[Nettime-bold] [BAM New Media] launches Under_score: Net Art, Sound and Essays from Australia

[Alva French <afrench@BAM.ORG>]

	Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) presents, Under_score: Net Art,
Sound, and Essays from Australia at http://www.bam.org/under_score, an
online exhibition showcasing the works of nine Australian artists for whom
the internet has emerged as one of the most significant arenas for artistic
experimentation and multimedia production. The exhibit is part of Next Wave
Down Under, BAM's month-long celebration of Australian arts and culture.

	The works presented here represent a vast diversity of approaches,
technologies, applications, and aesthetics, but with few exceptions,
coalesce thematically around "the body", a persistent theme which at the
beginning of the new millennium is present more than ever in discussions of
art, the sciences, and the media. From Francesca da Rimini's diary-like
reflections and confrontational rants concerning erotic relations, power,
and sexual taboo in GashGirl, to the richly layered dream-like 3D spaces and
soundscapes in Melinda Rackham's empyrean,  Australian artists are helping
to define new modes of electronic writing and reading, multimedia,
performance, image making, and sonic production. Other artists include John
Tonkin, Mez, Paul Brown, geniwate, Ian Haig, Jason Sweeney, Honor Harger,
Adam Hyde, zina kaye, Caleb K., Mr. Snow, and Gary Zebington.

	In addition, Under_score provides related links to fourteen works by
Australian artists working in a variety of new media formats including
CD-ROM, installation, and performance. There are two innovative online
broadcasters, l'audible and r a d i o q u a l i a, delivering some of the
most compelling sound work in Australia and New Zealand, and select audio
pieces from The Listening Room, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's
award sound art program.

	In order to expand the discussion of these works and their
significance BAM has commissioned three online essays by Allen Feldman, an
American cultural and political anthropologist, Australian new media
theorist Darren Tofts, and Australian writer and media critic McKenzie Wark.

	Under_score: Net Art, Sound and Essays from Australia, now available
at:
	http://www.bam.org/under_score
	
	In conjunction with Next Wave Down Under,  BAM commissioned
Australian new media company, Drome to recreate the CD-ROM Making Chunky
Move for web delivery.  The web work explores how one of Australia's most
exciting contemporary dance companies created the dance work Corrupted 2,
which made its U.S. debut at  BAM during this year's Next Wave Festival. The
documentary follows the company from the germ of an idea to the stage,
behind the scenes and beyond, including snapshot interviews with the key
players, dancers, creative collaborators, and other cultural professionals
as well as unique virtual 3-D segments, sound bites, and extensive video
footage.
	
	Making Chunky Move, now available at:
	http://www.bam.org/chunkymove
	
	
	For more information, contact Wayne Ashley, BAM's Manager of New
Media via email at washley@bam.org
	
	_______________________________
	Coming Soon: Arts in Multimedia
	New Media installations featuring the works of 
	Paul Kaiser, Nicolas Tsingos, John Jesurun,
	Dan Lee, Kit August, Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen
	Starts Nov 20 at BAM's Hillman Attic Studio
	http:/www.bam.org/asp/newmedia.asp



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