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6PM 02 JUNE-02 JULY 2005

GALLERY TALKS BY MELINDA RACKHAM & ADAM NASH
4.00PM FRIDAY 03 JUNE

ADAM NASH Scorched Happiness
Adam Nash is an internationally recognised net-based artist working
in realtime 3d multi-user space as a live performance medium. His
work attempts to explore the visual, sonic and spiritual qualities
that are native to 3d cyberspace. Currently, networked multi-user 3d
computer games are enjoying great popularity as entertainment, and
multi-user cyberspace is increasingly being used for educational and
scientific purposes. Because shared cyberspace is a relatively new
and unfamiliar space, it is natural that initial work in this area
has been interested in mimicking real space, or exploring the
relationship between physical presence and virtual presence by
recreating the human form as avatar. But there has been little work
done investigating the potential of shared networked space as a site
for live virtual performance art on its own terms. Using Julia
Kristeva's text "Toccata and Fugue for the Foreigner" (from Stranger
to Ourselves) as a basis, Scorched Happiness is an attempt to develop
a live performative vocabulary that is native to shared cyberspace.
Another of Nash's works, Pale Shining Winter, is exhibited as part of
the WEB3DART2005 program. Futher details on the work of Adam Nash can
be found at www.yamanakanash.net

MELINDA RACKHAM Empyrean
Melinda Rackham is an artist, writer, curator and media consultant
based in Sydney, Australia, who has been working online since 1995
and is the producer of -empyre- online media forum. Her practice has
investigated the aesthetic, technological and philosophical aspects
of online identity, locality, sexuality and community, as well as
viral symbiosis and trans species relations. Her writing appears
online and in a wide variety of print journals. Her web works have
been shown widely nationally and internationally. Empyrean is the
zone of electronically constructed 3 dimensional space, a virtual
geography populated by textual entities. It is a parallel universe,
an etheric arena beyond space and time - a world of gaps and
intervals, fluidly traced by interactions with others, rather than
rigidly mapped by terrritorialising agents. This zero space is
transversed by in-tensions, relations, attractions, and transitions
between energetic avatars. Here we are softly embodied avatars,
navigating through a series of scapes without the regular markers of
order and normalcy. Further information on Melinda Rackham and her
work can be found at www.subtle.net

WEB3DART2005 www.web3dart.org
Web3dArt is an exhibition aimed at presenting a selection of the best
3d works in the period 1999-2005. The 2005 selection is juried by
Prof. Karel Dudesek, Head of the Postgraduate Course at the College
of Design and Communication, Kent, UK, Melentie Pandilovski, Director
of the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, Taylor
Nuttall, Director of the Folly, Lancaster, UK, and Martin Schmitz,
Germany. It features a range of artistic, research, commercial and
student projects which have been selected on the basis of operational
functionality, content within 3d visualisation, and the innovation
shown in the use of 3d. Web3dArt is the only international show of
its kind and has become the biggest collection of three dimensional
art and design sites ever assembled. Participants come from a broad
range of countries including Australian artists Melinda Rackham, Adam
Nash, Martin Thompson, Jason Nelson. Web3dArt has been presented
worldwide including in Germany, Macedonia, USA, Slovenia, UK and
France. WEB3DART2005 was first presented at the International Web3d
Symposium at the University of Wales 29 March-1 April.

Phone EAF Director, Melentie Pandilovski, for further details +61
(0)8 82117505

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