THE LIGHTNESS MATRIX 3 SCREENING ON FEDTV

Glen Henderson_The Lightness Matrix 3: GRANDE SEARCH

FedTV is an initiative run by the city of Melbourne VIC, in the heart of the city at Federation Square. The big screen in Federation Square offers visitors free daily screenings of various media - including art projects, sport events, and multicultural news broadcasts.

Starting from 22 March 2013, Glen Henderson's multimedia artwork 'The Lightness Matrix 3: GRANDE SEARCH' will be screening nightly until 30 April 2013.

The Lightness Matrix 3: GRANDE SEARCH is an independent piece, but also forms part 3 of a trilogy developed by Henderson during an Artists in Residence, at the Creative Industries Precinct of Queensland University of Technology.

For the FedTV screening schedule, click here.

KEN + JULIA YONETANI / QUT ART MUSEUM

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Currently showing at the Queensland University of Technology Art Museum (QUT), Foundation's Edge: artists and technology presents artists who, rather than adhering to the intended use of technological devices, push them to realise their potential as an art medium.

Running from 15 March - 26 May 2013, the group exhibition features nine uranium chandeliers by Ken + Julia Yonetani. The chandeliers are part of the Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nuclear Nations series, in which the glowing installation of unique chandeliers are in response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of 2011.

"While we live in an electronic age, we also live in the shadow of an energy crisis. It is a given that the time will come when supply will no longer meet demand, and that the fossil fuel model of energy production is—as the term suggests—a fossil. What is left is a handful of sustainable alternatives and nuclear energy." - Foundation's Edge: artists and technology Catalogue

With a total of thirty-one chandeliers expected to be created for the series, fifteen were exhibited in a solo exhibition at Artereal Gallery in October-November 2012. To read more about the series, click here.

To learn more about the QUT exhibition and artists, click here.

GLEN HENDERSON / THE LIGHTNESS MATRIX 3

The Lightness Matrix 3: GRANDE SEARCH forms part three of a three-part Parer Place Project developed as Artist in Residence at the Creative Industries Precinct of Queensland University of Technology.

"The Lightness Matrix 3: GRANDE SEARCH is introduced by a rocket journey to another planet.  Our Planet's recently restored scientific ambitions in outer space may have 'possible or impossible' goals.  Yet these adventures of my heroine's imagination, metaphors for life's journey, leave definite footprints in the cold hard surface of another planet." - Glen Henderson

From 12-30 September 2012, Glen Henderson's moving image work will be screened nightly at the Parer Place Outdoor Screen of QUT's Creative Industries Precinct.

For opening night and exhibition details, click here to view The Lightness Matrix Media Release.

Glen's work Lightness Matrix 2: SPACE  is also currently being screened on the Chatswood Screen in Chatswood Cultural Precinct until 16 September.