PLAY² | QUEERTECH.IO = ART (URL, IRL)
1 January - 28 March 2017
Curated by QUEERTECH.IO
Alison Bennet + AJ Kearns (AUS), Mo Cohen (USA), Pila Darling & Michele Vescio (AUS), Travis de Jonk (AUS), Xanthe Dobbie (AUS), Siyu Mao (DEU/CHN), Luke Miller (AUS), Mark Payne (AUS), El Pelele (ARG), Miriam Poletti (ITA), Mark Ramos (USA), Richard Sawdon Smith & Jonathan Armour (UK), Soda_Jerk (AUS), Beau Torres (USA), Pati Solomona Tyrell (NZ), Alan Warburton (UK), Michael Wilde (USA)
A collection of digital artworks by local, national and international LGBTQI+ identifying artists curated by QueerTech.io (Alison Bennet, Travis Cox, Xanthe Dobbie & Mark Payne). The project, which explores the intersection between queer identities and digital culture, spans multiple on- and offline locations and will be exhibited across Midsumma Festival (Melb), Melt Festival (Bris), and Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras (Syd) in 2017.
Interact with the online exhibition here from January 15: http://queertech.io/
List of Works in PLAY² :
Alison Bennet & AJ Kearns (AUS), 2015, Inverto, digital photographs Mo Cohen (USA), 2016, Queer Quest: All in a Gay's Work, point & click game demo
Pila Darling & Michele Vescio (AUS), 2014, And, Or, and Not, digital web collage
Travis de Jonk (AUS), 2016, Sexual Organs - Bloom 1, interactive digital video
Xanthe Dobbie (AUS), 2016, Desktop Holiday 2, digital video collage Siyu Mao (DEU/CHN), 2016, Nothing but Nonsense, gif
Luke Miller (AUS), Escape from Pleasure Planet, game Mark Payne (AUS), 2016, In Stride, digital sculpture, animation
El Pelele (ARG), 2016, Apotropaión, multidisciplinary digital installation
Miriam Poletti (ITA), 2016, Perhaps Cultivating Touch Can Still Save Us, interactive webpage
Mark Ramos (USA), 2016, Contested Terrain, 3D virtual topography
Richard Sawdon Smith & Jonathan Armour (UK), 2016, Infinite Surface, high resolution photogrammetry 3D model
Soda_Jerk (AUS), 2011, The Popular Front, adapted digital video
Beau Torres (USA), 2015, Brush Against Me David; it is what it is, digital video
Pati Solomona Tyrell (NZ), 2016, Aitu Vogue Ball, digital video
Alan Warburton (UK), 2016, Training Camp, Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) software, crowd simulation software, motion capture files, compositing software
Michael Wilde (USA), 2016, Turing Meditation, interactive collage