Click here to download Cultural Futures Broadsheet, with the programme plus writing by Danny Butt, Su Ballard and Raqs Media Collective (608kb PDF).
Click here to download Place, Ground, Practice exhibition catalogue, with tests by Amanda Macdonald Crowley and Nova Paul, 1-22 Dec (225kb PDF).
The Cultural Futures programme runs from Thursday December 1 (evening) through until Monday December 5 (afternoon) 2005, with the core symposium running Friday through Sunday at Hoani Waititi marae. Other affiliated events will also be taking place in Auckland.
THURSDAY |
5:30pm: exhibition opening at St Paul Street Gallery |
FRIDAY |
11am-1pm: Expert Panel on Curating New Media, with Steve Dietz (ISEA2006, US), Amanda McDonald Crowley (Eyebeam, US), Melinda Rackham (ANAT, Australia). At St Paul Street Gallery, presented in association with the Moving Image Centre. |
SATURDAY |
8am: Breakfast |
SUNDAY |
8am: Breakfast |
MONDAY |
1pm-5pm: Workshops on future projects - AUT School of Art and Design
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The Cultural Futures programme begins on Thursday with an opening at St Paul Street Gallery of new media work from the Asia-Pacific region. The following morning, a forum at the gallery will bring international experts in new media arts together for a forum on new media curatorial practices (available to non-conference attendees).
The symposium will begin on Friday afternoon with a powhiri (welcome) at Hoani Waititi, dinner and presentations on both the history of the Marae and from local practitioners. Saturday will consist of invited presentations from international and local participants, finishing with performances in the evening. Sunday's sessions will consist of themed open discussion around issues raised by the invited guests, where local practitioners and audiences will interact with the invited guests in a participatory setting extending well beyond the usual conference interaction. There will be many opportunities for informal dialogue as it is expected that participants will sleep at the marae on Friday and Saturday nights.
On Sunday evening, after a poroporoaki (farewell) we return to the city for a closing party with music by local DJs and hip-hop artists.
On Monday afternoon workshops will take place at AUT that will develop practical, ongoing regional initiatives out of the conference.
The symposium will be held at Hoani Waititi, an inter-tribal urban marae with a strong educational and artistic kaupapa, which will firmly ground the dialogue in a local context, responsive to the issues of indigenous self-determination and cultural development. As the site of the first Kura Kaupapa Maori (Maori primary school) launched in 1985, the venue has played a significant role in New Zealand's cultural development, and continues to take a leading role in contemporary political and cultural affairs.
Hoani Waititi Map
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