screening sessions:

1. 1.

   Fri 19 Feb, 4pm ‘Surroundings’ (total duration 1 hour, 6mins)

2. 2.

   Fri 26 Feb, 4pm ‘Enactment’ (total duration 1 hour, 7mins)

3. 3.

   Fri 5 March, 4pm ‘Anti Terrain’ (total duration 1 hour, 6mins)

4. 4.

   Fri 12 March, 4pm Encounter’ (total duration 1 hour, 7mins)

5. 5.

   Fri 19 March, 4pm ‘Engagement’ (total duration 59mins)

Programme notes

Mission

The eMerge Media Space’s mission is to:

• Be the driving force of new media arts in the region while providing the physical manifestation of the cultural and theoretical fault lines of SoCA’s principle direction;

• Provide reflexive pathways for students and external practitioners;

• Provide a spotlight on student and staff work which seeks to deliver innovative research and practice based outcomes;

• Deliver recognised new media events and educational experiences to new audiences;

• Providing a test bed for the exposition of hybrid practices, trans media collaboration, and convergent media;

• Immediate and networked events in partnership with other institutions and media arts operatives on a local and international level.

Photo courtesy of Richard Pearse, Blunomad Images (copyright)

The eMerge Media Space is managed by a committee from the School of Creative Arts at James Cook University and is an integral part of the SoCA complex reflecting the school’s pursuit of artistic innovation and academic rigour while contributing significantly to the function and ambience of the complex’s built environment.

The gallery will enlist the broadest range of disciplines within the evolving context of contemporary new media art and will operate a best practice model, while providing for the community opportunities and experiences of emerging digital arts cultures, generating tangible inroads to theoretical investigation and interpretation.

Through informed curatorial authorship the eMerge Media Space seeks to attract emerging artists and academics to develop and exhibit work which operates at the most innovative junctions of the electronic / the digital / the networked space / the performance space / the screen / and the interfaces of contemporary new media art.

Exhibition proposals

Exhibition proposals are accepted throughout the year and are assessed by the eMerge Media Space Advisory Committee.

No proposal will be considered unless all sections of the proposal form have been satisfactorily completed and supporting documentation is supplied.

If you require further information about exhibiting at the eMerge Media Space please contact the Community Engagement and Events Officer (07) 4781 3142 or email gallery@jcu.edu.au

recent shows

Facilities

floor plan

• 4 metre high walls

• AV equipped

• data points

• wheelchair access

Gallery Hours:

Mon – Fri 8:30am – 4pm

Closed weekends and public holidays

Admission is free

Getting there

The eMerge Media Space is part of the new School of Creative Arts complex at James Cook University, Douglas Campus. It is the first building on your left, on James Cook Drive, after you pass through the main JCU entrance.

Car Parking: there is a free carpark directly opposite the SoCA complex and disabled parking zones in the SoCA carpark. Otherwise please observe the displayed parking restrictions.

Public Transport: Buses 99 or 1A from the City Mall or Stockland shopping centre.