Goh Beng Kwan - Journey Revisited
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Friday, June 24, 2005
SG Private Banking Gallery,
Alliance Française de Singapour
1 Sarkies Road, Singapore 258130
Contact: +65 6833 9314 Fax: +65 6733 3023
“Europe – Beauty in Every Corner
Part 1 - Greece: Tranquility”
A Photography Exhibition
SG Private Banking Gallery
Alliance Française de Singapour
25th June - 4th July 2005
(Opening on the 24th June, Friday 2005)
The “Europe: Beauty in every corner” project aims to document a specific facet of each of the European state members. Rather than focusing on the most obvious and common monuments and aspects of the European states, the project records the more subtle aspects of European life and environment.
This exhibition showcases the project’s first unit, namely: “Greece: Tranquility”. Visitors to Greece have often described their fascination of the Greek “natural” and “ancient” landscape. The dazzling blue skies, the ancient temples, people’s deeply rooted religious faith, and the slow pace of life, all make their mark on every visitor.
In this unit, Marios decomposes these elements into simple black and white pictorials that capture each visual element of Greece for the viewer to examine. No attempt is made to capture it as an ordinary colourful image or as part of the Greek daily life. Instead every attempt is directed at provoking the viewer to question what it would be like if they were there, how they would have experienced the land’s tranquility, and what it would be like had they been immersed in the environment in real-life.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Marios Pittas was born in 1966 on the island of Cyprus. At the age of twenty-one, Marios moved to London, England, where he obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of London. In 1993, Marios moved to Singapore where he is a permanent resident. He lives with his wife, Ching Siew, their three children, Zoe, Louiza and Theodore, two budgies and an unknown number of fish.
Marios has been taking photographs since the age of 8. Through the years, he has photographed a large variety of subjects ranging from classic pictorials to experimentations with photo composites, pinhole photography and others.
Having lived for more than 15 years in “far away” lands, and frequently conducting small-scale ethnographic studies, it is no surprise that Marios’ current photo-interests are people, their environment and their interactions with the environment.
Marios first presented some of his photo work in a group exhibition at the Singapore History Museum as part of the Museum’s celebration for “International Friendship Day”, 3-17th April 2004 (titled: “Faces of the world”). The exhibition included 9 selections from the series: “Europe: Beauty in every corner” (taken from “Unit 1 - Greece: Tranquility”, and “Unit 2 - Cyprus: Passing Time”).
The series aims to document a specific facet of each of the European state members. Rather than focusing on the most obvious and common monuments and aspects of the European states, the project records the more subtle aspects of European life and environment.
Marios’ current and past photo work can be viewed in his web site: www.photo-orama.com
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Title : “Europe: Beauty in every corner [Part 1 - Greece: Tranquility]”
Opening : 24th June 2005, Friday, 7:30pm
Dates : 25th June – 4th July 2005
Venue : SG Private Banking Gallery,
Alliance Francaise de Singapour, 2nd Floor
1 Sarkies Road, Singapore 258130
(Newton MRT, parking facilities)
Public Viewing : Monday to Friday, 11am – 7pm; Saturday, 11am – 5pm; closed on Sundays & Public Holidays
Admission : Free
Dawn Fung (Ms.)
Gallery Assistant
Alliance Française de Singapour
Email : dfung@alliancefrancaise.org.sg
Tel : 6833 9314
Fax : 6733 3023
Online : alliancefrancaise.org.sg
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Dear all,
There has been a last minute change of dates from 24th June 2005 to 23rd June 2005, Thursday evening for the opening reception. The exhibition dates would be from 24th June to 4th July.
The guest of honour would be His Excellency Mr Vassilis Bontosoglou, Ambassador and Head of the European Union Delegation of the European Commission.
Best regards,
Dawn Fung
Gallery Assistant
TEL : (65) 6737 8422 / DID : (65) 6833 9314 / FAX : (65) 6733 3023
Alliance Française de Singapour
1 Sarkies Road. Singapore 258130
www.alliancefrancaise.org.sg
NUDA
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
LIM TZAY CHUEN AT ICAS
Monday, June 20, 2005
We would like to inform you that we have changed our mailing address to 19 Tanglin Road, Tanglin Shopping Centre, #02-61/ 60, Singapore 247909.
