Friday 1st October 10.30am – 12pm

Panel

Artist: UTS Sound Collective

This panel will aim to address the current state of student work in the sound/media arts community, including addressing fundamental issues that face emerging artists and students alike, and how these issues can be accommodated.

Some of the questions this panel will attempt to answer include:

• How can we better encourage students and emerging artists to approach the scene?
• Why is it that students can study subjects and not practice them outside the class?
• What can we do to foster new emerging artists currently studying?
• What are the challenges of emerging artists and students?
• How can we accommodate these challenges?
• What resources are available?
• What challenges to student run artistic organizations face?

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Sunday 3rd October 10.30am – 12.30pm

Panel

Artists: Christian Moraga, Jonathan Papert, George Khut, Pia van Gelder, Sumugan Sivanesan

From Nintendo Wii remotes to analogue TV console games, come and see how artists and musicians integrate gaming technology into their own art.

A selection of artists and musicians discuss their own practices and other contemporary examples of incorporating gaming technology into musical and artistic expression, both in performance contexts, installation contexts and instrument device design. Examples range from analogue to digital technology; from musical instrument design to the integration of wireless remote technologies inside interactive art installations.

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Saturday 2nd October 11am – 1pm

Panel

Artists: Andrew Gadow, Pia van Gelder

A group of video artists and engineers discuss their practice with video instruments and performance.

The legacy of analogue video technologies within live instrumentation is something all these artists have in common. They practice a range of approaches in their work, from the use of video synthesis to creating crude and primitive switching devices.

Andrew Gadow creates his work with archaic video synthesizers in his own practice and in his video/audio performance duo PA. Pia van Gelder makes multichannel compositions to be performed on primitive noisy switching instruments.

The artists will discuss the embrace of the augmented and demented video signal and their synaesthetic practices and the ethereal qualities of ʻmachine visionʼ.

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Friday 1st October 3 – 4.30pm

Panel

Artists: Andrew Burrell, Ben Denham, Jason Tuckwell

Through an engagement with mathematics, neuroscience and the convergence of evolution and technology, the panel will explore some of the implications that an understanding of contemporary scientific disciplines has for creative thought and practice.

Ben Denham will outline how the brain can be seen as a medium that might be deliberately sculpted by creative practitioners; Andrew Burrell follows a narrative path through history into an imagined future as he investigates the fluidity of the self as a reality of the human condition; and Jason Tuckwell will discuss the consequences of examining Art for a topological model of thought.

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