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Page 1: WELCOME [cdn …...WELCOME TO CRITICAL ANIMALS 2013. We’re delighted to bring you our tenth year of festivities! To mark this milestone, we’re presenting an expanded program which
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WELCOME

TO CRITICAL

ANIMALS 2013.

We’re delighted to bring you our tenth year of festivities! To mark this milestone, we’re presenting an expanded program which includes a limited edition anniversary publication, Critical Animalia: a decade between disciplines, a Spirit Animal themed birthday party at the Terrace Bar to celebrate its launch, and a

Club to look back at the history of CA with an assembly of past and present participants. That’s all in addition to our regular platter of panels, roundtables, creative workshops and performances which contemplate experimental and emerging practices from all creative disciplines. In a contemporary moment where the future of creative research is under threat, Critical Animals continues to deliver an inclusive arena for artists from around the country to share and develop their ideas.

This year, we offer panel discussions which examine the scope of the creative process, from conversations on cross-disciplinary practice, to a series of panels that address the transmission, reception and analysis of that practice, looking at speculative aesthetics, apathy and empathy,

the act of creating the spaces around us, with a creative cartography workshop, a panel on sonic materiality, and a collective considering

Unsurprisingly in our current climate, many of our events approach politics with an investigative eye. A series of panels and workshops examine political performance making – from direct interventionist engagement to the disarming power of mischief to undermine authority. A roundtable discussion gives a sense check to the federal

election campaign, while a panel of linguists reveal the political underside of the words we use and the way in which we use them.

We’re also pleased to present Desiring

Machines, an exhibition that seeks to negotiate the divide between felt experience andmechanised production. The works within examine technology as a tool of social

and connection in an age when they're frequently under threat.

the progress of the past, and plot out the advances of the future. We hope that you’ll join us once again for the ride.

VENUEINFORMATION:THE LOCK UP 90 Hunter St, Newcastle

THE UNITED SERVICES CLUB 57 Watt St, Newcastle

THE TERRACE BAR 529 Hunter St, Newcastle

WATT ST CHURCH 48 Watt St, Newcastle

THE PRESS BOOK HOUSE 462 Hunter St, Newcastle

CHECK US OUTHead over to criticalanimals.com for our online program, special sneak peeks and artists’ interviewsStay up to date with live festival updates and get social with us at

facebook.com/criticalanimalstwitter.com/criticalanimalsinstagram.com/criticalanimals

BE A PART OF THE CONVERSATION

Use @criticalanimals #ca13 #TiNA2013 to stay in touch.

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MAKING MEMORIES

EMILY BITTO, ADEN ROLFE

4:00PM – 5:00PM UNITED SERVICES CLUB

Two writers read excerpts from their unpublished manuscripts and discuss their development

process. Anamnesis and The Strays each explore nostalgia and false-positive memory as literary devices.of projectors.

CREATIVE CARTOGRAPHY VANESSA BERRY

4PM – 6PM WATT STREET CHURCH (BACK HALL)

Join Zine Queen Vanessa Berry in an exploration of your

minds and memories. Create maps from the places you've

been, where you're going to or from your wildest dreams.

To register for this event email [email protected]

LEARNING TO WRITE?SWAMP4:00PM – 5:00PMTHE YARD AT THE LOCK-UPA panel of local post-graduate students, teachers and writers discuss the merits, pitfalls and contradictions of being a creative writing student. Hosted by SWAMP Writing, a University of Newcastle online creative writing

journal for post-graduate students. Presented in

partnership with the University of

Newcastle.

CRITICAL ANIMALS 2013 MEET & GREET

10:00AM - 11:00AM THE GALLERY AT THE LOCK-UPThe best way to start your festival, with strong coffee

and polite conversation. Come meet our artists, writers, speakers for an informal chat in Critical

Animals exhibition at The Lock Up.

WHO KILLED THE AVANT-GARDE? APATHY & CONTEMPORARY ARTLUCY RANDALL, SABRINA SOKALIK 11:00AM – 12:30AM THE YARD AT THE LOCK-UPRecent polemics by art critics have attacked the apparent apathy of the scene and the

us for a discussion of these

claims as we attempt to navigate a way out

of the mire.

