This December, head to Federation Square and check out Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart's new Next Wave Time Lapse work, A Someone Else's Problem Field.
A Someone Else’s Problem Field is fiction disguised as reality. It is a simple sleight-of-hand act that invokes the wonder and curiosity of childhood to re-imagine what the world is, and could be. Devised and created by Adelaide-based artist Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart, this Next Wave Time Lapse work for December takes Federation Square as its subject, and, through creative use of the Square’s live camera, morphs and warps the space’s surrounding buildings. It is, as Lachlan himself describes, a work based on childhood fantasy and the extremes of imagination.
Artists’ Statement
Within my public media arts practice I’m particularly interested in stimulating the imagination of people to help them to rediscover their urban environments. By doing this, I also look to facilitate collective communal experiences that exist outside conventional arts spaces. In the tradition of many digital and non-digital public intervention artists, A Someone Else’s Problem Field is simply an illusionist magic trick that only exists as an artwork through the experience of its audience.
Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart November 2009
A Someone Else’s Problem Field
5:30pm to 6:30pm every Thursday, through December
(NOTE: Thursday 17 Dec’s screening has been moved to Friday 18 Dec)
A new work on the Big Screen at Federation Square
First screening Thursday 3 December 2009
x:machine's Straight to the 'Art, in the Age:
Our October Next Wave Time Lapse artist Isobel Knowles has earned a great review of her screen art animation I fell off my bike, in RealTime:
"Isobel Knowles’ I fell off my bike is such a wonderfully cathartic work. You can sit back and enjoy the spectacle of a bunch of smugly complacent bike boys and girls hit the deck in a carnival of lovingly rendered accidents. I fell off my bike can be read as an allegory of ill will, a guiltless ‘schadenfreude’ directed at the lycra set."
Read the complete review HERE.
Screening every Thursday, this November:
Straight to the ‘Art
by Olivia Crang & Jarrod Factor
An X:MACHINE Production
Straight to the 'Art is a hands-on, one-of-a-kind public art project, where YOU change what you see.
In one of the first ever projects to make use of Federation Square’s Big Screen interactive capabilities, Straight to the ‘Art presents Circi Unit 1.0: an onscreen interactive fem-bot, that responds to your SMS messages.
Audiences are invited to text their daily reflections, secrets, thoughts, feelings and messages to Circi Unit 1.0. The cyborg reacts to each message with a range of pre-programmed emotions. Over the two hours Circi Unit 1.0 is on the Big Screen, these messages will collate, building up a complex insight into the collective minds and moods of Melbourne.
Straight to the ‘Art
5:30pm to 7:30pm every Thursday, through November
An interactive work on the Big Screen at Federation Square
First screening Thursday 5 November
Visit Fed Square and SMS 0413 333 021 to interact
Also streamed online at www.straighttotheart.com
Re-cap
Some Next Wave Time Lapse images collected to-date:
Wednesday 30 September 2009
Sam Smith's Into the Void, 2009.
Tuesday 1 September 2009
Zoe Scoglio sees things in rocks. In a new video triptych titled Rock Bodies, opening this Thursday at Federation Square, 6 August at 5:30pm, Zoe has envisioned torsos and faces that fade in and out of basalt and granite crstals, and evoke our pre-life origins.
The artist’s spellbinding works feature on the Big Screen, the Atrium screen and the East Shard Building at Fed Square, and run for an hour across the sites from 5:30pm every Thursday through August. Rock Bodies was made especially for Next Wave Time Lapse, and seems to be born from the angular architecture of Fed Square itself.
Inspired by the geological and geometrical structures at Federation Square, Rock Bodies attempts to weave itself into its surrounds and invite passers-by to take a second look.
Rock Bodies is a site-specific video and sound trilogy involving the ongoing transformation of its subjects between human and rock form. Using salt as a key inspiration, Rock Bodies seeks to forge relationships between the human form and the earth through the minerals and processes we have in common. While being a playful and fantastical work, Rock Bodies looks to remind its audience about their inherent connection with the earth in these times of environmental devastation.
These works explore the idea that earth is a place from which we come and not just a place we happen to inhabit. Our dislocation from the earth contributes to our destruction of it.
Zoe Scoglio's Rock Bodies
On the Big Screen, the Atrium screen and the Melbourne Visitors’ Centre internal screen at Federation Square, every Thursday in August.
(Map, PDF, 495 kb)
5:30 to 6:30pm
Thursday 6 August
Thursday 13 August
Thursday 20 August
Thursday 27 August
IMAGE: Zoe Scoglio, Rock Bodies, From earth we come, to earth we go, 2009. Video still.
