Cyber Cultures
Curated by Kathy Cleland
Developed and toured by Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
Cyber Cultures: Sustained Release is a program of new media exhibitions featuring leading new media artists from Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The program is made up of four exhibition capsules which explore the impact on new technologies on human life and culture: Infectious Agents, Posthuman Bodies, New Life and Animation Playground. Cyber Cultures: Sustained Release was exhibited at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre from July to December in 2000 and the exhibition capsules toured Australia from 2001-2003.
Exhibition Capsules
Infectious Agents
Infectious Agents explores ideas of infection and contagion both in a literal biological sense and as broader metaphors for human interaction, memory and global communications networks.
Artists: Melinda Rackham, Linda Dement, Ian Haig, John Tonkin
New Life
New Life takes us into a digital world where new life forms blur the boundaries between the natural and the artificial.
Artists: Jon McCormack, Troy Innocent, Kat Mew, Anita Kocsis, Jane Prophet, Mark Hurry and Gordon Selley.
Posthuman Bodies
Posthuman Bodies explores the way that new technologies are changing our concepts of human nature and human identity as we evolve from the human into the technologically enhanced ‘posthuman’.
Artists: Jane Prophet, Stelarc, Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey, Gary Zebington, John Tonkin.
Animation Playground
Animation Playground celebrates the fusion of new media arts with popular culture forms such as games, cartoons, and the amusement park.
Artists: Leon Cmielewski and Josephine Starrs, Maureen Lander and John Fairclough, Martine Corompt and Philip Samartzis, the Lycette Bros.
Stelarc – Movatar Performance
Movatar premiered at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in 2000 in conjunction with the Posthuman Bodies exhibition.Visit Stelarc’s website for more information on the Movatar project.