five leading international digital artists coming to melbourne for white noise
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image welcomes five international artists - a 'who's who' of the international digital art world - to Melbourne this week for the opening of White Noise at ACMI's Screen Gallery on 18 August.
Artists from Japan, United Kingdom, Spain and Germany are arriving to oversee the finishing touches to a completely transformed Screen Gallery that is about to present the Australian premiere of several works and the world premiere of Ryoji Ikeda's data.spectra.
White Noise is a spectacular new international exhibition which explores the contemporary revival of interest in abstraction by digital artists. Early twentieth-century abstraction was a vehicle for artists to explore and universalise ideas and sensations; this exhibition continues this exploration in the digital age of the twenty-first century.
White Noise features large-scale installations by renowned artists Ryoji Ikeda (Japan) and Ulf Langheinrich (Germany), and assembles six Australian and international artists leading the current resurgence of abstraction. The exhibition also includes the work of 18 software artists in a web content program, as well as an historic film program that traces the earliest experiments in abstract filmmaking.
The visual and artistic strategies of early abstraction have changed and expanded with new media technologies. Like the pioneers of early abstraction, the artists in White Noise share a strong desire to evade narrative frameworks, to streamline representation and to depict 'nothing'.
White Noise runs from Thursday 18 August to Sunday 23 October 2005 and features works from Peter Bosch and Simone Simons, Ernest Edmonds and Mark Fell, Ryoji Ikeda, Keiko Kimoto, Ulf Langheinrich and Jonathan Duckworth (Metraform).
Published Monday, 8 August 2005
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