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Dr. Sarah Jane Pell evokes the aquatic spectacles of Annette Kellerman and Ha...Sarah Jane Pell
Dr. Sarah Jane Pell evokes the aquatic spectacles of Annette Kellerman and Harry Houdini and the pioneering spirits of NASA and Jacques Cousteau amid performance, digital media, installation and advanced life-support technologies -
Fullscreen 08 Explorations in digital media: communion, community and communication
The National Gallery of Australia presents fullscreen 08: explorations in digital media, a full-day forum of four artists exploring new-media practice and its role in building connections and community: Walton, Marynowsky, Pell and Ihlein
Australian National Gallery, Canberra | Sunday 12 October 11 am - 4 pm
Centuries of archeological findings have led to the discovery of tons of amazing artifacts that have helped people to better understand the ancient world, collective history, and various cultures on Earth. All of which intrinsically impacts how people live today. Here are some of the rarest of these discoveries
Centuries of archeological findings have led to the discovery of tons of amazing artifacts that have helped people to better understand the ancient world, collective history, and various cultures on Earth. All of which intrinsically impacts how people live today. Here are some of the rarest of these discoveries.
GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL THE FATES OF HUMAN SOCIETIES .docxwhittemorelucilla
GUNS,
GERMS AND
STEEL
THE FATES OF HUMAN SOCIETIES
Jared Diamond
W. W. Norton & Company
New York London
C H A P T E R 1 5
Y A L I ' S P E O P L E
WH E N M Y W I F E , M A R I E , A N D I W E R E V A C A T I O N I N G I N Australia one summer, we decided to visit a site with well-
preserved Aboriginal rock paintings in the desert near the town of Men-
indee. While I knew of the Australian desert's reputation for dryness and
summer heat, I had already spent long periods working under hot, dry
conditions in the Californian desert and New Guinea savanna, so I consid-
ered myself experienced enough to deal with the minor challenges we
would face as tourists in Australia. Carrying plenty of drinking water,
Marie and I set off at noon on a hike of a few miles to the paintings.
The trail from the ranger station led uphill, under a cloudless sky,
through open terrain offering no shade whatsoever. The hot, dry air that
we were breathing reminded me of how it had felt to breathe while sitting
in a Finnish sauna. By the time we reached the cliff site with the paintings,
we had finished our water. We had also lost our interest in art, so we
pushed on uphill, breathing slowly and regularly. Presently I noticed a bird
that was unmistakably a species of babbler, but it seemed enormous com-
pared with any known babbler species. At that point, I realized that I was
experiencing heat hallucinations for the first time in my life. Marie and I
decided that we had better head straight back.
296 G U N S , G E R M S , AND STEEL
Both of us stopped talking. As we walked, we concentrated on listening
to our breathing, calculating the distance to the next landmark, and esti-
mating the remaining time. My mouth and tongue were now dry, and
Marie's face was red. When we at last reached the air-conditioned ranger
station, we sagged into chairs next to the water cooler, drank down the
cooler's last half-gallon of water, and asked the ranger for another bottle.
Sitting there exhausted, both physically and emotionally, I reflected that
the Aborigines who had made those paintings had somehow spent their
entire lives in that desert without air-conditioned retreats, managing to
find food as well as water.
To white Australians, Menindee is famous as the base camp for two
whites who had suffered worse from the desert's dry heat over a century
earlier: the Irish policeman Robert Burke and the English astronomer Wil-
liam Wills, ill-fated leaders of the first European expedition to cross Aus-
tralia from south to north. Setting out with six camels packing food
enough for three months, Burke and Wills ran out of provisions while in
the desert north of Menindee. Three successive times, they encountered
and were rescued by well-fed Aborigines whose home was that desert, and
who plied the explorers with fish, fern cakes, and roasted fat rats. But then
Burke foolishly shot his pistol at one of the Aborigines, whereupon the
whole grou ...
Dr. Sarah Jane Pell evokes the aquatic spectacles of Annette Kellerman and Ha...Sarah Jane Pell
Dr. Sarah Jane Pell evokes the aquatic spectacles of Annette Kellerman and Harry Houdini and the pioneering spirits of NASA and Jacques Cousteau amid performance, digital media, installation and advanced life-support technologies -
Fullscreen 08 Explorations in digital media: communion, community and communication
The National Gallery of Australia presents fullscreen 08: explorations in digital media, a full-day forum of four artists exploring new-media practice and its role in building connections and community: Walton, Marynowsky, Pell and Ihlein
Australian National Gallery, Canberra | Sunday 12 October 11 am - 4 pm
Centuries of archeological findings have led to the discovery of tons of amazing artifacts that have helped people to better understand the ancient world, collective history, and various cultures on Earth. All of which intrinsically impacts how people live today. Here are some of the rarest of these discoveries
Centuries of archeological findings have led to the discovery of tons of amazing artifacts that have helped people to better understand the ancient world, collective history, and various cultures on Earth. All of which intrinsically impacts how people live today. Here are some of the rarest of these discoveries.
GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL THE FATES OF HUMAN SOCIETIES .docxwhittemorelucilla
GUNS,
GERMS AND
STEEL
THE FATES OF HUMAN SOCIETIES
Jared Diamond
W. W. Norton & Company
New York London
C H A P T E R 1 5
Y A L I ' S P E O P L E
WH E N M Y W I F E , M A R I E , A N D I W E R E V A C A T I O N I N G I N Australia one summer, we decided to visit a site with well-
preserved Aboriginal rock paintings in the desert near the town of Men-
indee. While I knew of the Australian desert's reputation for dryness and
summer heat, I had already spent long periods working under hot, dry
conditions in the Californian desert and New Guinea savanna, so I consid-
ered myself experienced enough to deal with the minor challenges we
would face as tourists in Australia. Carrying plenty of drinking water,
Marie and I set off at noon on a hike of a few miles to the paintings.
