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COFA Annual 2011 Videos: Art, Digital Media and Design

Posted by Andrew Langcake - February 1st, 2012
You know me better than I do - Sherly Wiryasaputra, 2011

Join COFA's graduating students at the 2011 COFA Annual as they discuss their works and their time at COFA.

Every year The ANNUAL launches the next generation of fine artists, media artists and designers. This massive exhibition features a stunning array of animation, ceramics, drawing, digital imaging, environments, graphics, installation, interactive media, jewellery, motion graphics, objects, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, sound, textiles and video works by COFA's more than 350 graduating students.

There are three videos to watch, so make sure you check them all out!

Design

Digital Media

Fine Arts

These videos were filmed on Friday November 25th at the COFA Annual 2011.

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Alan Krell: The Dreadful Prankster

Posted by Andrew Langcake - November 8th, 2011
Alan Krell talks about his new book, "Burning Issues".

Alan Krell discusses his new book, "Burning Issues: Fire and Art in the Social Imagination". Alan has explored fire in art from the Greek myth of Prometheus to use of fire, both creatively and literally, in modern art, and looked at these works of art in the context of society and its relationship to fire, the "dreadful prankster".

Alan Krell is Associate Professor at the School of Art History and Art Education, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is also the author of Manet and the Painters of Contemporary Life (1996) and The Devil's Rope: A Cultural History of Barbed Wire (Reaktion Books, 2002).

 

This talk was filmed on Tuesday October 25th, 2011 as part of the COFA Talks series.

  

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Ross Harley: A Gesture Against the Erasure of History

Posted by Andrew Langcake - November 1st, 2011
Ross Harley talks about his efforts to preserve the history of Australian media.

Ross Harley talks about the websites he is currently developing and administrating, including "Design and Art Online Australia" and the upcoming "Scanlines", both of which have been established to preserve an aspect of Australian media, be it cultural, physical or historical.

Ross is the Head at the School of Media Arts. Ross is an artist, writer, and educator in the field of new media and popular culture. His work crosses the bounds of media art practice, cinema, music, design, and architecture. His video and sound work has been presented at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, New York MoMA, Ars Electronica in Austria, and at the Sydney Opera House.

 

This talk was filmed on Thursday October 13th, 2011 as part of the COFA Talks series.

  

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