[Air-l] fAf Oct 03: Made Men, Richard Bell in cyberTribe

[linda carroli]

fineArt forum
October 2003

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This month's issue:
:: Made Men, Richard Bell in cyberTribe
:: MelbourneDAC in fAf
:: In focus: The Year of Living Digitally, Singapore; GENEVA-03, WSIS; 
NICA, Yangon; The Radii Ezine, Australia
:: fAf_15: 15th anniversary cdrom

:: Made Men, new work by Richard Bell in cyberTribe
Curator, Jenny Fraser presents a new cyberTribe exhibition of work by 
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award winner, 
Richard Bell whose recent works were presented at Metro Arts in Brisbane. 
Bell won the award with his painting titled, 'Aboriginal Art - it's a White 
Thing.' The accompanying essay for Made Men, states: "We could note the 
patently incendiary - yet also cryptic and sometimes literally encrypted - 
phrases like 'Kill Mabo' and 'Hide Ya Kidz' that Bell comes up with in some 
of his paintings. Or, in a rather different vein, we could think of one 
part of the four-part work called Worth Exploring? (2002): a blown-up 
version of a carefully composed statutory declaration in which Bell points 
out the illegality of the white occupation of Australia, taking this 
illegality as the premise for the claim that everything subsequent to this 
occupation is ultra vires (illegal, outside the law), and drawing the 
consequence that all non-Aboriginal Australians must be counted as 
criminals and all Aboriginal people recognised as the victims of crime. We 
could also think of a new series of paintings, where Bell quotes from the 
comic-strip-style paintings of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein to comment on 
attitudes to black-white sexual relationships, broaching what is a taboo or 
no-go area even now."
http://www.fineartforum.org/Gallery/cybertribe/bell/index.htm

:: DAC in fAf
The papers from MelbourneDAC continue in fAfTEXT until November with more 
than 60 papers from DAC (Digital Arts and Culture) Conference held in 
Melbourne in May. MelbourneDAC +streaming wor(l)ds+ was the first major 
academic conference on streaming media, computer games and game culture, 
hypertext and interactive film in Australia. It provided a platform for 
critical discussion on the implications technological and creative 
innovations are having on us as globally networked communities, 
MelbourneDAC brought together producers, theorists, critics, designers, new 
media artists, educators, filmmakers, curators, researchers and students 
who share a passionate interest in digital arts and culture.
http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n10/reviews/reviews_index.html

:: In focus
Upfront: The Year of Living Digitally - Singapore's first new media and 
digital arts festival.
http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n10/upfront_index.html

Events: GENEVA-03, WSIS - an open, loose and temporary association of 
groups and individuals who are currently preparing a series of events 
around the WSIS. 
http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n10/events_index.html

Opportunities: Networking and Initiatives for Culture and the Arts, Yangon 
- a newly established art center aimed at contributing to development in 
the fields of culture and the arts.
http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n10/opps_index.html

Stuff: The Radii Ezine, Australia - new issue now online
http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n10/stuff_index.html

PLUS more news, announcements and calls ...

:: fAf_15: 15th anniversary cdrom
Don't forget that fAf_15, our commemorative 15th anniversary cdrom is still 
available and free. On fAf_15, we present the magazine's entire archive as 
well as specially commissioned and collated new material. fAf_15 is an 
invaluable resource for researchers, artists, writers and activists in the 
new media, science and technology fields. It will be particularly useful to 
those living and working in areas where internet access is difficult and 
unreliable. We are distributing the cdrom to screen resource centres, arts 
and artist groups, new media events and libraries worldwide to enhance 
access in those hard to reach areas. To obtain a copy, email fAf at 
l2.carroli at qut.edu.au with your name and postal address.
http://www.fineartforum.org/aboutus/highlights_index.html

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