National Institute for Experimental Arts
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Events

If you would like to receive invitations to upcoming events at NIEA, please send an email with your contact details to niea@unsw.edu.au

CURATING CITIES: COFA TALKS

 

WHEN: 18 October 2011, 6.30 - 8.30pm

WHERE: COFA, EG02 Lecture Theatre, Cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road


WHO: Professor Jill Bennett, Professor Richard Goodwin and Margaret Farmer

 

Try This At Home: A Curating Cities Exhibition @ Object

Haque: Design + Research, Natural Fuse, 2008. Photo: courtesy the artists

WHAT: Exhibition on Sustainability

WHEN: 8 October 2011 - 8 January 2012

WHERE: Object Australian Centre for Design, Project Space

ARTISTS: Haque:Design + Research, Slow Art Collective, Magnificent Revolution Australia and Makeshift

CURATOR: Margaret Farmer
 

REBAR Curating Cities Guest Lecture


WHEN: Wednesday 21 September, 6.00pm - 8.00 pm

WHERE: EG02 Lecture Theatre, COFA, UNSW             
              Cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, Paddington

WHO: Rebar

TITLE: Elasticity: User Generated Urbanism and the Adaptive Metropolis
 

NIEA EXPERIMENTAL ARTS DOUBLE CONFERENCE

Image: What a building desires, 2005. Excerpt from Richard Goodwin's Porosity Research into public space.

WHEN: 19-20 August  Main Conference (8.45am-7.00pm; 9.00am-6.00pm)

            17-18  August  National Postgraduate Conference (9.30am-5.00pm)
            
WHERE: John Niland Scientia Building
             University of New South Wales 

 

PhD Research Workshop: Cultural Activism and Visual Anthropology by Professor Faye Ginsburg, NYU


NIEA and Visual Anthropology/Visual Culture students are invited to a master class Workshop with Professor Faye Ginsburg, NYU.   This Workshop provides PhD students a rare opportunity to have their research projects individually engaged, and responded to, by Professor Ginsburg.  


Date: Tuesday 28 Jun 2011

Time: 11-1pm
Location: Room F219, COFA Paddington

RSVP by all PhD students in advance is essential:
Dr. Jennifer Biddle

 

Looking Again at Picasso's Guernica:Lecture by Timothy J Clark, Art Historian & Visiting Professor, University of York


WHEN: MONDAY 20 June 2011, 6.00-7.30pm

 
WHERE: Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
 
WHO: Timothy J Clark, Professor of Art History, University of York
 
COST: $20/$15 concession/ free for University of Sydney staff, students and  
            alumni/free for UNSW staff and students (identification required)
 
BOOKINGS: Seymour Centre box office. Phone 9351 7940 or book online

 

Scenario @ iCinema UNSW premiers at the Sydney Film Festival 8th-19th June 2011

Scenario, 2011. AI computer graphic interactive installation, Sydney Film Festival


A world first 360-degree 3D AI cinematic installation directed by Dennis Del Favero, is the result of collaboration with screenwriter Stephen Sewell, AI scientists Maurice Pagnucco, Anuraag Sridhar, Arcot Sowmya, Paul Compton, composer Kate Moore and a multidisciplinary team at the iCinema Research Centre, UNSW. 
 

 

Michael Nyman's "Cine Opera" at Sydney Park Brickworks

Still from "Cine Opera", Michael Nyman, 2010.


Cine Opera video installation is a series of short films created by Michael Nyman over the last fifteen years. These spontaneous visual diaries of everyday life are filmed by Nyman in locations throughout the world. Soundtracks to some of the films use location sounds, whilst others recycle existing scores from the composer's own archive, or a combination of both to create sound/score montages.

 

NIEA Winter Party at Sydney Park Brickworks

WHAT: NIEA Winter Party & Launch of Michael Nyman's Cine Opera
WHERE: Sydney Park Brickworks
WHEN: Thursday 26th May, 6-9pm
ENTRY: RSVP only

 

Materials: Objects: Environments -A HotHouse Workshop on Ecological Thinking

Paul Thomas and Kevin Raxworthy "Nanoessence:3D Environment representing 13 layers from progressive scans of a HaCat cell by an atomic force microscope 2009 (screenshot)
19 May 2011 Evening Keynote 7.15pm-9.15pm

20 May 2011 Full Day Workshop 9.00am-5.30pm
Lowy Centre Level 4 Kensington UNSW

Register and purchase tickets Standard $49
Student $39

 
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