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Digital media art exhibition stretches the imagination

A digital media art exhibition designed to rupture the expectation of digital art and to examine the synergy between analogue and digital media, is currently being presented at the Latrobe Regional Gallery.

By Latrobe City - 11th June 2003 - Back to News

Gallery Collection Manager, Rodney Scherer, said the exhibition titled ‘Elastic’ features new work by leading Australian digital media artists Lisa Gye, sue.k, John Power, Anita Bacic, Paul Rodgers and Philip Samartzis, whose work encompasses net art, computer animation, interactive media, and sonic and video installation.

"Elastic explores the interface between new and old media cultures through diverse formats and modes of art. It fuses the glitch with the cerebral and shows the convergence of art and film," Mr Scherer explained.

"Collectively these artists have exhibited at the Melbourne International Film Festival, the San Francisco Art Institute, MAAP (Brisbane), the European Media Arts Festival (Germany), the Institute of Contemporary Art (UK), Transmediale (Germany), the Tate Britain (UK) and the Art Institute of Chicago (US)," he said.

Curated by Keely Macarow and Meredith Martin, Elastic is being presented by the Centre for Contemporary Photography with support from Visions Australia, Interact Events and National Exhibition Touring Support (NETS) Victoria,

Keely Macarow said much digital art being produced at the start of the 21st Century has taken a noticeable shift from the self-conscious cyber aesthetic of the 1990s to a neo-materialist sensibility. "Just think about early 1990s 'new' media art practice and how many CD ROMs and digital prints had the idiom of your worst heavy metal nightmare. You don't even have to be well versed in the genealogy of digital media art to remember how 1990s techno culture was framed; with its ubiquitous cyber-monsters, new age algorithms and cutesy techno tots," Keely said.

Elastic will be exhibited until Sunday 29 June at the Latrobe Regional Gallery, is featuring at a number of regional galleries throughout Victoria in 2003 and will be travelling interstate in 2004. The project follows on from the CLICK digital art project which the gallery presented last year in the Council foyers and at the Latrobe Regional Performing Arts Centre.

The Latrobe Regional Gallery is located at 138 Commercial Road, Morwell, and is open Tuesday to Friday 10am-5pm, and on weekends 11am–4pm. The gallery is closed Mondays and Public Holidays. For further information about exhibitions at the gallery, please telephone 5128 5700, or visit the gallery web page: www.latroberegionalgallery.com

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