World Listening day photos
The Time Cannon at the Roundhouse in Fremantle shortly before being fired.
Volunteer guide and honorary firer
World Listening Day particpants nearing the end of the walk.
Joel put his sound files up here: http://joelong.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/world-listening-day_-listening-to-the-dockers-timegun/
Bruno Latour: “May Nature Be Recomposed? A Few Questions of Cosmopolitics”
The Neal Wheeler Watson Lecture 2010, given by Professor Bruno Latour: “May Nature Be Recomposed? A Few Questions of Cosmopolitics”. The Lecture is given every spring at the Nobel Museum by an international scholar of excellence.
Location: Nobel Museum, Svenska Akademiens Börssal, May 11 2010.
Your comments please: long, hard to decipher and convoluted; but what do you think?
Sound, Sight, Space and Play 2010: Postgraduate Conference for the Creative Sonic Arts
Date: Wednesday 2nd – Friday 4th June 2010
Location: Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom
Deadline: Abstracts outlining papers, installations and performances due 1st February 2010
Exploring the Future of the Sonic Arts
We would like to invite you to take part in Sound, Sight, Space and Play (SSSP) 2010, a conference for postgraduate students working in the creative sonic arts, organised by postgraduate students of the Music Technology and Innovation Research Centre (MTIRC), De Montfort University. The ideals of this event are to stimulate co-operation and inspiration between postgraduate students, across institutional boundaries, leading to new perspectives on current works and research. We encourage submission of papers and creative work, both completed and in-progress, for presentation over the course of the event. This year’s event has the theme “Exploring the Future of the Sonic Arts” and aims to investigate this critical topic through all forms of submissions and a roundtable discussion.
Event Topics
We invite paper submissions on topics related to creativity in the sonic arts including, but not restricted to:
- Sound Diffusion
- Multi Channel Approaches to Composition and Sound Projection
- Installations
- Interactivity
- Audio-Visuals and Multimedia
- Electronics and Circuit Bending
- Performance Practice
- Theoretical Implications of the above
more details: http://www.sssp.org.uk/
in vetland exhibition event
| August 28, 2009 | ||
| 5:00 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
Presented by the Murdoch University Veterinary Trust… In Vetland
28 August 5:00pm — 7:30pm Exhibition Opening & Reception at the Dean’s Pergola, School of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
Please RSVP for catering purposes vettrust@murdoch.edu.au or telephone 9360 2731
Exhibition runs 29 August to 25 September Monday to Friday 9:00am — 5:00pm. Saturday, Sunday 12:00pm — 5:00pm.
Also: 28 August 3:30pm — 4:30pm Resident’s Talk for artists and scientists and 30 August 10:00am — 4:00pm Murdoch Open Day Tours
See Murdoch University Veterinary Trust www.veterinarytrust.murdoch.edu.au for further information.
In Vetland exhibition opening
Presented by the Murdoch University Veterinary Trust… In Vetland
28 August 5:00pm — 7:30pm Exhibition Opening & Reception at the Dean’s Pergola, School of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
2009 Art Meets Vet Science Artist in Residency program at Murdoch University’s School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences.
X-ray sculptures, photographs and drawings will be situated in both the clinical and research areas. Working on themes of internal and external surfaces the artist has investigated diagnostic palpation as the point of contact between human and nonhuman worlds.
Please RSVP for catering purposes vettrust@murdoch.edu.au or telephone 9360 2731
Exhibition runs 29 August to 25 September Monday to Friday 9:00am — 5:00pm. Saturday, Sunday 12:00pm — 5:00pm.
Also: 28 August 3:30pm — 4:30pm Resident’s Talk for artists and scientists and 30 August 10:00am — 4:00pm Murdoch Open Day Tours
See Murdoch University Veterinary Trust www.veterinarytrust.murdoch.edu.au for further information.
For a map for parking and location see the invite attached.
artist talk — end of residency
| August 28, 2009 | ||
| 3:30 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
A talk at the Anatomy Museum at Murdoch University’s School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences. All welcome and opening follows at 5pm
deadline for animal images to go to Newcastle
| June 30, 2009 | ||
| 11:59 pm |
Get your images to my by email or post to arrive by 30 June at
PO Box 747
Fremantle WA 6959
call for animal images
Since February 2009 I have been working as Artist in Residence at the Murdoch University School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences. In the next few months I am having two exhibitions called In vetland. The first is at the Newcastle Art Space from Monday 12 July to 2 August 2009. Later, in August-September, In vetland will be reconfigured at Murdoch.
The first exhibition is associated with a really interesting conference called Minding Animals http://www.mindinganimals.com/ where scientists, theorists and those concerned with animal welfare meet to discuss animals in society. The second exhibition is the culmination of my residency at the vet school.
Whilst I’m really excited about showing some of my photographs and digital works, it seemed a waste not to do something a little different. I have been getting into collage and small things arranged into larger wall pieces. I’m also interested in maps. What I want to do is to create a ‘world’ of ways that animals are represented, connecting as many images together as possible.
