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2000 26 May30 Jun  
Biennale of Sydney 2000, Group Exhibition

Works for the 12th Biennale of Sydney were selected by a panel of international curators and directors and included Fumio Nanjo, Louise Neri, Hetti Perkins, Sir Nicholas Serota, Robert Storr, Harald Szeemann and Nick Waterlow [chair]. Major video installation pieces by artists such as Mariko Mori were included.

1979 12 Apr27 May  
Biennale of Sydney: European Dialogue, Group Exhibition

Curated by Nick Waterlow, European Dialogue featured 131 artists from 19 countries. The exhibition's curatorial permise was based on questioning the "predominance of New York as the centre of the international contemporary art world. The exhibition explored the direct links between Europe and Australia and the influence of European art...

1998 18 Sep 8 Nov  
Biennale of Sydney: Every Day, Group Exhibition

Curated by artistic director Jonathan Watkins.

1988 18 May18 Sep  
Biennale of Sydney: From The Southern Cross, Group Exhibition

Under the curatorship of artistic director Nick Waterlow, the Biennale of Sydney From the Southern Cross coincided with the Australian Bicentennial. Alonsgide a number of key works by early Modernists the exhibition also featured contemporary Japanse and Indigenous Australian art. The BOS was also exhibited in Melbourne.

1996 27 Jul22 Sep  
Biennale of Sydney: Jurassic Technologies Revenant, Group Exhibition

The 10th Biennale of Sydney was curated by artistic director Dr. Lynne Cooke and "presented a re-appraisal of older reproductive technologies including photography, film and print media. The politics of identity, memory versus history, the fantastic and Gothic were key themes." [BOS Website].

2004 30 Jun27 Aug  
Biennale of Sydney: On Reason and Emotion, Group Exhibition

Curated by Isabel Carlos. Various venues including the Art Gallery of NSW and the Museum of Contemporary Art. 

1986 16 May 6 Jul  
Biennale of Sydney: Origins, Originality + Beyond, Group Exhibition

Nick Waterlow was artistic director of the 1986 BOS. "The exhibition questioned the concept of what constituted originality in the work of artists as diverse as Malcolm McLaren, Eric Fischl and Carlo Maria Mariani. It explored the origins, death and resurrection of form and imagery, as well as the transition...

1984 11 Apr17 Jun  
Biennale of Sydney: Private Symbol, Public Metaphor, Group Exhibition

Under the cutarorial overview of artistic director Leon Paroissien the 5th Biennale of Sydney "focussed on the expression of private views and obsessions as well as broader political statements in the work of a diverse group of artists, including Hans Haake, Barbara Kruger, Tony Cragg and Gilbert and George." [BOS...

2008 18 Jun 7 Sep  
Biennale of Sydney: Revolutions: Forms that Turn, Group Exhibition

Curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev the Biennnale of Sydney was exhibited at Cockatoo Island, the Art Gallery of NSW, Pier 2/3 Walsh Bay, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Opera House and the Royal Botanic Gardens.

1990 11 Apr 3 Jun  
Biennale of Sydney: The Readymade Boomerang, Group Exhibition

Artistic director Rene Block's The Readymade Boomerang was the 8th Biennale of Sydney and "examined the distinctive historical connections of the "readymade" from the early 1900s to the 1980s, based on the work of Duchamp, Man Ray and Picabia. A comprehensive satellite program of music, performance, lectures, symposia and workshops at...

1982 7 Apr23 May  
Biennale of Sydney: Visions in Disbelief, Group Exhibition

Curated by William Wright Visions in Disbelief celebrated "the return to painting and more traditional forms of art, the exhibition also included separate performance, sound and video sections. The event was broad-based and included an extensive public program of lectures and conferences, as well as a dynamic satellite program of independent...

2006 8 Jun27 Aug  
Biennale of Sydney: Zones of Contact, Group Exhibition

Curated by artistic director Charles Merewether the Biennale of Sydney was exhibited in 16 venues including including Pier 2/3, at Walsh Bay, the Art Gallery of NSW, and the Museum of Contemporary Art. 

2002 15 May14 Jul  
Biennale of Sydney: [The World May Be] Fantastic, Group Exhibition

"The exhibition focused on artists who use fictions, fakes, invented methodologies and experiments as a basis for their work. The projects celebrated the potential of the creative act to generate alternative worlds, suggesting that our everyday belief systems may be constructed, hallucinatory and changeable." [BOS Website]. Curated by Richard Grayson...

2012  
Bild-Lilli, Performance

Experimental electro-cabaret Bild-Lilli is the prequel to Knox's 2007 electro-cabaret Lapdog. It premiered in Melbourne, Australia in Malthouse Theatre’s Helium season in 2012 and was nominated for a Green Room Award for Innovation in Cabaret.

2006  
Blu Ray disc format launched, Technical Innovation

Blu Ray players were backwards compatible with the DVD and CD formats.

19841986  
Brave New Works, Performance

ZIP Performing Group Mark Ross, Tim Gruchy, David Clarke and Anthony Patterson Exploring multimedia and performance in the analogue world 1984-86 Developed in Brisbane performed throughout Australia

2000 912 Mar  
Closing the Loop, Performance

Closing The Loop (CTL) was an international research and performance project examining how sound, technology and gameplay can conspire to promote collaboration and inventiveness across networks. The CTL 2000 project aimed at investigating the effectiveness of techniques for net based collaboration. CTL 2000 was divided into two distinct phases. The first...

1986  
CLOUT - Fine Fragments, Performance

CLOUT - Fine Fragments A 60 minute multimedia performance devised by Tim Gruchy Music : Tim Gruchy, Mark Louttit, Eugene Carchesio Performers : Tim Gruchy, Virginia Barratt, Eugene Carchesio Performed in Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide. Cassette and VHS releases

2008 30 Oct19 Dec  
Coded Cloth Exhibition, Exhibition

A 21st century revolution in fashion, art and design, the exhibition showcased the unique emerging genre of interactive, new-media textiles. Coded Cloth featured a new art form beyond the imagination, embedding technology into wearable fashion to create a new hybrid art and design. 

2004 22 Apr22 May  
Concrete 000, Group Exhibiton

Sean Gladwell and TV Moore employ video to express a variety of ideas and atmospheres which engage, manipulate and extend genres of the moving image within popular, global culture. Their common focus is a critical relationship to the history and current conditions of video within contemporary...

2006 24 Feb15 May  
Contemporary Commonwealth, Group Exhibiton

Contemporary Commonwealth Groundbreaking work by artists from countries across the Commonwealth Screen Gallery, Australian Centre for the Moving Image 2006 Contemporary Commonwealth is the second major collaborative survey of contemporary art presented by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) at Federation Square. Presented byFestival Melbourne2006and...

2002  
ConVerge, Exhibition

ConVerge was a project developed by The Art Gallery of South Australia and the Adelaide Festival 2002 that explored the nexus between art, science and technology and its creative expression. The project comprised of: 2002 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art - conVerge: where art and science meet, an exhibition which profiles a selection of work...