Program T
hrough d/Tour, our touring exhibition program, we tour screen and digital media arts exhibitions nationally to regional galleries and cultural centres. d/Tour provides audiences and artists located outside of metropolitan centers the opportunity to engage with some of the best contemporary media arts from emerging and established Australian artists.
Our currently touring exhibitions are listed below. Click on the links for dates and locations.
GALLERIES: If you are based in Australia and looking to present digital media art, take a look at what's currently available for tour.
d/Art is a two-part screening program of fresh Australian video, curated by Tara Morelos as part of the d/Lux/MediaArts regional touring program, d/Tour, in partnership with Tweed River Art Gallery.
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.
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.
How have new media and digital technologies changed the way we think about portraiture, identity and faces? What new forms of audience engagement and interaction are made possible by these new technologies?
Face to Face explores new forms of portraiture that incorporate a variety of different technologies from digital prints to single channel digital video and interactive installations.
Face to Face currently touring Australia as part of d/Lux/MediaArts's d/Tour program, and touring Asia in partnership with Asialink.
Curated by Kathy Cleland
This new video work was shot in Broken Hill in 2008, with the support of the Broken Hill Art Exchange and our Residency Program. Inspired by the grandeur of its physical landscape and the unique place it occupies in our cultural consciousness, Angelica Mesiti used this outback mining town in the far West of NSW as the location for this video work.
Focusing on social groups both animal and human that inhabit an Australian outback town, The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day is a meditation on the connections that link them to their landscapes and therefore each other. Streams of pre nocturnal
Read more: The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day: Angelica Mesiti
After the Rainbow is a video installation that investigates the temporal dimensions of cinema. Through a reimagining of the initial sequence of The Wizard of Oz (1939), the fantasy world of cinema and the reality of Judy Garland’s sad life collide in much the same way as the worlds of Kansas and Oz in the original film. Instead of taking Dorothy to Oz, the twister transports a young, hopeful Judy Garland into the future where she encounters her disillusioned adult self.
This is Soda_Jerk’s second installment in ‘The Dark Matter Cycle’, a series of video remix works that mobilise the conceptual framework of time travel to explore the relationship of recorded media to the passage of time.
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.
A single screen/double projection installation that juxtaposes a filmed dancer with a poem - Reading the Body.
The installation offers a cinematic and spatial rendering of the body and the text of the poem. Inspired by the whimsical nature of the text, curious animations of bones and organs partner the dance, 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?