A rough sketch
a rough mock-up of the wall
I’m interested in anyone (artist, other human being or even the nonhuman*) who wants to contribute any form of animal image as a doodle, sticky note, sketch, drawing, cut-out, collage or other image. It does not need to be a super-duper accurate drawing.
So post (or email) a nice and small artwork with an image of an animal to reach Perth before 30 June.
Size: can be 2D or sticking out a bit but no larger than A4 (smaller than 210 x 297 mm or 8.3 x 11.7 inches). Must be light enough to be taped to wall (so no sculptures made out of lead!)
Labelling: Make sure you include your name, mailing address, email and website (if applicable) with your artwork. Your name will be included in the project. Please make it clear whether you want other contact information made public. I won’t include it unless you say so.
Digital files should be jpegs but 300 dpi to be printable. They will be printed on Ilford Smooth Heavyweight Matt Paper on an Epson stylus Photo 1410 printer.
Return of posted artworks: Any artwork posted to me that weighs less than 250 grams (8.8 oz) will be returned by post at the conclusion of the second show.
Downloadable pdf – I plan to make a pdf ‘catalogue’ of the individual pieces and the final wall arrangement after the exhibition is finished. I will put this on my website and you will then be able to download and print it.
Deadline: to reach Perth by June 30 (if you post something, remember to factor this in).
*joke?!
interesting lecture The Mirror Test: Humans, Animals and Sentience
| July 7, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
A lecture by Sherryl Vint, Associate Professor at Brock University in St. Catharine’s, Ontario, Canada
Date: Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Time: 6:00pm-7.00pm
Location: Alexander Lecture Theatre, UWA
Cost: Free. No RSVP required.
Enquiries: iasuwa@admin.uwa.edu.au or (+61 
6488 1340
(The nearest carpark is P3 off Hackett Drive Entrance 1)
The mirror test – a classic investigation of consciousness in animal research.
The mirror test has aspects of a typical pulp science fiction scenario of alien abduction: an animal is rendered unconscious, during which time dye is applied to its face in some way; when it awakes, the animal is given access to a mirror. If the animal then attempts to investigate the mark in some way, it is deemed to have passed the mirror test, revealing that it recognises the other in the mirror as self. Animals pass this test by mirroring consciousness as it is experienced by humans as much as by seeing themselves in the mirror’s image.
The image of the mirror also signifies that we often understand animals as mirrors for ourselves, constructing images of them that glorify some species in whom we see qualities we want to possess, while simultaneously vilifying others, often by projecting onto them human faults. Frequently, then, cultural representations of animals will tell us little about the animals themselves and much about the ways animals become caught up in human ideology. This talk will explore the tension between these two meanings of mirroring by looking at three science fiction texts that deal with questions of animal sentience: Connie Willis’s ‘Samaritan’ (1985), Walter Miller’s Conditionally Human’ (1952) and John Crowley’s ‘Beasts’ (1976). Professor Vint will contrast the mirror test’s method of defining a line between human and animal being with other constructs. Biographical details Sherryl Vint is Associate Professor at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. She is the author of Bodies of Tomorrow (2007) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009) andFifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (2009). An editor of the journals Science Fiction Film and Television and Extrapolation, she has recently completed Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal.
Wilderness, animals and contemporary art talk
| May 7, 2009 | ||
| 12:30 pm | to | 1:30 pm |
I am giving a talk at the 4th year vet lecture theatre at the vet school.
World Migratory Bird Day (9–10 May)
This is in relation to the Broome situation and also the forthcoming project, The Sixth Shore at Lake Clifton near Manduarah in the second half of 2009 http://www.worldmigratorybirdday.org/2009/
international dawn chorus day
| May 5, 2009 |
perdy on campus
| April 9, 2009 | ||
| 11:00 am | to | 3:00 pm |
I will be working on the digital portraits (which I have a lot to do on!)
perdy on campus
| April 2, 2009 | ||
| 11:30 am | to | 3:00 pm |
working on portraits chasing down images and probably photocopying things. Putting up a few images on notice boards.
X-rays of test materials
| September 7, 2010 2:09 am | to | March 3, 2009 1:30 pm |
X-ray of a number of sheets of glues and binders and also an number of small found objects to see what kinds of materials I can build my internal sculptures out of. Still not sure whether things will work if there are air holes or whether I have to make it a solid substance using some sort of a gel.
perdy on campus starting to make sculptures
| March 20, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 am | to | 2:00 pm |
I will be bringing material in for making small sculptures in a space kindly provided down in anatomy
perdy on campus
| March 13, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 am | to | 4:00 pm |
Hopefully all day from early morning room 1.006 extension 2169 or the anatomy museum
perdy on campus
| March 12, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 am | to | 4:00 pm |
Hopefully all day from early morning room 1.006 extension 2169 or the anatomy museum
perdy on campus
| March 6, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 am | to | 3:30 pm |
From morning to mid afternoon room 1.006 extension 2169 or the anatomy museum
