Past events
Image in Transition
Art forum
Image in Transition is a collaborative educational project between the National Film & Sound Archive and the Foundation Studies Program from the ANU, School of Art. Now in its fifth year, this project aims to introduce first year Visual and Design Arts students to the knowledge-base within the…
REVENANT MEDIA
Gallery
To celebrate UNESCO’s World Day for Audio Visual Media the ANU School of Art presents an evening of Revenant Media, two important events bringing old media back to life in a new context. In Theremin ’75 a pioneering piece of Australian new media, Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski’s theremin of 1975,…
Fringe Forum: Gordon Hookey
Art forum
Insurgence Gordon Hookey’s work pulls no punches in its explicit critique of race relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. He mines popular culture for his idiosyncratic visual language that is both raw and witty, overflowing with verbal and visual puns. Gordon is currently…
Insurgence Symposium @ The Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House
Art forum
Art and Politics: Critiquing Richard Bell’s latest video work The Dinner Party 2013 The ongoing tensions of colonisation and resistance and the reality of life as an Indigenous person in contemporary Australia are powerfully addressed by the proppaNOW collective. This exhibition features the work…
Fringe Forum: Dr Jane Kinsman
Art forum
Floor talk 'William Kentridge: Drawn from Africa' @ NGA William Kentridge is a major figure in contemporary art, who has established an international reputation as a gifted figurative artist. Working in the tradition of William Hogarth and Honoré Daumier, Kentridge explores themes of the society in…
Stephen Jones
Art forum
Theremin Project In 1971 and 1972 Australian media artist Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski undertook an ANU Creative Arts Fellowship which resulted in the design and production of several theremins that could be attached to a series of abstract 'paintings' on steel 'canvasses'. These…
Fringe Forum: Maike Dahl
Art forum
Maike Dahl is Silversmith, based in Hannover, Germany. Her work is centered around the theme ‘silver for the everyday’. Inspired by modern packaging, Maike takes very thin silver sheets, which she then folds and solders together to make a fascinating collection of tumbling tumblers, bowl and…