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Corroded Memories 2.1

Exhibition and Two Concerts

Memories blur and intersect combining to become one. Important or unimportant facts are forgotten or ignored. For better or worse we forget, and as a result our memory is a fractured landscape of interlaced images and feelings.

The human brain is not a computer data bank of dates, times, feelings and places that can be recollected perfectly at will. It is a stock of retained knowledge and experience, the knowledge or impression that somebody retains of a particular person, event, period, or subject.

Corroded Memories 2.1 will culmiate in an exhibition featuring video and sound works by Australian and International artists. Supporting the exhibition will be two perfrormance evenings featuring local and international sound artists. The concerts will occur in Wollongong and Sydney.

Exhibition Dates:

10th April till the 28th April 2008
FCA Gallery, University of Wollongong. NSW Australia

Formal opening, drinks and concert performance in the Gallery 7:30pm Thursday, April 17th.
Perfrorming artists include: P.A., Ben Byrne, Terumi Narushima and Kraig Grady

Exhibiting Artists include:

Sgure, Monika Brookes, Aaron Hull, Camilla Hannan, Scott Sinclair, Greg Hughes and Peter Newman

Performances:

::Faculty of Creative Arts Gallery::
7:30pm Thursday, April 17th.
FCA Gallery, University of Wollongong. NSW Australia
P.A., Ben Byrne, Terumi Narushima and Kraig Grady
t l 42213996 for more info and concert bookings

::Serial Space::
33 Wellington St, Chipendale, Sydney
8pm Thursday the 24th April
P.A., Ben Byrne, Terumi Narushima and Kraig Grady

Artist Bio's

::Camilla Hannan:: www.camillahannan.com

Camilla Hannan is a sound artist working across the fields of composition, installation and performance.

Camilla uses location recordings as source material for her work. These raw recordings are digitally processed into abstracted representations of site.   She is interested in the way field recordings become 'essences of place' The manipulated sounds may not be recognisable in their source but by their sonic texture become iconic representations of time and place.

Camilla has exhibited and performed both in Australia and internationally. This has included a recent residency at MoKs Centre for Art and Social Practice, Estonia and performances in the USA and Europe.

Au Natural. Sound Instalation, 9:35min

This work was composed from field recordings made in and around Mooste, Estonia in August 2007. Previously my work had revolved around industrial sources and at this time I was artist in residence in a small village in the Estonian countryside.

As a response to what I found as a 'surreal quiet', I looked to the natural sonic sources that in my previous practice I had chosen to ignore. What I found were new depths of frequency and texture that provided inspiration for my work.   I wanted to poke fun at my own long held resistance to the natural soundscape and to the loaded connotations of acoustic ecology. Consequently I manipulated the sounds into a thematic of hyper reality and composed an abstracted representation of that original environment.

::Greg Hughes:: http://www.whitecubecreative.com/

Greg Hughes considers himself a modest 'creative', happy to be a jack of all trades, probably not a master of any. Greg moves between drawing, painting, printmaking, graphic design, Web and multimedia design, music performance (guitar and yidaki), sound and analogue effects pedal design and exploration. Greg has currently settled into his first year as a PhD candidate at the University of Wollongong focusing on analogue remediation in a digital realm along with Information aesthetics/representation/design within the school of Art and Design.

Corroded Memories 2.1- Temporal Exhibition Signage

This piece explores the theme of the exhibition through contemporary 'codes' of memento mori. Today, reminders of our mortality stem from our relationship with exponential technical advancement of the digital apparatus, digital representation and information exchange. As individual minds fighting for a sense of place within the many facets of digital globalisation, our mortality is no longer only reinforced through the body, religious connotation and the image of a skull.

Our analogue minds struggle to keep up with the seemingly immortal yet corruptible logic and rigid language of digitalisation. Our corroded memories are mortified when compared to digital efficiency and perhaps oxidised further by our new dependence on it. We are also constantly reminded that we are 'past our time' whenever we struggle to interact with a new commonly accepted digital object. The analogue mind, like a well worn piece of film, shows more and more character over time —dust, scratches, jitter—evidence of use and wisdom through its mortality. A definite positive and one up on digital data banks as we all move towards terminal corrosion.

::Monika Brooks::

Monika Brooks hails from the Blue Mountains, only finding electronic music of any interest during first year of   uni (which was 2002 UWS, Penrith).   Since that time,   there have been many a musical adventure in both experimental/improvised electronic and acoustic fields. Two collaborative groups in particular have influenced the development of practice: ubercube (with Emily Morandini as latoptop duo performance), and The Splinter Orchestra (as an accordionist since 2004). Also enjoys dabbling in 'sound sculpture', as crude forms of surround sound are rearranged as minature mono tracks, compiled into the one gastly multi-speaker composition.

