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CD-ROM LAUNCH

METABODY: From Cyborg to Symborg
Jeffrey Cook, Sam de Silva, Gary Zebington
Merlin Integrated Media

THURSDAY 21 AUGUST at 6pm
ARTSPACE Sydney
43 - 51 COWPER WHARF ROAD
WOOLLOOMOOLOO NSW 2011

The Metabody CD ROM examines the territory of the human-machine
interface: the avatar or digital self-representation in cyberspace, the
robot or automata (and now cyborg) through the ages, and the extended
body as performance/installation site connected to other bodies and
sites around the world. The CD ROM also features an archive of the work
of Stelarc. It will be appearing as an installation with muscle analysis
hardware at this year's ISEA97 in Chicago in September.

Merlin Integrated Media is a group of programmers and digital artists
who have come together to collaborate on performances and to provide
support to the arts community. In 1994, the three founding members of
Merlin, Jeffrey Cook, Sam de Silva and Gary Zebington, began
collaborating with Australian performance artist Stelarc, to develop
performances that allowed participation and interaction with audiences
locally and globally over the web.

Writers * Jeffrey Cook & Gary Zebington * Graphic Design * Gary
Zebington * Interface & Programming Design * Jeffrey Cook & Sam de Silva

This project was produced with the assistance of the AFC.

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CD ROM LAUNCH

PLANET OF NOISE
Brad Miller & McKenzie Wark

THURSDAY 28 AUGUST at 6pm
ARTSPACE Sydney

WARNING You are now in freefall towards a planet of noise. A planet
orbiting no sun. WELCOME: Here, where stories burn, and spaceships, on
re-entry. WELCOME: Here, where all things lie, in exile from their
future. PLEASE NOTE IN PASSING THE FOLLOWING POINTS OF INTEREST: Here is
the datasphere not promised. Here is love lost not found. Here are the
dark side enlightenment. Here is love lost not found. Here is the
difference. Here is the disenchanted magic kingdom.

JETTISON ALL DESIRES. PLEASE BOARD THE LIFE RAFT NOW.

Conceptualisation * Brad Miller & McKenzie Wark * Realisation * Brad
Miller * Aphorisms & additional sound * McKenzie Wark * Original sound
design * Jason Gee & Derek Kreckler * Original voice * Khym Lam
Additional 3D models * Horst Kiechle * Additional system support * Lloyd
Sharp * Additional hardware & support * Jeffrey Cook & Sam De Silva *
Project Officers * Michael Hill & Andrew Traucki

This project was assisted by the Art Research & Development Fund of
ANAT. Produced with the assistance of the AFC.

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EXHIBITION OPENING

MOBILITY IN AN ARTIFICIAL CITY
Margie Medlin

OPENING TUESDAY 26 AUGUST at 6pm (runs to AUG 30)
ARTSPACE Sydney

This project originated with the design of an artificial city,
constructed in a computer environment. This imaginary city is positioned
on the border of North America & Mexico, with the following featured
locations: the house, the market place, the border town, the transit
zone and the deportation centre. It represents a complex environment of
architectural spaces and photographic images; where cameras within the
computer program move around and through the models.

The work is continually adjusting the whole space from a playground to a
simple and bold geometry. This quasi built-form, which can be fully
perceived from a single vantage point, challenges the architectural
notion of interior and exterior space, as it is possible to see inside
and outside one image, as interior and exterior blend into a cacophony
of space rearranging itself. The image is not attempting to reach a
point of understanding - it is simply unfolding and collapsing space.

This large-scale process-oriented installation will be projected into
the space using thirty-five 8mm, 16mm and video projectors. This project
has been generously supported by Arts 21 through Arts Victoria and the
Australia Council.

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