Upcoming events, workshops, and conferences, as well as archived happenings.
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Keynote: Digital Whanaungatanga and Aroha: Indeterminate Infrastructures in my creative practice – Toi Rerehiko
Rachael Rakena (Ngāi Tahu, Ngā Puhi) Rakena coined the term ‘Toi Rerehiko’ to centre, claim and name digital space within a Māori paradigm. She describes and locates Māori digital/video/electronic-based art practice in terms of continuum, motion, and collaboration. Her art installations have evolved to enculturate and politicize water itself, navigating issues of ongoing Pacific diaspora, […]
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The Inanga Love Park Picture Show
Kedron Parker Video Photobook, 2021, 1:01 min My name is Kedron Parker and I have been photographing Inanga Love Park for five years. The Inanga Love Park Picture Show is a personal diary. This one-minute “Picture Show” starts as a meditation on inanga fish and their eggs, but quickly gives way to a stream-of-consciousness image […]
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Ocean Platform
Tim Corballis This presentation takes the image of the ocean platform—real and imagined—as a starting point for thinking through the economic and colonial infrastructures of digital platform technology. Digital platforms can offer a temporary, stable space or ‘island’ for social, financial exchange against a background of fluid, unfixed meaning and value. At the same time, […]
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Studio Tour
Brit Bunkley All the work in the studio tour video has a digital origin (except of course the dust devil. Albeit the original video has a number of digital clips). I am intrigued by the intersection of virtual and physical sculpture and the juncture of animation and captured video. The content of the artwork explores […]
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Tech Object Seminar: Arduino with Kim Newall
Friday, 15th October 2021 As their complexity increases, the objects of technology that we use everyday become more and more mystifying to the average user. Most of us are able to competently operate our cellphones or computers, however much less are able to confidently explain how or why a given piece of technology works. This […]
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Infrastructures of Data and Twine
David Ciccoricco In 2021, during New Zealand’s second major lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Peter Wills, a high school science teacher in Auckland, created a short text adventure game for his students using the open-source digital authoring platform Twine. The narrative positions you as Prime Minister and, using statistical modelling available at the time […]