Welcome to The Centre for Interdisciplinary Arts Studios [CIA studios] - a pvi collective initiative.

About pvi:
pvi collective are tactical media arts company founded in 1998 and based in perth, western australia. Over the last ten years, the company have established a reputation for creating playfully subversive performances, video artworks and interventions making cross artform works that are site based and audience responsive. [www.pvicollective.com]

About CIA:
Launched by pvi in dec 2008, cia studios provide studio spaces and resources for artists and small companies working in the live art and interdisciplinary art sectors whose practice & processes sit at the edges of traditional artform genres. CIA provides an opportunity for pvi collective and residents to generate a hub of artistic risk takers and provide dedicated space in which to exchange ideas, engage in critical debate, share skills and experiment with support from like-minded peers.

CIA is managed by pvi and its board and initiatives are curated by artists within the collective as well as associate cia artists.

CIA News - May 2010

pvi collective are delighted to announce this year’s two recipients of a 12 month long residency at CIA Studios.
Studio 5: Ololo www.ololo.info.
Ololo are three like minded friends who have operated as an artistic production group since 2001. They work across the fields of software development, web technologies and electronics and in recent years have produced a series of large scale works in public spaces both diverse in medium and context. During their residency at CIA, Ololo will be conducting research and development towards hardware and software-based systems for installation and interactive performance including infra red tools for a digital graffiti system and prototyping multi-touch surfaces. Friend of Ololo, Jerrem Lynch, also joins them for the year.

Studio 3: Aimee Smith
Aimee's practise addresses contemporary social issues and incorporates dance with multiple disciplines including theatre, sound composition and digital media in traditional and non traditional environments through collaboration with other artists. During her residency Aimee will be working towards participation in 'the Arctic Circle Project', an artist and scientist-led expedition to the high arctic in october. Aimee is fascinated with how theatre, sound composition, digital media and non-traditional performance environments intersect with the moving, dancing body.

Aimee Smith and Ololo join Hydra Poesis [Studio 2] in residence this year alongside pvi collective. pvi would like to extend big thanks to the CIA curatorial committee for their time in coming to an unanimous decision on this years residents. This new initiative has been created with the intention of continuing to support and invest in the development of artists with an interdisciplinary focus. The 12 month studio residencies will provide time and space to research and develop practice with support and encouragement from like-minded peers in the building.

what: CIA hub-talk
where: Hubspace, CIA Studios, 480 Newcastle St, West Perth
when: 27 May, 2010, 6pm [doors open at 5:30] :

CIA Hub Talks have taken on a new format with all resident companies now each hosting two a year. These sessions are entirely open-format providing opportunities for artists to engage in critical debate, try out new ideas, get feedback, curate, experiment and take risks in whatever shape or form they need. The next talk features new artist in resident at CIA - Aimee Smith. Aimee will discuss her research projects including participation in the Arctic Circle Project, an artist and scientist-led expedition to the high arctic in October.

what: Lament of the Argentine Military
where: Cockatoo Island, Sydney
when: 12th May - 1st August, 2010
more details:
http://www.heartofgold.net.auhttp://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au
LAMENT OF THE ARGENTINE MILITARY is part film, part photography series, part live performance by Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont. It is based on Argentina’s turbulent past, with particular attention on the close collusion between the Catholic Church and military dictatorships in Argentina. The artists use tango, music theatre and martial formations to present the work.
Tarryn and Pilar regularly develop work at CIA Studios.

Industry News - July 2010

what: The Boat People art gang are making a video work and we are inviting you to be involved. Our borders remain the hot election issue, and we are becoming fools again, baying at strangers, terrified and stupid.

We are inviting you to wrap your head in the Australian national flag and have your image captured with us in Melbourne’s Federation Square next Saturday 31st July at 4.30pm.

Come just before 4.30pm, with your flag* in a bag. Stand silently. At 4.30pm slowly wrap your head in the flag. You’ll find wrapping instructions and more information here soon. Be in this work with us. Please.

*flags available at all good $2 shops.

where: Melbourne’s Federation Square
when: 31st July at 4.30pm.
more details: http://www.boat-people.org/

what: a trans-disciplinary travelling platform that will move across different locations in South India organised by Reloading Images (Berlin) in collaboration with Maraa Media Collective and CitySpinning (Bangalore)

At the core of the project is a commitment to foster meaningful interactions and vital collaborations between Asian, Indian and International artists through participatory and new media tools. At the junction between travel and artistic production the project aims at exploring the ways through which self-organization and creative exchange could be initiated and experienced collectively. The experimental format of this project will try to address a series of issues concerning sustainable tourism, cross-cultural exchange, site-specificity and hospitality.

The travelling project is open to 6 International/ Indian/ Asian participants from different artistic/creative backgrounds. 

where: across different locations in South India 
when: 18th October and 15th November 2010
CLOSING DATE: 20th August 2010
more details: www.reloadingimages.org

what: Reflecting its provenance, most fulldome content to date has been astronomy-related and created using computer-generated animation, data visualistion, or a combination of both. Now, however, producers are turning their sights to the entertainment market and looking at fulldome’s potential for live-action story-telling.

The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) is giving twenty filmmakers and media artists the opportunity to learn alongside a team of creative and technical luminaries including Ben Shedd, Peter Morse (the 2010 Peter Rasmussen award-winner), and fulldome pioneer Hue Bumgarner-Kirby. The fortnight-long residential lab will test both the potential and limits of live-action for large formats using a trial-and-error approach that prioritises experimentation over finished product. Ten places are reserved for Western Australians, with the remaining ten to be filled from across Australia. Participants will be selected according to their skill-set and professional experience, with a view to putting together four or five inter-disciplinary teams. Applicants will be selected from the full production chain, including writers, directors, camera operators, editors and designers.

WHERE: Perth.
CLOSING DATE: TBA
MORE DETAILS: Application guidelines and further information about the Lab will be available shortly.
visit www.anat.org.au

what: Joshua Sofaer’s original, inventive and practical resource publication investigates what is at stake for audiences today when they attend a live event.
where: The Many Headed Monster is available on Unbound the UK's Live Art Development Agencies Online Resource.
more details: Click here
Across a range of artistic disciplines, artists are dealing with audiences in innovative and creative ways, placing the audience at the heart of their work. The Many Headed Monster is a critical and practical resource investigating what is at stake for audiences today when they attend a live event.