Curated by Keely Macarow, MANIFESTO comprises four digital media arts
events for your pleasure and engagement, MANIFESTO is a salute to new
possibilities within Australia and International media arts culture.
You are invited to attend the opening of MANIFESTO - at Span Galleries
at 6pm on Wednesday November 3.
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THE MANIFESTO EVENTS
1. Time Capsule …the future is the present
Eight digital media artworks have been chosen for inclusion in the
Experimenta Media Arts Time Capsule for the stories, dreams and
sensibilities they represent. The works will be exhibited over a two
week period and then archived into the purpose built time capsule.
Artists: Brook Andrew, Bureau of Inverse Technology, Brenda L Croft,
KIT, Chris Knowles, Virginia Hilyard & Varsha Nair, Joyce Hinterding and
reTarded eye. The Time Capsule is designed by Lilford/Smith
2. Zen Cinema …the present is the past
Zen Cinema surveys and celebrates inspirational and definitive avant
-garde and experimental films and videos that have been produced
throughout the 20th Century.
Spanning short film and video works by the mavericks and luminaries of
experimental cinema over the last 100 years; Zen Cinema is essential
viewing for audiences that are priming their imaginations for the screen
culture of the 21st Century.
Directors being screened include: Kenneth Anger, Martin Arnold, Yann
Beauvais, Sadie Benning, Stan Brakhage, Abigail Child, Bruce Conner,
Maya Deren, Rose Delavy & Marcel Duchamp, Nam June Paik & Jud Yalkut,
George Kuchar, Malcom Le Grice, Len Lye, Man Ray, Carole Schneeman,
Woody & Steina Vasulka & Paul Winkler.
3. Mesh 13: Cyberbully
Experimenta Media Arts' online journal at www.experimenta.org promoting
critical debate on film, video, digital media, sound, installation and
performance art.
Mesh 13: Cyberbully critiques the hype of cyberspace by probing the
cyberbullies lurking in the electronic frontier and reviewing arts
projects in Australia and internationally. Available online from 3
November 1999 and throughout 2000.
4. hothouse
