May 17, 2024

URSZULA SZULAKOWSKA and the BRISBANE ART SCENE in the 1980s

by jeanelle@jeanellehurstprojects.com | chats, panels

The Eyeline on Viatel emulation is now on display in the Cyber Cafe at the NCM National Communication Museum in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Eyeline on Viatel was recovered from computer discs as part of Melanie Swalwell’s “Creative Micro-computing in Australia, 1976-1992” ARC Future Fellowship.

Many thanks to Melanie Swalwell, Cynde Moya and the team at the Digital Heritage Lab at Swinburne University of Technology for producing the Eyeline on Viatel emulation.

https://ncm.org.au/

https://vimeo.com/1084114790

https://www.facebook.com/breakfastnews/videos/863107992154966

Eyeline on Viatel was a key digital component of the 1988 InterFace Project.

InterFace 88 was an experimental public art strategy designed by Jeanelle Hurst to link the physical to the digital and the local to the global – in search of an interconnected world – pre www

Eyeline on Viatel was coordinated as a collaboration between the Graphics Department at Queensland College of Art, QCA and Eyeline Art Magazine to produce a digital version of the magazine.

QCA Students Anne Pierotti and Peter Rohan transcribed highlights from Eyeline Magazine Issue 4 (1 March 1988) to Eyeline on Viatel *53003#, Telecom Australia’s National Videotex Service.

InterFace 88 was designed, developed and coordinated by Jeanelle Hurst and funded as one of 5 Bicentennial Art Space Projects across Australia by the Australian Bicentennial Arts Program. Interface 88 was built upon the test run/prototype Outdoor Art Drive-In 86 Project.

https://vimeo.com/1118935974/

https://www.jeanellehurstprojects.com/project/interface-project-88/

https://www.jeanellehurstprojects.com/project/outdoor-art-drive-in-86/

Last year, art historian Urszula Szulakowska passed away. A key figure in the Meanjin/Brisbane art scene of the 1980s, she was an influential teacher, critic, curator, and mentor. Beloved local arts magazine Eyeline was named after her very own eyeliner.

Back then, Meanjin/Brisbane was a different place, still under the thumb of police-state premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen. It was culturally isolated, with little of the arts infrastructure we now take for granted. Along with two other key British-born, Brisbane-based academics—Graham Coulter-Smith and Nicholas Zurbrugg—Szulakowska was a catalyst for change.

Join friends Michele Helmrich, Jeanelle Hurst, Luke Roberts, and Nancy Underhill as they discuss Szulakowska’s influence and impact on the scene.

https://events.humanitix.com/panel-discussion-urszula-szulakowska

https://www.ima.org.au/ima-events/urszula-szulakowska-and-the-brisbane-art-scene-in-the-1980s/