(CTRL) (P) Objects on Demand is a collaboration between Object: Australian Design Centre and Courtesy of the Artist (COTA). It combines an exhibition, pop-up shop, public programs and workshops to investigate how 3D printing can transform the way we design, make, use and consume the objects around us.
Code Red series 2012 (Cinnamon Lee)
Campbelltown Arts Centre has paired together five creative innovators from the analogue and early digital eras to mentor and collaborate with five newer artists from various art, sound, video and performance disciplines.
The Swedish sci-fi drama Real Humans presented a parallel world where androids carry out dangerous and monotonous jobs for humans whilst developing individualist behaviour.
Robots vs Art takes a comedic look at a not-so-distant future when robots can think for themselves. Unfortunately, they’ve decreed the planet as better off without humans and after executing most of humanity, have enslaved the survivors in underground mines.
“I was inspired by the idea of a Japanese robotic theatre company performing a play,” says Robots vs Art writer and director Travis Cotton.
“Robots would be able to perfect practical elements of art production like learning lines but what does mastering the science of art mean if you can’t emotionally connect to it and feel it?”
When Executive Bot (Simon Maiden) writes a play, he brings a human director, Giles (Daniel Frederiksen), up from the mines to help with it. Since Executive Bot can’t enjoy art he makes a deal with Giles: if Giles can put on a play that makes the robots feel he’ll get to live; if he fails he will be executed in front of the play’s cast.
Can Giles put on a play that will make the robots feel?
Written by Travis Cotton, directed by Phil Miolin and featuring Sean Walsh, Damon Lockwood, Renee Newman-Storen and Ben Mortley.
Jun 18-Jul 7, Bondi Pavillion Theatre, Queen Elizabeth Drive, Bondi Beach, $21-35, 1300 241 167, rocksurfers.org
This preview originally appeared in City Hub where I am a regular Arts & Entertainment contributor.
New Wave: Sound brings the latest in innovative music with a two-day program featuring a forum on developing music trends as well as a diverse range of high calibre artists creating improvised, experimental and electronic sound performances.
Performance Space’s Switched On season, which is part of Sydney’s International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2013 program, is presenting four diverse projects that explore our physical and personal relationship to technology.
“We wanted to look at humankind’s relationship with technology,” says Performance Space Co-Director Bec Dean.
“We looked at how we engage with technology on an everyday and personal level through to the extraordinary with a strong focus on performance.”
