Screen

About the exhibition
Screen brought together slide, video, film and multimedia works produced over the past fifteen years by a selection of Australian and international artists. The exhibition charted the evolution of screen-based practices in the visual arts, reflecting on how electronic technologies have transformed modes of artistic expression and audience engagement.

Premised on the idea that the screen is no longer a passive surface for image reproduction, the exhibition explored its emergence as an active interface—particularly in response to the rise of the internet.

The works ranged from John Dunkley-Smith’s early multi-projector slide installation Exterior… New York, 1982, to Troy Innocent’s Memetic Mutation, 1997, an immersive digital environment populated by five species of artificial life. Visitors could influence the evolution of these organisms via a live web interface.

Also featured was Maniacs of Disappearance: Today’s Japan as Disseminator of Video Messages—a selection of video works by ten Japanese artists examining the transmission of urban culture through images on screen, curated by Kazunao Abe, Yukiko Shikata and Christophe Charles.

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^{Image: Sue Ford and Ben Ford, Faces 1976–96, installation, black-and-white silent film, 16 mm, shot of black-and-white reversal film; 15 minutes. Installation view, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, May 1997. Courtesy of the artists. Sponsored by Sony}