d/Art/2007 Festival

d/Art/07 Events:

d/Art/07 Launch
d/Art/07 Exhibition
d/Art/07 Forum
d/Art/07 Wolphin Screening
d/Art/07 Screen
d/Art/07 10 Year Anniversay

d/Art/07
13 July - 29 July

d/Art/07 provides audiences with a sophisticated point of entry to some of the best examples of
recent digital media works from Australia and overseas, complemented by a program of on-line and real world screenings, industry discussions, talks and public forums.

This year we examine the increasingly fragmented edges of the digital media world, where device shifting, bandwidth and media distribution technologies are fast becoming the key apparatus of contemporary screen culture.

d/Art/07 will also explore multi user online environments such as Second Life, and how artists are penetrating the ‘in world’ to access the new audiences and unique opportunities these spaces offer.



Matthew Swanson, Tic Tac Toe, still from video. Courtesy of the artist and the Pocket Film Festival.	Event: d/Art/07 Launch Where: The Australian Centre for Photography When: Thursday 12 July 2007, 6-8pm	The official opening of d/Art/07 at the ACP. d/Art/07 runs at the ACP from 13 July to 29 July, and this is where you can view selected works for web, selected works for mobile and second life machinima. Back To Top

JiHyun Ahn "Their Circumstances" 2007, still from web work.	d/Art/07 Exhibition Where: The Australian Centre for Photography When: 13 July to 29 July See "Venues" above for opening times. Admission: Free	Explore creative excursions into the web as a site for new screen experiences, see a selection of works made for mobile phones from the Pocket Film Festival, Paris, and machinima from the virtual world Second Life. The exhibition includes Second Life Tours, see d/Art/07secondlife above for details. Back To Top

d/Art/07 Forum - Supermodels Where: The Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington with International guest Brent Hoff of Wolphin Films When: Thursday 19 July 2007, 4-6pm Admission: Free So you've finished the video, entered it into a few film festivals and put your work up on You Tube so what happens next? In this year's d/Art/Forum we take a hard look at emerging and established business models for selling your short film and video. A panel of experts will discuss a range of models from limited editions, boutique video publications to mass online distribution where people pay to download video to their desktops. Whichever path you are thinking of choosing, this year's free d/Art/07 forum is a must for anyone who is looking at a professional career and taking advantage of new distribution opportunities Led by Brent Hoff of Wolphin Films, the Forum will include the following speakers: • Brent Hoff - Wholphin Films USA • David Geddes - Si-Mi • Raena Lea-Shannon - Frankel Lawyers • Barry Keldoulis - BK Gallery	Brent Hoff Brent Hoff is a writer, filmmaker, and the editor and co-founder of Wholphin DVD where he films drunk bees, crying competitions, and illegal trans-border volleyball matches. Before that he authored Mapping Epidemics, a book on pandemic disease transmission, made TV at The Daily Show, VH1, and Nickelodeon, and wrote articles about squid. He lives in San Francisco where he once saw a UFO. David Geddes David Geddes is one of the founders of Melbourne based company Si-Mi, a creative social network and digital content marketplace. Created by David Geddes, Andrew Kelley and Simone Govic, Si-Mi 's guiding principle is "Be Seen be Paid". At Si-Mi.com users upload, share and sell their content. Users can set their price and keep 70% of the net proceeds. All content can be voted on by the Si-Mi community in a social networking environment so that the most popular content is promoted to the front page for millions of visitors to see (and buy!). Users can upload in multiple formats and downloaders can watch videos in Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media formats and download to PC, PSP, iPods and other mobile devices. Raena Lea-Shannon Raena Lea-Shannon is a leading specialist in digital media and the arts. Raena commenced employment with Michael Frankel & Co. Solicitors in 1991, became Associate in 1992 and commenced as Partner with the formation of Frankel Lawyers in 2005. She has 20 years experience in copyright, media and entertainment law and sound knowledge of the new technologies industries through her active interest in digital media. She is a member of the New South Wales Society for Computers and the Law. In 2006 she founded the Open Legal Practice Standards Collaboration Org which was launched at the 2006 LinuxWorld Conference and Expo at the Sydney Convention Centre.	Barry Keldoulis Since his return to Sydney after nearly fifteen years in New York and Europe, Barry Keldoulis has worked in the museum and commercial gallery worlds, and in 2003 decided to open his own gallery to fill a gap in opportunity for young artists to exhibit between artist-run spaces and the major commercial galleries. He chose the transitional City of Sydney neighbourhood of Chippendale, and moved into the Danks Street complex in April 2004. From his boss and mentor Henry Geldzahler, Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for the City of New York and the first Curator of Twentieth Century Art at the Metropolitan Museum, Barry has adopted the maxim 'Art is what Artists Make', and, he says of the work he exhibits, this is what they are making now. Since Duchamp there exists the capacity for art to be something more intellectual than aesthetic, but his preference is for work that combines the two. From the Baroque inspired painterly photographs of Sarah Smuts-Kennedy to the photo-based paintings of Paul Wrigley and Jess MacNeil ( the pop-culture imagery of the former purloined off the net; the latter's work tenuously reconstructing memories from personal snaps) to the light sculptures of young urban Indigenous artist Jonathan Jones, Gallery Barry Keldoulis seeks to present a diverse range of contemporary art created by the best of the emerging generation. The aforementioned artists the gallery represents, while the programme draws widely on artists from overseas and around Australia. Back To Top

