Title

Spikes New media installations

Venues

UTS Gallery (24 February 2004 – 20 March 2004)

Date

(2004)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (NSW). New media, Installation

Curator

Jacqueline Bosscher.

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Rod Berry, Tissue Culture & Art Project (Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr), Joerg Hubmann, Andrew Sunley Smith & Astrid Spielman.

"...it is still unclear whether we are entering a new Dark Age or a new Renaissance."*

Taking the possibility of technological and population spikes within the next fifty years as a conceptual starting point - a spike being a period of change of immense speed and scale that could end in human obsolescence or transformation - six contemporary artists have created a diverse mix of innovative multi-media installations for Spikes. Their work involves video, architectural interventions, installation, new media and 'wet' (or living) media. It examines the radical potential of bio-technological developments, mans relationship to his natural environment, spike prediction methods and imaginative sustainable visions for the future. [gallery media]

*Richard Eckersley The End of the World (As We Know It), Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 January 2001.