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Prosthetic Pavilion - video montage
Video by Darko Vukic, curator of the Prosthetic Pavilion, The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale 2017/18
Subvert the dominant paradigm (and build a better world while you're at it)
Graphic by David Quiles Guillo
Today is the last day of The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale Version 3 and what a buzz it has been! I am absolutely stoked to have been a small part of it, not just because it is the largest art event in world history, not just because it challenges notions of what art is and where it should be seen, not just because it is inclusive where unknowns like myself can rub shoulders with established practitioners and everyone in between, and certainly not because it is a trendy thing to do. It might be tempting to see The Wrong as simply about technology, and sure much of the art either refers to it or uses it as the preferred method of delivery, but there is an underlying humanity that pervades the Pavilions and Embassies where artists have melded science and creativity to comment on the direction of our society and the threats to our freedom of thought and expression. In doing so The Wrong is more about community, and the experience for those not only involved as participants but as audience has enabled people to reach out across a troubled world and feel like they are part of something not only special, but important. The event is also somewhat political. It hovers over the traditional power structures within the art world, not in an attempt to replace them but pointing out in some cases how anachronistic they have become, and to offer an alternative to those people who would otherwise never have had the opportunity to become engaged. The Wrong is not a pointer to the future. It is the art of NOW. To David Quiles Guillo and his crew for setting the whole thing up and Sava Zolog and his for the Prosthetic Pavilion I dips me lid. And, I can't wait for the next one!
Talking with Strangers
I have been asked a few times recently where my ideas come from and does my art have any meaning? So I thought I would write about process. First let me say that I am not interested in narrative film making. I am interested in the art of ideas. When people watch my films I want to convey a sense of mystery and often a sense of unease. I am also fascinated in film at how the human mind makes associations even though they may not be entirely intended. When I start a work I do not always have a preconceived notion of how it will end up. The work evolves. Even though not all of my films are made this way the following is not an uncommon example. My latest work Talking with Strangers began during the week with a message from sound artist APatch OfNettles via Facebook saying that I may be interested in a collaborative half hour radio 'collage' that had just been published by a group of Australian and British sound artists (including himself) known as Pangaean Permafaction. It was based on the HG Wells gothic story The Red Room. I listened to the piece several times, and, as so often happens images came to mind. I started thinking about red rooms initially and then empty rooms. However I wasn't going to tackle a half hour video 'illustrating' the piece. During creating and editing a film I might sit through the same footage 30 or 40 times, which is one reason why my videos are fairly short. The other reason is that with the average humans attention span I think it is testing one's patience (and mine) to expect that anyone is going to sit through long works when they are delivered on an online channel. After listening to the sound collage I began searching through my video libraries for 'rooms' and came across several clips. Along the way I stumbled across other bits of footage that I thought might be interesting one day down the track. In order not to forget the clips I had found that afternoon I opened up a new PowerDirector (my editing software) file and imported those clips so I would remember where they were. Late in the day I started throwing a few clips into the timeline and playing around with flips, chroma key transparencies and other techniques and thought that something interesting might be evolving. Next morning I reviewed what I had done, and found it interesting enough visually to continue experimenting. At this rough draft stage I also started looking for a soundtrack. I have a large library of sound files and usually first port of call are those artists I have previously worked with. I usually look for sound that is not too prescriptive, sounds that tend to defy categorizations of genre. Many hours were spent trying out different tracks before finding Keep a Float by andRetTheNettles. It's an instinctive 'got it' type moment when the piece starts to come together, and it is often around this point that 'meaning' (if indeed there is any) becomes apparent. From there it is a matter of tightening the editing to work in with the soundtrack, little tweaks here and there, bits added and removed before I run it past Joy, my principal adviser. If she gives it the nod then I publish as a password protected file on Vimeo and in this case message APatch OfNettles to preview and hopefully approve. He did. From there it is made publicly available on Vimeo and published to my website and the definite repository on the Internet Archive. In the case of Talking with Strangers it was a nice loop from the initial notification from APatch OfNettles to using one of his sound art creations. The process is simultaneously random and controlled, and fits in with one of the most basic of surrealist principles of 'chance encounters'. Logic has nothing to do with it. For the technically minded all footage is sourced from the Internet Archive, Vimeo, YouTube or supplied by collaborators. Sound files are sourced from the Internet Archive, Free Music Archive, Soundcloud, ccMixter, Jamendo or supplied by collaborators. All material is licensed under the Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike International licence and is distributed free of charge and available as downloadable files to be reused as you wish.
Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series, Taiwan 2017
My film 'Why is this happening?' is an Official Selection for this years Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series, Taiwan 2017. Shows September 27th in Hsinchu City...
Sun Dance
A celebration of life and the love of nature. Choreography and dance by Alina Stefan. Music by Alessio Lottero. Video by Bob Georgeson.
The Rock
The first part of an immersive environment concept for a planned exhibition of sculpture, video, sound and documentation by Bob & Joy Georgeson. The footage was taken at Camel Rock near Bermagui, Far South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. The rocks are 450 million years old. The Great Cormorants are the totems of this special place.
Dark Clouds Hang Above The Birds
A collaboration with Ann Key, musicologist, freestyle artist, poet and experimental music composer...
Flying Underground
Video made for Hidden Tribe. A mysterious journey through the centre of the earth from South Eastern Australia to the jungles of St Petersburg...
east street
A short film about hopelessness, despair, alienation and youth suicide and how our environment affects our well-being. Made in Bega, New South Wales, Australia.
Improvisation: Jamie Forbes
Video: Bob Georgeson
Sound: Calling Sister Midnight
Projection experiment #3
Photos taken from a day of video projection experiments to show scale and resolution...