keynotes and experimental incursions into the extensive and diverse practice of electronic media arts.

For more information on presentation formats and themes for the Symposium please visit, www.isea2013.org/conference and submit your proposals at www.isea2013.org/submit.

The deadline for conference proposals is Friday, 16^th November 2012.

Jonathan has over 20 years’ experience in festival directorship and management across the arts and cultural industries in Australia and the UK. He will work alongside Marcus over the next few weeks to get up to speed on all of the exciting projects in development and will join Ross Harley, Kathy Cleland and myself at ISEA2012 Albuquerque later this month.

If you are heading to ISEA2012, you’ll have a chance to catch up with the ISEA2013 team at our presentation at the ISEA General Meeting being held at the Albuquerque Museum (Special Events Rooms) from 11am-1pm, Thursday, 20th September 2012.  Alternatively, we will be hosting a meet and greet at QBar, Hotel Albuquerque (at Old Town) from 7pm on Thursday, 20th September 2012.

From October, ISEA2013 enquiries should be directed to Jonathan via email at jonathan@anat.org.au or via phone at the ISEA2013 office (+612) 9514 7958.

Regards
Vicki Sowry
ANAT, Acting CEO

If you have any questions in the meantime, please contact isea@anat.org.au.