FutureLab Residency
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Ars Electronica is the world's most important festival for art, technology and society. With a nearly 40 year history it has transformed the city of Linz into an international cultural capital.
Since 2003 we have collaborated with Ars Electronica to produce and stage major media arts exhibitions. The Australian FutureLab Residency was established in 2008 by Annie Ivanova as a five-year partnership funded by the Australian Council for the Arts. |
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JOSEPHINE STARRS and LEON CMIELEWSKI |
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If the earth beneath our feet could speak …
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Created by Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski 'Incompatible Elements' is an ongoing project, which re-imagines the relationship between nature and culture, embedding poetic texts into satellite images of terrains and waterways in ecological crisis. Landscapes are dynamically manipulated in ways that reveal their underlying fragility. Building on a long tradition of artists combining words and image to communicate ideas, the intention is to imagine the land being able to speak about human impacts upon it. The artists tell stories on behalf of future climate refugees as part of their ongoing concern with human migration. These artworks encourages us to consider how our daily choices impact on changing the climate of the Planet. |
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Works by Starr & Cmielewski feature in IMPACT by DEGREES° 2009, curated by A. Ivanova, Embassy of Australia in Washington D.C., USA and Art Taipei 2010, as part of the first Australian media art exhibition in Taiwan
Incompatible Elements' was exhibited at MOCA TAIPEI in 2012, as part of Wonderland: New Contemporary Art from Australia, curated by A. Ivanova. Incompatible Elements' was shown in the Maldives Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale opening on October 15th at the Gervasuti Foundation. The Australian Residency program at FutureLab was initiated and produced by A. Ivanova in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts. |
Rethinking Culture: influences of ecological issues on art practice, MOCA, Taipei 2012