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Conference: Disapperaing Video

Article released: Wednesday, 08 October, 2008

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The Museum of Contemporary Art in association with COFA and d/Lux/Media/Arts, with assistance from the Australian Research Council presents a two day conference entitled Disappearing Video. Australian Video Art: Some Key Works, is an evening screening of key Australian video works followed by a full day of talks and personal accounts exploring what might be learnt from video art practices, and approaches to collecting and archiving the medium for the future.
Accompanying the conference is the exhibition Video Logic, 19 August to 2 November 2008, featuring new and recent work by six artists who have been involved with video and screen-based artwork for a decade or more. Conference speakers include Stephen Jones, Danni Zuvela, John Conomos, Louise Curham, Lyndal Jones and Andrew Frost with facilitators John Gillies and Ross Harley.

COFA staff John Gillies and Associate Professor and New Media Head of School Ross Harley, in collaboration with the MCA and d/Lux/Media/Arts, present this conference as part of their project Video Art Online: from UBU Films to the Present. The project is aimed at creating an innovative way to store, catalogue, interpret and archive video art works using open source software that will be freely available to others to use and develop.



What: Australian Video Art: Some Key Works, Thursday 23 October, 6.30 – 8.00pm. Conference, Friday 24 October, 10.00am – 5.00pm
Where: Museum of Contemporary Art
How much: $30 / $25 MCA Members & Concessions
Bookings essential: 02 9245 2484 or www.mca.com.au/events