15 October 2010, 5.30pm
COFA Lecture Theatre EG02,
Green’s rd, Paddington (Sydney)
Reception and screening,
COFAspace Gallery 6.30pm
FREE ADMISSION
http://www.niea.unsw.edu.au
Dan HillAs Head of Interactive Technology & Design at the BBC in London, Dan Hill led design across their award-winning websites as well as conducting significant strategic work, re-thinking the organisation for the on-demand age. He co-founded the global media product Monocle, and is one of the organisers of the acclaimed architecture and urbanism event Postopolis!, running in New York and Los Angeles so far. He also writes City of Sound, generally thought of as one of the leading architecture and urbanism websites, as well as regularly writing for architecture and design press worldwide.
In conjunction with this lecture, NIEA will screen Miao Xiaochun‘s acclaimed video installation Microcosm. Based on Hieronymus Bosch’s 15th century masterpiece, The Garden of Earthly Delights. Microcosm is an imaginative reinvention of the landscape of sin, salvation, and visions of those who never made it to paradise. A multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans photography to new media, Miao’s works depict vast cityscapes of contemporary China, which are alien-like yet offering visions of a new era. Miao Xiaochun was born in China and studied at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing where he currently teaches. He also attended the Kunsthochschule in Kassel, Germany. Miao’s works have been exhibited at the 2005 Guangzhou Photo International Biennale, the 2008 Busan Biennale, Thermocline of Art – New Asian Waves, and Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Le Grand Palais in France, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo in Brazil, and the Cincinnati Art Museum in Ohio.
The innovation lecture series and premiere screening coincides with the launch of the new National Institute for Experimental Arts website: www.niea.unsw.edu.au.
National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA) is a centre for innovative interdisciplinary research in experimental arts and thinking.
Applications from PhD students are invited.
NEW NIEA WEBSITE
http://www.niea.unsw.edu.au