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Vivid School 2019: Thursday Program

Location:

Aware Super Theatre
14 Darling Dr
2000 NSW
Australia

Venue:
ICC Sydney
Vivid School 2019 - Thursday Program

Featuring

Georgina Buchanan

Georgina Buchanan

Georgina is a Sydney-based artist, prop maker and business owner. She is the director of art and prop fabrication at Pink Cactus. Her training in Production Crafts - Properties at NIDA has enabled to her to work in the prop and set making field for the last decade while gradually evolving and refining her skills in art finishing, design and business management. Her interdisciplinary work includes the mediums of sculpture, puppetry, scenic art, collage, drawing and lighting installations.

Lucy Keeler

Lucy Keeler

Lucy’s role as the Vivid Light Curator is the result of a career spanning painting, light-based sculpture, 3D virtual art, projection animation and theatre design. In 2013, Lucy co-developed a collaborative art practice called Ample Projects to create large-scale public art works including video and installation art, super scale sculptural works, projection mapping and animatronic sculpture within Australia and overseas. Most recently, Lucy has delivered curatorial and design consultancy for art festival events in France, Belgium, China and the USA including Espèces en Voie d’Illumination Festival in Paris and Yuyuan Lantern Festival in Shanghai. The 2018 Vivid Sydney festival marked Lucy’s debut as Vivid Light curator after previously having creating the inaugural Vivid Sydney precincts at Taronga Zoo, Chatswood and Central Park.

Katrina Harding

Katrina Harding

Katrina is a multi-disciplinary media maven who has worked across many fields including video technician, projectionist, media server programmer, director, camera operator, system engineer and AV technical supervisor amongst others.

After starting her career in 2005 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre and Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Katrina moved to Sydney in 2014 to begin a full-time role with Technical Direction Company (TDC) where she had the privilege to work on the large scale award-winning projection Play Me by Danny Rose for Vivid Sydney 2014. Katrina has toured internationally working with artists including Celine Dion and Elton John during their Las Vegas residencies, Fuji Rock in Japan, Tap Dogs in South Africa and Laver Cup in Chicago. Katrina has also toured locally for musicians, theatre and reality TV shows, Australian Open and music festivals around the country. Katrina’s artistic passion drives her to pursue her goals and mark out achievements within this creative industry.

Deborah Szapiro

Deborah Szapiro

Deborah is an award-winning creative producer/director, curator and academic. Her film work has been screened extensively by broadcasters and film festivals worldwide. She is the recipient of two AFI awards, Dendy, ATOM and IF awards, the Gordon Bruce Award for Humour, the PATHE Award, the Shell Canada Award and the BANFF Television Award for Best Animated Series among others.

Deborah was founder and festival director of the Japanime Film Festival, co-director of the Sydney International Animation Festival and continues to curate animation programs and events locally and internationally.

Access and Inclusion

  • Wheelchair Accessible - Access to the venue is suitable for wheelchairs (toilets, ramps/lifts etc.) and designated wheelchair spaces are available.

Event Details

Session 1: Delicate Pixel Work (Girls Putting the 'A' in STEAM)

Of all the artists creating light works for Vivid Sydney, why are only 16.5% female? From projection technicians to animators and sculptors, women are making some of the most successful work in the festival, so why aren’t there more? Come and meet light artists Georgina Buchanan, Lucy Keeler, Katrina Harding and Deborah Szapiro* who prove that a following a passion for technology and light art is a strong career choice for females.

This session is an opportunity to meet the artists behind interactive and kinetic sculptures in Circular Quay and the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney as well as animators and directors behind Vivid Light’s 3D mapped projections on Sydney’s landmark buildings including the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Customs House and Sydney Opera House.

Session 2: Intelligence is Now Artificial, But Your Co-Lab Should Be Real

Each individual artist in Vivid Sydney brings to the festival a unique set of creative skills and making abilities, from mechatronics to welding, engineering and coding to animation, illustration and lighting design. Vivid Sydney proves that incredible artists come from all manner of backgrounds and from places near and far. The festival also highlights that the best work evolves through collaboration. Almost every artwork in the festival is made by more than one person, and this session reveals the collaborative practices and processes used by some of Vivid Sydney's most prolific groups of artists to understand how they work together so well and why they do what they do.

This session provides an opportunity to meet artists from Ample Projects who have created wildly popular projections and light sculptures such as Taronga Zoo’s Lights for the Wild, Snugglepot & Cuddlepie, Urban Tree Project and many more.

*Speakers subject to change

Schedule

The day commences with a Vivid Sydney Overview – presented by Destination NSW.

This is followed by two 90-minute sessions comprising:

  • Topic Overview – presented by Vivid Light Curator, Lucy Keeler
  • Meet the Professionals – Panellist overview
  • Moderated Panel Discussion
  • Q&A for students and teachers (15-20mins)

 

Program Structure  
9:15am - 9:45am Student Arrival
10am Vivid Sydney overview presented by Destination NSW
SESSION 1  
10:15am-12pm Delicate Pixel Work (Girls Putting the 'A' in STEAM)
  Speakers* include Georgina Buchanan, Lucy Keeler, Katrina Harding and Deborah Szapiro whose works include interactive and kinetic sculptures in Circular Quay and the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney as well as animators and directors behind Vivid Light’s 3D mapped projections on Sydney’s landmark buildings.
12noon - 1pm LUNCH BREAK
SESSION 2  
1pm - 2:40pm Intelligence is Now Artificial, But Your Co-Lab Should be Real
  Speakers* from Ample Projects whose works includes the team behind wildly popular projections and light sculptures such as Taronga Zoo’s Lights for the Wild, Snugglepot & Cuddlepie, Urban Tree Project and many more.
2:40-2:45pm Closing comments and Thank you
2:45pm Student departure

 

VENUE

Vivid School will take place at the International Convention Centre Sydney, Australia's premier convention, exhibition and entertainment destination.

Accessible by foot, car, taxi, ferry, coach and light rail, ICC Sydney is located in the heart of Sydney’s vibrant Darling Harbour precinct.

Meeting point: The Vivid School registration desk will be located in the main entrance to the Convention Centre. This entrance can be found at the northern end of ICC Sydney, closest to Cockle Bay (Darling Harbour) and Harbourside Shopping Centre.

To plan your trip to Vivid School at ICC Sydney, please visit the getting to ICC Sydney page.

If you are planning on bringing your school group by bus, please contact us by 10 May at: vivid.school@dnsw.com.au

FOOD AND BEVERAGE

Food and beverage is not provided by Vivid School. There will be a one hour lunch break. Please bring all required lunch, snacks and beverages. Water stations will be available to fill up water bottles.

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST IN VIVID SCHOOL 2020

Registrations for tickets to Vivid Sydney 2019 have now closed.

For teachers and schools who have already registered for Vivid School 2019, payments must be finalised by Friday 10 May. Once payment is received, we unfortunately cannot offer refunds for cancellations.

If you are interested in information for Vivid School 2020 and to assist us with programming and planning, please provide your details here.

 

If you have any further questions regarding Vivid School you can contact us here.

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Access and Inclusion

  • Wheelchair Accessible - Access to the venue is suitable for wheelchairs (toilets, ramps/lifts etc.) and designated wheelchair spaces are available.