photo courtesy: Jenny Frasier-Curator

VT2 is the title of a new exhibition that presents vibrant, innovative screen-based and photo-media works from international and Indigenous Australian new-media artists, building on 2007’s Vernacular Terrain exhibition.

photo courtesy: Jenny Frasier-Curator

For the first time a group of Aboriginal New Media Artists are included in the annual tour of International Digital Arts courtesy of Artist / Curator Jenny Fraser (QLD), also including work from: r e a (NSW), Jason Davidson (NT) and Andrew Hill (QLD) and a collaboration by Christine Peacock, John Graham & Rebekah Pitt (QLD) with Djon Mundine (NSW) offering the Curatorial Essay for the tour.Founded by Stephen Danzig in 1999, IDAprojects was the first nexus of its kind providing a platform for academia, research technologies and professional art practices in building a new discourse. For the past eight years the IDA program has grown to feature a national and international touring exhibition with an aim to present leading artists from around the world who engage in new media arts and research technologies.Launched in Brisbane on May 1, this year’s project reflects a global commitment to exploring cultural identity through leading professional arts practice in digital media from Curators Stephen Danzig, Lubi Thomas, Xu Da Wei, Matthew Perkins and Pauline Doutreluingne.QUT, in partnership with IDAprojects and the Beijing Film Academy has developed this international touring exhibition which will also be presented throughout Asia - including the Beijing Olympics Cultural Festival – and will later include a tour of regional Australia.

VT2