fAf Oct 03: Made Men, Richard Bell in cyberTribe

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October 2003

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This month's issue:
:: Made Men, Richard Bell in cyberTribe
:: MelbourneDAC in fAf
:: In focus: The Year of Living Digitally, Singapore; GENEVA-03,
WSIS; NICA, Yangon; The Radii Ezine, Australia
:: fAf_15: 15th anniversary cdrom

:: Made Men, new work by Richard Bell in cyberTribe
Curator, Jenny Fraser presents a new cyberTribe exhibition of work by
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
winner, Richard Bell whose recent works were presented at Metro Arts
in Brisbane. Bell won the award with his painting titled, 'Aboriginal
Art - it's a White Thing.' The accompanying essay for Made Men,
states: "We could note the patently incendiary - yet also cryptic and
sometimes literally encrypted - phrases like 'Kill Mabo' and 'Hide Ya
Kidz' that Bell comes up with in some of his paintings. Or, in a
rather different vein, we could think of one part of the four-part
work called Worth Exploring? (2002): a blown-up version of a
carefully composed statutory declaration in which Bell points out the
illegality of the white occupation of Australia, taking this
illegality as the premise for the claim that everything subsequent to
this occupation is ultra vires (illegal, outside the law), and
drawing the consequence that all non-Aboriginal Australians must be
counted as criminals and all Aboriginal people recognised as the
victims of crime. We could also think of a new series of paintings,
where Bell quotes from the comic-strip-style paintings of Pop artist
Roy Lichtenstein to comment on attitudes to black-white sexual
relationships, broaching what is a taboo or no-go area even now."
http://www.fineartforum.org/Gallery/cybertribe/bell/index.htm

:: DAC in fAf
The papers from MelbourneDAC continue in fAfTEXT until November with
more than 60 papers from DAC (Digital Arts and Culture) Conference
held in Melbourne in May. MelbourneDAC +streaming wor(l)ds+ was the
first major academic conference on streaming media, computer games
and game culture, hypertext and interactive film in Australia. It
provided a platform for critical discussion on the implications
technological and creative innovations are having on us as globally
networked communities, MelbourneDAC brought together producers,
theorists, critics, designers, new media artists, educators,
filmmakers, curators, researchers and students who share a passionate
interest in digital arts and culture.
http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n10/reviews/reviews_index.html

:: In focus
Upfront: The Year of Living Digitally - Singapore's first new media
and digital arts festival.
http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n10/upfront_index.html

Events: GENEVA-03, WSIS - an open, loose and temporary association of
groups and individuals who are currently preparing a series of events
around the WSIS.
http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n10/events_index.html

Opportunities: Networking and Initiatives for Culture and the Arts,
Yangon - a newly established art center aimed at contributing to
development in the fields of culture and the arts.
http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n10/opps_index.html

Stuff: The Radii Ezine, Australia - new issue now online
http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n10/stuff_index.html

PLUS more news, announcements and calls …

:: fAf_15: 15th anniversary cdrom
Don't forget that fAf_15, our commemorative 15th anniversary cdrom is
still available and free. On fAf_15, we present the magazine's entire
archive as well as specially commissioned and collated new material.
fAf_15 is an invaluable resource for researchers, artists, writers
and activists in the new media, science and technology fields. It
will be particularly useful to those living and working in areas
where internet access is difficult and unreliable. We are
distributing the cdrom to screen resource centres, arts and artist
groups, new media events and libraries worldwide to enhance access in
those hard to reach areas. To obtain a copy, email fAf at
[email protected] with your name and postal address.
http://www.fineartforum.org/aboutus/highlights_index.html

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