organising Dinner Event Wednesday night.
Julia, who also works at Platform china emailed me. Julia and Viki suggest we use some art students to the seamstresses on Wednesday night.
need exact times for meeting – I think 6.30.what to wear – blackwho – three women?map – how to get there. source Lauren’s map.
Suggestion – dinner starts at 7pm – they shoudl arrive to six. The soup is first course – no stitching till the second course. They will then be asked to track the conversations through the stitching. The event will last one hour or so.
Julia wants to take us through CAFA’s exhibition – http://en.artron.net/news/news.php?newid=169149,
I have cotton. need to get all memory sticks cleared, all equipment powered up. Matt will be meeting laurens to shop at 9.30 am tomorrow.
Catch up
Australian Embassy>
I recieved an email from Amanda Barry, the Cultural Relations Officer at the Australian Embassy Beijing. We hope to meet next Tuesday for lunch. Its interesting that the former Australian Embassador seems to be a guest at our dinner event on Wednesday?. Shall be interesting.
Asialink:
I also recieved an email from Lesley Alway, Director Asialink Arts who mentions she may be coming to Beijing between the 4th and 7th of November with an NGV delegation. Asialink http://www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/
are supporting my residency in China. I did my first Asialink residency in Thailand in 2003.
I suggested we meet up in CaoChangdi for dinner.
“Each year the Asialink Residency program sends 40 Australian writers, performers, artists and arts managers to live and work throughout Asia. The grant of up to $12,000 goes towards travel, living and project expenses, and affords recipients the opportunity for in-depth research, stimulating cultural exchanges, international collaboration and uninterrupted time for creativity”. It would be great to meet up with Lesley.
got an email from Bruce Gremo – an artist we met at a sound event at Platform China. http://suddensite.net. Bruce and Jennifer have a little girl that Pablo fell in love with. Would be nice to catch up. He mentioned an event he has coming up at the Art Academy. We should get them over for Pablos fourth birthday. Maybe Sunday?
I got an email from Peter Kay from Queensland art gallery wanting to meet up to find out more about my work for the Premiers new media art award. Sounds good.
got an email from Marco Gillies from Goldsmiths who has a student interested in working on some projects. Great news. Will make contact next week.
White Night Festival
http://www.whitenightnuitblanche.com/brighton/events/like-shadows-a-celebration-of-shyness/
Got an email from Helen Sloan – the White night event in Brighton will show some recent work.
We hope to exhibit the first two projects of nowness series. They are both in quite a sketchy state.
Present Perfect Continuous – Matt will be in Brighton and I will be in Beijing – maybe we download application onto both of our machines – could do a session of conversations, and maybe match them back to the original conversations post event to see how successful it is – also matt to talk to the people interacting with it in brighton about the experience?
Present Perfect Continuous. A chat program – first show will be in a few weeks in brighton at Pheonix?
‘Liveness involves action in the present, an awareness of now. Speaking in present tense is effective for conveying the immediacy of emotions and sensations. We do not know from the information that is given exactly when the activities started or when they will end. This chat program will disrupt habitual conversation strategies, only allowing users to speak in progressive present tense. Anything written in past tense or future tense gets converted to present tense.
Perculate *in development – second show at Pheonix with white night, first last year at OZCO. It exists as documentation of the first user sessions we did at Nokia Research Center.
Perculate uses eye display technology developed by Nokia Research Center. As a phone call begins, a captured image of the conversants’ eyes is transmitted to each conversant via the eye display technology. The conversants look probingly into each others eyes as they converse.
At brighton – we will just show documentation of the first user session
