Mischa & Michelle Kuball, photo by David Broker, whose left ear features on the right of this picture on the right, right?

Fulvia Mantelli, independent curator, gets a hug from George 'Pops' Popperwell, iconic ex-educator and installation artist

Blair French, Executive Director, Artspace Sydney

A Big Opening means crowd-squeeze at the entrance. Linda Marie Walker (EAF Councillor, artist/writer/curator & educator) talks to Billy Crawford (EAF's Client manager from the Australia Council), Michael Yuen listens in. Back left Thomas Rentmeister talks with artist. Margit Brunner. Rentmeister's work at Greenaway Art Gallery is another of the vis arts program's highlights.

 

Linda Marie Walker on the right with Leandro Salomone, Adelaide-based artist. His show opened at the Prospect gallery the same week.

Always guaranteeing a glamorous photo, Francesca da Rimini (artist) leans on the bar, next to Teri Hoskin (artist/writer/eaf design person)

 

Bunch of artists: Katrina Simmons, Bianca Barling, Michael Newall (art theorist too!), Akira Akira behind

Nic Folland and David Broker, Director of Canberra Contemporary Art Space

The Film World: Gail Kovatseff, Director, Media Resource Centre, and Adele Hann, Associate Director, Adelaide Film Festival

Jim Moss, SASA theory lecturer forever, and Chair of CACSA, Contemporary Art Centre SA

Lynne Sanderson (Artist/VJ at many festival events) & Yasemin Subunco

Matt Bradley (centre) has got the measure. Bec Dean on the left, Associate Director Performance Space Sydney, & artist Andrew Best are less cool, more engaging.

 

Reuben Keehan, Curator, Artspace, Sydney, attempts to break through the ring of confidence. Can't be done. Bradley maintains his cool.

'Oops!', nearly went over

From left: Stephen Bowers, Managing Director Jam Factory, Melentie P, Billy Crawford, Oz Co.

 

In conversation, Pandilovski opens with Flusser, and the move toward (back-to) image language from the alpha-numeric, and its relationship to biotech arts. Kuball isn't sure he wants the conversation to go that way and takes the reins …. A sizeable crowd took refuge from the heat outside, inside—a good hundred or so. The conversation touched on questions of veracity in the arts, Kuball countered that belief was an important element to engagement with the work. He talked about a number of his works more apparently 'public', including, Refraction House, Megazeichen, and Public Square. [see www.mischakuball.com].

Mischa had just been interviewed by Cath Kenneally on Radio Adelaide, where he'd talked about Plato's Cave, and imaging the (his) brain.You can hear that interview here [click on the ear]

'Participate, it's public space', a criticism re the lack of criticality in the Northern Lights projections on North Terrace