EMILY BITTO, PATRICK KELLY, RUBY MAHONEY11:00AM – 12:00PMTHE YARD AT THE LOCK-UP

of the Author’ fundamentally altered the status of the creator. This panel examines authorial ethics through the lens of post-documentary practice, fact-based narrative

and celebrity culture.

AWABAKALDREAMING

CHRIS TUCKER3:00PM – 3:30PM

THE LOCK-UP CULTURAL CENTRE (OUTSIDE)

Chris Tucker's installation imagines how Newcastle's

past inhabitants would

shelter and survive.

INTERFACING THE REAL: ADVENTURES IN SPECULATIVE AESTHETICSBAYLEE BRITS, PRUE GIBSON, AMY IRELAND, EDDIE HOPELY 4:30PM – 6:30PM UNITED SERVICES CLUB

of theoretical dissolution, this collective considers the potential of aesthetic experience through a parallax interfacing

of human and object, thought and matter, and

imagination and mathematics.

SONIC ONTOLOGY: THEARTOFNOISEJULIAN DAY, AMY IRELAND, BENJAMIN KOLAITIS, JAKE MOORE, ALEX WHITE12:30PM – 2:15PMTHE YARD AT THE LOCK-UPNoise is not just the sounds we hear or make, but an articulation of our contemporary inhabitance. Five thinkers discuss the sonic relations between representation, modulation and materiality.CRITICAL

PARTY ANIMALS: THE ANIMALIA LAUNCH

FEAT. FUN MACHINE, FINNIGAN & BROTHER, BRANDY ALEXANDER, R. ELECTRIQUE & TENDER BUTTONS DJS

MIDNIGHT, THE TERRACE BAR

the launch our Anniversary Journal, Critical

Animalia: A Decade Between Disciplines.

DAMNED WHORES & FAME MONSTERSTARA CARTLAND, CLARE MUSTON, MELISSA WELHAM5:30 – 7PM UNITED SERVICES CLUBThe image of woman as outsider remains planted in our collective cultural imagination. Three papers interrogate this trope while examining colonial

THE BOOK OF HOURSTHE SPHERES 8:30PM – 10:00PM WATT STREET CHURCHPreviewing songs from their forthcoming release The Book of Hours, Melbourne based AV ensemble The Spheres sing storm and stress to score the light cast by a chorus of projectors.

BONI CAIRNCROSS, JO DOWNING10:30AM – 1:30PM UPSTAIRS AT THE LOCK-UP

attention to our everyday actions of sensing. Working through a facilitated setting, participants are encouraged to play, to

chase curiosities, to re-discover.

To register for this event email [email protected]

CREATING THE CITYVANESSA BERRY,THE SPHERES, CHRIS TUCKER, KERI GLASTONBURY, FRAZER BULL CLARK 1:00PM – 2: 45PM THE YARD AT THE LOCK-UP A band of musicians, an architect and two writers talk about the cities they live in, both literally and imaginatively. Features a screening of a

Clark, Leaving Lost, looking at the relationship between

O'Connor and the much-maligned

suburb of Fyshwick.

SYSTEMATIC WONDER –

SCIENCE AS ARTSARA MORAWETZ, DARREN

ENGWIRDA, ERICA SECCOMBE, ROBYN STUART

3:00PM – 4:00PM UNITED SERVICES CLUB

If we view science as a cultural system - a lens through which

me make sense of the universe - it does not differ

greatly from art. Creative practitioners discuss how

they engage these disciplines.

AUTHORIAL ETHICS IN A SELF- AUTHORING AGE

DESIRING MACHINES

DAWN-JOY LEONG, KIRSTY HULM, DYLAN HAMMOND, SARA MORAWETZ, VICTORIA HEMPSTEAD, KATE VASSALLO, BEN KOLAITIS,

TEGA BRAIN, JAKE MOORE, ALEX WHITE. 2:15PM – 3:15PM THE GALLERY AT THE LOCK-UPEmerging artist explore the gulf between felt experience and mechanised production. Join

us for the exhibition opening and artist's talks.

CAT & MOUSE

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LINGUISTICS, SOCIAL POLITICS AND YOU

SIMON GONZALES OCHOA, JOHN OLSTAD, STEPHEN LOGAN, LANA TAKAU 4:30PM – 6:00PM UNITED SERVICES CLUBWatch what you say: four linguists discuss the social politics in language, viewed through the practical lens of objective language research.

