Strange Attractors: charm between art and science was an exhibition of Australian new media art held at the Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai in August, 2006. The curator, Antoanetta Ivanova, used Strange Attractors as the exhibition title to draw attention to the dynamics that evolve between collaborations of unlikely pairings - those between artists and scientists. The works selected illustrate the less apparent connections between art and science, providing insight into the shifting boundaries of creativity when two seemingly divergent disciplines converge.
Julie Ryder, Canberra-based textile artist, was selected to participate in the exhibition. She travelled to Shanghai for the opening and to attend a one-day art/science symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition.
» Review by Julie Ryder
Things in China happen fast. What seem like long term planning projects become a reality in the blink of an eye. One such project is FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums (FLICAM) at Fuping.
"Where is Fuping?" most people ask. Well, Fuping is about seventy kilometres from Xian, the home of the terracotta warriors, in the midst of a ceramic-rich area that houses not only the Qin tomb with which we are all so familiar, but also the huge HanYang tomb (which I find even more interesting), and hundreds of other emperor's tombs in a loess (wind transported soil) landscape that is quite unlike anything we experience in Australia. Xian was the imperial capital of the Han, Qin and Tang dynasties, so the area is rich with museums, pottery villages and reproduction ceramic wares.
» Australians in Fuping by Janet DeBoos
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The contemporary studio craft movement in Australia is the focus of the exhibition Crafted Objects 60s-80s, presented by the National Gallery of Australia and curated by decorative arts curator Robert Bell.
The exhibition is a timely reminder of the legacy of the early protagonists of this movement and the influence they have had on the development of the practice over the past thirty years. While the show focuses on the role these celebrated artists have played in the sector, what is remarkable about the exhibition is the social dimension to the movement.
Robert Bell has highlighted this by presenting the exhibition in themes that draw attention to the interconnectedness of the makers and their socio political affiliation of the time. Much of what inspired the work appears politically radical in our contemporary context where artists and creative commentators are now bound by new anti sedition legislation that curbs freedom of speech. This coupled with the recent anti bias legislation which defines ABC coverage, and we have to ask how have we progressed over the past thirty odd years.
Craft Australia's 30 year history as the peak advocacy organisation for the sector has been associated with the development of the movement and has been influential in shaping the directions and outcomes that we now consider a regular component of the Australian cultural landscape. To draw attention to some of these issues, Craft Australia has commissioned three celebrated writers who have been critical commentators on contemporary craft practice to write about the studio craft movement.
These three commissioned articles serve to highlight the trajectory of the movement from a historical perspective, as well as placing the early movement in a contemporary context.
The first of these articles is published in this issue of 716 and is written by Meredith Hinchliffe.
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Since 1976 the Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial has developed from a survey exhibition showing the most innovative fibre textile works from the previous two years to a curated exhibition recognised nationally as Australia's pre-eminent textile related exhibition.
For the 17th Biennial, titled In the World: head, hand, heart, Vivonne Thwaites presents a textile exhibition exploring themes as diverse as individuality and identity politics, belonging and our place in the world, gender and sexuality, the environment and the increasing insularity and disconnectedness of much contemporary life.
Professor Kay Lawrence, President of Craft Australia, officially opened the exhibition. Speech
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Congratulations to Kirstie Rea who has been appointed Creative Director of the Canberra Glassworks.
Congratulations to Betty Matjarra of Bula’bula Arts in Ramingining, who created Mindirr, Pandanus Bags dyed with bush colours and is one of the 10 winners of the Indigenous Memento of Australia award sponsored by Indigenous Business Australia.
Internationally renowned and revered, Lino Tagliapietra spent what is likely to be his last working trip down under exclusively at JamFactory. More
NAVA capitalised on the visit to Australia by expatriate visual education specialist Professor Anne Bamford by organising two days of lobbying in Canberra.
An Australian academic, Professor Bamford's work is characterised by its innovation and social and ethical responsibility. She is now Director of the Engine Room at Wimbledon College of Art in London, and recently completed and published for UNESCO.The Wow Factor: a Global Research Compendium on the Impact of the Arts and Design in Education.
There has been overwhelming interest in the implications Schedule Seven of the new Anti-Terrorism Bill has for free expression. 'Freedom of Expression' has set up a website to provide you with information about this section of the Bill and what you can do to help call for its removal. Sedition - blog
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