During 1990 ANAT coordinated an Australian tour by two of the key figures in the international art and technology community, Roger Malina (Editor, Leonardo magazine) and Carl Loeffler (Executive Director, Art Com), both from San Francisco.
Stelarc, Third Arm
Carl and Roger visited Adelaide, Alice Springs, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Ballarat and Sydney. They presented talks in each of these cities, gave radio interviews and visited organisations with links to the art and technology community.
Adelaide Festival
Both Carl and Roger participated in events held as part of Artists Week. Carl participated in a panel titled “Mass Media and the Culture Project”. Both participated in the seminars which ANAT organised titled “Art in the Age of Post-Mechanical Reproduction”. Other panelists were Sally Prior, Paul Brown and Russell Kirsch, another international visitor supported by ANAT.
These panels were held in conjunction with the Stelarc performances, a collaborative ANAT/Experimental Art Foundation project. These performances were held at the EAF, and were titled “Laser Eyes, Automatic Arm and Third Hand”. The event incorporated a structured sound and lighting environment which was activated by the artist’s body, via the use of electronic monitoring equipment. The environment/installation thus became an extension of the artist’s body.
The seminars and performances attracted maximum crowds, and were complemented by the aforementioned seminars, which provided a broad context for the works.