DOES IT MATTER?ANABELLE LACROIX, KATE WARREN, BENJAMIN WOODS, DYLAN HAMMOND 11:00AM – 12:00AM THE YARD AT THE LOCK-UPCelebrating their 10th year, Kings ARI curators and artists talk transformation, energy and matter, and consider the artistic potential of matter’s capacity to change as an

arrangement of particles

REVOLUTIONARY THEATRE

KATE MCDOWELL, FREGMONTO STOKES

2:00PM – 3:30PM UNITED SERVICES CLUB

How can we create a space for militant political theatre

makers present a provocative manifesto agitating for

an engagement with the revolutionary moment.

(PROF.) MISCHIEF MAKERSMICHAEL BAILEY, CHRIS ENDREY, JACK LLOYD, BERNIE SLATER, MALCOLM WHITTAKER 12:30PM – 2:00PM WATT STREET CHURCH (BACK HALL)Five trouble-makers look at the artistic opportunity of play, spontaneity and mischief, as creative provocations that subtly interrogate cultural prescriptions of thought and practice.

FROM THE GRASS ROOTS

TO THE GRAND GESTURE

JK ANICOCHE, SARAH SALAZAR, DAVID FINNIGAN, BONI CAIRNCROSS

3:45PM – 5:15PM THE YARD AT THE LOCK-UP

How do you take a grandiose idea, no money, the political and the personal and turn it

seasoned performers and theatre makers to delve into

the profound mysteries and mundane realities of

making charged performances

work.

WHAT THE FUCK, AUSTRALIA…BEN JENKINS, ALICE WORKMAN, BHAKTHI PUVANENTHIRAN 6:00PM – 7:00PM UNITED SERVICES CLUBA forum of discontent which will trawl through the intrigues and scandals

there was any method at all in the madness.

CRITICALANIMALIA: A DECADE BETWEEN

DISCIPLINES OPEN FORUM-DISCUSSION WITH THE CRITICAL ANIMALS AUDIENCE…YOU! 7:30PM – 9:00PM UNITED SERVICES CLUB

to discuss and discern the contemporary status of Criticality today. Registration for mic-time

essential on arrival. Presented in partnership with the

University of Newcastle.

EGGHEADS LIKE THEIR BOOKY-BOOKS

EMILY STEWART, TARA CARTLAND, OWEN KIRKBY...AND MORE!

10:00AM – 11:00AM THE PRESS BOOK HOUSEEase into your Sunday with strong coffee and soft words

from a slew of emerging writers and poets. Presented in partnership with

Australian National University.

ADEN ROLFE’s practice includes poetry (published in the Age, Best

Australian Poems), radio plays (broadcast on the ABC) and essay (published in The Lifted Brow).

ALEX WHITE: Organiser, curator and artist. Passionate about community media, electronic art, experimental music and dying media. Projects; Tele Visions, Lion Mountain Studio, Moduluxxx, previously Serial Space,

ALICE WORKMAN is the producer

commentator for Fairfax Radio and Sky News Australia. She once

Newcastle while on a holiday in Newcastle.

AMY IRELAND is currently writing

philosophical realism, noise and the avant-garde at UNSW. She co-convenes Aesthetics After

Finitude and makes experimental poems that you can throw.

ANABELLE LACROIX is a curator, arts writer and Chair of the Committee at Kings ARI in Melbourne. www.anabelle-lacroix.com

BAYLEE BRITS is a doctoral candidate at the University of New South Wales. She is currently writing about 20th century literature and the mathematics of contingency. Baylee is one of the organisers of the Sydney-based research collective Aesthetics After Finitude.

BEAU ANTHONY DEURWAARDER is a young artist trying to get along with

Animals, spins trash records and

A Thousand

Plateaus

BEN JENKINS is a Sydney-based writer. He writes about politics for Junkee, The Vine and The Daily

Life and is currently working as a researcher and writer for The Chaser. He also hosts Story Club, a monthly storytelling night in Sydney.

BENJAMIN KOLAITIS is a Melbourne based contemporary instrument builder, sound artist and sculptural artist. He currently works with electronics and programming to develop sound sculptures, invented instruments and improvised performances.

BENJAMIN WOODS is a sculptor and philosophy student currently working on projects which focus on sculpture as the congealing of action and sculpture as a style of apprehension. His research often takes the format of pictures and actions and objects that are generated by an expansive set of meetings, collisions, relations, connections.

