6 – 9 pm 109 Regent Place, Chippendale
For the inaugural event, we reflect on the often overlooked nodal point of the polynomial. A polynomial is an expression consisting of variables. They are used to form polynomial equations, which encode a wide range of problems, from elementary word problems to complicated scientific problems; they are used to define polynomial functions, which appear in settings ranging from basic chemistry and physics to economics and social science. Information lives in various states of decay. The brain is constantly assembling various ambiguous information. The prediction-error of this signal is a self-organising system. If the information is garbled there will be an attempt to recruit more resources to solve the problem.
Oliver Lardner's [@oliverlardner] research led practice revolves around contemporary notions of artistic labour. Drawing upon experiences as a programmer, specifically with writing code art, he applies the political and inherently anarchistic qualities of digital distribution and code art to the idea of a ‘painted’ surface and traditional notions of artistic labor. A practice led investigation takes this as an entry point into a multi-perspectival form, with the audience themselves constituting the final surface.
Emily Isabel Taylor [@emily.isabel.taylor] (b. 1995) is a visual artist whose practice intersects Modernist principles with twenty-first century technologies and popular culture. Working across diverse media including photography, video, artist books, ceramics, sculpture, painting and collage, her work is characterised by the removal and subsequent recombination of digital surfaces to agitate modernist compositions and forms. She has exhibited across Sydney and is the founder of Mega Art Baby Press through which she has published artist books and produced album artwork for musicians from Sweden, Canada, South Africa and Australia.
Anthony Hodgkinson [@gweniferstefani] is a Sydney based artist working with the analog process of photography. His works engage with the natural landscape, operating and interacting with the physical landscape during the photographic processes. His images abstract form to evoke a sense of place, often focusing on particulars which inform the broader landscape.
Corey Max Black [@orfyn] lives and works on Gadigal land. He is currently undertaking his first year of postgraduate study at the National Art School. He was recently awarded the NAVA Ignition Prize for Professional Practice and the National Art School MFA Look Print scholarship. Black’s work considers the potential of emerging technologies and their unknown effects upon the human body. This potential is filtered through the lens of the abject in relation to the culture of cinema and technology more broadly. Black’s practise heavily involves photography as a method of distillation, due to the intangible nature of these ideas. Further manifesting through installation, sculpture and photo-objects, Black seeks to warp ideas through contrasting materials forms. Relating to breaking points, boundaries and the subconscious, Black’s work lends itself to mutable forms, offering an informed and intuitive cross pollination process.
Tommy Carman [@tcarman_art] is a current Master of Fine Art Student at the National Art School. He was recently the recipient of the Bird Holcomb Scholarship and the Brandon Trakman Prize for Art History and Theory. Carman explores the means by which digital media convolutes the distinction between one’s experience as subject and object. He probes how the translation of digital images into the corporeal unveils this process of convolution, using painting as a means of illuminating the mediated nature of digital imagery to combat its perception as representation of fact
Amanda Saker [@archiesaker] is an emerging artist and curator with a research based practice investigating museology, the history of exhibition, aesthetics, memory, her own cultural heritage and documentary modes of image making. Saker works across mediums including photography, collage, drawing, video and installation, often using found objects and imagery to present inquiries or visions. Saker lives and works in Sydney, and holds a BFA, Master of Design and Master of Curating from UNSW.
Oliver Wagner's [@_oliver_wagner_] work questions the very concept of art in its highest form. From the constraints of the canvas to the walls of the white cube Wagner suggests that art, like ideology and imagery, dissolves with the ebb and flow of time and that which we hold high in one moment is relegated to dust in the next. Winner of the Jocelyn Maughan Drawing Prize 2012, the John Olson Drawing Prize and the John McCaughey Painting Prize 2015, and was included in the Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize 2018. Represented by Sarah Cottier.