PODCASTS

As part of the Art and the Moving Image program for the 2009 festival, BAFF presented a major Symposium called Double Helix. This consisted of seven sessions which included two keynote speeches, two conversations with artists and three panel discussions.  

Double Helix: Art and the Moving Image Symposium Program

Friday 27 February

Welcome: Erica Green, Director, Samstag Museum

Keynote: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is one of the world’s leading artists creating large-scale interactive environments and installations. He discusses his use of the moving image and influence of cinema on his work. Q + A with Julianne Pierce. Listen to podcast.

Saturday 28 February

Keynote: Laurence Kardish - Some Arguments about Moving Images: Movies, MoMA and Museums

Laurence Kardish is Senior Curator, Dept of Film and Media at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Laurence discusses cinema in the context of contemporary art and his experience of developing a film collection at MoMA. Q + A with Kathryn Weir. Listen to podcast.

Isaac Julien in discussion with Conrad Bodman

London based Isaac Julien is recognised as forging a new language around black representation, both as filmmaker and cultural critic. Listen to podcast.

Experimental Edge - Film Meets Art

Where is the experimental edge in contemporary cinema? Is experimentation possible in independent and arthouse cinema or within a visual arts context? How does moving image experimentation influence and feedback into the mainstream? Or does it work the other way? Listen to podcast.

Moderator: Conrad Bodman

Speakers: John Conomos, Ross Gibson and Isaac Julien

Lynette Wallworth in discussion with Ross Gibson

The 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival commissioned Lynette Wallworth to develop a new work, Duality of Light, which was exhibited at the Samstag Museum of Art together with five other major works. Listen to podcast.

White Cube Black Room - Moving image in the gallery

Moving image and time-based works are everywhere - how have they come to be such a dominant medium and what are the issues facing both curators and artists? Listen to podcast.

Moderator: Alexie Glass

Speakers: Michael Connor, Joyce Hinterding,   

Sunday 1 March

The Dome Project

ANAT presented a panel of distinguished guests to discuss the opportunities made possible by the rapid uptake of full dome production and exhibition. Listen to podcast.

Moderator: Jennie Zeiher 

Speakers: David Beining, Monica Zetlin, Scott Hessels, Warik Lawrance, Amanda Phillips, Peter Morse and Chris Fluke. 

The Double Helix Symposium was assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its Arts funding and Advisory body.