Upcoming Events
Universal Remote:
In Conversation
Tuesday 22 May 5.30pm
(viewing & refreshments from 5)
Join artist Wade Marynowsky and MCA curator Anna Davis for a discussion of his latest work and practice.
Installation walk
Thursday 24 May 6.30pm
Come to UTS during Diffuse Season 2 for an evening of sonic interventions, digital projections, installations, sound walks and serendipitous happenings. Find out more here.
Homelands
Gallery Discussion
Tuesday 12 June 4.30pm
Led by Christopher Stewart
Previous Events
The Baker's Dozen:
Art at Night for Art Month, Sydney
Thursday 22 March until 8pm
As part of Art Month Sydney, visit The Baker's Dozen then check out other galleries in Chippendale and Redfern from 6-8pm before heading to the Audi Art Bar at White Rabbit Gallery for drinks and music from 8-10pm.
Disrupting Modernism: Sculptural interventions in contemporary interiors
Wednesday 4 April, 5.30pm
With Baker's Dozen artists Samantha Whittingham and Bonita Bub as they discuss their practices and challenge the modernist notion of 'form following function' and the delineation of practices and spaces. The informal conversation will be led by academic Dr. Sam Spurr from the Interior and Spatial Design course at UTS.
Creative Accounting:
Dollars + Cents / Show + Tell
Wednesday 23 November at 6pm
Aimed at creative types with idiosyncratic collections, to show off, compare and covet each other's currency collections.
Curator's floortalk
Wednesday 16 November 1-2pm
Holly Williams gave a tour of the works in the exhibition as she aims to reinvigorate our engagement with money beyond next week's pay packet or the latest stock market crisis.
Missing Money + Sleight of Hand
Wednesday 16 November at 6pm
Two experts from very different fields amazed and challenged the audience they worked magic to reveal unique tricks of financial deception. Forensic Accountant Hera Antoniades from UTS and acclaimed magician Adam Mada.
Financial Aesthetics
2 November at 6 pm
Financial Aesthetics explored money's role as an agent of propaganda and decorative device, through the shifting designs and uses of money, can we explore the story of our contemporary condition? Artist, Andrew Hurle, Powerhouse Museum Design & Society curator and archeologist, Dr Paul Donnelly and design researcher and strategist, Evert Ypma discussed this and more.
From Global Financial Crisis to Cosmic Accounting
9 November at 6pm
With the current world economic system re-entering free-fall, what alternative and sustainable economic future might our global society hope to forge? UTS banking and financial risk expert Professor Harald Scheule offered insights into the history and ongoing saga that is the Global Financial Crisis. Followed by engineer and futurist Malcolm Green who looks to energy as humanity's hope for a radical, yet inspirational shift in how we source, use and exchange wealth - the way the universe intended.
The Fall Before Fall:
Elvis Richardson in conversation with Katie Dyer
Thursday 13 October 1pm
Floortalk with Daniel Mudie Cunningham
Thursday 15 September 1pm
Panel discussion
Tuesday 13 September 4.30pm
Researcher Andrea Connor, academic and journalist Marcus O'Donnell and arts writer Ann Finegan discussed memorialisation, memory and media coverage as well as other issues raised by works in the exhibition.
Incidental Data:
Gallery floortalk with Dr Kate Sweetapple
Thursday 11 August 1-2pm
Data Poetry seminar
Wednesday 10 August 6.30 - 8.15pm
This seminar brought together computing specialists, professional designers and researchers to discuss their diverse methods of rendering abstract material into visual form. A range of visual practices were explored as well as debate and discussion of new, computer-driven processes. With Dr Kate Sweetapple, Mitchell Whitelaw from the University of Canberra, Interaction Designer Elisa Lee and Ben Hosken from Flink Labs in Melbourne.
The Black Box Sessions:
Andrew Frost in conversation with artist-in-residence Alex Davies
Monday 6 June from 6.15 - 7.15pm
change has come:
Nicole Foreshew in conversation with Jonathan Jones & Shay Tobin
Thursday 5 May 12.30-1.30pm
Presented in association with UTS Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning and Transforming Cultures.
Natural Digression:
The Art of Fact & Fiction panel discussion
Thursday 7 April 3-4pm
Leading UTS academics Katrina Schlunke & Lian Loke joined Natural Digression artist, Erica Seccombe for a lively discussion on how notions of fact & fiction come into being? What happens when artists intercede between imagination and reality? What roles do science, technology and the arts play in the discovery of 'truth'? In association with Transforming Cultures Research Centre.
Banner image: Exhibition Opening, Mu:Screen, 2010