Expanded Cinematic Forms of Narration
Dennis Del Favero
Interactive narrative as a multi-temporal agency
Neil Brown, Dennis Del Favero, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel
Flannery – Botanising the interface
James Donald
The Representation of Space and the Space of Representation: a Cognitive Science Introduction to JIG
Mark W. Peters, Barry Drake
Rewarding the Viuser: A Human-Televisual Data Interface Application
Keir Smith
T_Visionarium: the aesthetic transcription of televisual databases
Dennis Del Favero, Neil Brown, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel
AVIE: A Versatile Multi-User Stereo 360° Interactive VR Theatre
Matthew McGinity, Jeffrey Shaw, Volker Kuchelmeister, Ardrian Hardjono, Dennis Del Favero
Toward a Process Philosophy for Digital Aesthetics
Timothy Barker
Process and (Mixed) Reality: A Process Philosophy for Interaction in Mixed Reality Environments
Timothy Barker
Immersive Mixed Media Augmented Reality Applications and Technology.
Volker Kuchelmeister
Universal capture through stereographic multi-perspective recording and scene reconstruction.
Volker Kuchelmeister
Scenario: Co-Evolution, Shared Autonomy and Mixed Reality
Dennis Del Favero and Timothy Barker
Performing Digital Aesthetics: The Framework for a Theory of the Formation of Interactive Narratives
Neil C.M Brown, Timothy Barker, Dennis Del Favero
International Symposium
Including Launch of the Publication Un_Imaginable
Un_imaginable is the first instalment in the ZIP Digital Arts Edition series jointly produced by the iCinema Centre, Sydney, the ZKM Karlsruhe and the University of Pittsburgh. This new editorial cooperation envisages the production over the next five years of three publications encapsulating the latest research on topics of central importance to media arts. The launch of the Un_imaginable issue is combined with a one-day symposium at ZKM Karlsruhe and an exhibition of the DVD-artworks at ZKM Karlsruhe and the Ivan Dougherty Gallery Sydney.
ZKM Media Theatre, ZKM, Karlsruhe
2 July 2008
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
15 August 2008 2pm to 5pm
Within the framework of technologies developed at the iCinema Centre, internationally acclaimed theorists and practitioners describe and deliberate recent advances in immersive and narrative exchange between human & place, human & machine agent, human & human.
UNSW Kensington Campus Kensington.
21st September, 2007
The goal of this series is to present papers from leading international and local scholars, along with UNSW postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers, to address issues of relevance to the converging fields of digital media and cinema.
2007–2008
Foreign Correspondents: Female Epistolary Voice-Over in War Films, presented by Susie Walsh-Weirman
Nottingham University
8/07/2004 – 10/07/2004
Hochschule der Kuenste, Bremen
14/05/2004 – 15/05/2004
Artspace and Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
22/11/2001 – 15/12/2001
Cinemedia at Treasury Theatre, Melbourne
30/11/2001 – 01/12/2001
Edited by Dennis Del Favero, Ursula Frohne, Peter Weibel
2008
DVD-Video: (English/German with English subtitles) DVD artworks by Dennis Del Favero, Korpys / Löffler, Susan Norrie and Peter Weibel
Book: (c.180 pages) texts by Inke Arns, Jill Bennett, Ursula Frohne, Boris Groys, Adrian Parr, Paul Patton, Sabine Sielke and Terry Smith
Book and DVD-Video published by Hatje Cantz, Germany
Un_imaginable is the first instalment in the ZIP Digital Arts Edition series jointly produced by the iCinema Centre, Sydney, the ZKM Karlsruhe and the University of Pittsburgh. This new editorial cooperation envisages the production over the next five years of three publications encapsulating the latest research on topics of central importance to media arts. The launch of the Un_imaginable issue is combined with a one-day symposium at ZKM Karlsruhe and an exhibition of the DVD-artworks at ZKM Karlsruhe and the Ivan Dougherty Gallery Sydney.
Recent occurrences in different spheres of life such as the ecological through to the psychological have redefined our notion of the unbelievable. While maintaining continuities with a long history of the irreal, this new unimaginary confronts us with radically diverse realities, reformulating the condition and expression of life itself. Digital imagery plays a critical role in this reformulated notion, since it presents itself not only as a medium but also as a limit of contemporaneity. The Un_imaginable project invites a range of artists and writers to investigate this new unimaginary and explore the unique qualities of its terrain.
