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Cities Tango: Sydney, Melbourne links the Powerhouse Museum with Federation Square. In each city the work will collect images from the screen location and react to them. The analysed information will also influence the work's behaviour in the other city. Changing colour stripes will be interleaved with segments of images of the remote location at different times of the day and mixed with real time snapshots of people at the remote site.

Cities Tango is an extension and combination of Tango Tangle (an interactive urban screen work, previously shown in Federation Square) and the Shaping Form series (generative visual works whose behaviour and forms are influenced by the activities detected by a camera, shown most recently at the Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney). These earlier works are abstract and deal with colour, form and time through sets of changing vertical stripes of colour.

In the case of Cities Tango, some of the stripes are segments of images of the remote location at different times of day. They also include real time images of people at the remote site. Images of and from the remote location are dynamically revealed within the otherwise abstract structure. The colours used, the times of day selected and the pace of the work are influenced in each location by a combination of the detected audience behaviour at both locations. The two cities, Melbourne and Sydney, interact with one another across Australia. Although the timing and the
colours of the stripes are driven by movements at the remote location, the real time images from the remote location are influenced by the local audience. A live connection is sensed through the real time images of audience as they interact with the work.




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The April 2009 exhibition features the sound archive of David Ahern. As an experimental sound artist Ahern's seminal Australian work is now highly regarded. The program considering Aherns radio work 'Journal' from 1969 has been curated by Ruark Lewis. And this project forms part of a renewed focus placed on Aherns significance will also forge links between other significant works presented by Fiona McDonald and Ian Milliss.

Ruark Lewis will also show 48 drawings he first exhibited in 1989 and, a documentary for viewing. That work looks at Ruark's own investigation of 'Alpha Solstice', a computer music piece by Sydney composer Robert Douglas. There is an upcoming ABC documentary to look forward to.

During the show in April, and to be held on Thursday April 16th at 6pm, there will be a special public floor talk given by Geoffrey Barnard & Andrew McLennan.

Please rsvp if you wish to attend that talk to: info@sno.org.au

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