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Friday 10 July 2009
Eric's work now online
Check out a preview version of Eric Bridgeman's Next Wave Time Lapse work for June, Gayer than All the Rest, HERE.
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Friday 3 July 2009
Tom Hall's Subtle Disparity, luminous and large in the winter night
View more images of the screening here.
Read more about Tom's work, including how he made Subtle Disparity, here.
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Tuesday 30 June 2009
The Premiere of Subtle Disparity - this Thursday 2 July
Launching this Thursday 2 July at 5:30pm at Fed Square is a new work by Brisbane-based artist Tom Hall titled Subtle Disparity.
Tom Hall has ingeniously drawn on the sounds of Federation Square to create a beautiful new video work. It is the second work in Next Wave’s year-long program Next Wave Time Lapse, and is an atmospheric work projected large into the winter night at Fed Square.
About Subtle Disparity
Using the shifting sounds of Federation Square to manipulate video footage of the site, Subtle Disparity is a rich, sensory, experimental video that presents an abstract layering of colour, space and light. It is a translation of the peripheral environments that exist in and around Federation Square.
Allowing the content to dictate its own aesthetic direction, artist Tom Hall has employed a series of studio-based processes that allowed the development of intricate audio/visual feedback loops. In this way the work is a direct organic representation of its surrounds.
With a painterly aesthetic and a mutating array of colours and forms, Subtle Disparity is a silent work that suggests different passages of time and motion interwoven with the architecture of Federation Square.
DOWNLOAD the Next Wave Time Lapse media release for July HERE. (One page, PDF, 400kb)
IMAGE: Tom Hall, Hankyu, 2008. Video still.
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Tuesday 16 June 2009
“A crisply shot, devastatingly messy, horribly insightful, hip, freakish, camp grenade thrown straight at the homosexual heart of Australian sport.”
Eric Bridgeman's work, Gayer than All the Rest, currently screening every Thursday at 8pm Fed Square this month, was very well reviewed in the Sunday Age on the weekend:
Thanks to Age reviewer Penny Modra for her generous words.
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Friday 5 June 2009
The night that was
Eric Bridgeman's Gayer than All the Rest was luminous, loud and lewd on Fed Square's Big Screen last night. Sure, it was a bit nippy down there in the Square but, as you can see in this little bit of video magic we've put together, it attracted a healthy bunch of random gawkers:
Afterwards, we (artists and Next Wave staffers) all rolled on to Misty, in Hosier Lane, where we caught up with a chatter (a collective noun, maybe) of other Next Wave Festival artists, past and future. A jolly good time was had by all.
Eric's work is on again, next Thursday 11 June at 8pm, Fed Square. Do. Not. Miss. It.
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Thursday 4 June 2009
It all starts tonight
Eric Bridgeman's work, Gayer than All the Rest, screens tonight on Federation Square's Big Screen at 5:30pm, the first work in our year-long program of screen art.
Screening throughout June 2010 on the Big Screen, Federation Square.
5:30pm, Thursday 4 June
8pm, Thursday 11 June
8pm, Thursday 25 June
Artist's Statement
"Gayer Than All The Rest interrogates protocols of heterosexuality, hyper-masculinity and social behaviours common in the Australian NRL football code. Starring fictional character Billy Boo Boo and a number of team mates, the video also features a character inspired by Tina Turner shaping and preparing these working class warriors for battle in the big game. Through performative discussion, this work reconstructs significant historical moments of the NRL aiming to explore the fundamental mechanics of gender, race and sexuality that prevail in the construction of the great Australian game."
Eric Bridgeman 2009
IMAGE: A still from Eric Bridgeman's work, Gayer than All the Rest, 2009. Part of Next Wave Time Lapse.
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UPDATED: Tuesday 2 June 2009
Artist Tom Hall, Posting Upates
Brisbane artist Tom Hall, our Next Wave Time Lapse artist for July 2009, is currently posting updates that document the development of his Time Lapse work, Subtle Disparity, both here and over at his website www.tomhall.com.au/blog.
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Tuesday 26 May 2009
NWTL Program Now Live
The Next Wave Time Lapse program is out now, and you can download it here (pdf 1.3MB).
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Wednesday 1 April 2009
Next Wave Time Lapse artists announced
Next Wave is excited to announce that 12 artists will now be developing brand new work for Next Wave Time Lapse.
