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Smoke And Rubber Art Meets Technology

'Burnout 2001 Part II The Game’ is released to computer access

By Latrobe City Council - 23rd April 2002 - Back to News

The final work in the Click digital art program for regional Victorian galleries, Ben Morieson’s ‘Burnout 2001 Part II The Game’, can be accessed on a computer based in the foyer of the Latrobe Performing Arts Centre in Traralgon, 10am- 4pm Monday to Friday, until 29 April.

Facilitated by the Centre for Contemporary Photography and exhibited here for the first time, ‘Burnout 2001 Part II The Game’ is a continuation of Morieson’s spectacular performance project ‘Burnout 2001’.

Latrobe Regional Gallery Director, Rodney Scherer, said that ‘Burnout 2001 Part II The Game’, based on a series of synchronised burnouts, was an attempt to bridge two cultures by incorporating high art patronage within a street machine subculture.

"This CD-ROM delves into the machinations of video game culture, and seeks to involve participants in a creative process that extends standard user parameters by inviting them to play, whilst creating an artwork," Mr Scherer said.

"To make a successful drawing, the user must finish it without popping any tyres. To encourage us to be impulsive and quick with the burnout drawing, they will ‘pop’ only if we pause on screen and the tyres are overheated. Burnout 2001 Part II The Game parodies the hype and marketing nuance associated with the latest and cutting edge tech-speak," Mr Scherer said.

"Ben Morieson is a Melbourne based artist who exhibits and creates site specific works and installations that seek to engage an ‘uninitiated’ audience. By using popular marketing tools, Morieson’s work invites the viewer to question the integrity of the very medium through which he seeks to communicate," Mr Scherer added.

Click is a satellite project of the e-Media Gallery at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, composed of a series of twelve CD-ROM art works presented simultaneously at five Victorian regional galleries between May 2001 and April 2002. Bendigo Art Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Mildura Arts Centre Gallery and Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery each feature an identical digital title which changes monthly. Curated by Daniel Palmer around the theme of ‘everyday digital worlds’, Click combines new and ‘classic’ CD-ROM artworks, serious and light-hearted experiences, by both Australian and international artists.

Click is part of an ongoing program to maintain an accessible arts presence for Latrobe citizens during the refurbishment of the Latrobe Regional Art Gallery in Morwell. The Gallery refurbishment will be completed early in 2003.

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