New Media & Interactivity

Videotage's Fuse Residency Program presents

new media arts: dislocating its privilege

a presentation about new media arts and social change in Sydney

When: Tuesday 8 August 2006, 7-8.30pm

Where: Hong Kong Arts Development Council

2/F, 181 Queen's Road Central

Opposite Sheung Wan MTR

Sydney-based arts manager Lena

Nahlous will share her work as the Director of Sydney's Information and

Cultural Exchange (http://www.ice.org.au), and will focus on the role

of their SWITCH Multimedia and Digital Arts Access Centre in transforming culture and creating opportunities for artists in Western Sydney.

SWITCH is a space where artists and

communities can make digital sound and music, web and graphic design,

and screen-based arts. SWITCH's results have been far-reaching: the

Suburban Grooves urban music program (which has distributed the music

of over 100 new music artists); the establishment of several radio and

TV production houses; the development of a documentary film with

African war journalists in exile; youth filmmaking initiatives;

blogging projects; and new media arts installations, theatre and

performance.

Lena Nahlous is

the Director of Information and Cultural Exchange, an arts organisation

working at the intersection of community, culture and media in Sydney,

Australia. Lena is in Hong Kong for three months on an Asialink Arts

fellowship, and her residency is all about exchanging perspectives and

skills in the intersecting fields of community media/arts, new media

innovation and social engagement/ activism. Lena is also a writer,

producer and curator. She has curated multimedia installations,

produced websites and short films, and published/performed her writing.

She is based at Videotage as one of their Fuse Residents.

Lena's residency is sponsored by

Videotage, Asialink, the Australia Council for the Arts &

Information & Cultural Exchange.

Special thanks to the HKADC for sponsoring this talk.

Drinks & Refreshments provided.