PROGRAM 
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 toured Australia in 2010 as part of d/Lux/MediaArts's d/Tour program, and is currently touring Asia in partnership with Asialink. Prime Minister Julia Gillard opens Face to Face in Seoul as part of the “Korea-Australia Exchange Exhibition: Australia Digital Urban Portraits”. The exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of Korea-Australia diplomatic relations.
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.
This work is inspired by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov's “The Master and Margarita” and much of the action unfolds within the writer’s own apartment (the infamous apartment No.50 of 302-bis Sadovaya Street).
The Naughty Apartment is an exploration of architectural space in the realm of fiction and fiction within architectural space!
The Hong Kong Agent A cross-media multi-platform project. With outcomes including online - interactive/video-on-demand, handheld devices – mobile phones/games/media players, installation, radio, TV, cinema, DVD. At the heart of the project is a collection of episodes. Each episode follows the adventures of an enigmatic protagonist, simply referred to as 'The Agent'. His poetic renderings of what he experiences, and the stories and dialogues of numerous characters reveal the richly layered complex world of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong agent was presented at Gallery 4A, Sydney, as part of Art/Cinema.
In early 2010 we welcomed the wonderful mervin Jarman for a national speaking tour. mervin is a community art activist, interactive multimedia designer, human computer interface expert and was a core member of the mongrel Collective.
He is a particular kind of mongrel – a new breed of street art-activist emerging in new media and technology. In 2003 mervin initiated The Container Project, a community media lab in a 40 foot shipping container in rural Jamaica. The Container Project recently won the prestigious Stockholm Challenge Award.