ANAT 30 for 30
For our 30th anniversary, 1988- 2018, ANAT commissioned 30 for 30, a collection of watershed moments capturing the impact of our work over our lifetime. Drawing upon one case-study for each year (see below), 30 for 30 is an excellent snapshot of ANAT’s success in introducing artists to new technologies, research, and ways of working, and in removing barriers to creative experimentation.
ANAT’s certificate of incorporation.
1988 :: Hello world!
Virginia Barratt and Adam Boyd, Dada Do, Eyeline Art Magazine Launch, School of Arts Building, 15 May 1987, Brisbane (photograph Jose Macalin)
1989 :: National Summer School program
Wendy Mills, memories of next easter, (1990), installation of transparent cibachromes and recorded sound, 400 x 400 x 400 cm (sound by Stephen Leek and VoiceArt)
1990 :: Towards a New Aesthetic
Joyce Hinterding, Siphon, 1991, detail. Photograph Ian Hobbs
1991 :: Art Research and Development Fund
Tim Gruchy, Video portrait (1982) – still, (video synthesis by Stephen Jones, photograph by Pam Greet)
1992 :: TISEA
Troy Innocent, Idea-ON>! (detail), 1992, Database of experience, CD-ROM
1993 :: The Great AustralianScience Show
Alyson Bell, Here I Sit (still), 1996. 8 minutes. Poetry by Sandy Jeffs
1994 :: Computer Aided Art and Design
Conference-goers exploring The User Unfriendly Interface by Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski
1995 :: Australasian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association
Francesca da Rimini, Ricardo Dominquez and Michael Grimm, Dollspace (1995) – still
1996 :: Interactive Nation
CODE RED, exhibition program cover (1997)
1997 :: CODE RED
Linda Dement, Cyberflesh Girlmonster (1995)
1998 :: FOLDBACK
Christian Thompson, Urban Murri’s (1999), digital images, raffia, magpie feathers
1999 :: National Indigenous School in New Media Art
ANAT Team 2000: Charity Bramwell, Amber Carvan, Michael Shanahan & Amanda McDonald Crowley.
2000 :: Alchemy
Justine Cooper with Dr Jim Bonacum during her residency at the Museum of Natural History, New York (photograph Joey Stein)
2001 :: Scientific Serendipity
Hossein Valamanesh, Longing belonging (1997) colour positive print, 99 x 99cm. Photograph Rick Martin.
2002 :: BORDERPANIC
Mari Velonaki, Fish-Bird: Circle B – Movement C (2004–06), Interactive installation with two autonomous robots and distributed data fusion system. Installed at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark, 2009 (photograph by Paul Gosney Photography)
2003 :: Synapse
Craig Walsh, Temporary Lodgings (2004), digital animation and stereo sound (3-minute loop), installed in Rundle Street, Adelaide
2004 :: Luminosity
Create_Space participant Matt Gardiner working out communication between his phone and processing
2005 :: Create Space
Ian Haig, Liberv rel reguli, 2005
2006 :: Media State Forum
Michael Yuen, Black Tee prototype developed during reSkin
2007 :: reSkin
Leah Heiss, Diabetes Jewellery (2008) (photograph Narelle Sheean)
2008 :: Trilogy of Artist Residencies
Jill Scott, The Electric Retina (2008), interactive sculpture, 200 x 120 x 80 cm
2009 :: SUPERHUMAN
Dome Lab participants, 2010
2010: Dome Lab 2010
Thom Buchanan, Detour 27 (2011), video/animation – still
2011 :: Portable Worlds
MakerBot Replicator Original, the first desktop 3D printer.
2012 :: 3D Printing
Ryoji Ikeda, test pattern [no.5], 2013, audiovisual installation at Carriageworks. Commissioned and presented by Carriageworks and ISEA2013 in collaboration with Vivid Sydney. Photograph Zan Wimberley.
2013 :: ISEA2013
Leah Barclay, River Listening Synapse Feature, 2014
2014 :: Synapse Residency Program
Cat Jones, Somatic Drifts (2014), installation view (sound design Melissa Hunt)
2015 :: The Art of Pain
Daniel Savage, Daniel – Quadraplegic / Will you ever get better? 2014 No offense, but… 1-16 (of 18). Inkjet prints, 50 x 70cm
2016 :: UNFIXED.2
Martin Walch, Terra-Antarctica_Time-panorama_Mawson_Station_60 days_20171208- 20180205, (2017-18) – still courtesy of the artist.
2017 :: Australian Antarctic Division & CSIRO
Michaela Gleave’s performance A Galaxy of Suns featured a 33-part local choir ‘singing’ the stars. Photograph Sia Duff
2018 :: SPECTRA