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What Will You Do?

What Will You Do?

by Nina Czegledy
Education for Sustainability
WHAT WILL YOU DO? is an art installation that addresses the issue ofindividual and collective responsibility for making social change.We are all aware that our earth is in crisis but are we as individuals willing to make a personal commitment to change?
12/11/2008 10:00
Random Information Exchange

Random Information Exchange

Residency 2009: Projects & Stories
Our Bureau handles the exchange of information via simple text (*.txt) files. Cooking recipes, directions for a walk, musical notation or any information can be sent. The donator will receive a random piece of data in return.
12/11/2008 10:00

Poetry, Physics and Politics

by Dick Whyte
Symposium 2009: Interconnections
In this paper I plan to talk about haiku poetry (the short Japanese poetic form) and the connection between Western translations and quantum physics, through the work of philosopher Gilles Deleuze.
12/11/2008 10:00

Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand (SCANZ)

Residency 2009: Projects & Stories
The Research Centre’s major project, a two week residency for artists, producers, writers, theorists and curators will be held in New Plymouth New Zealand from January 26th to February 8th 2009. Raranga tangata refers to the weaving together of people, a phrase used to describe the internet and adopted by Sally Jane Norman and Sylvia Nagl in their work.
12/11/2008 03:12

Digital Oracles and the Search Dictatorship

by Martha Gabriel
Symposium 2009: Interconnections
Since ancient times oracles have been used by men to help them to choose paths, and in the Digital Era we live in, we realize that oracles keep being used more than ever, but now in a new digital form.
11/23/2008 22:54

Negotiating the Parameters of Missed Conversations in Urban Spaces

by Mike Baker
Symposium 2009: Interconnections
This proposal critically explores the forces of indeterminacy which I maintain are responsible for the dynamics which create the personna of the ‘stranger’ in encounters between people in urban spaces.
11/23/2008 22:54

Corpus Corvus Work-In-Progress

by Heather Raikes
Symposium 2009: Interconnections
Corpus Corvus is an experimental augmented reality performance work that utilizes an integrated physical/media choreographic vocabulary, stereoscopic 3D projection, motion capture animation, electroacoustic sound composition, and spatialized ambisonic sound.
11/23/2008 22:54

Aboriginal Terraformations

Symposium 2009: Interconnections
Two figures from entirely different walks of life crawl out of their cultural cocoons only to find themselves in a terra incognita that they must hasten to choreograph in order to continue avoiding each other.
11/23/2008 22:54

Discursive Formations: Circumnavigating the 'crop circle' phenomenon via contemporary art theoretical discourses

by Emil McAvoy
Symposium 2009: Interconnections
How might the elusive ‘crop circle’ phenomenon be circumnavigated via contemporary art theoretical discourses? Why is this phenomenon currently unrepresented in such discourses? What problems do the particularities of the phenomenon pose for their consideration through discourse? Can the ongoing contestability of the crop circles’ authorship as human or ‘non-human’ produce expanded conceptions of the phenomenon? What is the phenomenon’s relationship to multidisciplinary research and critical artistic practice, including that connected to Aotearoa New Zealand?
11/23/2008 22:54

Composition for Taranaki Surfers

by Alex Monteith
Residency 2009: Projects & Stories
I would like to make a video installation that combines multiple simultaneous Digital video recordings at Taranaki’s renowned surf breaks, including at least Stent Road, Kumera Patch and Mangahume.
11/23/2008 00:01

Maps and Models: reviewing the synergies of environment and electronic art

by caro mccaw
Residency 2009: Projects & Stories
Through interviews, review and dialogue with residency artists who are working within the Environmental Response theme, this project aims to identify, reflect upon and visually map the concerns of these artists.
11/20/2008 22:21
The Braided Quilt

The Braided Quilt

by Naomi Lamb
Residency 2009: Projects & Stories
Like an avid scrapbook keeper I take video to remind me of places and experiences. I store these signifiers of memory so to relive and remix these moments during real-time performance.
11/19/2008 00:01

Distracted Bodies

Symposium 2009: Interconnections
‘Distracted Bodies’ is a collaboration between different time zones, manipulating time and site through complex structures of the digital and the ‘real’. Relationships are constructed through illusions of presence and absence via chaotic and disparate use of time, place, distance and perception.
11/13/2008 21:01
SCANZ Exhibition

SCANZ Exhibition

by sarah cook
Residency 2009: Projects & Stories
The Govett-Brewster and Puke Ariki are pleased to present a new media exhibition in conjunction with Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand (SCANZ). Co-curated by Mercedes Vicente, Sarah Cook, and Intercreate.org.
11/13/2008 21:01

Intercreate.org is a project based research centre which consists of an international network of people interested in interdisciplinary creativity. Project foci include interdisciplinary projects, education initiatives and residencies. Intercreate is a not-for-profit trust that is registered with the Charities Commmission of New Zealand.

 

 





SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens
A symposium followed by a creative residency is to be held mid to late January 2011 in New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand. The symposium will be held at Owae Marae, and seeks to bring a range of knowledge groups together to investigate the cultural roots of climate change and seek out poetically pragmatic approaches to encouraging the cultural and behavioural shifts required.


 

The SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens creative residency participants include Sue Page and Janine May, Jo Tito, Andrew Hornblow, Dhyana Beaumont, Lanfranco Aceti, DodoLab (Andrew Hunter with Lisa Hirmer), Karen Ingham, ÆLab (Gisèle Trudel with Stéphane Claude), Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski, Angelo Vermeulen, Justin Morgan, Jonah Marinovich, Nina Czegledy (our International Research Fellow) and Janine Randerson, Keith Armstrong and James Muller, Ramon Guardans. Dr Te Huirangi Waikerepuru, Roger Malina and Erich Berger of Arsbioarctica will be involved in the hui, to be held at Owae marae. Julian Priest's Slow Flow project is also a partner project, and will immediately follow the SCANZ 2011 residency.

The dates for the events in and around the city of New Plymouth are:

  • Symposium/Hui — 14th-16th of January, Owae Marae in Waitara.

  • Creative Residency — 17th-30th of January, WITT Campus in New Plymouth.

  • Workshops — Throughout city, schedule to come.

  • Public Events — Throughout city, schedule to come. Will include events on the closing weekend.

Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand (SCANZ)
Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand (SCANZ) is New Zealand’s premier art, technology, culture and ecology event and involves a symposium, creative residency, and public events and exhibitions. Occurring bi-annually, it has typically involved a mix of Aotearoa New Zealand and international artists, producers, theorists and curators many of whom are leading practitioners. Held in New Plymouth, SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens will be the third event.

 

 

 

 

 

Intercreate.org gratefully acknowledges the support and partnerships of:

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Creative New Zealand

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery


Puke Ariki
Puke Ariki


Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki
Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki (WITT)


TSB Community Trust
TSB Community Trust


and...
Phosphor Essence Ltd.


 

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Flickr Pool - If you have an association with any of the SCANZ events, please feel free to join up and add to this flickr pool.