Digital art exhibition to feature at Council’s Citizen Service Centres The first of a series of computer generated art works has gone on display at the Latrobe City Citizen Service Centre in Traralgon By Latrobe City Council - 7th May 2001 - Back to News The first of a series of computer generated art works has gone on display at the Latrobe City Citizen Service Centre in Traralgon, as part of the Latrobe Regional Gallery’s outreach displays, being presented while the Gallery is closed for redevelopment.
The CLICK program features CD – ROM based artworks produced by artists who have been exploring the characteristics of digital media over recent years. Throughout the month of May, the ‘LUMP CD’ features at Traralgon and visitors to the Citizen Service Centre are invited to explore the work.
This first CLICK work features TMGP Incorporated, a fictitious biotechnic company, that has succeeded in developing LUMP (Lifeform with Unevolved Mutant Properties), the world’s first designer baby. The LUMP is a human, genetically re-engineered from the ground up – smarter, stronger, cuter and available to any parent who can afford it. The LUMP CD allows the player to interactively explore this strange world and find out what really is going on behind TMGP Incorporated’s slick advertising campaigns and marketing promises.’
Curator of the CLICK Program, Daniel Palmer, said CLICK was developed by the Centre of Contemporary Photography in Fitzroy, in response to a perceived lack of opportunity to encounter digital art.
"CLICK combines classic as well as new CD – ROM artworks, serious and light hearted experiences, and features both Australian and International artists. Rather than a ‘best of’ however, the selection of works in CLICK is curated around the theme of everyday digital worlds. Instead of celebrating interactivity and new computer graphics per se, these works pay attention to the now quite everyday encounter between the viewer and the computer interface. Several of them question the promises of new technology to order human knowledge and behaviour," Mr Palmer said.
"The perfect and easy reproducibility of digital data enables CLICK to run simultaneously at five Victorian regional galleries. Each month for a full year, Bendigo Art Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Mildura Arts Centre and Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery will all feature identical digital titles.
Latrobe Regional Gallery Director, Rodney Scherer, said he had been concerned that due to the Latrobe Regional Gallery’s closure for building redevelopment Latrobe wouldn’t be able to participate in the CLICK program.
"CCP have been very accommodating however, and we have turned this adversity to advantage. While placed firstly at the Traralgon Citizen Service Centre foyer until 30 July, the exhibition moves to the Moe Citizen Service Centre foyer August - October, and Morwell Citizen Service Centre foyer November 2001 – January 2002," Mr Scherer said.
"CLICK returns to Traralgon to go live on line at Latrobe Performing Arts Centre February – April 2002, allowing the entire community access to some of these very curious digital art works," Mr Scherer added.
Latrobe City Mayor, Councillor Brendan Jenkins said he was pleased that Council’s Citizen Service Centres could be used to maintain an arts presence in Latrobe while the Latrobe Regional Gallery underwent redevelopment.
"This is enabling the citizens of Latrobe City the opportunity to view and engage new digital art. We look forward to the reopening of the Latrobe Regional Gallery in 2002, but in the meantime, we will attempt to take advantage of opportunities to present art to the community, such as CLICK," Cr Jenkins concluded.
The display of the CLICK program at Latrobe has been made possible through the generous support of the Gordon Darling Foundation, Cinemedia, Arts Victoria, and the Community Support Fund, Victoria. All have supported the Centre for Contemporary Photography to produce the project as a satellite project of the e-Media Gallery.
For program details contact the Latrobe Regional Gallery, telephone 5134 1364
Source: www.gippsland.com Published by: latrobecity@gippslander.com
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