Generative art in Italy

I will be attending the 2016 Generative Art conference and exhibition in Florence, 15th-17th December. I will be presenting a small version of my real-time work Nanocosm.

 

These conferences have been held every year since 1998, usually in Milan. This will be the first time I have attended one. The venue in Florence is the Auditorium of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, Via Folco Portinari 5/r in central Florence. I think the photo shows the building!

Website: http://www.generativeart.it/.

Exhibition "Shaping Evolution", Ballarat

I am having an exhibition of my Shaping Evolution series, consisting of digital prints and a video, at Gallery on Sturt in Ballarat.

 

Pseudopapilio tortilis (“twisted pseudo-butterfly”), from the Shaping Evolution Series.

Opening: Friday 30th September 2016, 6-8pm.

Exhibition dates: 1st-31st October 2016. Hours Mon-Fri 9 am-5.30 pm, Sat 10am-2pm.

Where: Gallery on Sturt, 421 Sturt Street, Ballarat.
Web: http://www.accentframing.com.au/about.
Tel: (03) 5331 7011

(Gallery on Sturt is not to be confused with Sturt Street Gallery in Ballarat/Alfredton, which is much further along Sturt Street.)

SeenSound at Loop Bar, Wednesday August 24th

This is the last of the flurry of events I have been involved in recently. Brigid Burke is putting on one of her SeenSound events on Wednesday 24th August. A group of musicians will improvise to silent videos, one of which is a short one of mine.

When: Wed 24th August 2016, 8pm.

Where: The back room at Loop Bar, 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne (off Bourke St on the side towards Little Collins St, between Exhibition St and Spring St).

 

Group shows

I am in two group exhibitions that open tomorrow evening (Friday 19th August). One is the Flanagan Art Prize at St Patrick's College Ballarat. Entry to the opening is by ticket, otherwise the show is free entry. Details at http://www.stpats.vic.edu.au/en/students-parents-staff/music-and-performing-arts/flanagan-art-exhibition/.

I won't get to the Flanagan Prize opening because I am going to an opening to launch the Globelight festival in Melbourne. The Globelight festival is mainly about art that uses light, and is across two venues, Off the Kerb Gallery at 66 Johnston St, Collingwood (which is where my piece is, just a digital print this time), and the Abbotsford Convent not far away.

Globelight Opening 1: Friday 19th August, Off the Kerb, 66 Johnston St, Collingwood, 6-9 pm. Guest speaker is the artist Peter Kennedy, a long-time practitioner of art using light and one of the first Australian artists to work with light-based installations.

Globelight Opening 2: Saturday 20th August, Abbotsford Convent, 6-9 pm. Guest speaker is Charles Justin, of the remarkable Justin Art House Museum in Prahran.

Artist talks: There will be informal artist talks at Off the Kerb on Sunday 21st August, 2-4 pm. I will say something about my work.

The exhibition at Off the Kerb runs until September 2nd. The exhibition at the Abbotsford Convent, which consists of works distributed across the grounds, will be open evenings until 10pm, 20-28 August. Information about the festival at http://www.globelight.com.au/.

My PhD exhibition

It's finally happening!

Where: Monash University Caulfield campus (next to Caulfield station). I am in the MADA Faculty Gallery on the ground floor of Building G (not to be confused with MUMA, which is in Building F).

When: August 10-16. Gallery hours are 10am-5pm Mon-Fri. The gallery will also be open on Saturday 13th August, 10am-12noon.
 
I expect to be at Caulfield pretty much throughout the duration of the exhibition, including the weekend viewing on the Saturday morning.

Anita Traverso - Pop-up gallery in Prahran

Anita Traverso has organised a pop-up gallery in Prahran, at the Hunter apartment development. I have some works there.

Where: Hunter apartment project, entry at the end of Percy Place, off Porter St Prahran (very near Prahran railway station).

Hours by appointment just now, but there will be regular opening hours soon.

More details at http://www.anitatraversogallery.com.au/Exhibitions/ATG-pop-up.aspx.

"Aspect" - Group show at Stephen McLaughlan

I have work in the group show "Aspect" at Stephen McLaughlan Gallery in central Melbourne.

Closing, and celebration with the artists: Saturday 6th February 2015, 2-4 pm.

Exhibition: 20th January to 6th February 2016. Open Wed - Fri 1pm - 5pm, Sat 11am - 5pm.

Location: Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Level 8, Room 16 Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston St, Melbourne 3000 (on the corner with Flinders Lane).