The Contemporary Arts Centre of South Australia presents:

				e Q

		four concurrent sound installations
		  curated by r a d i o q u a l i a
		  http://www.radioqualia.va.com.au

			24 - 31 January 1999

		Sunday 24 Jan, 6pm : opening night + performance
 Saturday 30 Jan, 7-9pm: eQ :: parametric - closing night performance


"Sound is "an agent of destabilisation which challenges an understanding of
the real based on the physical, visible and enduring object."
							Fran Dyson

e Q is a sound installation that surveys what happens when the machines of
the past collide with the machines of the future. It examines how sound has
been mutated and transfigured by the manifold uses of soft / hardwares.

Sound has been one of the fundamental areas of invention and
experimentation within art and technology culture, with practitioners
quickly embracing new forms of production and exhibition.  Technology now
enables new forms of spatial, rhythmic and tonal juxtaposition within sound
environments, with advances in algorithmic and chaos driven approaches to
sound composition, prompting a paradigm shift within the field of
experimental sound art.

e Q takes a critical approach to the uses of technology within sound art,
investigating supposedly outmoded technological tools, in a rich complex of
remembrances, placing antiquated instruments alongside current implements,
provoking timely speculation about the consequences of aligning componentry
systems strategically, as opposed to technologically.

As technology evolves as a single contained and exclusive system, with each
technological transformation, new system protocols are formed and hardware
system specifications created.  Optimistic propaganda suggests that these
developments are allowing for a future of seamless interaction between both
people and machine, and between machine and machines.  However it is
becoming increasingly clear that the rapid development of new technological
apparatus is forcing a huge amount of obsolescence. In many cases, software
and hardware that was state-of-the-art in the very recent past, is no
longer compatible with technology of the present.

e Q endeavours to transcend the technological and historical tic of our own
era, and open up the space for exploration of the "unresolved issues of
accelerating decrepitude, inbuilt redundancy and techno-waste" * through
the medium of sound.

The project comprises four distinct installations, which also form
components of a larger system. To demonstrate the viability of integrated
technological systems, the output of each installation supplies sound to
each of the other works.  Old and new technologies form modules of a larger
organism, recycling the sound, turning in upon itself, and creating an
engine of perpetual renewal.


e Q is:

-> Ephemera :: Greg Peterkin
An integrated electronic media environment, utilising state-of-the-art
light and movement sensors to initiate fluctuating patterns of sound
stimulation and composition.

-> Transception :: Matthew Thomas
Using an antiquated system of transmission and reception, Transception
traverses the frequencies in an exploration of unintended and serendipitous
'audio art'.

-> Redundant Noise :: elendil
Audio debris collected into a prototype of low-fi interaction, created for
the now outmoded Macintosh SE30.

-> ovalmaschine :: r a d i o q u a l i a
The listener becomes remix artist, folding and fusing live global net.radio
transmissions into and out of arbitrary fragments of gliding low-fi sound
samples.

-> vision system :: zzkt
The slide system, enabled by e Q's temp.mecha droid of distance, will
slice, pleat and drift in a tangled optical substrate.

Further information regarding opening and closing performances will follow.


* quoted from the Redundant Technology Initiative's Manifesto
<http://www.lowtech.org/>.


		Contemporary Arts Centre of South Australia
		   14 Porter St, Parkside, South Australia
		    ph 61 8 8272 2682, fax 61 8 8373 4286
			     cacsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
			http://www.cacsa.org.au/cacsa


r a d i o q u a l i a and the CACSA would like to thank:
Virtual Artists, Derringers, Nick Mollison, & the Media Resource Centre.

The Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia Inc., is assisted by the
South Australian Government through Arts SA, and Industry Development, and
the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding
and advisory body.


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