Good day.
Tradition of Excellence,
Peggy Ng
Operations Manager
Kwan Hua Art Gallery
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Artgroup: Digital Art
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Name: Eric Lim
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***** CALL FOR ART/PAPERS *****
NOTE: deadlines extended!!!
ACM Multimedia 2005 Interactive Art Program
Full papers (Art Program ONLY)- June, 20, 2005
Art Exhibition - June, 20, 2005
Short papers - June 20, 2005
ACM Multimedia 2005 Interactive Art Program
Singapore, November 6-12, 2005
http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/artprogram.htm
Sponsored by ACM SIGMM, SIGGRAPH, and SIGCOMM. In collaboration with
Leonardo
ACM Multimedia 2005 is the premier annual multimedia conference, covering
all aspects of multimedia computing. The ACM MM Interactive Art Program
seeks to bring together the arts and multimedia communities to create the
stage to explore, discuss, and push the limits for the advancement of both
multimedia technology through the arts, and the arts through multimedia
technology.
The Interactive Art Program will consist of a *conference track* and an *art
exhibition*. We invite artists working with digital media and researchers in
technical areas to submit their original contributions to the following
tracks:
* Conference track: we solicit papers describing interactive multimedia art
works, tools, applications, and technical approaches for creative uses of
multimedia content and technology. Emphasis will be given to novel works
that use a rich variety of media and those that are interactive,
particularly works that exploit non-conventional human-computer interfaces
or sensors in new and emerging areas. We strongly encourage papers with a
strong technical content written by artists. Topics of interest (but not
limited to):
- Interactive storytelling and authoring
- Multimedia content analysis (for automatic video editing, search art,
etc.)
- Multimedia software as art (collaborative and open source)
- Network analysis and network art
- Tangible interfaces for art
- Tools for multimedia performance
- Immersive multimedia
- Perceptual, haptic, affective, and multi-modal interfaces and
architectures for art
- Sonification and electronic music
- Context aware multi-modal sensing
- Computational applications of art media theory and semiotics
- Experiential systems
- Generative multimedia art
- Mobile multimedia art
- Museum
- Sensors for multimedia art
- Novel multimedia performance instruments
* Multimedia art exhibition: "Presence/Absence." We seek art works that use
multimedia to explore issues of location, relocation and dislocation,
particularly where multimedia technology overcomes or reinforces physical
presence or separation. The emphasis for the exhibition is on interactive
art works that realize powerful artistic concepts using multimedia content
and technologies.
Best Paper Awards will be given with an emphasis on novel uses of multimedia
technology.
Accepted papers for the exhibition and conference track will be published in
the ACM Multimedia Conference proceedings. A selection of the works accepted
will be published in a Leonardo Gallery in the Leonardo Journal and on line
in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac.
The conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Singapore. The art
exhibition will be held at LASALLE-SIA Gallery, Singapore.
Important Dates
June 20, 2005 Long papers and art exhibition submission deadline.
June 20, 2005 Short papers submission deadline.
August 22, 2005 Notification of acceptance.
August 29, 2005 Camera-ready papers due.
Interactive Art Program 2005 Chairs
Alejandro Jaimes
FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd.
Wolfgang Muench
LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
Andrew Senior
IBM T.J.Watson Research Center
Curatorial Committee
Jeffrey Shaw
University of New South Wales
Australia
Yukiko Shikata
NTT InterCommunication Center
Japan
Eugene Tan
LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts Singapore
A. Jaimes, W. Muench, A. Senior
Please see website for Technical Program Committee, submission instructions,
registration information, etc.
http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/artprogram.htm
Sunday, June 19, 2005
Dear All,
Hope all is well with you.
The latest selection of artwork by Mangu Putra, Ho Huu Thu, Nguyen Trung, Hong Viet Dung and Eric Chan are available to be viewed on-line.
Do click on the link to view the paintings:http://www.gajahgallery.com/nlla.asp
Should you need additional information, do give us a call on 6737 4202 or reply to this email.
Do give us a call if you are planning to drive or take a taxi to the Gallery.
We would make the necessary arrangements as the security in the building is very tight.
We apologise for the inconvenience.
Thank you.
Regards,
Gajah Gallery
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