The full program, which will launch at Fed Square on Thursday 4 June 2009 and run through to the 2010 Next Wave Festival, will be announced very shortly. The artists are:
2009
June - Eric Bridgeman (QLD)
July - Tom Hall (QLD)
August - Zoe Scoglio (VIC)
September - Sam Smith (NSW)
October - Isobel Knowles (VIC)
November - X:MACHINE (Olivia Crang & Jarrod Factor) (VIC)
December - Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart (SA)
2010
January - Soda_Jerk (NSW)
February - Peter McKay (SA)
March - Jimmy McGilchrist (SA)
April - Kotoe Ishii (VIC)
May - Grant Stevens (QLD)
(The 2010 Next Wave Festival will run from 13 to 30 May, 2010.)
Email Next Wave.
Friday 9 October 2009
Isobel Knowles' I fell off my bike is a painful expose on stacking your bike. It's almost unwatchable, yet strangely addictive. This is what Rachel Elliot-Jones at ThreeThousand.com.au said about it recently:
"If you consider yourself a true Melbourne denizen, then no doubt you are familiar with the humble pushbike. You guys have had some good times, some memorable times, but sometimes you've had your differences and you (the singular you) got thrown to the curb, literally. I Fell Off My Bike is a series of hand-drawn and computer-animated biking mishap stories, inspired by Isobel Knowles' own personal flight over the handlebars, and that universally relatable feeling of imminent injury. Those of you also familiar with Fed Square and the usually average stuff screening down there will be happy to learn that this is definitely not average, and you should probably work it into your October at least once.
I fell off my bike is screening every Thursday this month, from 5:30 to 6:30pm, on the Big Screen at Federation Square. Click HERE to view documentary footage of Isobel's work, as well as past Next Wave Time Lapse artists' works.
Wednesday 30 September 2009
Isobel Knowles' I fell off my bike premieres this Thursday at Fed Square
Created by Melbourne artist and animator Isobel Knowles, I fell off my bike is a darkly hilarious and compelling collection of animated vignettes that capture moments of imminent injury. The six different sequences in the video are based on bike accidents that either Knowles herself has experienced, or that have been relayed to her:
“Whenever I fly over the handlebars there is a long moment between when I know I have lost control and when I actually hit the ground, where things slow down and there's time to think about what's going on. It's an exhilarating moment between being intact and lying in a heap of injured limbs and broken bicycle.”
Artist Isobel Knowles
I fell off my bike is a vivid collection of hyper-coloured animation, hand-drawn and computer animated, made especially for the Big Screen at Federation Square. By using real cycling mishap stories, the work taps into Melbourne’s current craze for cycling, and the pain we have all inevitably felt when experiencing injury on the city streets.
About Isobel Knowles
Isobel's multidisciplinary practice encompasses animation, music video, installation, visual art, film soundtracks and music. She has screened, exhibited and performed nationally and internationally, most notably at the ICA, London; the Seoul New Media Biennale, Korea; and, in Melbourne, at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image; West Space; and BlackBox Theatre at The Arts Centre.
Isobel Knowles' I fell off my bike is on the Big Screen at Federation Square this Thursday, 1 October 2009 from 5:30 to 6:30pm. Then, again every Thursday through October.
Friday 25 September 2009
Sam Smith's Into the Void, 2009.
Sam Smith, Into The Void (2009) Excerpt from Sam Smith on Vimeo.
Wednesday 16 September 2009
Into the Void reviewed in The Sunday Age:
Tuesday 8 September 2009
Sam Smith's Into the Void, now screening
Thousands of innocent passersby caught Sam Smith's new Next Wave Time Lapse work at its premiere last Thursday evening at Federation Square. Depicting an artist's journey into New York, Into the Void is an evocative work of art that features the island of Manhattan in all its concrete glory.
Into the Void screens for three more Thursdays, from 5:30 to 6:30pm, through all of September.
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Tuesday 1 September 2009
Sam Smith's Into the Void premieres this Thursday at Fed Square
Presented on Federation Square’s Big Screen, Sam Smith's Into the Void is a beautifully cinematic work that uses video special-effects to wryly critique romantic and anachronistic ideas about the transformative power of art.
Shot on location in New York City, the work responds to Yves Klein’s seminal 1960 work Le Saut dans le Vide (The Leap into the Void). At the time of its making Klein said: “To paint space, I owe it to myself to go there, to that very space... without illusions or tricks, nor with a plane or a parachute or a rocket ship: [the painter of space] must go there by his own means, with an independent individual force, in a word, he must be capable of levitation.”
