Issue 6 of Incubate magazine features two of my interviews -- the first with Volker Kuchelmeister, head of the Media Laboratory at the iCinema Centre for Interactive Media Research in Sydney, and the second with the wonderfully kooky Australian artist/sculptor/performance artist Bonita Ely. Kuchelmeister & Ely are both lecturers at COFA.
I particularly enjoyed meeting Bonita Ely, a passionate environmentalist with a wry sense of humour.
When Ely received a half-woman, half-chicken toy as a gift from friends, she was so delighted by the toy's garish appearance she named it 'Chook Woman'. Chook Woman features prominently in a series of photographs exhibited by Ely in August 2010 at Campbelltown Arts Centre.
"She's got tits that stick out and a little bow in her hair and very long legs. She doesn't see the pollution, and she thinks the mining is wonderful," says Ely, eyes twinkling with bemusement.
Ely believes art is about making things, not starving in garrets and waiting to be accepted into an elitist art establishment -- a sentiment that I love.
I also spoke with Volker Kuchelmeister about the art of 3D storytelling, which students at COFA can now learn thanks to a new course at the COFA School of Media Arts.
Kuchelmeister explained how stereographic technology has advanced since the 1950s..."Until recently, 3D was really just a tool to sell more expensive movie tickets. But today it is used more cleverly as a creative storytelling tool as it offers an added dimension," he says.
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