Inside The Gallery

ACMI TO RE-OPEN FEBRUARY 11

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image is set to re-open after a $40 million refurbishment. Director/CEO of the museum Katrina Sedgewick OAM talks about the new permanent exhibition and the swing towards tandem online engagement. 

The museum is driven via a multiplatform model powered by a new experience operating system (XOS). It sees physical and digital content connected in ways not before seen in Australia –  setting the museum apart and establishing ACMI as one of the most innovative and digitally transformed museums in the world.

A transcript of this interview is available for download HERE. The transcriptions are made possible by the support from Pixel Perfect Prolab - The photolab for professionals. 

APHRA SHEMZA SEEKS ONLINE COLLABORATORS

SHEMZA.DIGITAL is a new interactive artwork project by Aphra Shemza and Stuart Batchelor, who invite members of the public from around the world to collaborate with the work online. 

Inspired by One to Nine and One to Seven, a painting by Aphra's late grandfather (world-renowned British Pakistani artist Anwar Jalal Shemza), the hope is to create art that is free and accessible to all, both in its making and its perception.  Designs are uploaded and stored in an online archive to be cumulatively transformed into a generative light art installation.

A transcript of this interview is available for download HERE. The transcriptions are made possible by the support from Pixel Perfect Prolab - The photolab for professionals. 

OZFLIX ARTS STREAMING SERVICE LAUNCHING SOON.

This episode featuring OZFLIX founder and CEO Ron Brown previews the upcoming streaming service OZFLIX ARTS. Like its counterpart, OZFLIX ARTS will feature the best of independent Australian arts programming, covering galleries, theatres, documentaries and music. 

Ron himself is a filmmaker and producer, having created award-winning screen content for many of Australia's greatest musicians and performers, along with more than 1600 pieces of visual material, across all genres including drama, documentary, promotional, educational, music and many others. He is also the co-founder and CEO of the Australian Film Future Foundation.

A transcript of this interview is available for download HERE. The transcriptions are made possible by the support from Pixel Perfect Prolab - The photolab for professionals. 

EXHIBITION: "PUB ROCK" - National Portrait Gallery

Celebrating the people, places and sounds of Australian pub rock and its enduring impact on our nation’s identity, the story of staging this exhibition is a tale itself.

Amongst the portraits, publicity shots and grungy energy of live performance, Joanna Gilmour's achievement of curating the exhibition from 860kms away, isolated behind a closed COVID border, is staggering.

This vibrant (sometimes sweaty) exhibition of homegrown rock ‘n’ roll, punk and pop features works from the gallery's collection alongside images by leading Australian music photographers.

A transcript of this interview is available for download HERE. The transcriptions are made possible by the support from Pixel Perfect Prolab - The photolab for professionals. 

FILM: A Night at The Louvre - Leonardo da Vinci

This edition features an exclusive interview with Louvre curator Vincent Delieuvin, talking about the experiential movie A Night at the Louvre: Leonardo da Vinci.  Filmed at night especially for the big screen, this private guided tour of the LEONARDO DA VINCI exhibition, designed and curated by the Louvre Museum, is a unique opportunity to contemplate the painter's most beautiful works up close.

Also featured in this special podcast edition, Natalie Miller AO, proprietor of Sharmill Films, who has brought this incredible film experience to Australia.

This film is a major major retrospective devoted to da Vinci's entire career as a painter. It shows how Leonardo placed painting above all other disciplines, and how his investigation of the world – the “science of painting” as he called it – was the instrument of an art whose supreme ambition was to give life to his works. The insights provided by the exhibition curators during this private filmed visit provide a new understanding of Leonardo’s artistic practice and painting technique.

Transcripts of interviews are available for download HERE. The transcriptions are made possible by the support from Pixel Perfect Prolab - The photolab for professionals.