Jill Bennett
2008
Book and DVD
Published by ZKM/UNSW Press
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the ground-breaking T_Visionarium media art project developed by Neil Brown, Dennis Del Favero, Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel at the iCinema Centre, Sydney, in collaboration with ZKM, Karlsruhe. It reveals how this immersive interactive environment generates new insights into the workings and consumption of televisual media, extending the boundaries of both art and media studies. Using contemporary theory to analyse gesture and emotion in art and media, Jill Bennett’s text explores the dynamics of new media narratives, demonstrating how both TV and media art operate in a transnarrative dimension where media images take on their own life.
“Situating T_Visionarium in terms of wider cultural shifts, the book is a ‘user’s guide’, both to T_Visionarium, and to screen culture in general. Jill Bennett’s ‘guide’ to the kinds of discoveries possible in the complex space created by T_Visionarium opens up questions about what media art can do. Drawing in particular on knowledge of the televisual genre of forensic detection, and of affect and gesture, Bennett traces the lineaments of T_Visionarium, with unpredictable and often unimaginable results.” Associate Professor Anna Gibbs, School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney.
Curator and Editor: Dennis Del Favero and Jeffrey Shaw
Design and Software: Volker Kuchelmeister
2001
Book & DVD-ROM
Published by Hatje Cantz, Germany
This is the first DVD-ROM in the ZKM Digital Arts Edition, published by ZKM and the Centre for Interactive Cinema, presenting new works by Australian and European artists. The individual works address the specific challenges of interactive narrative conception and design.
The works in (dis) LOCATIONS explore a multi-dimensional concept of narrative. This dynamic form of narrative is profoundly dialogic in character. Mikhail Baktin’s concept of the dialogic illustrates how fictional characters, for example, those in Dostoyevsky’s novels, are able to speak without subjection to the single authorial control of their creator. Baktin terms this a ‘genuine polyphony’. The arrival of digital systems permits this polyphony to be an emergent property generated by the viewers’ interaction with the author’s narration.
(dis) LOCATIONS, DVD-ROM & Book, ZKM digital arts edition
ISBN 3-7757-1087-6
This book includes essays by authors including Jill Bennett, Lev Manovich and Peter Weibel which comment upon the featured works and analyze theoretical aspects of interactive cinema and digital communications media.
Jill Bennett
2004
Hardback book of 150 pages with embedded DVD
Published by UNSW Press, Sprengel Museum Hannover: Sydney, Hannover.
in co-operation with iCinema Research Centre, UNSW
Fantasmi presents a richly illustrated analysis of leading Australian new media artist Dennis Del Favero’s works from 1994 to 2004, by art historian Jill Bennett. Deep Sleep DVD-ROM, the first in the iCinema digital monographs series, is incorporated into the Fantasmi dual book and DVD publication.
“One of Dennis Del Favero’s most memorable works, Quegli Ultimi Momenti, dates from twenty years ago. It screened the Australian Centre for Photography in 1984 and, through the use of sound, text, still and moving image, it vividly created the world of migration, the creation of the diaspora, particularly its inevitable, unavoidable sense of loss. The richness of awareness of what had been left behind, and by contrast the unknown into which the protagonists were propelled, remains profoundly moving. The installation, complex yet coherent, with content masterfully allied to form, was, with the great benefit of hindsight, illuminating the very core of so much of the artist’s continuing concerns; of the impact on the individual of events both beyond their control and beyond their conscious understanding. We, as the viewer, become enmeshed in each of his works by a world that we enter at our own risk, and from which we can never emerge unscathed.
The bulk of Del Favero’s oeuvre emerges from real events, involving footage from a variety of media sources spliced together to form fractured narratives that jar the nerves, and are presented on multi screens that dislocate the conventional relationship between viewer and moving image. There is no need to duplicate here Jill Bennett’s detailed studies of each piece, but it is important to clarify their combined role within the genre. Conflict, the meeting of demands, desires, beliefs and impositions that are so utterly incompatible, is surely at the heart of Del Favero’s creativity. Memory and loss are two crucial additional foundation stones, as they intertwine with the various ways in which ideology, passion, lust, impotence, greed and power dictate human actions. Del Favero chooses to dwell on the darker nature within, not to obscure, as with so much artistic endeavour, but to reveal its revelatory and utterly disturbing continuity. This representation of the ”discontent in culture” (S. Freud, 1930), which is normally suppressed or subliminated in art, makes the art of Del Favero so relevant. Links from the present are constantly drawn with so many past eras and manifestations, through reference to music, art, the written and spoken word, and the history of ideas.
