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Parallel collisions: 2012 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art curators Alexie Glass-Kantor and Natasha Bullock
Get PDFRobert Smithson: Time Crystals
Get PDFCurated by Amelia Barikin and Chris McAuliffe, Robert Smithson: Time Crystals was the first exhibition in Australia dedicated to the work of American artist Robert Smithson (1938–1973). Best known for his radical land art of the 1960s and early 1970s, Smithson is now widely recognised as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Based on intensive archival research, the project generated a new understanding of Smithson’s approach to time that challenged the dominance of entropy in existing scholarship on his practice. Presented at UQAM and MUMA with the support of the Terra Foundation for the Arts and the Holt/Smithson Foundation
Quantum entanglements and the construction of time: do we need a science-fictional history of art?
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Making worlds in art and science fiction
Get PDFWhy do some artists make worlds while others make works? This article considers the renewed attention to world-making as a key trope in contemporary artistic practice in relation to the world-making tactics of science fiction. Nelson Goodman's 1978 book Ways of Worldmaking provides the entry point for this enquiry
