'Postcard from Tunis' opens at e~Media CDROM Gallery

Oct. 9, 1997

Type: discussion

'Postcard from Tunis' by Sally Pryor opens at e~Media CDROM Gallery on
Thursday 16 October 6 - 8pm. Exhibition dates 17 October to 8 November.

The forth show at the innovative e~Media Gallery is a pioneering
joint-project between Experimenta Media Arts and Centre for Contemporary
Photography. e~Media is an exhibition space dedicated to the new
horizons opened by digital art.

This lushly evocative work is set in Tunis, a city where Middle Eastern,
Mediterranean and African influences converge. As you explore the
'postcard' the richness of sights, sounds and smells of the city envelop
you. It features a complex, textured soundtrack of outstanding quality
that is linked to responsive images and texts and weaves a vivid pattern
as you interact with aspects of Tunisian culture. The soundtrack
consists of Arabic drumming and music by Lebanese musicians and sounds
that she recorded whilst in Tunisia. 'Postcard from Tunis' uses writing
as a means to draw the user into the culture.The theme is of a door
opening: to a region, a culture and a language, and to a deeper
understanding of the concept of writing itself. It features two ancient
scripts that have inscribed Tunisia in the past, Libyan, from the desert
Turags, and Phoenician, from modern-day Lebanon.

Sally Pryor met and fell in love with her husband whilst exploring
Tunis. It's an immersive, personal expression and experience of her love
for the city of her husband and family-in-law.

'Postcard from Tunis' is being exhibited nationally and internationally
and was selected for the competitive New Talent Pavillion at MILIA 97 in
Cannes. It has won an Invasion New Media Award in San Francisco and next
week Sally Pryor will receive (WIFT) Fox Studios Elektra Award which is
presented to a woman who has made outstanding achievements in new
technologies. A French audio publisher, Phonurgia Nova, will be
publishing it in November.

Sally Pryor completed all the design, programming, production and post
production on this technically proficient work herself and is currently
lecturing at the University of Technology in Sydney.

If you wish to contact Sally Pryor call Project Coordinator Sally
Tulloch on Ph: (03) 9525 5025.