Into the Void takes this statement and relates it to Smith’s own art practice. Into the Void traces the journey of a young man (the artist) around New York City. We follow the man as he visits the Museum of Modern Art and Gagosian Gallery. The artist uses video special-effects to give the illusion of him physically immersing himself in Klein’s famous blue paintings and suspending himself in a sublime realm. The work culminates with Smith’s reinterpretation of Klein’s famous Leap into the Void photograph, where Smith has melded multiple moving-image shots of New York to make up an astonishing, modern-day version of the photograph. The artist hovers not only in space but also in time, suspended in a digital loop.
At once an artistic critique of cinema and an exposure of the technology behind video imagery, Into the Void contains a joyfully poetic and technophiliac aesthetic. The work is a leap into the video void.
Sam Smith's Into the Void
5:30 to 6:30pm
Thursday 3 September
Thursday 10 September
Thursday 17 September
Thursday 24 September
Sam Smith is represented by GRANTPIRRIE Gallery, Sydney
Sam Smith is represented by GRANTPIRRIE Gallery, Sydney
IMAGE: Sam Smith, Into the Void, 2009. Video still.
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Tuesday 4 August 2009
Rock Bodies premieres this Thursday
Zoe Scoglio sees things in rocks. In a new video triptych titled Rock Bodies, opening this Thursday at Federation Square, 6 August at 5:30pm, Zoe has envisioned torsos and faces that fade in and out of basalt and granite crstals, and evoke our pre-life origins.
The artist’s spellbinding works feature on the Big Screen, the Atrium screen and the East Shard Building at Fed Square, and run for an hour across the sites from 5:30pm every Thursday through August. Rock Bodies was made especially for Next Wave Time Lapse, and seems to be born from the angular architecture of Fed Square itself.
Inspired by the geological and geometrical structures at Federation Square, Rock Bodies attempts to weave itself into its surrounds and invite passers-by to take a second look.
Rock Bodies is a site-specific video and sound trilogy involving the ongoing transformation of its subjects between human and rock form. Using salt as a key inspiration, Rock Bodies seeks to forge relationships between the human form and the earth through the minerals and processes we have in common. While being a playful and fantastical work, Rock Bodies looks to remind its audience about their inherent connection with the earth in these times of environmental devastation.
These works explore the idea that earth is a place from which we come and not just a place we happen to inhabit. Our dislocation from the earth contributes to our destruction of it.
Zoe Scoglio's Rock Bodies
On the Big Screen, the Atrium screen and the Melbourne Visitors’ Centre internal screen at Federation Square, every Thursday in August.
(Map, PDF, 495 kb)
5:30 to 6:30pm
Thursday 6 August
Thursday 13 August
Thursday 20 August
Thursday 27 August
IMAGE: Zoe Scoglio, Rock Bodies, From earth we come, to earth we go, 2009. Video still.
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Friday 10 July 2009
Eric's work now online
Check out a preview version of Eric Bridgeman's Next Wave Time Lapse work for June, Gayer than All the Rest, HERE.
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Friday 3 July 2009
Tom Hall's Subtle Disparity, luminous and large in the winter night
Tom Hall's Subtle Disparity from Next Wave on Vimeo.
Last night, as a surprisingly large number of people made their way through Federation Square, a new screen-based work by Tom Hall, our Next Wave Time Lapse artist for July, screened large into the winter night air. Tom's work titled Subtle Disparity is a visual meditation on the Square itself; images, colour and textures were generated by audio recordings Tom made at the site.View more images of the screening here.
Read more about Tom's work, including how he made Subtle Disparity, here.
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Tuesday 30 June 2009
The Premiere of Subtle Disparity - this Thursday 2 July
Launching this Thursday 2 July at 5:30pm at Fed Square is a new work by Brisbane-based artist Tom Hall titled Subtle Disparity.
Tom Hall has ingeniously drawn on the sounds of Federation Square to create a beautiful new video work. It is the second work in Next Wave’s year-long program Next Wave Time Lapse, and is an atmospheric work projected large into the winter night at Fed Square.
About Subtle Disparity
Using the shifting sounds of Federation Square to manipulate video footage of the site, Subtle Disparity is a rich, sensory, experimental video that presents an abstract layering of colour, space and light. It is a translation of the peripheral environments that exist in and around Federation Square.
Allowing the content to dictate its own aesthetic direction, artist Tom Hall has employed a series of studio-based processes that allowed the development of intricate audio/visual feedback loops. In this way the work is a direct organic representation of its surrounds.
