Publication Details Digital Catalogue (variable size, weight), number of pages 17, image plates 265. ISBN-A – DOI https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.20115095.v1
Author and/or Editor name/s Denise Thwaites and Nancy Mauro-Flude
Author and/or Editor bio/s Denise Thwaites is a curator, researcher and educator, whose practice interlaces digital and community engaged processes to interrogate emergent frames of inclusion, exclusion and collaboration, particularly as they are re-imagined through decentralised technologies. She is a member of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, and an Assistant Professor in Digital Arts and Humanities at the University of Canberra.
Nancy Mauro-Flude is an artist and theorist. Her research radically intervenes in public space through the aesthetic application of network infrastructure playfully to advance broader understandings of emergent technologies. Research Fellow Institute Network Culture Amsterdam, represented by Bett Gallery.
Year of Publication 2021
Publisher Published by Despoinas Media Coven, Tasmania
Abstract Economythologies (EMLX) is a catalogue resource and archive emphasising creative voices from the Asia-Pacific region of artists and arts workers that critically explore the working and un-working of myths that have/do/will shape our economic realities. A repository for a multisite symposium and exhibition exploring blockchain technology to influence creative art practice. This publication features documentation of a 2-day event and exhibition taking place across Ainslie+Gorman Arts Centre (Canberra) and Bett Gallery (Hobart) on the 5th and 6th November 2020 with an online exhibition of commissions rolling out into 2021. Participants collectively imagined new aesthetic ways of (re-)configuring art and the economy, the conversations from these live-streamed sessions are found on relevant topic pages including the publication of a ‘Scrapbook’ patchwork work of images, text, artefacts and thoughts contributed by the EMLX community. This method of selecting, collecting, overlaying and re-authoring, and scrapbooking allows us to intersect our pasts, present and future; Embracing the non-linearity of time and the multiplicity of actants that construct our economythologies.
The publication seeks to widen the aperture of our future. It asks ‘How might we conjure, in the words of VNS Matrix (1991) “the virus of the new world disorder/rupturing the symbolic from within” as “saboteurs of big daddy mainframe”?
Co-presented by Centre for Creative and Cultural Research (University of Canberra), Institute for Culture and Society (Western Sydney University), School of Art and Design (Australian National University), Contemporary Art and Social Transformation (RMIT University), with the support of the Institute of Network Cultures.
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