BERNIE SLATER is a Canberra based artist focusing on political and social issues. Much of his work involves defaced surfaces

and news.

BHAKTHI PUVANENTHIRAN is a broadcaster, programmer, writer and editor. She's been published in The Age, Frankie, Thought

Catalog, Junkee and Crikey; made

and helped program the National Young Writers' Festival and the Melbourne Writers Festival. Follow her @bhakthi.

BOHO INTERACTIVE is a theatre company based in Canberra. Our aim is to spread

Theory, Network Theory and global change, and the risks of ignoring the implications of these concepts.

BONI CAIRNCROSS is an interdisciplinary artist. Using process-driven and task orientated forms, her practice in an ongoing inquiry into the intersection of live and mediated art experiences.

BRANDY ALEXANDER was born in

back when Madonna was still topping the charts. Brandy

Floor Buff Clubs and "bitches" for the Real Hot Bitches in Melbourne.

CHRIS ENDREY of Adventure

Club is a producer/musician/

and sharing the beauty of the undercelebrated and shining scorn upon the unworthy.

learning to lead by example.

CHRIS TUCKER is the program convenor of the Master of Architecture program in the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Newcastle in Australia, and director of the architectural practice herd. He is currently

mapping of residual space for urban housing.

CLARE MUSTON is artist obsessed with women, words and language. Her other interests include feminism, critical and socio-political theory, history (all of it) and last, but

DAVID FINNIGAN is a playwright and theatre-maker. He's completed residencies at the University College London Environment Institute and the Battersea Arts Centre in London,

Writer-in-Residence in Manila with Tanghalang Pilipino, the key government-funded theatre company in the Philippines.

the Crack Theatre Festival in Newcastle and the You Are Here festival in Canberra.

DAWN JOY LEONG is a multi-artist with autism, currently

UNSW. She likes dancing around polyrhythmic-pandiatonic

greyhound Lucy.

DYLAN HAMMOND is a Melbourne based artist. He is currently searching for external validation (for self esteem purposes) and would appreciate any helpful hints as to its nature and location.

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EDDIE HOPELY is a poet and researcher from the United States currently living in Sydney. He co-edits an Aus/US chapbook series (“sus”).

ELEANOR ZEICHNER is an arts administrator and writer. She

Critical Animals.

EMILY BITTO lives in Melbourne where she is a sessional teacher and supervisor in Melbourne Uni’s creative writing program. Her debut novel The Strays will be

EMILY STEWART is a writer and editor living in Melbourne. Earlier this year the Emerging Writers' Festival hosted her installation The

Dear Reader Project in which she gave away her favourite books. emilyvalentinestewart.com

ERICA SECCOMBE is a visual artist who lives and works in Canberra, Australia. She combines photographic screen print with digital and electronic media. Since 2006 she has been working with researchers in

-puted X-ray technology to create animated projection installations.

FINNIGAN AND BROTHER are siblings Chris (guitar, loops and

radio) Finnigan. The brothers have performed their combination of

and experimental guitar in venues around Australia and Colombia.

FRAZER BULL-CLARK is an artist

Sydney. He recently graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.

FREGMONTO STOKES is a writer and miscellaneous theatre related person. He has worked on satirical operas in Melbourne, dance shows in the Himalayas and ambushed Clive Palmer.

FUN MACHINE are a sex-pop foursome that want to engage

'just say yes'.

GUY HARRIS

JACK LLOYD is a performer, writer and digital video artist. He holds

from the Centre for New Media Arts at the Australian National

Video production and Interactive

at Belconnen Arts Centre.

JAKE MOORE is an independent researcher and composer with an interest in scale and threshold.

JK ANICOCHE is the Artistic

directed Sipat Lawin productions including Haring+UBU-L (Ubu

Roi), R'meo Luvz Jhulz, Battalia

Royale, Happenings: Project

Banig, Book-on-the-Spot. He is a founding member of Acting Without Borders and Acting

networks. JK juggles seven jobs at a time and is known for coaching TV actors in warehouse kidnapping / hostage scenes. Most of all, JK is a storytelling and action star.

JOANNA DOWNINGSydney having completed a Bachelor of Performing Arts at Monash University, to undertake full-time acting training at the Actors Centre Australia. Credits include Wild in the Heart for ABC’s Radio National, Home

and Away for Channel 7 and is currently touring nationally for Poetry in Action.