'push rust and desk' -  Sound Instalation, 6:04min

Degrading memory, degraded representation. Other than the outcome of composed sounds providing sheer enjoyment through motor-skills based action, perhaps a concept could be churned out of a want to recollect more correctly certain circumstances that have passed. Ie: the fondness one may have felt during a period is manipulated to be so in order to fulfill a need for completeness or meaning in it's ending (fin). There seems little satisfaction in the unaffected past. Inadequacy, inaccuracy, beligerance.

::Scott Sinclair:: http://www.companyfuck.com

Scott Sinclair is an Australian sound artist who works in his own distinctive sonic territory combining improvisation, hacked electronics, 'visual music', and deliberate genre-bastardisation or plunderphonics. Scott performs solo under the moniker 'Company Fuck', a genre-defying clash of karaoke and experimental computer music, known for giving brutal and entertaining performances and several international releases. Scott is the founder of the 'Half/theory' online collective - www.halftheory.com -which represents many Australian artists and institutions involved in the arts, education, academia, and research. Scott is currently based in Linz, Austria, where he works for Ars Electronica and undertakes a Masters In Time-Based Media.

Companyfuckedmemories- Listening Station, 4 sec

::Peter Newman:: http://www.demux.org/Artists.html

Peter Newman uses sound, projections, paint, found objects and sculpted forms to generate open-ended aesthetic systems. His installation works often incorporate sculptural projection surfaces and immersive multi-speaker sound arrays. He frequently performs improvised sound shows accompanied by original projections. Newman has exhibited solo at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, the Institute of Contemporary Art Newtown, Pelt, Firstdraft and Penrith Regional Gallery. He has contributed to numerous group shows in Australia and overseas. He has performed at Big Day Out, Res Artis, Liquid Architecture, Electrofringe, Now Now, and with the Damo Suzuki Network. Newman recently released a DVD of work through Demux.

INHALE / CEDE - DVD installation, Stereo, 16:9

This work addresses the terms of surrender.

::Aaron Hull:: http://www.halftheory.com/hull/ah/Aaron%20Hull.html

Aaron Hull is sound artist, curator and video artist who has performed and exhibited in Australia and abroad. Taking inspiration from film sound tracks, industrial noise, the Australian landscape and malfunctioning audio devices, Aaron’s performances vary from an intimate sonic landscape to an all out assault of noise and shattered glitch. Most recently he has become fixated on the idea of Corroded Memory. His most recent videoinstalaations have moved away from the vivid dense images and layered textures of previous works to multi screen television video works with reduced subject matter.

BLEACH - Audio Viusal Instalation, 42min/17sec/11fr

Bleach is a ten screen audio visual installation video that investigates the evaporation, disintegration, modifcation and combination of memories.

Performing Artists Bios

::Clocks and Clouds:: www.anaphoria.com

Clocks and Clouds (Kraig Grady - metaslendro vibraphone & Terumi Narushima - metaslendro laptop)

Kraig Grady has been active in the Los Angeles new music scene over the last three decades, building and/or modifying acoustic instruments to explore the phenomena unleashed by different tunings. He has performed on bills ranging from innovative punk band The Minute Men to experimental composer Mauricio Kagel. He recently moved to Australia following his performance at the Interface Festival in Berlin.

Terumi Narushima has composed music for such varied mediums as concerts, films, installations and even games. At home with instrumental or electronic music, she likes to explore different ways in which music can be used outside the conventional concert hall.

Just as memories blur with the passing of time, single tones and melodic fragments melt into beating strata and textures that can be quite different to what is actually played, just like memories can transform the past into unexpected forms.

::PA::

Andrew Gadow and Phil Williams have been performing experimental improvised sound and video since meeting in 2001 at UWS, where they both studied their BA fine arts.

Reviving redundant home and professional audio equipment including reel to reel tape machines and a Moog modular, PA generate improvised soundscapes : “beautiful sonic textures comprising of found sound recording, controlled feedback, tape manipulations, electronics and analog synthesisers these guys can take you from a sublime plateau to a gritty electro chill out room.” [Aaron Hull, 2006] Gadow & Williams transpose these sounds direct to video, simultaneously projecting visual textures derived from the audio.

:: Ben Byrne::

Ben Byrnes performance dealt directly with memory, lifting samples from an old 45 recorded by his family as an audio letter home, Ben directly addressed the idea of Corroded Memory by recontextualising his own family history.

Ben Byrne (Artist/Curator) is a Sydney based artist, musician, curator, radio producer and writer. He is currently studying for his PHD at the University of Technology, Sydney, where he also works. Ben has performed at many events in Australia and overseas as well as presented works in gallery and radio contexts.

Ben is a co-founder of the Alias Frequencies Net label, and in addition to his own practice and writing he has worked extensively as a curator and director, most notably as co-director of the Electrofringe and Liquid Architecture festivals.

www.aliasfrequencies.org/bb/