By Jessie Scott This article is adapted from a paper given at Contemporary Art and the Mediasphere on 4 December 2015, a symposium convened by Ian Haig at RMIT. The tumblr autotelia.tumblr.com was made to accompany the paper in lieu of a powerpoint, and many of the works referenced are linked to there. http://n6jlv.tumblr.com/post/81300581447/if-this-isnt-art-then-what-is-it-if-this I was asked … Continue reading
By Jessie Scott It’s Thursday morning and I’m driving up Moreland rd singing loudly in an attempt to calm down (or block out?) the baby crying in the back seat. Minutes before parking she abruptly drops into a deep micro-sleep, which lasts precisely long enough for me to get to the Westgarth foyer, purchase ticket, … Continue reading
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I went up to Sydney to attend the Tele Visions festival recently – a 6-day live broadcast of video art, commissioned performances and art-driven TV. It was, needless to say, a total blast, and an insight into just how amazing television can and should be. While I was there, I guest blogged for Tele Visions … Continue reading
The directors of Tele Visions, Emma Ramsay and Alex White, chat to Jessie Scott about anarchy on the airwaves, art on TV, public access to the spectrum, and what the death of analogue might mean for us all… Refusing to not take TV seriously, Alex and Emma have programmed an exciting and thoughtful series of … Continue reading
By Jessie Scott This essay is reproduced from the catalogue for Tania Smith‘s exhibition, Untitled #1, on the Small Screen at Screen Space, 17 May – 22 June 2013. There’s More Than One Way to Stuff a Pillow Case “While I waited for my mother to notice me, I would sit at her dressing table … Continue reading
Soda_Jerk Soda_Jerk are a Sydney-born, internationally-based, dynamic art duo. Soda_Jerk painstakingly take the detritus and scraps of pop culture, cinema, high and low art and reassemble them into elaborate new narratives which shine a – sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, always affectionate – light on the nature of the moving image. They are video crusaders, whose … Continue reading
Jean Lizza is the renegade ‘video store’ programmer of fledgling open air cinema The Shadow Electric, located in a picturesque nook of the Abbotsford convent in Collingwood. Try calling The Fisher King, Groundhog Day or Boyz n the Hood ‘shitty films’ and Jean’ll give you a hearty dressing down on the genius of young John Singleton. … Continue reading
Scott Morrison* Scott Morrison is a sound and video artist who makes audiovisual deconstructions and recompositions of rural landscapes, in both live performances and gallery-based exhibitions. He is represented by Beam Contemporary and you can read more on his website here. 1. Can you tell us a little bit about your art practice, and describe … Continue reading
Heading into its fourth year of operation, Speakeasy Cinema has undergone several transformations and changes of venue. It has been called a “Gypsy cinema without a home“, somewhat appropriately, given its stock in trade is giving second (and sometimes third, and fourth) life to films without a home – often through creative and dynamic co-programming of … Continue reading
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