JOHN OLSTAD is an American living in Australia currently completing a

of Newcastle. @bulletines

JULIAN DAY is an artist, writer and broadcaster. He performs as

directs the participatory sound project Super Critical Mass. He also hosts New Music Up Late on ABC Classic FM.

KATE MCDOWELL exploits hers and her friends’ confused sexual relationships. And she makes theatre.

KATE VASSALLO is an emerging visual artist based in Sydney and Canberra. She has presented work in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Perth. She creates both live performance interventions and exhibition based artworks.

KATE WARREN

program at Monash University. She was previously Assistant Curator at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and she publishes widely on contemporary art and cinema.

KERI GLASTONBURY is a past director of Critical Animals and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at The University of Newcastle.

KIRSTY HULM works in a diverse array of media and exhibition formats,

can make it hard to describe the full breadth of her practice.

LANA TAKAUin Linguistics at the University of Newcastle from Vanuatu. Her research project involves the documentation and description of the Matanvat (Nese) language which is spoken on the north coast of Malakula, an island in central Vanuatu.

LUCY RANDALL is a curator practicing

focusing mainly on women’s participation in arts industries, as well as working in various Sydney based festivals. She has a Masters

LUSCIOUS BEATS is a freelance sound engineer from Melbourne, moonlighting at CA as one of the

bananas, B-E-A-T-N-A-ANAS.

MALCOLM WHITTAKER is a young man from Sydney who works as an interdisciplinary artist, writer and performer. He can't be sure why he does this. But it feels right. Most of the time.

MELISSA WELLHAM is a feminist, fangirl, and writer/website coordinator for Mamamia.com.au. You can follow her on Twitter at @melissawellham. She blogs at melissamelicious.blogspot.com.au

MICHAEL BAILEY is one of Canberra’s leading trombonists. He graduated from the ANU School of Music with a Bachelor of Music (performance) in 2005

OWEN KIRKBY is a Sydney poet,

and spoken word is informed by a belief in the transformative agency of language and its capacity to inform and enact social justice, exploring the antipodean experience through lyricism and grotesquery. Tweeted micropoetry can be found at #iambplosive.

PATRICK KELLY Candidate and Casual Academic atRMIT's School of Media and Communication. He is a

and media nut.

PRUE GIBSON is an art writer and

art experience, Object Oriented

R.ELECTRIQUE is an experimental electronic artist from Caboolture,

of punk, noise and hip-hop are boisterous and assaulting, with a penchant for screaming synths

ROBYN STUART is the editor-in-chief of Das Superpaper, a quarterly publication focussed on contemporary Australian art.

from the University of NSW.

RUBY MAHONEY is an Honours student at RMIT. Her writing explores the considerations writers should make when

Published in Catalyst, Lip and various anthologies, Ruby is interested in the truth in stories that come from fragments – whether they be memories, overheard conversations or Facebook statuses.

SABRINA SOKALIK is an artist, arts writer and curator. She has worked in a range of grass-roots arts events and organisations and is currently completing a Masters of Art Administration.

SARA MORAWETZ AND DARREN ENGWIRDA are partners in life, art (and crime) both currently

University of Sydney. Sara’s research is an exploration of

contemporary arts practice

mathematician interested in the simulation of physical phenomena through computer modeling.

SARAH SALAZAR is a performer, curator, teacher and Sipat Lawin company manager. She's performed in shows with Sipat including Pragres, Imperio Animalia (Animal Farm), Battalia Royale and Mahiyaing Manok. Sarah documented the early works of Sipat Lawin through her paper "Cultural relativism

ensemble's practice towards

creating and sustaining a theater

community". She teaches pole dancing part time.

SIMÓN GONZÁLEZ OCHOAcandidate in Linguistics at the University of Newcastle from

SOPHIE LAMOND lives for moments that change people’s minds; hoping that occasionally she can be a part of some of them. Sophie

space between art and vegetable gardening and dreams that one day she can work out what she wants to do when she grows up.

THE SPHERES are a cadre of

soundtrack the light thrown from projectors. Concurrent themes of collective preoccupation

memory, capitalism and the sea.

STEPHEN LOGAN in Linguistics at the University of Newcastle. He has spent several months conducting linguistic

Islands and Bougainville, and his thesis will be a description of the grammar of the Hahon language.

