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OutlinesShortwaveNew Digital Commissions

Shortwave is a platform for early-career, interdisciplinary Australian artists, commissioned to create new work which explores and extends their digital practice. With Brad Darkson, Nasim Patel, JD Reforma, Claudia Nicholson, Riana Head-Toussaint and Feras Shaheen.

New commissioned works from interdisciplinary artists redefining their practice

Shortwave is a series of commissions for interdisciplinary Australian artists, seeking to further explore and extend their digital practice.

In the 2023 program, Brad Darkson, Nasim Patel, JD Reforma, Claudia Nicholson, Riana Head-Toussaint and Feras Shaheen present performance films that speak to our moment, channeling dance, the internet, photography, disability and artificial intelligence to reimagine their creative relationship with technology.

Program

Feras Shaheen
The Bop

Riana Head-Toussaint
Animate Loading: 3

JD Reforma
Butterfly 

Brad Darkson
Dream Job 

Claudia Nicholson
The Deep Rivers Say it Slowly 

Nasim Patel
non-paradise

 

Shortwave is a digital commissioning program from Sydney Opera House, in collaboration with organisations across the sector. The Bop is supported by Sydney Opera House & Parramatta Artists’ Studios. Dream Job is a co-commission between Sydney Opera House and Liquid Architecture's online journal Disclaimer. Animate Loading: 3 and non-paradise were facilitated through Critical Path’s digital and choreographic exchange program.

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