<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">jan hendrik brueggemeier</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jan@neture.org">jan@neture.org</a>></span><br>Date: 15 November 2016 at 16:20<br>Subject: Screening: Nature in the Dark (Melbourne)<br>To: <br><br>
Nature in the Dark is back - with a second edition of artist videos. It<br>
will be screened as part of the Sightlines conference at RMIT. Flyer attached.<br>
jan<br>
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Nature in the Dark 2<br>
Video screening & panel discussion<br>
<br>
7 artist videos re-purposing underwater survey material from marine<br>
national parks along the Victorian shore<br>
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Tickets (Eventbrite): <a href="http://bit.ly/2focRKb" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2focRKb</a><br>
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Date and Time<br>
Mon 28 November 2016<br>
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM AEDT<br>
<br>
Location<br>
SAB Cinema, RMIT University<br>
Building 80, Level 1, Room 2<br>
427-433 Swanston St<br>
Melbourne, VIC 3000<br>
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Panel participants:<br>
⁃ Caitlin Griffith, citizen science, Victorian National Parks Association<br>
⁃ Stefan Howe, marine scientist, Parks Victoria<br>
⁃ Georgina Butterfield, philosopher & independent researcher<br>
⁃ Jan Hendrik Brüggemeier, curator, RMIT University<br>
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NITD 2 artists: Jenny Fraser, Radiance (Rose Staff), Olaf Meyer, Kim<br>
Munro, Michael Carmody, Hugh Davies & Jan Hendrik Brüggemeier<br>
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Showcasing animal life from Victoria, Australia, Nature in the Dark<br>
(NITD) invited artists to create video works inspired by ecological<br>
habitat surveys from the Victorian National Parks land and water. Video<br>
and photographs originally used to identify animals and population sizes<br>
are now creatively re-purposed to create works of art. Entering this<br>
art/science conversation from different points of view, artists,<br>
scientists and local communities share the same concern of gaining a<br>
better understanding of native wild life and the environments around us.<br>
<br>
Nature in the Dark as the name for the project collaboration between<br>
Victorian National Parks Association, Parks Victoria and La Trobe<br>
University came about, firstly, because literally speaking we are often<br>
still “in the dark” when it comes to our understanding of ecology.<br>
Secondly, by looking at the survey videos and photographs, one of their<br>
most prominent feature was that these motion-triggered cameras were<br>
mostly activated at night by nocturnal animals. Extending the<br>
established project formula Nature in the Dark 2 invited seven artists<br>
to explore the underwater realm of the Victorian shore line.<br>
<br>
Having an art/science conversation as its point of departure the NITD<br>
videos are a new form of screen production and creative research that<br>
attempts “to make sense” of these kind of human/non-human encounters.<br>
Taking into consideration that we can never entirely escape our own<br>
‘bubbles’ of subjective experience and therefore cannot really ‘think<br>
like a mountain’ (Leopold & Sewell 2001). Just as we can never really<br>
understand what it is to be an albatross, zooplankton, a coral reef, or<br>
an ocean.<br>
<br>
NITD 2 features video footage and photographs from the Merry Marine<br>
Sanctuary, Bunurong Marine National Park, Flinders Pier, Point Addis<br>
Marine National Park, Merri Marine Sanctuary, Marengo Reefs Marine<br>
Sanctuary, Flinders Pier, Eagle Rock Marine Sanctuary, Corner Inlet<br>
Marine National Park, Churchill Island Marine National Park, Beware Reef<br>
Marine Sanctuary, Twelve Apostles Marine National Park, Arches<br>
Formations Port Campbell, Yaringa Marine National Park, in Victoria,<br>
Australia.<br>
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NITD 2 was made possible through the support of Victoria National Parks<br>
Association's (VNPA) Reefwatch and Parks Victoria with special thanks to<br>
Steffan Howe and Mark Rodrigue.<br>
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