SWAMP Writing is a University of Newcastle based online creative writing journal for post-graduate students.

TARA CARTLAND is a Melbourne

writer. She won the 2012 Overland and Victoria University

for The Big Issue, Mamamia and Feminaust.org.

TEGA BRAIN is a media artist and researcher whose work engages with the different ways in which human beings construct and control their relationship to their environment.

TENDER BUTTONS DJS are a

known for their extensive collection of Tom Jones rarities. Available for weddings, business functions and baby-showers.

TULLEAH PEARCE is an arts administrator and emerging curator with an interest in cross-disciplinary and critically engaged artistic practices. She spends her days producing Live Art and her evenings explaining what that means. She is a co-director of Critical Animals.

VANESSA BERRY is a writer, artist

of the Sydney exploration blog Mirror Sydney and the books Strawberry Hills Forever and Ninety 9.

VICTORIA HEMPSTEAD is an emerging artist, based in Sydney. The body and its genderless, cerebral rhythms are a re-occurring theme in her sculptures. She utilises the minimal materials of wood, salt, water, sand and glass. www.victoriahempstead.com

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We have so many people to thank for contributing their time, talent and enthusiasm to Critical Animals.

Firstly we would like to thank our artists who this year, and in years past have made the festival possible and through generosity and goodwill continue to make CA a unique and exciting forum

We would also like to extend our heartfelt thanks and admiration to Festival Coordinator Sarah Thrift, who has just bought a TiNA-tiny into the festival fold.

who stepped in and saw us through to the fest! Thanks to the Octapod Association, our auspicing body and in particular the wonderful Christina Robberds. To our fellow sub-festival directors; it has been a pleasure to be in the company of such enthusiastic and inspiring individuals, you made all

We would also like to acknowledge the generous support of our Festival Partner, the University of

and Jane Sharpe. As well as our festival sponsors

and UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,

We’d also like to thank the team behind our Critical Animalia: A Decade

between Disciplines. The contributors for their intelligent, thought-provoking and enthusiastic

editor-in-chief and Evelyn Kwok for making our

would also like to extend our gratitude to the

the onsite video documentation, Ashton Rose for her photographs, Jennifer McAuliffe for the Spirit

saving the day (and the print program!).

for putting up with us over this very hectic year, Thank you!

CRITICAL ANIMALS CO-DIRECTORS 2013

Beau, Eleanor, Sophie and Tulleah

CRITICAL ANIMALS IS SUPPORTED BY:

FESTIVAL SUPPORTERS

CRITICAL ANIMALS IS AUSPICED BY:

CRITICAL ANIMALS IS PRESENTED AS PART OF THIS IS NOT ART FESTIVAL IN NEWCASTLE:

CRITICAL ANIMALIA: A DECADE BETWEEN DISCIPLINESThis project is supported by Arts NSW’s NSW

administered by the National Association of the

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We partner with Australia’s national cultural institutions such as the National Museum of Australia, the National Gallery of Australia, the Australian War Memorial and the National Archives of Australia. Our teaching draws on relationships with these cultural institutions and you will have the opportunity to network with leading practitioners and undertake !eldwork and internships.

Arts and humanities at ANU is ranked number one in Australia and 13 in the world*, so you will be surrounded by experts in your !eld and experience a world-class education.

W cass.anu.edu.au/graduate T 02 6125 2898 E [email protected]*Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-13 CRICOS# 00120C | 260912PGC

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Image (detail) Cinnamon Lee, Phototaxis

SPECIAL EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONSDESIRING MACHINES20 SEPTEMBER – 6 OCTOBER THE LOCK UPCurated by Critical Animals for This Is Not Art. The artists in this exhibition meditate on the traces of human experience in data, make human interventions

occupies our lives into material that encourages empathy and connection.

CITY EVOLUTIONSNIGHTLY ON WATT ST 3 OCTOBER – LATE NOVEMBER 2013City Evolutions, is a series of dynamic interactive lighting installations and

by the TiNA sub-festivals, with fantastic works by emerging contemporary artists bringing the buildings to life from sunset to 10pm nightly.

Featuring work from Critical Animals artists’ Tega Brain, Erica Seccombe, Chris Tucker and The Spheres.

For more information on City Evolutions, go to www.cityevolutions.com

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