[-empyre-] welcome to : Media , mutAtion, ...migration and decay...

["Melinda Rackham" <melinda@subtle.net>]

Welcome everyone to the final exciting week of the "2004 : Australian
Culture Now" forums.

Fittingly, in this last forum we consider whether we should preserve the
artworks we are producing .. paintings, performance work, screen media and
online work, or do we just let them fade away? Questions of acquisition,
ephemerality, and archiving are addressed by artists, curators and
archivists working in the field.
Media , mutAtion, ...migration and decay... will be facilitated by cinema
curator Clare Stewart, with guests from diverse fields of practice - artists
Damien Frost, Tom Nicholson and David Wadelton, and Tim Plaisted and
information professionals Margaret Phillips and Paul Koerbin from the
PANDORA archive.

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Damien Frost has a passion for design, illustration and painting,
culminating in the creation of web-based projects. Since 1998 he has been
involved with the This Is Not Art Festival as designer and adviser, having
co-founded media arts collective Octapod in Newcastle, New South Wales. He
is a designer for Eyeline and Spinach7 magazines.
http://www.objectnotfound.net

Paul Koerbin works in the Digital Archiving Section of the National Library
and is actively involved in selecting and archiving Australian online
resources for long-term preservation in PANDORA http://pandora.nla.gov.au/
Australia's Web Archive.

Tom Nicholson (b. 1973) was trained in Drawing at the VCA.  His recent work
consists of actions inserted into public spaces, generating residual forms
for exhibition.  His most recent exhibitions have been in Berlin at the
Humboldt University, and at ACCA in Melbourne.

Margaret Phillips is Director of the Digital Archiving Branch at the
National Library has managed the Library's activities in archiving
Australian online resources since 1996. She directed the establishment of
PANDORA Australia's Web Archive http://pandora.nla.gov.au/and has overseen
its subsequent development and operation.

Tim Plaisted  has been a practicing new media artist for eight years and
exhibited in Australia and overseas. Current areas of investigation include:
light and space, open source development as it relates to software art,
immersion using accessible technology and play.
http://www.boxc.net

Clare Stewart is Cinema Programmer at the Australian Centre for the Moving
Image. She has previously curated film seasons for the Australian Film
Institute, the Melbourne Cinémathèque and the Melbourne and Brisbane
International Film Festivals.

David Wadelton has been exhibiting paintings for over 20 years. For the past
decade these paintings (and digital prints) have focused on images of
contemporary pop culture. Wadelton also makes progressive music and has just
finished recording a CD with long- time collaborator Dave Brown.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~davidwadelton