dTour

dTour national touring programThrough our touring exhibition program, we tour screen and digital media arts exhibitions nationally to regional galleries and cultural centres. dLux provides audiences and artists located outside of metropolitan centres the opportunity to engage with some of the best contemporary media arts from emerging and established Australian artists.The following screening programs, exhibitions and installations are currently available for tour and can be tailored to suit any environment.

For all enquiries, please contact the Program Manager Cash Brown on 02 9568 1458

(UN)Seen Sculptures

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Curator: Warren Armstrong

Interactive digital sculptures are taking the world by storm... be a part of the action!

dLux MediaArts are currently working with augmented reality expert Warren Armstrong. We have developed a touring exhibition and call out for virtual sculptors to participate in cutting edge technological art with zero carbon footprint. See virtual sculptures located in a site specific installation. In or around buildings, in streetscapes, even in the middle of paddocks, these sculptures can go anywhere.

Sense of Place

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Sense of Place is an eight-part screening program Australian video, curated by Cash Brown in partnership with Museums and Galleries NSW, as part of the dLux MediaArts regional touring program. Over eight exhibition periods of six weeks, the work of eight artists including: Sarah Goffman, John A Douglas, Justin Shoulder and Kate Murphy will screen with a projected image or high-resolution monitor taking you on a journey into to the world of contemporary video art.

Sense of Place presents single channel works of art featuring the artists themselves as the protagonists, characters or as self portraits. Stepping beyond simply recording performances, these artists have engaged with screen based media on a variety of levels and exploring identity, historical positioning, reportage, cultural propriety and social paradigms.

The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeois Robot 2: Dr Wade Marynowsky

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By appropriating the title of the film The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (1972) Marynowsky pays homage to the surrealist film director Luis Buñuel. The film is about a group of upper middle class people attempting, despite continual interruptions to dine together. So what is Buñuel trying to say? That the bourgeoisie are charming because they have nothing to worry about except how and when they will dine together? Or that they are in fact hideous creatures with nothing better to do than waffle about?

The Garden of Forking Paths

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The Garden of Forking Paths exhibition draws together notable historic and contemporary computer games created by artists that push the bounds of the genre and break the orthodox set of rules. The presented pieces span the last three decades—from Jaron Lanier's 1983 Commodore64 game 'Moondust' through to Tale of Tales' 2009 release 'The Path'—a period which has seen incredible advances in technology and the birth of the information age.

All of the pieces in the show can be played by visitors, some on ‘antique’ computers that have been sourced so the older pieces can be experienced with authenticity. An extension of this exhibition is currently under development with more recent additions of current works to engage audiences with the latest innovations in contemporary practice.

When I grow up I want to be a video artist

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In association with Artbank

This exciting exhibition is comprised of ten video and new media artworks by leading Australian contemporary artists selected from the Artbank collection by Artbank’s Senior Curator. Diverse approaches to the medium are evident through works that incorporate digital animation, live action, portraiture, choreography and music. Two of the works incorporate eye-catching sculptural installation elements. All the selected artists started making video and new media art in the last decade, during which time access to digital technologies have broadened the appeal of this medium for artists and audiences alike.

This touring initiative features some of Australia’s most highly regarded artists including Angelica Mesiti, Gill and Dupont, Sam Smith, Jess MacNeil, Daniel Crooks, Joan Ross, Elvis Richardson and Hayden Fowler.

Drifting: Julia Burns

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Drifting, by artist Julia Burns is an immersive, 3-channel video-based installation, integrating real objects with full-scale interactive video characters in an expanded cinematic context.

Its core themes are domesticity and public access to private space. Viewers enter into a private domestic setting within the public space of a gallery challenging the division of the public and private domains. In an ironic twist, the same media that threatens privacy, is used to reproduce it.

d/Art on Screen

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d/Art on Screen is a two-part screening program of fresh Australian video, curated as part of dLux MediaArts' regional touring program.

Over two exhibition periods, the work of five artists: Angelica Mesiti, Alexis DeStoop, Soda_Jerk, Sue Healey and Daniel Mudie Cunningham, will cycle between projected image and high-resolution monitor taking you on a short journey into to the world of contemporary video art.

Reading the Body: Sue Healey

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In Reading the Body, a duet for dancer and animated anatomical imagery, Sue Healey offers a cinematic and spatial rendering of the body and a poem by Jenny Bornholdt (NZ Poet Laureate).

Inspired by the whimsical nature of the text, curious animations of bones and organs partner the dancers movements, revealing the body for scrutiny.

What are the collaborative narrative possibilities between text and movement? How does poetry influence the reading of the movement language? How do we read the body?