transit lounge 2008

BERLIN / AUSTRALIA (MELBOURNE SYDNEY BRISBANE MUTTAMA PERTH)

In 2008, TRANSIT LOUNGE becomes an experiment in remote collaboration, as 15 artists work between Berlin, Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, on the evolution of a complex, emergent structure. The platform for this trans-disciplinary exchange is the TRANSIT LOUNGE website, powered by open-source, wiki software. An organic structure, the site grows in multiple directions as the content is layered and interlinked, tracing remote interactions and local interventions between artists. The latency of these dialogues across time zones and locations creates feedback loops (local interventions – web – local interventions) opening up spaces for mistranslation resonating between the different cities.

The multitude of inputs, exchanges, and disruptions will be distilled in an exhibition which opens at PROGRAM BERLIN on the 31st January, 2008 to coincide with transmediale.08. Here the variations will continue to multiply as the process is augmented by the actions of visitors to the space.

TRANSIT LOUNGE is a project by Katie Hepworth and Miriam Mlecek and involves the following artists:

Chris Bennie (Brisbane), Bianca Calandra (Berlin), Robert Curgenven (Berlin), Cat Hope (Perth), Tanja Kimme (Melbourne), Somaya Langley (Berlin), Sarah Last (Muttama), Silvia Marzall (Berlin), Ben Milbourne (Melbourne), Michael Prior (Melbourne), Lynda Roberts (Melbourne), Jodi Rose (Berlin), Sumugan Sivanesan (Sydney), Anna Tautfest (Berlin)

EMERGENCES

Program Gallery
Invalidienstraße 115
10115 Berlin
Germany

Vernissage/Exhibition Opening: 19:00, 31st January 2008
Opening Times: 14:00-19:00, 1st - 6th February 2008

Project Space
Bouverie Street
Carlton
Melbourne 3053
Australia


TRANSIT LOUNGE is a partner event of transmediale.08 CONSPIRE

TRANSIT LOUNGE would like to thank the Australia Council for their support.

dorbot in melbs

the suspect backpack at melbourne's dorkbot

4pm, Sunday 27th May, 2007
Level 1, 124a Johnston St Fitzroy 3065 (just east of Brunswick St).

The Suspect Backpack is a wearable mobile sonic media art experience,
providing a user with the opportunity for first-person interaction and
engagement. The work is intended for use in public space, and at the same
time as it creates a personalised intimate environment for the user, members
of the public become the unwitting audience. This [prototype] work utilises
proximity sensors, a laptop, a pair of speakers and a set of headphones to
navigate two spoken-word sound environments.
---> http://suspectbackpack.blogspot.com/

Somaya Langley is a sound and new media artist who has presented works in
festivals and conferences throughout Australia. Her work has been
commissioned by Experimenta and the National Film and Sound Archive. She was
a member of the sensor-trio HyperSense Complex, is one part of the duo
MetaSense and performs live electroacoustics under the pseudonym of ID-i/o.
For the past decade she hosted a radio program, SubSequence, on Community
Radio 2XX FM. In recent years she has been the National Library of
Australia's Digital Preservation Officer and in 2006 was the recipient of the Inaugural Friends of the National Library of Australia Travelling Fellowship to
research models for archiving complex born-digital objects, in California
USA.

just incase

plug 'n' play

moments from october

photos: Adam Nash (or someone else from the ANAT Lab)

dog bomb

still from a security camera performance, Swanston Street, Melbourne as part of the ANAT Create_Space 2005 New Media workshop.

(apparrently the small motor and spinning origami with 4 texta lid legs looked like bomb... the dogbot has now been donated to RMIT)

channelling (31)

my very funny cousin has a show on channel 31 in Melbs, Australia

the website for the show can be found at: http://www.theuglystick.com.au/

informing

papers written for the Vital Signs conference, held in Melbourne last year can be found at the Informit site:

http://search.informit.com.au/browsePublication;res=E-LIBRARY;eisbn=1921166118

spectrum of data at noisy white

if this could be my loungeroom...

data.spectra
White Noise - ACMI, Melbourne 2005

had the opportunity to see this work a few times - while in Melbourne last year - during various conferences and workshops. Meant that I had the room to myself for about 20 minutes on two separate occassions, which is rare to get such a long time alone in an exhibition space Have been thinking about it recently, and it just seems so 'right' - at least to me. The right sense of timing, the pushing of the boundary of the seemingly "digital horizon", the waves of numbers as phases shift from one to the other...

ah, so Japanese

[
data.spectra
Ryoji Ikeda, Japan, 2005
Video installation with multiple projectors, mirrors and 4 channel sound
data.spectra is a new work by Japan's leading electronic music composer, Ryoji Ikeda. An intensely bright, narrow screen spans the entire width of a darkened room. Upon moving closer, the screen reveals that the room's light source is a vast array of tiny digits, streaming across the surface, seemingly without end.
]

~liquid~~

Liquid Architecture 6 - Public Office, Melbourne, 2nd July 2005

mic-madness

the Make It Up Club last night in Melbourne, was a night to be remembered...

Arrived just as Gulpepsh from Osaka - masked by orange and black scarf bound around his head/face - beatboxed his way through the night with random screams, japanese opera, and some fucking hardcore mic shit (bassline, drums and other noises articulating the performance, all coming from the one source...). Apparrently refered to as Japanese terror-pop - whatever it is, it's just so engaging it becomes addictive.

For anyone around in Melb this week it's got the energy that a live performance should really have. He'll be performing tonight (Wed October 12) at PONY. The gig also has Steve Law, Sean Baxter and Stephen Richards doing some band-based music I've been told.

"Clash of the Dark Sci-Fi Titans"

____ __ __ _ _____
__ __________ _ _ __ __ _
_ ____ __ __ _
_____________plug n play this week :
___from the backstreets of bladerunner,
____ _____ __ __________ _ _
______grimey arcade sounds
__ stuttering electrics in the sky...
_______channelling the ghosts in the machine
___tickling the underbelly of the mothership
_____ __ ____ __ __ _ _
______ 'Science Fiction'
____________VS_____ _ _
____ _____ __ __ _ _
_____somaya langley ( canberra )
_____________&
___future eater ( collingwood )
______ _____ _ __ _ _
______pixels by jean poole,
____________farmed from fantastic planets,
_____and otherworldly electricities..
________________ _ _
__ __ _ _____
_ _ pnp: kent st cafe :: 201 smith st
_______ _ :: 8-11pm:: every thu :: free _ _
____ _ _ _____ _ _____ __ _

for those of you in melbourne this thursday 14th october...

Pluggaz N Playaz

too late to make it to the gig... however for those in Melb's, played a gig at Kent St Cafe, Smith St, with the following line-up:

dpwolf (Brunswick ) :: self-coded video madness
Somaya Langley (Canberra) :: hearty sonic-soup
Anthony Magen (Coburg) :: found sound regurgitations
Future Eater (World Of Warcraft):: stormy weather chillectro
Jean P00le (Collingwood ) :: fresh pixel booty