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The Mix 2: TechnoArt
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Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
FREE
Science and art collide in the second edition of The Mix.
Rediscover the Gallery after dark, as it comes alive with vibrant special events that combine art with live music, great food and wine, pop-up talks and demonstrations, debates, films and live performances. Enjoy a different kind of night out with The Mix 2016.
Explore the art of virtual and augmented reality hands-on and up-close with amazing demonstrations from the University of Canterbury's Hit Lab. Watch your own drawing come to life on a mobile device, recreate a work of art with a 3D printer, bust a move with a robot, and create your own 360 degree abstract masterpiece in virtual reality.
NZI Foyer 6–9pm
Create your own mini 3D masterpiece with a 3D pen.
NZI Foyer 6–7pm
Listen to Auckland-based artist Henrietta Harris as she discusses how she unwittingly became part on an international online art scene, the effect social media and her 21,000 Instagram followers have had on her work, the perks and pitfalls of sharing art online and celebrity followers.
7.30pm, meet at the front desk
Enjoy great food from a range of local food trucks.
NZI Foyer and Gallery Forecourt 6–9pm
Have a drink with friends at the Yealands cash bar. Beer from Three Boys Brewery and wine from Peter Yealands.
NZI Foyer, 6–9pm
Related reading: special event, The Mix, Digital, NZI, Three Boys Brewery, Yealands Family Wines
Notes
Introducing... Limited edition art-wine and art-beer
Don't you love it when your two favourite things come together?
Notes
Been to some lame ‘youth’ events lately?
Now’s your chance to help create a cool event for you and your friends!
The Mix is Christchurch’s Art Gallery bi-monthly late-night event – an interactive mix of art, music, film and good people. We want to run a Mix designed, curated and for under 18s – ReMix.
Notes
Christchurch Art Gallery Foundation's Fifth Annual Gala Dinner
London's hottest chefs are coming to town – and you're invited to dinner!
Interview
The World is an Abstracting Machine
Australian artists David Haines and Joyce Hinterding live and work in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. Working in a collaborative partnership as Haines & Hinterding, they explore the unseen energies that surround us through an artistic practice that incorporates science, the occult and philosophy. Bulletin editor David Simpson spoke to the artists in October 2016.
Exhibition
Energies: Haines & Hinterding
See, hear, smell and feel the invisible energies that surround us as Australian artists David Haines and Joyce Hinterding summon unseen forces.
Article
Going online
I’ve never actually seen the Mona Lisa, and it’s a fair bet that most people reading this article haven’t either. Yet, according to Wikipedia, the painting is ‘the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world’. So how to account for the fame of an artwork we haven’t seen? And what have reproductions of Da Vinci’s sixteenth-century portrait got to teach us about time-based art and the online environment in 2015?
Exhibition
Reuben Paterson: Te Pūtahitangi ō Rehua
Op-art patterns, expanses of glitter and Māori stories of water. They're all set in motion in this dazzling video installation by New Zealand artist Reuben Paterson.
Article
Good game, but is it art
Like any young medium, video games increasingly find themselves the subject of that age old question: is it art? Play itself has a strong presence in the artworld, from Yoko Ono's all-white chess set Play It By Trust to the amusing interactions possible with Franz West's Adaptives, but video games are often regarded with suspicion. Aren't they all just shooting and looting? And even if they're not, how can you tell if they're art?
