MIC Toi Rerehiko presents atmos: weather as media, an exhibition of air, sun, clouds and storms.

Curated by Janine Randerson, the exhibition presents a selection of international and New Zealand artists whose practices span science, technology and ecology. The works range from digital media to photography, drawing and sound art.

In association with the exhibition is a conference Performing Environments, held by CoLab, a new AUT University and MIC transdisciplinary research and development centre.MIC Toi Rerehiko presents atmos: weather as media, an exhibition of air, sun, clouds and storms.

Curated by Janine Randerson, the exhibition presents a selection of international and New Zealand artists whose practices span science, technology and ecology. The works range from digital media to photography, drawing and sound art.

In association with the exhibition is a conference Performing Environments, held by CoLab, a new AUT University and MIC transdisciplinary research and development centre.The exhibition features leading contemporary digital art practitioners from Australasia, Europe and the USA.

Andrea Polli (USA) engages with scientific processes of atmospheric observation, used during her recent residency in Antarctica, for her '90 degrees South' project.

Media artists Corby and Baily (UK) draw parallels between the isobar lines of cyclones and the algorithms generated by the political atmosphere generated in live online chat.

The weather reports collected from Le Monde by Jerôme Knebusch (Fr-Ger) address weather as an everyday part of life, while the storm-chasers who pursue extreme weather and upload to YouTube represent weather as an event.

Janine Randerson (NZ) combines public documentation of weather enthusiasts with satellite visualisations of storms collected by meteorologists. Lisa Benson (NZ) captures shifting ambient light directly on photographic paper in order to materialise both time and light, while Cameron Robbins (Aus) uses the phase space of the wind to generate pen drawings. Hoon Li (NZ-Kr) subtly alters cloud forms in digital photography, and Douglas Bagnall (NZ) creates robot software for choosing favourite clouds.

atmos: weather as media demonstrates the strength and diversity of contemporary digital art practice in the intersecting fields of art and science. All of the artists in this exhibition incorporate aspects of the weather directly into their practices in order to draw attention to the ways in which technologically mediated environments produce platforms for critical, aesthetic and affective experience on a human scale.

In association with atmos: weather as media is a conference Performing Environments. The conference coincides with the launch of CoLab, a new transdisciplinary research and development centre led by collaborative partners AUT University and MIC Toi Rerehiko.

CoLab aims to become a national centre of excellence in the development and use of new technologies for creativity, communication and innovation. This conference will engage with critical aspects of art and technology projects and will feature artists, researchers and curators involved in both CoLab and the atmos: weather as media exhibition.

Saturday 18 October
10.00 am - 6.00 pm
Venue AUT City Campus

MIC Toi Rerehiko presents
atmos: weather as media 18 October - 15 November
OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY 17th Oct, 7pm @ MIC Toi Rerehiko,
Level 1, 321 K-Rd, Newton, Auckland.

14/10/08