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| SCANZ Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand July 3-16 2006 New Plymouth New Zealand Aotearoa http://www.scanz.net.nz Fax +64 6 757 3232 |
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Selected New Zealand & New Zealand International Artists[in alternating alphabetical order]
Stella BrennanStella is an Auckland-based artist, writer and curator. In 2003, during her time as Waikato University's inaugural Digital Artist in Residence, she founded the Aotearoa Digital Arts discussion list. She has hosted three subsequent ADA meetings. Brennan's artwork is primarily based in video and installation. Her work explores technology, obsolescence and utopianism. Her most time-consuming project to date involved reproducing the desktop of her iMac in a stitch-for-pixel needlepoint embroidery. Recent works include an installation using i-Tunes and a JG Ballard story to build a fake responsive environment and video creating a Hundertwasser-style village from pottery class throw-outs. Stella is one of the New Zealand artists exhibiting at this year's Sydney Biennale. She is represented by Starkwhite (www.starkwhite.co.nz) and teaches at the Auckland University of Technology.
For her SCANZ project, Stella will be collaborating with Zita Joyce (www.ethermap.org).
Becca WoodBecca Wood has trained in both Visual Communications in Design and Contemporary Dance. The combination of design and dance-making drives her interest in developing new methods of articulation in performance. Her performance and installation work integrates dance, sound, lighting, slide/video projection and interactive devices. In August 1999 she created her first interactive work using triggers, for ‘Soliton’ an annual event of non-stop music, film, performance and installation. Since then she has attended workshops in the USA exploring interactive performance devices and telematic performance. She continues to investigate the potential of dance and interactive performance and installation, working collaboratively or facilitating other artists. While technology based work fascinates her she remains passionate about analogue and ‘lo-tech’ methods of artistic expression. The conversations between ‘old’ and ‘new’ and ‘lo-tech’ and ‘hi-tech’ are celebrated in her work. For the past few years she has been lecturing in Movement/Dance and Interdisciplinary Practice at the School of Performing and Screen Arts, Unitec, Auckland. She is currently working on a choreographic exchange with her colleague Norah Zuniga Shaw who is now based in Ohio, USA. The dialogue began in 2002 and will be presented ‘live’ at SCANZ. Image: Excerpt from performance of Foreign Correspondent - an internet based collaborative experiment 2002
Adam HydeAdam Hyde is an internationally known artist who works with software, online audio and video, sound art, new technologies and more traditional forms of broadcast. He is also co-founder of radioqualia. In 2005 Hyde was Digital Artist in Residence at Waikato University, initiated and co-produced re:mote the international festival of new media art, developed software for remote (web) control of the public television station BigTV, worked on an online commission for Artspace (New Zealand) and wrote a manual on open source streaming under UNIX, to be published as an ebook. Radio Astronomy won a UNESCO Digital Art Award at ISEA2004 (Helsinki). Since March 2004 Adam has also been artist in residence at the I.C.A Capetown (South Africa), RIXC (Riga, Latvia), TCM (Dunkerque, France)and HIAP (The Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland). Business clients have included the Tate Modern, the Walker Art Center Minneapolis USA, The Virtual Arts Network (an initiative
of the Asia Society, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New England Foundation for the Arts, SF MOMA, and the
Walker Art Center), The Science Museum in London, the Foundation for Film, Art and Creative Technology
– FACT and Montevideo.
 Lisa ReihanaLisa Reihana weaves together contemporary urban culture with Maori concepts and art practices to invent new frameworks
and original forms. Variously described as a Maori multimedia artist, experimental film maker, animator, video artist,
installation artist, textile artist and storyteller, Lisa Reihana defies easy definition. A common thread throughout
her work is the use of the sensory forms - image, pattern, textile and sound - to move across confines and to create
artworks that are touchstones of a deeper cultural dynamic. She has an impressive exhibition record both locally and
internationally, representing New Zealand in the 2000 Sydney Biennale, the Noumea Biennale in 2002, and the Asia Pacific
Triennial in 1996 and 2003.
 Avatar Body Collision — Helen Varley Jamieson, Karla Ptacek, Leena Saarinen, Vicki Smith (New Zealand, UK, Finland, New Zealand)We are the Colliders: four women who met online in 2001 through the[abc]experiment, and who came together to form Avatar Body Collision. We are a collaborative, globally distributed performance troupe who
live (mostly) in London, Helsinki, Aotearoa/New Zealand and cyberspace. A central thematic in our work
is the relationship of the body to the machine, and in particular, to examine what it means to be human
in a world of intelligent machines. We devise and rehearse online using chat software that is cross-platform
and free to download. Our primary software applications are the Palace (a 2D graphic-sonic chat application)
and iVisit (web cam conferencing application) and our own custom-built Upstage browser-based software.
Upcoming projects deploy mobile phones, Wifi and other mobile Internet technologies to extend our performative
mobility and include a street spectatorship. We play with mixed realities in a variety of formats. Pictured: Helen Varley Jamieson and Vicki Smith
 Alex MonteithAlex is interested in redescribing in art commercially available shooting and screening (AV) apparatus to explore how this formatting contributes to limiting ways of interpreting machine assisted vision. Her intermedia practice incorporates surveillance technology, motion picture technology, kinetic/mechanical/electrical components and performative uses of video imagery. She is also interested in digital interpretations of analogue information and processing in art. She uses film/video to explore the limitations of vector based, numeric, formulaic and lateral experiments in alternative narrative practice. During the last 5 years her time-based work has been exhibited in the UK, Italy, Germany, France, Poland, Canada, USA, Mexico, Ghana, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. She has won awards for experimental film from the International Surrealist Film Festival (1999 & 2004), USA and Worldfest Houston, USA (2000). Image: 24 Frames, Alex Monteith and Darren Glass, doughnut-shaped pinhole camera image
 Josh OnJosh On works for San Fransisco based Futurefarmers on both commercial and artistic projects. Currently he is also freelancing
making websites and doing personal projects and activism when not at work. In the past three years On
has exhibited at Gamescenes in Torino (2005); the National Museum of Fine Arts Taiwan, the Seoul Museum
of Art (3rd Seoul International Media Art Biennale) Ars Electronica (2004); ZKM, Karlsruhe, Banquet (2003);
the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, Art Gallery of the
Graduate Center, The City University of New York, Ars Electronica (2002) and at the Whitney Biennial
of 2002. He was awarded a Golden Nica Award at the Prix Ars Electronica for They Rule in 2002.
 Caro McCawCaroline is a designer and teacher based at the University of Otago. Amongst many other projects, in 2000 she began the 'Picnic' series of international art gatherings, combining performers and picnicers from around the world via webcast and MUSH. *The Picnic* occured in four places around New Zealand, and on the Internet, simultaneously at 12-4pm on October 14. *The
Picnic* included a live webcam performance from Amsterdam and an interactive MUSH virtual environment,
and aimed to develop the idea of connecting between picnicking people and places, with the shared concept
of participating in a picnic-like ritual. A kind of urban art terrorism, all these works are temporary,
one must catch them when you can.
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Raewyn Turner