Performances

24 - 16 May - Jun

Body Fluid II (redux) - John A Douglas

Carriageworks
Body Fluid II (redux) is a performance and video installation in which the artist presents the monotony of his daily dialysis treatment as a sublime act of self-transformation.

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30 - 16 May - Jun

EBEMU - Experimental Body Extension Manufacturing Unit

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
In the Experimental Body Extension Manufacturing Unit (EBEMU) ideas about physical body extensions are explored, and prototypes of ‘Wearable Hybrid Body Augmentations’ partly made from discarded material sources are constructed.

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7 - 10 Jun - Jun

Theta Lab - George Poonkin Khut and James Brown

MCA, Shop 2.05
Theta Lab is an experimental art research project combining neurofeedback with participatory art, electronic music and ‘slow design’ to explore and document qualities of attention and subjectivity facilitated by Alpha/Theta brainwave biofeedback.

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7 Jun

datamatics 2.0 - Ryoji Ikeda

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

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7 - 8 Jun - Jun

The Seymour's New Wave: Sound

Seymour Centre
The Seymour’s New Wave: Sound program is a two day intensive program featuring emerging and established music artists showcasing their most innovative work.

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8 - 16 Jun - Jun

Touchy - Eric Siu

Venues
Touchy is a wearable device that literally transforms a human being into a functioning camera.

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8 - 28 Jun - Jul

Streaming Museum

The Concourse, Chatswood
Urban Screen Productions and Streaming Museum is pleased to present at ISEA2013 Sydney, a special collection from Nordic Outbreak, an exhibition of over 30 moving image artworks by established and emerging contemporary Nordic artists curated for public space.

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8 Jun

Chip Music Workshop / Pixel Sound Festival

Campbeltown Arts Centre
Chip Music Festival 2013 is presented by Campbelltown Arts Centre in association with ISEA2013, as part of the Catching Light exhibition and the centre’s Contemporary Music Program.

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8 - 16 Jun - Jun

The Portals

Sydney / Darwin
The Portals is a curated media arts program of five telematic works linking the two cities of Darwin and Sydney, connecting the two communities in realtime through networked and interactive artworks which require high speed broadband.

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11 - 13 Jun - Jun

Don't Resist: Hug@ree

The University of Sydney
Who can resist hugging a tree?! Trees have enormous power, but are also vulnerable to human action; when hugged in public they can become powerful symbols for environmental activism.

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11 - 16 Jun - Jun

Deviator - pvi collective

National Art School
Prepare for citywide disruption as Australia’s notorious tactical media art group pvi collective takes over the streets of Darlinghurst.

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12 Jun

Is Starlight A Wifi Signal? - The Portals (LIVE)

Sydney / Darwin
Talking through the stars ... Is Starlight a Wifi Signal? is a meditation in which the artists question what it means to be human through a poetic account of how we automatically engage with ubiquitous transmissions ...

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13 Jun

Metaverse Makeovers in The Portals (LIVE)

Sydney / Darwin
This cross-cultural, transnational, inter-disciplinary team of specialists fuse knowledge of emerging technologies and Augmented Reality (AR), app development and user experience design to deliver social and immersive mobile experiences.

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13 Jun

Macrophonics II

University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Macrophonics II presents new Australian work emerging from the leading edge of performance interface research. The program addresses the emerging dialogue between traditional media and emerging digital media, as well as dialogues across a broad range of musical traditions.

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14 - 16 Jun - Jun

Breathing Monster - Myriam Gourfink and Kasper Toeplitz

National Art School
From one of Europe’s leading choreographers Myriam Gourfink and acclaimed Polish-French composer Kasper Toeplitz comes Breathing Monster, a synthesis of hypnotic sound and uncanny physical movement.

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15 - 16 Jun - Jun

The Musical Metacreation Weekend 2013

Venues
Musical Metacreation describes the process of making software that in turn makes music, partially or entirely by itself.

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15 Jun

Night Depot #3

Firstdraft Depot
Firstdraft, in association with ISEA2013, present this new edition of Firstdraft's NIGHT DEPOT series.

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15 Jun

Polysonics

Studio 22, ABC Ultimo
Six sound-based performance works presented by ISEA2013 and the ABC

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