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RMIT ESP Graduate Show

RMIT ESP Graduate Show

DRAWING MEDIA PAINTING

Expanded Studio Practice
Bachelor of Art (Fine Art) and Honours Graduate Exhibition

OPENING NIGHT: Wednesday 21st November, 6-9pm

EXHIBITION: 21st – 30th November, 10am – 5pm

These comprehensive exhibitions of contemporary student art present a range of works from the next generation of emerging artists. They explore painting, drawing, digital and screen-based media, print, photo, sculpture and installation practices.

Works are installed across Buidlings 2 and 4 of RMIT’s City campus, opening Wednesday 21 November with a celebration that brings RMIT art into the urban heart of Melbourne.

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Audible Deterrence (Byron Dean)

Mar 15

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Byron Dean is at once a contradiction of the personal and the emotive: he presents himself as an endearing, thoughtful and attentive fellow. However, the sounds you will absorb at his behest are something far more brazen. Although this Fine Arts (Sound) student can in fact cushion you with lovingly crafted (and soothing) rhythms; more often than not you‘re in for a demolition of the dulcet. You may have been wise enough to check out Circle Jerk late last year; wherein Byron joined his Wrong Room cohorts in melding the soundform to profound extremities of manipulation.

In Audible Deterrence Byron exhibits a ‘subjective experience‘ that promises to confront the somewhat subliminal and often insidious use of sound and music in the commercial environment. Deterrence presents you with “sounds that repel, invite, mask and discomfort” -making you at once aware of the intent; but all the while leaving you, the spectator, to absorb and decipher -cypher- at your leisure!

Audible Deterrence: Until 31st March at Bus Projects (Wed-Sat), Basement 673 Bourke St. City.

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The Discipline of Loving You (Diego Ramirez)

Mar 13

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Hurry -there is but 3 days left to check out Discipline at the RMIT School of Art Gallery.

Video and Mixed Media artist Diego Ramirez (Mexico) presents a titillating account of the physical and emotional construct pertaining to the female form in contemporary society. This ultra-stylish and mesmerising video also invites the discerning viewer into the realm of fantasy. It offers a reflection on what you might agree is a stiletto tableau of appearance, love, and dependence in a world where the superficial reigns over that of the intellectual. The video is an almost pornographic exploit; displayed on 2 channel projections almost 10 feet high. Recommended for over-18s only.

The Discipline of Loving You until 16th March: Building 2, Level 2 RMIT, Bowen St. City.

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New Collectables

Dec 6

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The RMIT First Site Gallery is this week hosting New Collectables -an exhibition and art auction where you can pick up works on the sly, by Fine Arts graduates and emerging artistic greats. The exhibition (viewing) is open from Midday until 7pm on Wednesday 7th, Thursday 8th, and Friday 9th December. However, you might find it most interesting to pop in and simply view the artworks on show. Back-room sales are also happening throughout, with all artwork reserve prices under $250 -making the high-quality works quite affordable indeed.

The auction itself happens on Thursday 8th December at 6pm sharp. So come on down and experience the thrill of the auction as you nab yourself an awesome art piece for pittance!

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Land of Instant Forget

Nov 28

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These are now the final days of the 2011 RMIT Media Arts Graduate Show.

Visit the upper confines of Curtin House, in the heart of the City on Swanston Street to view an excess of works from the graduate class of 2011. These emerging Media Arts artists offer works disseminated across video, audio and sculpture. The show is billed as a space that has been ”transformed to create a world where you can leave your memories behind“ as you immerse yourself in these parallel lands. Below, you can sample one of the works on show. This piece is projected onto a giant, free hanging t-shirt and is titled Trashface by Rob Graham.

The Land of Instant Forget

Running until 30th November, 12pm until 6pm.

Curtin House, Level 6 252 Swanston St. City

 

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Media Arts 1+2

Oct 31

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This week, Wednesday 2nd November: Come party with the RMIT Media Arts crew.

From 7pm, we shall inhabit a specially-chosen and almost purpose-built venue to strut our collective self on the big screen. We‘ll have a few drinks, feel the beat, and settle down for an hour-long feast of video and filmic works by 1st and 2nd year Fine Arts students. Following the screening, the DJs will come to the fore: featuring Utopian Swagger‘s Faggot Swagger tunes accompanied the visuals of the Bearded Ladiezz (A.K.A. Permian La Cube), a VJ set by Andy Turland (our supremo host), yours truly spinning Autobox DJ styles and the main man, Rob McDougall kicking out the tech later in the piece; spinning ‘til stumps.

So get your Art on and groove on. Get your travel down on up into this bitch, and jig along to 14 Hardy Street, Brunswick (just off Albion St). Nearest Station is Anstey. Check it.

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Stendhal Syndrome

Oct 18

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Come and view ground-breaking and exciting works from RMIT Media Arts students exhibiting amazing new artwork Installations.
Opening Night: Tuesday 25th October from 6pm - 9pm

Stendhal Syndrome:
Tuesday 25th October – Monday 30th October
@ Open Space Gallery
97 Franklin St (entry via Eckersley‘s)

Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=276904858996625

Gallery Opening Hours: 9-6 Wed-Fri, 10-4 Sat, 12-4 Sun

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Media Arts: Greatest Hits

Sep 22

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This Saturday 24th September, people, come & check out works from the RMIT Fine Arts (Media Arts) programme; as they present theirs labours of love, hate and everything in between. On the big screen.
Greatest Hits features 2 half-hour, curated screenings from some of the best current video and animation coming out of Australia‘s foremost Media Arts school. The works are bound to captivate: with a little bit of everything for everybody!

Also included on the night is an immersive sound performance by Wrong Room; with Byron Dean, Chiara Costanza and Jonathon Nokes fronting up for the performance. $5 entry ($3 students) gives you the pleasure of viewing a swathe of seminal works by the Media Arts crew. Media Arts: Greatest Hits Of 2009-2011 takes place at  Tape Projects, 1/81 Bouverie St Carlton. The action starts at 7pm, so come on down and experience the unknown! Refreshments available.

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The Light In Winter

Jun 8

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Fire In The Belly: Projector Bike.

This year‘s Light In Winter Festival at Federation Square features dozens of cultural activities; making for the perfect winter warm-up. Featured as part of the Fire In The Belly programme, the Projector Bike will present works from various local up-and-coming filmmakers and visual artists: featuring works from Me: your favourite bloggage host, alongside members of the creative genus born from RMIT Media Arts (among various other students and artists). The Projector Bike will visit different locations in the course of both evenings that it is exhibiting, and everyone is welcome to ride along -whether in utilising the Melbourne Bike Share or indeed upon your own ride. The screenings will be projected onto different surfaces in unique and hidden spaces about our fine city.

Sunday 12 + 26 June, 7pm - 8.30pm, departs Fed Square Bike Share Station (and it‘s free!)

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1 x 2 DEATH SET

Jun 3

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Opening Tuesday evening; drop by First Site gallery, out front of RMIT, to sample the acute meanderings of this wondrous new show, by up-and-coming Media Artist impresario Spencer Lai.

The Death Set is driven by a sublime foray into the real and the unreal. “Two spaces and two realities“. Given your own particular perspective; delve into your appreciation of the actual and contrived. Upon inspection of the works on show, Monsieur Lai invites you to revel in an “immersive exploration of death, dread, reality and fiction“. Expect hyper-realism buffeted by theatrical visuals, and the low-res exploits of the internet fiefdom.

1 x 2 Death Set: RMIT First Site Gallery: June 7 – June 18

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