When: Saturday 20 September, 6.30-8pm Venue: Drill Hall Gallery, ANU Canberra Attendance is free, bookings required: Register here CONE + BULB – an evening of landmark Expanded Cinema is a presentation by Australian artist group Teaching and Learning Cinema (Lucas Ihlein and Louise Curham). Closely aligned with the Drill Hall Light Source exhibition’s focus on …
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Collecting and Preserving New Media and Performance Art (with Pip and Libby)
While in England, I (Lucas) was lucky enough to visit Pip Laurenson and Libby Ireland at University College London. They have a whole program which tackles the philosophical and practical challenges of conserving media art and performative art. In the photo above, you can see Pip showing me a very fancy celluloid film scanning device, …
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Proposition for the museum acquisition of Horror Film 1
Museums find it difficult to collect works of media and performance art, compared with traditional art objects like paintings, drawings, and sculpture. This makes sense. A media artwork might consist of a combination of software and hardware, as well as data-storage components (digital files, audio tapes, celluloid films, etc) all of which can be volatile …
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Making connections in France and England
I (Lucas) am on a trip to Europe, mainly for family reasons. While I’m here, I decided to take the opportunity to visit some folks TLC has been working with for a while. This is Raja Appuswamy, a data scientist who’s been leading the “synthetic DNA” component of our collaboration. Raja lives in the south …
Documentation from UK Le Grice exhibition
Recently we had the pleasure to contribute to the DNA:AND exhibition at Velarde Gallery in England. The gallery has kindly sent a few photos for our records. Here is the media release about TLC’s work for the exhibition.
A draft manual about making manuals…
We recently received an email requesting advice on how to make a users manual for the re-enactment of a historical artwork. here are a few notes…
The Provocation of Synthetic DNA
I (Lucas) am thinking about the provocation of sending info 1000 years into the future in the synthetic DNA capsule. This provocation emerges from our collaboration with Raja Appuswamy, a data scientist at Eurecom in France, who is storing our Horror Film 1 Users Manual and associated documentation materials on synthetic DNA. Raja is working …
Re-enactment, Users Manuals and DNA Storage: methods for media art preservation
Here’s a paper that we recently presented in Meanjin Brisbane for the 2024 ISEA conference (International Symposium on Electronic Art). We presented as part of the 4th Summit on Media Art Archiving. It’s called “Re-enactment, Users Manuals and DNA Storage: methods for media art preservation”, co-authored by Louise Curham, Lucas Ihlein, Raja Appuswamy. About the …
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Farewell Peter Mudie
This week we lost a VIP in the experimental cinema community. Peter Mudie was a teacher at University of Western Australia, where I studied fine arts in the mid-1990s. Shortly after he arrived in Perth (from Canada via London) he set up a Super-VHS editing suite, and began teaching the history and practice of experimental …
Horror Film 1 – Users Manual (version 1.0)
Louise and Lucas from TLC have been working towards various versions of a users manual for Horror Film 1 (1971). In this blog post, we’ll share a few versions of the manual, which are still at an early stage.