With a painterly aesthetic and a mutating array of colours and forms, Subtle Disparity is a silent work that suggests different passages of time and motion interwoven with the architecture of Federation Square.
DOWNLOAD the Next Wave Time Lapse media release for July HERE. (One page, PDF, 400kb)
IMAGE: Tom Hall, Hankyu, 2008. Video still.
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Tuesday 16 June 2009
“A crisply shot, devastatingly messy, horribly insightful, hip, freakish, camp grenade thrown straight at the homosexual heart of Australian sport.”
Eric Bridgeman's work, Gayer than All the Rest, currently screening every Thursday at 8pm Fed Square this month, was very well reviewed in the Sunday Age on the weekend:
Thanks to Age reviewer Penny Modra for her generous words.
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Friday 5 June 2009
The night that was
Eric Bridgeman's Gayer than All the Rest was luminous, loud and lewd on Fed Square's Big Screen last night. Sure, it was a bit nippy down there in the Square but, as you can see in this little bit of video magic we've put together, it attracted a healthy bunch of random gawkers:
Next Wave Time Lapse - The Opening Night, 4 June from Next Wave on Vimeo.
Inside SBS, the official Time Lapse launch preceedings went on (slightly behind schedule as usual but who cares) as Eric's work flashed vivid blue through one of those wacky triangual windows you get at Fed Square, distracting us all from the well-worded and generous speeches. Almost all the Next Wave Time Lapse artists rocked up, which was amazing, including those who'd made the car drive from the lesser interstate capital cities (joke) - their smart, young garb (with brilliant hair!) in stark contrast to the neater suit and heels brigade of VIPs.
Afterwards, we (artists and Next Wave staffers) all rolled on to Misty, in Hosier Lane, where we caught up with a chatter (a collective noun, maybe) of other Next Wave Festival artists, past and future. A jolly good time was had by all.
Eric's work is on again, next Thursday 11 June at 8pm, Fed Square. Do. Not. Miss. It.
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Thursday 4 June 2009
It all starts tonight
Eric Bridgeman's work, Gayer than All the Rest, screens tonight on Federation Square's Big Screen at 5:30pm, the first work in our year-long program of screen art.
Screening throughout June 2010 on the Big Screen, Federation Square.
5:30pm, Thursday 4 June
8pm, Thursday 11 June
8pm, Thursday 25 June
Artist's Statement
"Gayer Than All The Rest interrogates protocols of heterosexuality, hyper-masculinity and social behaviours common in the Australian NRL football code. Starring fictional character Billy Boo Boo and a number of team mates, the video also features a character inspired by Tina Turner shaping and preparing these working class warriors for battle in the big game. Through performative discussion, this work reconstructs significant historical moments of the NRL aiming to explore the fundamental mechanics of gender, race and sexuality that prevail in the construction of the great Australian game."
Eric Bridgeman 2009
IMAGE: A still from Eric Bridgeman's work, Gayer than All the Rest, 2009. Part of Next Wave Time Lapse.
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UPDATED: Tuesday 2 June 2009
Artist Tom Hall, Posting Upates
Brisbane artist Tom Hall, our Next Wave Time Lapse artist for July 2009, is currently posting updates that document the development of his Time Lapse work, Subtle Disparity, both here and over at his website www.tomhall.com.au/blog.
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Tuesday 26 May 2009
NWTL Program Now Live
The Next Wave Time Lapse program is out now, and you can download it here (pdf 1.3MB).
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Wednesday 1 April 2009
Next Wave Time Lapse artists announced
Next Wave is excited to announce that 12 artists will now be developing brand new work for Next Wave Time Lapse.
The full program, which will launch at Fed Square on Thursday 4 June 2009 and run through to the 2010 Next Wave Festival, will be announced very shortly. The artists are:
2009
June - Eric Bridgeman (QLD)
July - Tom Hall (QLD)
August - Zoe Scoglio (VIC)
September - Sam Smith (NSW)
October - Isobel Knowles (VIC)
November - X:MACHINE (Olivia Crang & Jarrod Factor) (VIC)
December - Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart (SA)
2010
January - Soda_Jerk (NSW)
February - Peter McKay (SA)
March - Jimmy McGilchrist (SA)
April - Kotoe Ishii (VIC)
May - Grant Stevens (QLD)
(The 2010 Next Wave Festival will run from 13 to 30 May, 2010.)
Email Next Wave.
