China Heart is a collaborative partnership with dLux Media Arts http://www.dlux.org.au/, the Powerhouse Museum, Gallery 4A, The Project Factory written by Annette Shun Wah, produced by Josie Emery & app developed by Jennifer Wilson, sound design Kingston Sound - exploring the effectiveness of engaging new audiences with existing archives using fictional entry point- in the creation of a innovative iPhone application, interactive website & mobile web interface to explore a social & cultural history of Chinatown, Sydney. Download app from iTunes
Geoffrey Weary: Photographer Tatiana Pentes: Digital Design & Art Direction
Scenes From A Shanghai Hotel (2007)
SCENES FROM A SHANGHAI HOTEL (2007)
Produced in association with the Australian Film Commission and Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney Honourable Mention: Best Experimental Film & Cinematography International Festival of Cinema & Technology, LA, USA (2008) http://www.ifct.org/ifctschedule.html
Writer/Director/Producer: Geoffrey Weary Performance & Digital FX & Editing: Tatiana Pentes
Most Innovative/Creative Multimedia
Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) Awards 2000 http://www.atomawards.org/
BLACK BOX V:2 Finalist Best Student Developed Category
12th Annual Australian Industry Association Industry
Awards (AIMIA) http://www.aimia.com.au/i-cms?page=1730
blackBOX DIME 1st International Conference on Digital Interactive Media 2006 Bangkok, THAILAND http://www.dime2006.org
blackBOX
Digital Art Gallery 3rd International Conference Computer Graphics, Imaging & Visualisation London, UK, 2006 http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/
blackBOX exhibition + MOONFACE VUSPACE Computer Mediated Art Gallery VICTORIA UNIVERSITY 14 September - 4 October 2005 http://vuspace.vu.edu.au/index.html
Electronic Writing (Image/ Text/ Sound)
TATIANA PENTES
This creative internet site charts the conceptual & design development of blackBOX interactive doctoral project (DCA). Fragments of digital moving image (Flash), photo & textual elements from the CD-ROM & thesis form an online picture of the disc based work.
Academic Supervisor:Dr Devleena Ghosh, Writing, Journalism & Social Inquiry & Co-Supervisor: Megan Heyward, Media Arts & Production, Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, 2006.
NAPOLIDANZA Il Coreographo Elletronico XII International VideoDance Festival, May, 10th - 11th - 12th, 2004, Teatro Bellini, Via Conte di Ruvo 14 - Napoli, ITALY http://www.napolidanza.com/
BLACK BOX: a digital media installation Tatiana Pentes September 28 - October 2 2004 Interactive, Digital Media Installation KUDOS Gallery : College of Fine Arts UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES http://www.cofasa.unsw.edu.au/2004/kudos/blackbox/index.php
ARTWORKS: blackBOX
EXTENSIONS: Volume 1 2004 The Online Journal for Embodied Technology, UCLA Dance & New Media Project, UCLA Dept. World Arts & Cultures, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES (Editor) Norah Zuniga Shaw, (Curator) Carol McDowell, Los Angeles, CA, USA. http://www.wac.ucla.edu/extensionsjournal/archive.htm
Tatiana Pentes, 'blackBOX: painting a digital picture of documented memory', BACKBURNING: Journal of Australian Studies, (Editors), Helen Addison Smith, An Nguyen & Denise Tallis St Lucia, API Network and UQP, 2005, www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/jas/jas.cgi
Tatiana Pentes, "blackBOX: painitng a digital picture of documented memory", (ed) Yusuf Pisan, IE2004: Australian Workshop on Interactive Entertainment, Creativity & Cognition Studios Press, University of Technology, Sydney, 2004.ISBN: 0-9751533-0-8 http://research.it.uts.edu.au/creative/ie/04/program.html
Tatiana Pentes, ‘blackBOX: painting a digital picture of documented memory', (Eds) Ross Gibson & Ernest Edmonds, Interaction: systems, practice and theory: Creativity and cognition symposium, conference proceedings, 2004, University of Technology, Sydney, November 16-19, 2004. http://research.it.uts.edu.au/creative/interaction/aw.php?papers=1
Andrew Jakubowicz (Writer/Producer), Tatiana Pentes (Multimedia Design), 'The Menorah of Fang Bang Lu: an online documentary', Evidence (1), VECTORS: Journal of Culture & Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, University of Southern California, Volume 1, USA, 2005. http://vectors.iml.annenberg.edu/index.php?page=12&viewIssue=1
cinematography PHOTOGRAPHY sound
GEOFFREY WEARY
The dynamic interaction of film, photography & digital media form the basis of Geoffrey Weary's art practice. His recent work has involved an exploration of the space of the museum as an image repository of psychological,emotional and physical presence. In his new work has taken the idea of the image repository and extended the conceptual meaning of the term by incorporating archival, found and simulated imagery into his work. He coordinates the Master of Film & Digital Image, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
Nina is the daughter of White Russian parents from Shanghai, China. Her family migrated to Sydney, Australia in the 1950s. Nina is an academic at Monash University (Victoria) in the area of English (Professional Writing). She has recently (re)traced her families journey from mother Russia to China - Moscow to Shanghai on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Autumn Song (Kythera)
the Greek man/ musician
JOHN CONOMOS
John is a media artist, critic, & theorist who exhibits inter/nationally. His art practice cuts across a variety of art forms - video, new media, installation, performance and radiophonic art & deals with autobiography, identity, memory, post-colonialism, and the "in- between" links between cinema, literature, & the visual arts.
