Join us for an exhibition preview with talks by featured artists as part of the group exhibition Image, Interrupted.

Image, Interrupted considers the ways in which contemporary artists use strategies of deflection, disruption and subterfuge to

trouble the data-generated image. The exhibition includes new and recent works of photography, painting, textile and video that find loopholes in the technologies that shape images today.

The talks will be followed by the exhibition opening, please RSVP.

Artists: Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer, Kiera Brew Kurec, Xanthe Dobbie, Ash Garwood, Maya Kilic, Ella Sutherland

Curator: Eleanor Zeichner
Exhibition dates: 13 February – 12 April 2024
Venue: UTS Gallery, Eora Sydney

Artist talk speakers:

Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer is an artist whose practice is concerned with the digital conditions of contemporary life. His practice engages with the cultural functions of imaging technologies and examines how networked cultures make use of the history of representation.

Xanthe Dobbie is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation in Naarm, Melbourne. Working across on- and offline modes of making, their practice aims to capture the experience of contemporaneity as reflected through queer and feminist ideologies. Drawing on humour, pop, sex, history and iconography, they develop shrines to a post-truth era. They have exhibited extensively locally and internationally with recent works including live-streamed theatre, interactive media, AR, VR, collage, performance and installation. Significant exhibitions include Matrix Re-Loaded at RMIT First Site Gallery (2023), Cloud Copy at Lismore Regional Gallery (2023), The Long Now at ACMI (2022), and Don’t Be Evil at UQ Art Museum (2021). Xanthe recently won the Incinerator Art Award for Social Change and in 2023 was Guest Editor for Runway Journal Issue #46 Ghost. They co-founded performance series Queer PowerPoint for which they have performed at major festivals and institutions including MCA, Sydney Opera House, WA Museum, RISING, and Now or Never. Xanthe is currently undertaking a PhD focusing on digital and interactive art at RMIT University as part of the ARC Linkage Archiving Australian Media Art: Towards a Method and National Collection.

Ash Garwood is interested in how photography and computer-generated images relate. Her conceptual photographs blend analogue and digital components, considering the landscape in relation to science fiction and a queer perspective. Her works often resemble classical landscape or still life genres, challenging photographic traditions through digital assemblages, which reveal their digital construction on close inspection. Ash has a Bachelor of Art Theory from UNSW, Honours in Photography from UTS and an MFA in Photography from UCLA. Ash's work has been included in exhibitions at the Aperture Foundation, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Australian Centre of Photography, Hazelhurst Gallery, Firstdraft, New Wight Gallery, PSLA, Artspace and others. She has been featured in Art Collector, and her work is held in various private collections in Australia and the USA, the Macquarie Bank Collection, Gippsland Art Collection and Artbank.

Image: Xanthe Dobbie, FutureSex/Love Sounds (video still detail), 2024, 2 channel video. Courtesy the artist.