The trail from the ranger station led uphill, under a cloudless sky,
through open terrain offering no shade whatsoever. The hot, dry air that
we were breathing reminded me of how it had felt to breathe while sitting
in a Finnish sauna. By the time we reached the cliff site with the paintings,
we had finished our water. We had also lost our interest in art, so we
pushed on uphill, breathing slowly and regularly. Presently I noticed a bird
that was unmistakably a species of babbler, but it seemed enormous com-
pared with any known babbler species. At that point, I realized that I was
experiencing heat hallucinations for the first time in my life. Marie and I
decided that we had better head straight back.
296 G U N S , G E R M S , AND STEEL
Both of us stopped talking. As we walked, we concentrated on listening
to our breathing, calculating the distance to the next landmark, and esti-
mating the remaining time. My mouth and tongue were now dry, and
Marie's face was red. When we at last reached the air-conditioned ranger
station, we sagged into chairs next to the water cooler, drank down the
cooler's last half-gallon of water, and asked the ranger for another bottle.
Sitting there exhausted, both physically and emotionally, I reflected that
the Aborigines who had made those paintings had somehow spent their
entire lives in that desert without air-conditioned retreats, managing to
find food as well as water.
To white Australians, Menindee is famous as the base camp for two
whites who had suffered worse from the desert's dry heat over a century
earlier: the Irish policeman Robert Burke and the English astronomer Wil-
liam Wills, ill-fated leaders of the first European expedition to cross Aus-
tralia from south to north. Setting out with six camels packing food
enough for three months, Burke and Wills ran out of provisions while in
the desert north of Menindee. Three successive times, they encountered
and were rescued by well-fed Aborigines whose home was that desert, and
who plied the explorers with fish, fern cakes, and roasted fat rats. But then
Burke foolishly shot his pistol at one of the Aborigines, whereupon the
whole grou ...
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2. David Haines + Joyce Hinterding
Hollow Earth Theory
(Revived) Field Studies 1 & 5
Hollow Earth Theory is nothing new in the whose novel “Mt Analogue” is all about
history of ideas. The famous British seventeenth climbing an imaginary mountain.
century astronomer, Edmund Haley believed
that the inner earth was hollow and lit by a
luminous atmosphere. Edgar Rice Burroughs Jules Verne wrote ‘The Journey to the Center of
the Earth” in 1864. It was with Verne’s text that David Haines has been a practising artist
wrote a cycle of novels set in the hollow earth. for over a decade, exhibiting in museums,
Jules Verne wrote ‘Journey to the Center of we began our own ‘Pataphysical’ journey of
discovery to imagine the interior of an inhabited festivals, and alternative exhibition
the Earth’ as part of a series of journey novels. spaces, and has created installations for
John Cleves Symmes, an American nineteenth hollow earth. This has been manifested as a
series of ongoing field studies, in this case we galleries all over the world. Haines has
century eccentric believed that the earth was been awarded several Australia Council
open at the poles and that the interior of the have decided to show the “phantom city” and
the upside down mountain climbing sequence. grants for various projects in the area of
earth was inhabited. In 1906, William Reed New Media and Visual Arts, including a
added his book “Phantom of the Poles” within We would rather not discuss too much about
the way that these images have been made, residency at The Australia Council’s Tokyo
which he claimed to be able to prove his theory Studio.
that the earth was not only hollow but able except to say that they are a collapsed universe
to sustain life. There is it seems a long list of of image and sound making – a combination of
people who have set out to prove or discover digitally fabricated composites, field recordings
or real time camera footage with minimal Joyce Hinterding has exhibited
that the world is indeed hollow. In more recent extensively both nationally and
times the Nazis where also curious and sent Dr intervention.
internationally been including a number
Heinz Fischer, an expert on infrared rays to the of international biennales. She has
Baltic to photograph the British Fleet by turning Vimy Lane, Parap.
Vimy Lane, Parap.
been awarded several Australia Council GPO Box 28 Darwin NT, Australia 0801
GPO 28 Darwin NT, Australia 0801
his cameras upward and shooting across the grants for various projects in the area of
hollow earth. New Media and Visual Arts, including a tel + 61 8 8981 5368 fax ++ 61 8981 5547
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People are still mounting expeditions to find
out if the earth is hollow. Worthy of a plot from
the filmmaker Werner Herzog, an adventure Their collaborations have produced major
company is mounting a high-tech expedition works that have been shown in Tasmania,
to the Arctic Circle to locate the entrance of the Sydney, and Madrid and Sao Paulo, and
inner earth complete with a Russian nuclear featured in the opening exhibition for the
powered ice breaker. This type of ‘adventure Australian Center for the Moving Image
tourism’ seems to follow firmly in the footsteps and Federation Square in Melbourne.
24HR ArtArtassisted by thethe Commonwealth Government through the
24HR is is assisted by Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council
its arts funding and advisoryfunding and advisory body, by the Northern Territory Arts
Australia Council its arts body, by the Northern Territory Government through
of the great Pataphysical author Reme Daumal NT Government through Arts NT and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, State and
and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian,
Territory Governments.
an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.