polyopticon.org/geekchic

Geek Chic 2.0

Wednesday 14 November 2007 @ 6-8pm

LOOP: 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne, View Map

Artists: Roger Alsop, Marcia Jane, Veronica Kent, Pierre Proske

Curators: Alex Gibson, Rhea Favero

polyopticon.org/geekchic

Roger Alsop divides his time between teaching Sound Design in the School of Production at the Victorian College of the Arts, computer music at Northern Metropolitan Institute of TAFE,and working as a sound and AV designer and composer. His activities include: Artist in Residence,Federation Square, Yelling at Stars development phase, Yellow Wallpaper and Storeroom, Local Migration, Big West Festival, The Three Interiors of Lola Strong (review), Downstairs 45, Rice Paddies, for the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts (MIFA 2001) and the Big West Festival; Scenes of the Future from the Past, NYID; Springtime, Griffin Theatre; Paradise and Krapps Last Tape, La Mama; Remembrance of Things Past, VCA School of Drama (MIFA 2002). Roger Alsops Webpage

Marcia Jane is a video artist based in Melbourne, Australia where she has been working in, and teaching, new media for the past 8 years. Marcia is currently lecturing in Visual Art at Swinburne University where she completed her Advanced Diploma in Electronic Design & Interactive Media before going on to study Media Arts at RMIT’s School of Art. Her interests in sound-image relationships and the theory and mechanics of editing are applied as a means to process and rethink material drawn from everyday life. Adapting appropriated media as well as recordings of environments from her past and present, Marcia positions her work in a balance between the social, sensory and the psychological aspects of identity. She has organised and exhibited in a number of shows and screening programs; most recently exhibiting a generative, self-editing video installation entitled Intercept in a solo show at First Site Gallery, Melbourne.

Marcia Jane, Brightleaves

Veronica Kent: My practice is driven by an obsession with various corporeal, imaginary and symbolic bodies and the processes by which these bodies might possess or elude each other. I work with pre-existing and newly made video footage, objects, texts and images that I attempt to force into new performances and relationships. This forcing happens in the studio in a way I can best describe as a type of collage that operates via actions of isolation, displacement, repetition and condensation. Readings and experiences in/with parapsychology, mythology, supernatural events and psychoanalytic theory fuel my imagination and process.

Veronica Kent, Sugarfaint

Pierre Proske is an electronic artist intrigued by the pervasiveness of technology in culture and science and its relationship to nature. His
work involves exposing the unspoken relationships we have with technology and harnessing machines into exploring new aesthetics. He has spent the larger part of the last 4 years in Sweden where he performed, exhibited and obtained a Master of Science in Art and Technology.

Pierre Proske Webpage

Pierre Proske, Synaptic Sound Bath