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system>VOLTage exhibition opens at Bribie Island
24 June, 2005
The third annual exhibition of work by Computer-Based Art and Design students will go on display at the Caboolture Community Arts Centre Bribie Island, Sunderland Drive Banksia Beach, from Saturday 25 June.
The system>VOLTage exhibition showcases thought-provoking, dynamic and at times confronting digital artworks that explore the visual and aesthetic qualities of photography and computer software.
The large format prints reflect the unique characteristics of digital imaging as well as advancements in technology as part of our cultural identity.
USC Computer-Based Art and Design lecturer and exhibition curator, Debra Livingston, encouraged students to research a particular area of technology and culture that interested them and then developed a concept through visual observation, creative experimentation, intuitive judgement and day-to-day experience about the world to which they respond.
"system>VOLTage is a very pertinent exhibition, one that consists of vibrant and relevant works that reflect both the positive and negative outcomes of contemporary and future society," Ms Livingston said.
"These works have resulted in an innovative exhibition, one that meets professional standards that explores the relationship between our society and the way technology now shapes our lives."
Issues such as nuclear bi-products, bio-engineering, the Internet, consumerism, virtual nature, intravenous vitamins as a fashion commodity, illuminated manuscripts and 3D modelling of virtual new worlds are represented.
Incorporated with the exhibition are interactive QTVR media projects that focus on enhancing the user's virtual experience as well as a variety of student movies and audio that allow people to explore and navigate through a range of physical locations via the medium of a 'virtual tour', in which multiple levels of spatial and factual information are presented simultaneously.
"The students will be showing their journals to communicate to the public the process of how they made their images and where they drew their inspiration from," Ms Livingston said.
"This exhibition features the very best of the University of the Sunshine Coast's emerging artists."
Caboolture Community Arts Centre, Bribie Island Sunderland drive: Banksia Beach : Bribie Island
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10am-4pm
Exhibition runs: 25 June - 8 July