Premix: Experiments in Open Source Cultural Practice

Premix provides a lead in event to the two day UOW conference, Revise: The Art and Science of Contemporary Remix Cultures.  Premix is a free afternoon event that addresses issues of multi-modal, interdisciplinary cultural practice.  The first portion of the afternoon focuses on three pedagogical projects that explore new relationships between critique and processes of creative making.  They each conceive and shape a particular ecosystem (or technical framework) for posing questions of medium, discipline, interaction and collaboration.  This session is followed by a presentation by British sound and visual artist, Scanner.  Scanner will describe the remixed dimensions of his creative practice.

1:30 – Welcome – Introduction

Three Pedagogical Experiments:

• 1:45 – Machinima and Chaucer: Collaborative Engagement between Students in Two Arts Disciplines (Graham Barwell, Chris Moore)
• 2:30 – An Open-Source Framework for Introducing Computational Media Art Practice (Brogan Bunt, Peter Goodall)
• 3:15 – Learning in Public: An Art School Garden (Lucas Ihlein)

4:00 – Afternoon Tea

4:30 - Telephone terrorism to Soundtracking the Dead: The Adventures and Tales of a Flaneur and Bricoleur (Scanner, aka Robin Rimbaud)

Scanner -  British artist Robin Rimbaud traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways. From his early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations, through to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of the modern metropolis as the symbol of the place where hidden meanings and missed contacts emerge, his restless explorations of the experimental terrain have won him international admiration from amongst others, Bjork, Aphex Twin and Stockhausen.

http://www.scannerdot.com/scanner.shtml

"Give me two turntables and I'll make you a universe" (DJ Spooky)

I said

"Give me two pieces of bread and I'll make you a sandwich" (Scanner)