dLux media arts is an incorporated, not-for-profit association which encourages the development and critical discussion of innovative film, video, new media and sound arts by emerging and established artists in Australia, and actively promotes and exhibits this work to diverse audiences nationally and internationally. It is the only organisation in New South Wales which has the expertise to undertake such programs in a sustained and systematic way. Click on the above logo for more information.
Mark brown - site audio, 3D sound & logistics
Mark brown is a Sydney based sound / installation artist exploring notions of site, architecture and sonic atmospheres. His work has evolved into a poetic response to site critiquing history, archaeology, the viewer and unseen and unheard phenomenon within space. His project sees him expanding concepts relating to architecture explored in his Master of Visual Arts research paper entitled Beyond Shelter.
Also involved
in contemporary sound and music technologies he has performed at the 2001
digital music conference Waveform held at The School of Contemporary Arts,
The University of Western Sydney and at Impermanent Audio a monthly experimental
sound art and performance event held at Imperial Slacks Gallery, Sydney. In
October 2003 he produced and performed in a sound event and exhibition entitled
METAKLANG at RMIT gallery in Melbourne.
Allan Giddy - electronics, light, vision & responsive systems The Team
Allan is a former winner of the prestigious Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship and also the Sherman Prize. He has exhibited in Australia, England, Germany, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Slovenia, and currently lectures in electronic sculpture at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW.
Allan's work investigates random interplay. The aesthetic is determined by a fusion of personal expression with mechanical and electrical pragmatism. This aesthetic is then allowed, indeed expected, to permutate as the work experiences both predicted and unpredictable interventions. Recent works, whilst sometimes irreverent and humorous, approach complex philosophical issues concerning the nature of time and light in contemporary society. Many of the pieces emit residue, which is then exhibited.
Related
work includes the construction of a sophisticated infra-red survey lance system
for "Minds Eye" at the paralympics, and in particular participation
in workshops for tour deluxe in Broken Hill.
Jamil Yamani - video systems, new media authoring
A self-professed 'citizen of the world', Jamil Yamani's work specifically focuses on the issue of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia. Concerned with the determination and current circumstances of citizenship, Yamani looks at the implications surrounding new arrivals. His project necessarily forces a questioning of personal identity and responsibility.
In a recent exhibition at Artspace Canter for Contemporary Art in Sydney entitled,10 km NW of Woomera, the audience is actively encouraged to 'search' through the gallery space. Initially confronted by an edited series of news items, the viewer is then drawn to a triptych of projection screens, revealing a deserted and vast interior of Australia. Surrounded by the sound of wind and underlying it the ocean (both calling forth feelings of movement and space) the installation culminates in a final 'hidden' resolution. Journeying through this series of images, the viewer is prompted to question their sense of self, enabling them to become asylum seeker, artist or politician. Bringing sharply into focus the status of different refugees, the project offers clarity on the dangers of retreating to a policy where refugees are an anonymous entity.
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