On Public Display
Please watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV4wA5Dad2k
As a public experiment, artist Julia Burns (alias: rose_burns) decided to blog on twitter in full view of the lunchtime crowd in Martin Place, Sydney, for one hour.
She sat on her living room couch, wearing ugg boots and a comfy sweater, next to her heater, favourite cup, and a box of chocolate mints as she posted tweets about her life in front of the Channel 7 building.
Burns is interested in the concepts of public access to the private sphere and the changing nature of privacy.
Do 'followers' read with the same zest in the real world as they do in cyberspace?
What is it like to follow a stranger's blog entries, while standing in front of them?
Why do individuals increasingly publicize their private lives?
Recognising the immense complexity and power of social networking and blogging sites, Burns does not wish to condemn these tools. Rather she wants to provoke, especially for the younger generation, debate on the integrity of some of their uses. She is concerned by the increasing need for public acceptance and validation in the social networking scene.
For further information, please refer to the artist's website:
http://juliaburns.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV4wA5Dad2k
As a public experiment, artist Julia Burns (alias: rose_burns) decided to blog on twitter in full view of the lunchtime crowd in Martin Place, Sydney, for one hour.
She sat on her living room couch, wearing ugg boots and a comfy sweater, next to her heater, favourite cup, and a box of chocolate mints as she posted tweets about her life in front of the Channel 7 building.
Burns is interested in the concepts of public access to the private sphere and the changing nature of privacy.
Do 'followers' read with the same zest in the real world as they do in cyberspace?
What is it like to follow a stranger's blog entries, while standing in front of them?
Why do individuals increasingly publicize their private lives?
Recognising the immense complexity and power of social networking and blogging sites, Burns does not wish to condemn these tools. Rather she wants to provoke, especially for the younger generation, debate on the integrity of some of their uses. She is concerned by the increasing need for public acceptance and validation in the social networking scene.
For further information, please refer to the artist's website:
http://juliaburns.com
Cities Tango: Sydney, Melbourne
Dates:
Wed Apr 15, 2009 00:00 - Sun Apr 05, 2009
Cities Tango: Sydney, Melbourne
by Ernest Edmonds
3 April - 15 May 2009
beta_space, Cyberworlds Gallery, L1 - Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Launch event: Wednesday 15 April, 4-6pm @ beta_space
Communities in Sydney and Melbourne will interact with one another. Cities Tango: Sydney, Melbourne links the Powerhouse Museum with Federation Square. In each city the work will collect images from the screen location and react to them. The analysed information will also influence the work's behaviour in the other city. Changing colour stripes will be interleaved with segments of images of the remote location at different times of the day and mixed with real time snapshots of people at the remote site.
Ernest Edmonds is an artist researcher and Director of the Creativity and Cognition Studios.
Cities Tango was made in collaboration with Shigeki Amitani.
by Ernest Edmonds
3 April - 15 May 2009
beta_space, Cyberworlds Gallery, L1 - Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Launch event: Wednesday 15 April, 4-6pm @ beta_space
Communities in Sydney and Melbourne will interact with one another. Cities Tango: Sydney, Melbourne links the Powerhouse Museum with Federation Square. In each city the work will collect images from the screen location and react to them. The analysed information will also influence the work's behaviour in the other city. Changing colour stripes will be interleaved with segments of images of the remote location at different times of the day and mixed with real time snapshots of people at the remote site.
Ernest Edmonds is an artist researcher and Director of the Creativity and Cognition Studios.
Cities Tango was made in collaboration with Shigeki Amitani.
The Musicians, Julia Burns, Beta_space Creativity and Cognition Studios
Dates:
Wed Jun 20, 2007 00:00 - Sat Jun 16, 2007
(Sydney, Australia)
The Musicians Julia Burns
Beta\_space in conjunction with Creativity and Cognition Studios
The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Exhibition Dates:
17 June - 18 August 2007
Open 10am - 5pm daily
Free with entry to the Powerhouse Museum
Drawing from the work of David Rokeby, The Musicians is an early prototype, interactive artwork that utilizes cinematography and sound to engage audiences via invisible touch pads. Users are encouraged to play notes or compose music by directing the two professional musicians as they jam filmically, the audience members directly impacting the artwork via their movements.
The aesthetic aim of The Musicians is to visualize the emotional influence the audience members have over the characters onscreen. Amidst witty commentary and pre-programmed repertoires, the musicians play to draw audience members into the museum space and then attempt to hold their attention by empowering the user with the ability to direct their activities. These ‘behaviours’ suggest a more human exchange is possible in the relationship between viewers and technological art. This is technically accomplished by first filming the actors, then implementing state of the art editing and interface systems to create a smooth junction between the art system and the end user.
http://www.betaspace.net.au/
http://juliaburns.com/
The Musicians Julia Burns
Beta\_space in conjunction with Creativity and Cognition Studios
The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Exhibition Dates:
17 June - 18 August 2007
Open 10am - 5pm daily
Free with entry to the Powerhouse Museum
Drawing from the work of David Rokeby, The Musicians is an early prototype, interactive artwork that utilizes cinematography and sound to engage audiences via invisible touch pads. Users are encouraged to play notes or compose music by directing the two professional musicians as they jam filmically, the audience members directly impacting the artwork via their movements.
The aesthetic aim of The Musicians is to visualize the emotional influence the audience members have over the characters onscreen. Amidst witty commentary and pre-programmed repertoires, the musicians play to draw audience members into the museum space and then attempt to hold their attention by empowering the user with the ability to direct their activities. These ‘behaviours’ suggest a more human exchange is possible in the relationship between viewers and technological art. This is technically accomplished by first filming the actors, then implementing state of the art editing and interface systems to create a smooth junction between the art system and the end user.
http://www.betaspace.net.au/
http://juliaburns.com/
