Ars Memoria: art, identity and locational memory
Curated by Dr Shaun Wilson, rhizome.org, 05.01.2006

This exhibition presents artwork that incorporates issues of identity by using the image as a mode of articulating, and from this coming to terms with, memory and location. Here, place is understood in literal terms: landscape/nature/urban/rural and also in broader terms: interior/house/virtual/body. What is it about these kinds of places that makes us want to remember things and, moreover, how can such places give rise to other memories that we bring to the image, and also self?

Featuring work by: Valentina Nisi, Kentaro Yamada, Judith Fegerl, Gregory Chatonsky, Alberto Frigo, jillian mcdonald, curt cloninger, paul catanese and Alicia Felberbaum

About the curator
Shaun Wilson was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1972. He has undergraduate degrees in Fine Arts (Monash University, RMIT University) and a PhD in Philosophy/Video Art (University of Tasmania).
As a practising artist, Wilson has participated in solo and group exhibitions inter/nationally at artist run, commercial, university, and public galleries including the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (2005-6), the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2005), Thailand New Media Arts Festival MAF05 (2005), the Kundstmuseum, Norway (2005) and Small Black Box at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2004).
Wilson is interested in themes of memory, place and scale through filmic and video art and has published on similar themes. He is the co-editor (with Erik Champion) of 'Memory and Place in New Media' , a collection of established and emerging scholars including Lev Manovich, Jeff Malpas and Rebecca Young, currently in development.
Wilson is a Lecturer in Video and Media theory at the School of Creative Media, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
2006 projects include: 'Filmic Memorials' - 100 feature length experimental films comprised of vintage Standard 8 home movies exploring issues of lost time/locational memory and also 'The Memory Room', a large scale video installation examining medieval 'ars memoria' traditions through similar aforemented themes.

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