Join us for a night of celebration and performance as part of ISEA2024 (International Symposium of Electronic Arts) and our current exhibition r e a: NATIVE.

Alongside the official opening celebrations of r e a: NATIVE, four new projections developed through Griffith University's Creative Arts Research Institute (CARI) will be shown in the White Box Gallery.

WHEN: Wednesday 26 June 2024

Exhibitions open: 6-8pm
QCAD Courtyard cash bar open: 6-8pm
Speeches, to be opened by Wesley Enoch AM: 6.30pm
Performances: 6.45-7pm
White Box Gallery/CARI projections: 6-8pm

WHERE: Griffith University Art Museum / Queensland College of Art and Design
Griffith University South Bank campus, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, Brisbane

r e a: NATIVE
For over three decades, r e a, a descendant of the Gamilaraay, Wailwan and Biripi peoples, has worked at the forefront of Australian Indigenous new media theory and practice in Australia and internationally.

r e a: NATIVE comprises two interrelated installations delving into the historical and colonial archive. In the first room is a remastered iteration of r e a’s Native, 2013, a site-responsive sound and neon installation first developed as part of their Indigenous Artist Residency at the Blacktown Arts Centre in 2013. In the second gallery, Native (yugal/song), 2024, incorporates video and motion sensors that enable viewers to use their bodies to experience sound and to perceive it in a visual form. The conceptual and physical touchstone of both installations is the Blacktown Native Institute, founded in Parramatta in 1815 and relocated to Blacktown in 1823, one of the first sites in Australia where Aboriginal children were removed from their parents and institutionalised.

r e a: NATIVE coincides with ISEA2024 (21 - 29 June) which brings together artists, scientists and scholars from around the world to explore the intersection of art, science and technology. This year’s conference theme, Everywhen, explores the human perception of space and time. This word describes the notion that past, present and future are co-habiting in any given location. Several ISEA2024 projects will be on show throughout the QCAD campus.

Performances:

Modular Mechanical Systems: John R Ferguson and Nicole L Carroll

Phantom Chips: Tara Pattenden

White Box Gallery Projections:

Projection 1: Bones
Peter Thiedeke (QCAD), John Ferguson (QCGU) & Chris Stover (QCGU)

This collaboration weaves musical and visual arts together. Peter Thiedeke is an interdisciplinary image-maker whose practice is concerned with post-digital critique and urban acupunctural interventions in the city. John Ferguson is a post-digital/electronic musician and sound/multimedia artist who builds and performs systems that foreground tactile interaction; his work investigates the performance practice of electronic music and explores various exhibition and performance spaces. Chris Stover is a composer, trombonist, and music scholar; his research interests include philosophies of time and process, affect theory, gender, queer, and post-colonial theory, phenomenology, and critical improvisation studies.

Projection 2: Endless Moments
Music Non Stop (Andrew R. Brown (QCAD), DEFSTALKER & Nicholas Coleman)

Music Non Stop is an international generative music group experimenting with the making of music and visual art with code. Andrew R. Brown, Nicholas Coleman, and DEFSTALKR combine to bring decades of digital creative experience to bear on new generative works for digital media. They explore and experiment with code to create generative music and image works which appear to be alive and connect with people. It’s human nature to want more, and so Music Non Stop seeks to create works that extend the boundaries of conventional music forms using the latest digital tools and platforms.

Projection 3: Chanelling Dulcie's Piano
Vanessa Tomlinson (CARI), Jesse Budel, Greg Harm, Tangible Media

Using a personally significant, surplus-to-needs piano, this work translates the normally inaudible sounds of the flooding Murray-Darling river system at a billabong in Wilcannia, into a realtime composition; building a new musical language for the now decaying piano; using the river to teach the piano to sing. Partners - Creative Arts Research Institute, Clocked Out, Tangible Media, University of Adelaide, Harrigans Lane Collective

Projection 4: Co_Sonic 1884 km²
Robertina Šebjanič (Ljubljana)

CO_SONIC 1884 km² Artist (concept, sound & photo & video editing, execution): Robertina Šebjanič, Photo and video recording on the field: Miha Godec, Robertina Šebjanič, A.I. programming of audio: Moisés Horta Valenzuela, Voice: Polona Torkar, Zagi Zornada, Commission / Production of audio-video installation: Cukrarna Gallery 2021 / 2022 (Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana), Producer: Janja Buzečan, Co-production: Sektor Institute, Aqatocene Studio. Special thanks: to 1884 km² of riverbasin and the rivers, streams and lake: Trbuhovica, Obrh, Stržen, Cerkniško jezero, Rak, Pivka, Unica, Ljubljanica.