Chauvel Cinemas Paddington
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the twelve works in this year’s program continue to provide both artists and audiences alike with an insight into the richness and diversity of contemporary video art. As a special event to celebrate our forthcoming 25th anniversary D>Art.05 will also feature D>Art Re>Mixed, a retrospective screening program of Australian and International short film and video works from our D>Art archive. |
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Name: Adam CostenobleNationality: Australia Biography: Adam Costenoble was a painter who crossed to the dark side early on in his studies at the School of Contemporary Art at the University of Western Sydney. Adam’s videos are often composited works that reflect his aesthetic style as a painter, which he describes as realist, figurative and fairly apocalyptic. In 2004 he exhibited twice at Firstdraft gallery as part of Video Nasty and Dysfunctional Feed. In 2004 Adam presented video works in several screening programs including Next Wave, Electrofringe, and the Blacktown Art Centre’s Out of Gallery exhibition. Most recently Adam exhibited at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art’s national graduate show Hatched 2005. Adam is also one of the founding members of the audio-visual artist collective Dysfunctional Feed. |
Synopsis: We are imprisoned by our own need for survival. Our potential for improvement and enlightenment is dampened by our materialistic desire to consume. The outer limit is a realm of no escape, and no return. Those that reach it only serve to reinforce the boundaries. NO MAN'S LAND exists within an originary world where one is stuck between reality, as we know it, and a deeper and subconscious world that is violently resisting the revelation of truth. It is the moment where one is suspended between life and death, the spiritual place between heaven and hell, enlightenment and everlasting suffering, and the physical place between hunger and satisfaction. I inhabit NO MAN'S LAND, it is this realm of un-belonging that I reluctantly call home. Back To Top |
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Name: Ryszard DabekNationality: Australia Biography: Ryszard Dabek is a Sydney based artist who has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally. In 2004 he completed a Master of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. Ryszard currently lectures in the Electronic and Temporal Arts Department at Sydney College of the Arts. His practice encompasses a number of forms and mediums including digital image manipulation, video, sound and interactive media. Much of Ryszard’s recent work coalesces around the notion of ‘landscape’ as both a genre and a medium for other lines of enquiry - formal, social and conceptual. Ryszard’s work includes the Australia Council funded Emptiness Project (Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney, 2004), the video Little Eyes (Move On, Video Art Festival, Seoul, Korea, 2004) and the interactive CDRom 1989 (Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2003). |
Synopsis: Shot from a train in the stark winter landscape of central France, who falls...was is conceived as both a meditation on the landscape as a reservoir of historical and psychic resonances and an exploration of the slippery nature of the moving image itself. At work within the piece is an aesthetic that flirts with the disassembly of the very flow of the moving image. The speeding motion of the camera is reduced to a series of smeared instances each giving way to the next in a process that occupies the edge of movement. It is a system of images that threatens to collapse under its own weight as the instances of time are stretched and blurred. The work is intended as an attempt to decode the landscape, to tap the historical resonances that lie in such movement/s. Rather than using the landscape as a prompt for direct historical narrative or speculation, movement itself becomes the key to this process. Back To Top |
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Name: Video DiabolicoNationality: Australia Biography: For the past three years Video Diabolico has shown its unique brand of video art at festivals, launches and seminars to the delight of mixed audiences. The shows combine studio sets, models and art |
clips featuring animals and oddballs edited with a fresh comedic style and a great musical rhythm. Video Diabolico is the brainchild of three independent film and video makers from varying backgrounds based in Australia. Synopsis: A horse on speed is a racy steed. Back To Top |
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Name: Tina Gonsalves and Takeko AkamutsuNationality: Australia Biography: For over a decade Tina Gonsalves has been using the fluid and malleable medium of video to explore complex emotional landscapes. Rich and painterly video abstractions evoke intimate associations with personal space, supernatural forces, and intense experiences of transformation in times of trauma. Most recently Tina has been collaborating with artist/engineer Tom Donaldson on responsive video projects including Medulla Intimata: responsive video jewellery, supported by the Australia Council, Arts Queensland, Artsway and co-produced by the BMNI. This work is currently being adapted to work on mobile phone platforms. Tina has taken part in many ‘artist in residence’ programs and her |
works have been screened at many prestigious international and national festivals and events. Synopsis: This video explores shifts of realities. Using the real world as the point of departure, Somewhere In Between takes visions of horizons taken around the world at twilight. Mixing misty lakes in Scotland with the polluted waters of Bombay, tropical waters of the Caribbean and the muddy waters of Northern Australia. These visions are then broken down, whittled away and recon-figured to make another reality. They are manipulated such that their details become indistinct, leaving them barely discern-able as seascapes. These revisions reflect our tenuous hold on memory, the impact our emotional state can have upon the past and present. Back To Top |
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Name: Ian HaigNationality: Australia Biography: Ian Haig works across various media including installation, animation, sculpture, web, video and drawing. Ian’s work explores the more perverse side of the human body\\\'s relationship with technology and the everyday world. Themes include devolution, the psychopathology of machine culture and mutation. Ian’s work has been exhibited in galleries, video festivals, adult cinema video booths, the web and adult |
entertainment expos and has been included in exhibitions at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art - New York, Sexpo - Melbourne, Artec Biennale - Japan, Centre Georges Pompidou - Paris, The Erotic Museum - Los Angeles, Art Museum of China - Beijing and The European Media Arts Festival - Germany. In addition, Ian’s animation and video work have screened in over 120 festivals internationally. Synopsis: Flesh coloured sexy appliances designed to increase auto satisfaction. whirrh, whirrh, hot, hot, sexy Back To Top |