		d/Art/07 Wolphin DVD Screening When: Thursday 19 July 2007, 6:30-7:30pm Where: The Chauvel Cinema, Paddington Admission: $15 Adult, $12 concession-d/Lux members. Wholphin is a quarterly DVD magazine from San Francisco that takes it name and inspiration from the little known fact the Whales and Dolphins sometimes... you know, do it. It's kind of wrong, but it's kind of cool at the same time. Each Wholphin issue contains a mix of stuff by big names like Spike Jonze, with obscure performance artists; political docos and instructional videos next to snippets of foreign sitcoms, and all put together in a way that seems to work for the modern, attention deficit viewer.		In this screening Brent Hoff will be presenting a one hour compilation of short films from the Wolphin vaults. Image of Wolphin DVD Magazine cover, courtesy of Wolphin DVD Back To Top

SJ Ramir, Still from 'Departure', 2007.	d/Art/07 Screen Where: The Chauvel Cinema, Sydney When: Saturday 21 July 2007, 7pm Admission: $20 (includes d/Art/07 10yr Anniversary Party) concession-d/Lux members: $12	This year's d/Art/07screen was curated by Ricardo Felipe, and observation and representation of the human figure in the real world is a common theme of this year's compilation. These works also demonstrate some new expectations of what can be seen on today's screen.The screening will be followed by d/Art's 10 year anniversary celebration. Please note, the ticket for that event is for both the screening and the Anniversary Celebration! Download Exhibition Program here Back To Top

Turdhenge, Arahan Claveau / Steve Millar
Image courtesy of the artists

d/Art/07 10 year Anniversary

When: Saturday 21 July 2007, 9-10:30pm

Where: The Chauvel Cinema
Admission: $20 (includes d/Art/07screen)
concession-d/Lux members: $12

Join us after d/Art/07screen to celebrate the
10th anniversary of d/Art with a

POST-CINEMA EXPERIENCE

This will be your chance to acquire your very own piece of history as we'll be auctioning a number of artefacts donated by d/Lux/MediaArts members, including:

Posters from the Super8 Film Group and the Sydney Intermedia Network.
An extremely rare signed poster by seminal cyberfeminists VNS Matrix titled ‘The clitoris is a direct line…. to the matrix’.
Download a pdf about VNS Matrix here
An autographed copy of Dream Kitchen, Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski’s interactive CD Rom from the 90’s that explores the critical moment when domestic bliss collapses into chaos.
A signed copy of Rachel Scott’s Video ‘Hot Not’ from an edition of 6. Rachel Scott is an emerging and up and coming video artist from Sydney who we think is destined for very big things.
Download pdf about Rachel's work

The Evening will be hosted by the very charming Jaimie Leonarder and also includes special international guests (Brent Hoff From Wolphin), drinks, nibblies and perhaps even a bit of performance art (maybe... not sure yet)

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