ADA: New Zealand's national research network for critical discussion and presentation of digital and media arts.

The ADA Network is New Zealand's national research network for critical discussion and presentation of digital and media arts.

MeshCities

ADA Mesh Cities Christchurch

ADA Mesh Cities Christchurch is to be a series of events held over 2013-15. It proposes to address the role of media arts in the city, exploring key issues such as urban space, social engagement, memory and speculative futures through a series of symposia and artist workshop tours
Projects

Mesh Cities Artist Tour 2014

The ADA Mesh Cities Artist Tour 2014 is being facilitated by the collaborative team Trudy Lane and Halsey Burgund, with their project Sound Sky (http://soundsky.org/) a new geo-located audio work envisioned for Christchurch. Participants can learn about and participate on location in this contributory art project for Christchurch
Symposia

Auckland Symposium Full Programme

Space : Network : Memory – the 9th ADA Symposium looks at digital art and the social space and asks; What roles are digital networks playing in our ability to reveal and understand layers of a city? How does this affect contemporary practices in art, architecture and related fields?
Artbase

DJ3D14

Dan Untitled’s DJ3D14 is an interactive video/robotics artwork in Anaglyph 3D for Digital Art Live. Splicing real-time 3D footage into a series of video loops, participants in the ‘line of sight’ will see themselves superimposed into scenes that are ‘real, or ‘fictional’. Opening at the ADA Symposium in Auckland and exhibited on the the Digital Art Live screen at The Edge, Aotea square.
Library

1980s Home Coding…

MELANIE SWALWELL, 2008.
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008.
Swalwell investigates this highly experimental practice that was a significant part of the reception and culture of early home computers. Her informants exemplify early relations to technology where the “probing of possibilities provided a base for invention”.
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The ADA List

The Aotearoa Digital Arts List is an e-mail based discussion list for artists, curators, critics and educators focused on the intersection between art in technology in New Zealand and further afield. Subscription information on the following page.