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Name: James HancockNationality: Australia Biography: James Hancock is currently working across all types of media in both art and design practices. James' work draws together heterogeneous elements taken from found objects, hand-generated content, |
photographic experiments, and other playful sources, all recast in a practice that employs his graphic design training to more poetic ends. Synopsis: QUIFF is an animated loop that begins a series of work that plays with the animation of typically semi-static parts of the body. Back To Top |
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Name: Ada HenskensNationality: Australia Biography: Ada Henskens is currently undertaking her PhD in Fine Arts. Ada works across media and is from a drawing and painting background. Ada likes to ask questions, is a sci-fi fan and dabbles in philosophy, physics and comedy. Ada likes to live simply and close to nature - money is necessary to buy materials to explore ideas with her iMac and what limited equipment she has. Talking to people is great too, she says. |
Synopsis: The work is on the flux between light-flow and how the brain interprets this in the light of evolution, cultural influences and personal obsession. Blown up fragments of images taken from everyday surroundings are processed through media that includes digital video and film editing software (iMovie and Final Cut Pro 3) transforming the fragments into a psychological event. Elements of fantasy and sci-fi may creep in, according to what colours the viewer's daily life. As the viewer watches the work, they are invited to speculate about the forms, space and colour they are viewing and the possibility that other realities may exist. Back To Top |
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Name: Hobart HughesNationality: Australia Biography: Hobart Hughes arrived in Sydney in 2003. Hobart had been living in a remote shack in the highlands of PNG for twelve years. Whilst there he developed a unique wood carving style inspired from his contact with the highlanders and his memory of a book on Gothic sculpture from his childhood. Hobart blends his sculpture with animation in startling installations. To date these installations have been rare and produced under an alias. The impetus for this blend of ancient and modern technologies is that the new digital technologies allow for the reconstruction of limitless boundaries that |
echo our dreamscape. Hobart has a deep and abiding interest is dream logic, ancient cultures and the slippery nature of truth. Synopsis: A shadow self wanders and digs. Dependant on the sun, he cannot function away from the light. He however, is not benign. Searching for something this ego with no purpose, a daytime ghost of a personality. Aimless in his collecting he is only motivated by the intrusion of a living walking human. We don\\\'t know why but the shadow self is incensed by this presence. His collecting takes on new zeal. Gradually he assembles a metal body with which he extracts terrible vengeance on the only human he seems to come near. This is a cautionary tale of the plots and plans of a vane and disconnected element of a person. Back To Top |
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Name: Bradley LovettNationality: Australia Biography: Bradley Lovett is a Sydney based artist working within time-based art. Bradley is currently a student at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. His work focuses on anti-intellectual, meaningless iconography, utilising anti-realistic 3D animation as a medium. |
Synopsis: Oggymooton is a tour of an American town designed by a 5 year-old boy containing the most meaningless iconography possible. The work is a tour of the town, exploring the utterly ridiculous and banal characters, utilities and businesses within - uselessness is the main priority. Back To Top |
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Name: Jeanette PurkisNationality: Australia Biography: Jeanette Purkis is a visual artist who works in video and text-based installation. Jeanette's work deals with issues that arise from her past such as criminality, drug use, involvement in socialist political activities and queer encounters. Jeanette has shown in a number of artist-run galleries in Melbourne including Clubsproject, Platform and LOOP. Jeanette has also had films screened in public in Melbourne such as Driver Lane. |
Synopsis: This work consists of a series of still shots taken from my collection of family photos. All contain an image of myself and all are blurred to suggest the elapse of time and blurring of history through memory. The voice-over is a 'confession' of my various transgressions, ranging from the banal to the criminal. In this work I am interested in conveying ideas of self-improvement inherent in the act of confessing, although not from the point of view of religion or spirituality. Back To Top |
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Of Fine Arts, UNSW in 2005. Khaled partook in the installation/mixed media commission '3li' for Casula Arts Centre and Campbelltown City Gallery in 2005. Synopsis: In Between there's no in Between. Back To Top |
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Name: Glen StewartNationality: Australia Biography: Glen Stewart graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Western Australia in 2003. Glen is interested in the history of media cultures, particularly the relationship between 17th century Baroque illusionism and contemporary digital technologies and the sensory parallels transmitted via these alternate media interfaces. Recently Glen has been exploring this interest through a series of site-specific installations which attempt to re-interface historical illusionism and transpose it into the realm of the digital. For example, scanning various paintings and manipulating these through pro-filmic or digital devices to extend heighten or re-mediate their formal, material and spatial structures. |
Synopsis: Retrocognition refers to a kind of clairvoyance popularised in the 18th and 19th centuries where an individual might spontaneously experience past events via psychic means. This experimental film explores the illusory qualities of digital technology and the possibility of transmitting an aura of the supernatural. As Baciccia's Baroque ceiling fresco, Triumph of the Name of Jesus is filmed through water, its painterly and illusory qualities are altered and extended, giving rise to a ceaseless emanation of eerie blue imagery. A seamless saturation of transient Baroque imagery ensues, modulating from fast to slow, clarity and obscurity, concrete and abstract, Baroque and Neo-Baroque. Similarly the work offers alternate levels of illusionism, which appear to shift or morph between seventeenth and twentieth century art historical circumstances, from the virtuosic realism of the 1670s, to the Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s. Back To Top |