Portable Platforms [PP]

Digital worlds, existing both in lived (pocket inhabiting mobile phones) and virtual (amorphous and online) spaces, prompt new ways of thinking about community and connection, cultural memory and individual voice.

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ANAT encourages creative engagement, playful exploration and collaboration across disciplines and hybrid practices, providing artists with an incubation space and profiling opportunities. Over the past five years ANAT have also presented numerous programs that support artists to encounter the humble (now mobile) phone.

ANAT’s Portable Worlds explores the mobile phone as exhibition platform by touring a small fleet of mobile phones around regional Australia, providing an intimate exhibition space for artists to address viewers one to one across a vast land (like a whispered message from maker to watcher). ANAT developed Portable Worlds in 2006 from a national call to Australian screen artists, with a second call recently closing. In February Portable Worlds will exhibit for the last time at the Barossa Regional Gallery, Tanunda before being re-developed and re-released for a national tour in 2008/09. Thanks to recent funding from the Australian Government through visions of Australia, Portable W0orlds Second Edition will be bigger, newer and travel all of the way across Australia.

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Portable Worlds Second Edition is set to Launch in Streaky Bay (SA) during April, will travel to the Heidi Museum, Monash Uni Gippsland (Vic), University of Tasmania Gallery in Launceston before exhibiting in the Northern Territory at the Watch This Space Gallery (Alice Springs) and 24Hr Art (Darwin).

Currently under development, the Portable Worlds Second Edition is being curated by a national panel of experts including Claudia Sagripanti (AIMIA), Christy Dena (cross media entertainment) and Hugh Davies (ABC digital/pixel.play). Watch the website for the announcement of the Second Edition works early in the New Year.

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www.anat.org.au/portableworlds

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