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News-2006-I have some new work appearing at Craft ACT from 26 May - 2 July in Traditions and Departures: highlighting Japanese Influences in Australian craft and design for the 2006 Year of Exchange between Australia and Japan. Otakulture comes to Sydney 11 - 25 May at Medium Rare, Redfern. I will be giving an artist talk with Queenie Chan at the gallery on Saturday 13 May at 12pm.
Karakuri artwork reproduced in forthcoming robotics educational textbook about the history of robots and robots in space, produced by the German Air and Space Agency for distribution to every high school student in Germany (180,000) Robot culture display showcase at the Consulate-General of Japan, Melbourne Materials reproduced in article "The Karakuri Organ" by Ron Bopp, in The Carousel Organ (Journal of the Carousel Organ Association of America) Issue 26, January 2006 -2005-Karakuri artwork reproduced in book “Mighty Robots: mechanical marvels that fascinate and frighten” by David Jones, published by Annick Press 2005 (ISBN 1-55037-929-1) Otakulture group show at Rocket Art Gallery, in conjunction with the 2005 Electrofringe Festival, Newcastle. I was also an Otakulture panelist at Electrofringe with Queenie Chan, Corin Edwards and Halszka Masash. Exhibition toured to The Whitehouse, Brisbane. Touring Sydney, Melbourne and regional Australia in 2006 International Karakuri Contest 2005 finalist. Short-listed from over 600 entries and subsequently commissioned to build my own Karakuri design ‘Robot Culture’ lecture presented at the University Melbourne for the School of Creative Arts & Japanese Studies Department ‘Robot Culture’ presented at Imagining Japan: A Symposium held in collaboration with the Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University and Osaka University's Centre of Excellence's 21st century program: Japan as Image -2004-Mechalust group exhibition with Tetsuto Takahashi (Japan), Sum Guy (USA) & Linda Erceg (AUS) in conjunction with the Straight Out Of Brisbane Festival at the TC Beirne Centre & Institute of Modern Art. Also hosted a 'Robot Culture' forum and facilitated a ‘girltron toy hacking’ workshop karakuri.info was featured in the Electrofringe2004/net.ART show, themed Replicate Automate Infiltrate. Electrofringe2004 is in Newcastle from 30 Sept - 4 October 2004. karakuri.info materials requested by the IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) for reference and distribution during the 2004 International Conference on Organic Synthesis (ICOS-15) 'karakuri' solo exhibition held in conjunction with the 2004 Next Wave Festival, at Stairwell project @ North Melbourne Town Hall Artshouse Stairwell project exhibiting space is proudly supported by the City of Melbourne. Stairwell is a North Arts Project. I also hosted a Robot Culture forum with panelists Dr. Eiichi Tosaki and Dr. Brigid Magner @ Next Wave Festival Club. The support of the Next Wave Festival is gratefully acknowledged. I contributed an introductory essay on Karakuri and some artwork for online publication OSMOSIS - Visual Dialogue between East & West, Plugzine02 p79-80 with the Joyn design crew karakuri.info 'Website of the Week' in Asia Policy Weekly, produced by the Japan Information Access Project and the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan. March 14 - 20 2004 Volume 8, No 11, p15. ISSN 1543-1185 karakuri.info featured on Rhizome new media arts site and also Noema arts portal karakuri.info is now a featured resource at the NASA Robotics Education Project website. Guest lecturer (2003+2004) addressing final year undergraduate robotics/mechatronics students at Swinburne University of Technology for the subject "Advanced Technologies". I discussed Karakuri and Japan's love of robots (=robot culture!) karakuri.info has been accepted into the JAVA-Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs Museum project of Netart from Asian/Pacific area which will be launched on occasion of the Thailand New Media Art Festival, with further showcases touring internationally.. -2003-karakuri.info featured in the AI Lectures from Tokyo, "a global teaching project in modern artificial intelligence" based at the University of Tokyo, which also involves students in Beijing, Munich, Warsaw and Zurich. karakuri.info was discussed during lecture 3 of the series - "Embodied Intelligence: Basics". There's mention of my travel to Japan to learn about Karakuri in RealTime and OnScreen (issue 57) 2003. NewType-USA November 2003 edition has a short piece about my exhibition and Karakuri work - "Venerable Traditions and Modern Masters" by Cefn Ridout. I was also interviewed at my 'karakuri.info' exhibition for an upcoming series "Smart Societies" which will be broadcast in 2004 on Go Asia Pacific. I had a solo exhibition 'karakuri.info' at West Space (1st Floor, 15-19 Anthony Street, Melbourne) from the 24 October - 8 November 2003. I did and artist talk at the gallery about Karakuri on Thursday October 30 at 6pm.
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