Anna Munster

Digital Prints
• • • Anna Munster • • •
From the Silicon Age - fig.1.1, 2000, 62.54cm x 56..49cm, Lambda Digital Photographic Prints From the Silicon Age - fig.1.3, 2000, 62.54cm x 56..49cm, Lambda Digital Photographic Prints
• • • Artist Statement • • • What kind of artifacts from our current ‘silicon age’ would a natural historian of the future have left to ponder over? The erosion of carbon materiality through its transformation into data may create odd compounds of life and nonlife. Small artificial life forms wedged into the micro-layers of silicon compressed and fossilised into landfill for some later generation perhaps… These prints use seventeenth and eighteenth century forms of natural history collection and illustration to create a trajectory between past sciences, rapidly shifting changes in our current notions of life and future possibilities for the double preservation and production of organic/data assemblages.
• • • Selected Exhibitions • • • 2000-1999: - Grant received from the Interactive Media Program, Australian Film Commission. This grant is for the direction and production of an interactive CDROM "Wunderkammer", due for international release at the end of 2000. - ‘ The Advanced Institute of Liquid DNA’, collaborative website with Michele Barker for The Brandon Project, Guggenheim Museum, NYC, Jan.99-Dec.00. http://brandon.guggenheim.org/crime/cell5/frameset.html 1998: - ‘ The Love Machine’, collaborative digital sound and image installation with Michele Barker for State of the Heart, group exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia,. March 26-April 27; and for Viruses and Mutations, Melbourne Festival, Australia, October. - ‘ Specimen’, interactive installation and digital images, Artspace, Sydney, Australia, February 5-28. - ‘cunt and ear’, 3D animation commissioned for ‘eatcarpet’, SBS Television, Australia, February 19. 1997-6: - ‘netmap’, installation for retrieval, group exhibition, firstdraft gallery, Sydney, Australia, November 5 – 23, 1997 - ‘Sydney Subjects’, interactive multimedia performance piece in collaboration with Paul Carter, for the Museum of Sydney, Australia February - March, 1996; and ‘Sydney Subjects’ video, for the Museum of Sydney, January 1997. 1995: -'easy access to power'; collaborative work with Michele Barker, digital images as 5 Type c photographs for Technothelylogia, group exhibition, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, July 20 - September 2.
• • • Homepage • • • www.liquiddna.com
• • • Contact Info • • • A.Munster@unsw.edu.au Anna Munster C/- School of Art History and Theory College of Fine Arts PO Box 259, Paddington NSW 2021 Australia
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Digital Prints

• • • Anna Munster • • •

From the Silicon Age - fig.1.1, 2000, 62.54cm x 56..49cm, Lambda Digital Photographic Prints

From the Silicon Age - fig.1.3, 2000, 62.54cm x 56..49cm, Lambda Digital Photographic Prints

• • • Artist Statement • • •

What kind of artifacts from our current ‘silicon age’ would a natural historian of the future have left to ponder over? The erosion of carbon materiality through its transformation into data may create odd compounds of life and nonlife. Small artificial life forms wedged into the micro-layers of silicon compressed and fossilised into landfill for some later generation perhaps…
These prints use seventeenth and eighteenth century forms of natural history collection and illustration to create a trajectory between past sciences, rapidly shifting changes in our current notions of life and future possibilities for the double preservation and production of organic/data assemblages.

• • • Selected Exhibitions • • •

2000-1999:
- Grant received from the Interactive Media Program, Australian Film Commission. This grant is for the direction and production of an interactive CDROM "Wunderkammer", due for international release at the end of 2000.

- ‘ The Advanced Institute of Liquid DNA’, collaborative website with Michele Barker for The Brandon Project, Guggenheim Museum, NYC, Jan.99-Dec.00.
http://brandon.guggenheim.org/crime/cell5/frameset.html

1998:
- ‘ The Love Machine’, collaborative digital sound and image installation with Michele Barker for State of the Heart, group exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia,. March 26-April 27; and for Viruses and Mutations, Melbourne Festival, Australia, October.

- ‘ Specimen’, interactive installation and digital images, Artspace, Sydney, Australia, February 5-28.

- ‘cunt and ear’, 3D animation commissioned for ‘eatcarpet’, SBS Television, Australia, February 19.

1997-6:
- ‘netmap’, installation for retrieval, group exhibition, firstdraft gallery, Sydney, Australia,

November 5 – 23, 1997
- ‘Sydney Subjects’, interactive multimedia performance piece in collaboration with Paul Carter, for the Museum of Sydney, Australia February - March, 1996; and ‘Sydney Subjects’ video, for the Museum of Sydney, January 1997.

1995:
-'easy access to power'; collaborative work with Michele Barker, digital images as 5 Type c photographs for Technothelylogia, group exhibition, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, July 20 - September 2.

• • • Homepage • • •

www.liquiddna.com

• • • Contact Info • • •

A.Munster@unsw.edu.au
Anna Munster
C/- School of Art History and Theory
College of Fine Arts
PO Box 259,
Paddington
NSW 2021
Australia

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