This remarkable overview of a most productive era encompasses the realist based works Pieta, Coming Apart, Requiem, Cross Currents, Angelo Nero, Pentimento, Deep Sleep, as well as the fictional Sottovoce. They constitute, when experienced collectively, the most disturbing and moving representation of the crisis of communication that afflicts our world today. There are indeed few artists alive so determined and so capable of maintaining our vigilance."
Nick Waterlow, Director, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, UNSW, Sydney
Peter Weibel, Chairman and CEO, ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Scott McQuire and Nikos Papastergiadis
2006
DVD/Book
Published by UNSW Press
Conversations:The Parallax Effect critically interprets the experimental Distributed Multi-User Virtual Environment Conversations, 2004-2006, by Dennis Del Favero, Ross Gibson, Ian Howard and Jeffrey Shaw.
The publication evaluates the potential for an immersive multi-modal interactive narrative experience to deal with the complexity of historical events; in this instance, the escape, recapture, trial and hanging of Ronald Ryan at Pentridge Prison, Melbourne in 1967. Ryan was the last person publicly executed in Australia. The authors argue that the experimental artwork allows viewers “to inhabit the landscape of the escape, to experience the confusion of the crime scene first hand; then it enables us to encounter the key protagonists of the subsequent trial […]. Instead of being presented with ‘facts’, viewers are asked to negotiate the historical landscape themselves, to draw conclusions from their encounter with both the scene of the disputed events and the opinions of the characters who dominated their aftermath.”
The accompanying DVD documents the Conversations demonstrator as presented at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Curated by Anne-Marie Duguet
2007
DVD video/DVD-ROM
Published by Anarchive
Anarchive n°4: Jean Otth … on the Council of Nicea
In accordance with the principle of the Anarchive collection, of which this is the fourth title, “Jean Otth … on the Council of Nicea” is all at once an original creation, as well as a database of his work. This DVD-ROM is the annotated catalogue of his video works. Although Jean Otth is one of the pioneers of video art in Switzerland, he has also worked with other media as well, such as painting, photography, and the computer. These other works are presented here.
After studying art history and philosophy at the University of Lausanne, Jean Otth attended the art school of Lausanne. From then on, his artistic trajectory, still influenced by the practice of painting, became closely tied to the emergence of new technologies. He is one of the pioneers of video art in Switzerland in the early 1970’s, and his works were soon seen in numerous exhibitions both in Switzerland and abroad (for instance Dokumenta 6 in Kassel). In the 1980’s he began to employ the computer in his works, not only for its instrumental possibilities, but for its aesthetic dimensions as well. Jean Otth taught at the Cantonal Art School of Lausanne from 1979 to 2002.
Today he pursues a work that mixes the real and the virtual and explores their interaction. This is accomplished through the creation of installations, often including the projection of images on objects. While constantly questioning the media that he uses, and at times even takes as a subject matter, Jean Otth produces borderlines works that test the observer and provoke desire through covering-up, reframing, and shifting. The spectator is thus invited to participate in sensitive, singular experiments in which the figure is threatened with disappearance – where that which can be represented is but a question.
“Jean Otth ….on the Council of Nicea” is composed of two dvds:
Thirteen short video pieces, created especially for this project, illustrate the different problematics that run through the work of Jean Otth, such as mimesis, electronic disturbance, obliteration, projection, tautology. Finally, a selection of the artist’s writings, as well as numerous critical texts about his work, are accessible in this database, and are in printable form (57 texts).
This DVD-ROM was produced thanks to private patronage and the support of Pro Helvetia swiss arts council, the Cultural Fund of the City of Lausanne, the Canton of Vaud, and the Vaud Academic Society.
The Center for Contemporary Images- St. Gervais in Geneva, and AktiveArchive in Bern both participated in the production of this work.
Price : 39 €
ISBN 978-2-9518132-1-2
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