The Dysideological Principle Tinka Pittoors About Tinka Pittoors Born 1977 in Brasschaat, Belgium Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium Tinka Pittoors originally studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent, before expanding her practice to explore the possibilities of sculpture integrated with drawing, photography, video and installation. Combining a multitude of materials and found objects, Pittoors is known for creating fantastical landscapes and surrealistic miniature worlds that examine ideas of power and utopia. Pittoors finds inspiration in words and is interested in the principle of neologism, where a…
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Symposium | The Uses of Art in Public Space
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Since public art’s emergence as a distinct form of art practice in the late 1960s, the subsequent explosion in its varieties of medium, form and location has prompted multi-disciplinary research into its conception, production and reception.
Lecture and Panel Discussion | Public Art, Spatial Practices and the City
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Public Art, Spatial Practices and the City John Vella, Tasmanian School of Art What role and form does Public Art have in the City and its future/s? In imagining the city, ideas of community and culture, and their dynamic interrelations, can be obscured within a focus on physical and built forms. Artist John Vella’s public lecture will examine the matrix of Public Art in the contemporary city, with a focus on spatial practice. Drawing upon recent shifts in conceptions of ‘place-making’ that attempt to take greater account of socio-cultural dynamics, can…
Exhibition and Seminars: Sensorial Loop 1st Tamworth Textile Triennial
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Sensorial Loop - 1st Tamworth Textile Triennial RMIT Gallery 344 Swanston Street, Melbourne, February - 24 March Opening February 9 at 6pm RSVP 03 9925 1717 or rmit.gallery@rmit.edu.au A Victorian style mourning dress stained with a fugitive dye; pictures made of buttons detailing a migrant experience; hand printed resist style patterned cloth and machine knitted metal sculptural forms. These are some of the textile works to be shown at the 1st Tamworth Textile Triennial exhibition titled Sensorial Loop. More on the RMIT website Sensorial Loop: New directions in the field of…
Conference: Transformations in Cultural Communication, RMIT 14th - 15th April, 2011
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Transformations in Cultural Communication RMIT 14th - 15th April, 2011, Melbourne The first few years of social media brought new approaches to audience engagement, emphasising knowledge sharing through open platforms. As organisations explored the potential of social media, they focused on the impact this would have on their internal practices. Today there is growing emphasis on how these seemingly democratic forms of communication can support and develop culturally diverse audiences. Transformations in Cultural Communication offers a unique opportunity to draw together leading researchers and professionals in the field of cultural communication…
Symposium: Alternative Practices in Design: The Collective – Past, Present & Future
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Alternative Practices in Design: The Collective - Past, Present & Future 9-10 July 2010 RMIT University, Melbourne The rise of social networking and peer-2-peer technology development, the return of community focused activities (eg. gardens, knitting groups, food cooperatives) and creative collectives across the fields of the visual and performing arts has reawakened the discourse around human capital, flat structures and collectives. In response to this an international Symposium on the theme of the design collective is being convened at RMIT University in July 2010 with participants from Europe, the UK,…
Architecture and Philosophy: Professor Jane Rendell ‘May Mo(u)rn’
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ARCHITECTURE + PHILOSOPHY May Mo(u)rn: A Site-Writing Professor Jane Rendell Time: 6.30pm, Thursday June 10th Venue: RMIT 8.11.68 (Building 8, 360 Swanston St. Level 11, lecture theatre 68, to the right of the lifts) May Mo(u)rn is a site-writing which takes a collection of abandoned black and white photographs of modernist architectural icons found in a derelict arts and crafts house called ‘May Morn’ as a starting point for a discussion of the modernist project and its socialist ideals. Morn and mourn are homonyms, one suggests a beginning, the other…
Architecture and Philosophy: Lauren Brown ‘Listening and Silence in the built environment’
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ARCHITECTURE+PHILOSOPHY Listening and silence in the built environment Lauren Brown Time: 6:30pm Thursday, 27 May 2020 in Venue: RMIT 8.11.68 (Building 8, 360 Swanston St. Level 11, lecture theatre 68, to the right of the lifts). Following her Masters research into sound in the public realm, Lauren will be discussing the act of listening, the changing spaces for quiet and the unchanging need for contemplation in the built environment. Looking at natural, urban and technospaces like the grotto, the cloister, the autobahn and the set of headphones, Lauren will unpack…