Artists Statement

Investigating the ‘enigma’ of artificial life through the creation of a generative world and documentary recorded by an artificial filmmaker. We unpack the human endeavor; life as it is and life as it can be.

• Mark Guglielmetti investigates the formations of cultural identity and subjective experience. He uses various media to explore these and related issues; electronic, digital and biological. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including the Melbourne International Film Festival 2001, Biennial of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP) 2004, Ars Electronica 2004, and showcased at the Architectural Biennial in Beijing 2004 and in “Australian Screen Culture,” at the Barbican in London 2004 and Centre Pompidou in 2003. Recent works and exhibitions include Intractable (2010) in the InsideOut Exhibition, Object Gallery, Sydney and DMU Cube Gallery Leicester, England; Documentary nShape (2009) at Guilford Lane Gallery in Melbourne; and Laboratories of thought (2007) Trocadero ArtSpace, Footscray. Guglielmetti is beavering away researching the relationship between cinema and artificial life in an attempt to co-evolve an artificial life filmmaker with an artificial life world.
• Indae Hwang

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