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COLLEGE of ARTS and SOCIAL SCIENCES Research School of Humanities and the Arts SCHOOL of ART VISUAL ARTS GRADUATE PROGRAM DOCTOR COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Research School of Humanities and the Arts SCHOOL OF ART VISUAL ARTS GRADUATE PROGRAM DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE AUSTRALIAN MEDIA ARTS: IN THIS PLACE A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY OF THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY MARCH, 2014 Declaration of Originality I, ………………………………………………….. [sign and date] hereby declare that the thesis here presented is the outcome of the research project undertaken during my candidacy, that I am the sole author unless otherwise indicated, and that I have fully documented the source of ideas, references, quotations and paraphrases attributable to other authors. i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thank you to my partner Caolán Mitchell who has offered help and solace on this journey, to our children who have arrived along the way Mirrin, Orla and Ruairí, to Quentin Mitchell and Lindsay Bingham for their many hours of child minding, to my family Rod, Susan and Andrew Gillespie. Thank you to the artists I interviewed Ian de Gruchy, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Fiona Foley, Janet Laurence and Lynette Wallworth for taking the time to speak with me and provide comment on my writing. Many thanks to my supervisors Gordon Bull, Professor Helen Ennis and Dr Martyn Jolly for their encouragement, input and support. To my fellow students Carolyn Young and Meredith Hughes thank you for sharing this journey. And to my friends Michelle Fix and Kathryn Dwan thank you for your time spent allowing me that much needed time at the very end. ii ABSTRACT Australian Media Arts: in this place examines themes of relationships to place, and loss of place within an Australian context. A series of academic accounts of national media arts practice, trace the evolution of the field and explore a particular period, the technologies that emerged, artists who explored these technologies and their works that articulate this exploration. What is common in these recent accounts of media art histories is a tracing of the relationship between the artists and the technologies that afforded their explorations within a national framework. What I aim to do is something different; I intend to locate a small subset of Australian media art works that talk about key issues pertinent to Australian cultural identity, namely colonisation, the displacement of the First Australians and the ongoing effects of loss of place also experienced in a broader sense through migration. The dissertation examines three collaborative works by artists, Krzysztof Wodiczko and Ian de Gruchy, Janet Laurence and Fiona Foley, and Lynette Wallworth that explore aspects of Australia’s colonial, Indigenous and migrant histories. The aim of my studio work and its account in the exegesis has been to examine how issues of place and loss of place can be addressed through my visual and media arts practice. My work has formed around the interrelationship of terms such as location/dislocation, memory/site, identity/loss of identity and what is visible/invisible. I have explored the intersections of personal and cultural histories, a sense of home and belonging as an individual and with particular Australian communities through media arts installation, site specific performance, video and photographic works. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................................................................................................................. ii ABSTRACT ......................................................................................................................................................................iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................................................................ iv LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ...........................................................................................................................................vi Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................................1 Chapter 1 - Humpy an early Australian architectural projection by artists Ian de Gruchy and Krzysztof Wodiczko ................................................................7 A prehistory .............................................................................................................................................................................7 Site and history .....................................................................................................................................................................10 Collaboration ..........................................................................................................................................................................13 Wodiczko ................................................................................................................................................................................. 18 de Gruchy .................................................................................................................................................................................23 Memory and repression: Freud’s uncanny ............................................................................................................25 Aboriginal architecture .....................................................................................................................................................30 Media skins .............................................................................................................................................................................35 The Adelaide Festival and Sydney Biennale in the bicentennial year .....................................................39 Conclusion ...............................................................................................................................................................................42 Chapter 2 - Edge of the Trees: an early Australian immersive media installation ........................................................................................................44 Early conceptions of the work as an immersive media environment.....................................................47 Collaboration ..........................................................................................................................................................................53 A site of memory ................................................................................................................................................................54 iv War memorials/aboriginal memorials .....................................................................................................................56 Anti-monument ................................................................................................................................................................... 61 A mapping of materials ....................................................................................................................................................65 Responding to the environment................................................................................................................................. 70 Mapping and naming; making the invisible visible .......................................................................................... 71 Locative media/ information environments ........................................................................................................ 77 Conclusion ...............................................................................................................................................................................80 Chapter 3 - Loss of place and Evolution of Fearlessness .........................................................................82 A trilogy: Invisible by Night, Evolution of Fearlessness and Duality of Light ......................................83 Asylum seekers, resilience and loss of place ....................................................................................................... 85 Responding to touch/immersion ................................................................................................................................91 Embodied/disembodied ..................................................................................................................................................95 I am the witness .................................................................................................................................................................. 97 Loss of place in an Australian context ......................................................................................................................98 Australian identity, loss of place and trauma .......................................................................................................101 Locating place and loss of place ..................................................................................................................................105 Conclusion .............................................................................................................................................................................. 112 CONCLUSION ..............................................................................................................................................................
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