2000 Conomos was awarded a New Media Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts. He also co-edited (with Brad Buckley) the recent anthology Republics of Ideas (Pluto Press) in 2001. He is the coordinator of the Electronic and Temporal Arts Studio, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, 2005.
the creole [African/ French/ Indian] girl
ROCHELE BERWICK
Rochele was born in Australia and is of Indian & Mauritian (French/African) heritage. Rochele has studied drama and is now enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts at Macquarie University. She and her adoptive parents visit their family in the Indian sub-continent frequently.
the cabaret dancer Shanghai 1930s
ROSE TANG
Rose was born to Chinese parents during the cultural revolution in China. Educated at the University of Technology, Sydney in Journalism in the early 1990s, she worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation regional and metropolitan radio. Rose returned to Hong Kong to take up a position as senior journalist at CNN in Hong Kong. [but moonlights as a virtual cabaret dancer]. She visited Athens, Greece to work on an exciting feature. She has given birth to her baby daughter Lucia in New York 2006.
the Chinese girl
LEAKHENA SY
Leakhena [Lou-Lou] was born on the border of Thailand & Cambodia in the early 1980's. She flew to Australia - "the land of Golden Lights" as a small child with her [Khymer] mother, but her [French] father remains a mystery.... She is currently in search of her true identity & exploring this through the production of creative work in her Visual Arts degree, photo-media, performance & electronic arts, at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia, 2006.
the Odissi (Classical Indian ) Dancer
CHITRITTA MUKERJEE
Chitritta & husband Guru Nirmal Jena are the artistic directors of the Odissi Dance Company in Sydney. The company has performed inter/nationally, launched officially at the Performance Space, Redfern, Sydney, 1993 with an introduction by the Minister for the Arts. Recent performance highlights include the Asian Music and Dance Festival, Sydney Opera House and CARNIVALE: Multicultural Arts Festival, Bangarra Dance Studios, 2002. Nirmal Jena is working on a multimedia/multi screen dance theatre work involving film, live performance and classical Indian dance, and is directing a series of performances at the Art Gallery of New South Wales for the GODDESS: Divine Enery exhibition 2006. www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/sub/goddess
"I was in search of a land where I could express in a total and unrestricted way those inner questions of the soul that could not find satisfaction in any of the solutions offered by the present patterns of living of this western civilization. After completing my doctorate in philosophy and having worked for some years in both traditional and experimental theatre in my own country, Italy, I followed the callings of ancestral and inexplicable paths and reached this land of Orissa. Here, completely dedicated to the sacred art of indian dance at the feet of my guru Kelucharan Mohapatra, I am able to give shape to the inner striving of the soul and overcome the anxiety of human existance."
the Kuchipudi dancer
PADMA RAMAN
Padma Priya Raman was born in Bangalore, India & migrated to Brisbane Australia in the early 1980s with her family. She has trained as a Kuchipudi dancer with Guru Padma Menon of the Kailash Dance Academy, Canberra, performing inter/nationally. Padma is a lawyer & is currently Executive Director of the Human Rights Commission http://www.hreoc.gov.au/.
the Russian jazz orchestra leader
SERGEI ERMOLAEFF
Sergei was born to White Russian parents in Harbin, Manchuria. His mother ran a dairy & vodka factory in Tsiensin. At the age of 14 years Sergei traveled to the United States working as a deck hand. Returning to China he worked as a drummer/musician, building a reputation as one of Shanghai's leading orchestra leaders during the 1930's & 1940's. During the communist revolution in China, Sergei & his wife Xenia (singer/dancer) & son Serge Jr won passage on the Chan Sha ship migrating to Australia, 1951.
the Wild jazz musician
SERGE ERMOLL JR.
For nearly 40 years, pianist Serge Ermoll has been the wild man of Australian jazz. His group, Free Kata, formed in the 1970s, "ripped open the heart of music aesthetics in Australia"(John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald, August 2003). Ermoll has played with some of the greats of the international jazz scene, such as the trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie, but his desire to be free and a chaotic life - has kept him out on the wild frontier of Australian music making. With a black belt in karate, and a day job as a private eye, Ermoll has always been a character, but years of wild living and a lifetime without any regular income have taken their toll, both on Serge Ermoll and those closest to him. His daughter, the artist Tatiana Pentes collaborated with producers Eurydice Aroney & Kirsty Lee on a radio feature A Heart Ripped Open, broadcast June 2004 on Radio Eye, Radio National, ABC Radio. The program was selected the PRIX ITALIA inter/national awards 2004 http://www.prixitalia.rai.it/pastedition/pdf_trale/Radio.pdf
