May 13th – August 2nd 2019 Sheyne Tuffery is in residence at TKO

During his residence Sheyne will work on a new series of works “Lunar Module” as a response to the 50 year anniversary of the Apollo moon landings, exploring the Wellington perspective through the Carter Observatory archives.

July 19th – August 2nd 2019 Exhibition Lunar Module at Space Place

Sheyne is perhaps best known for the dynamic style of his prints and woodcuts, Sheyne describes himself as a paper architect who uses his work to create and represent his own cultural context and sense of belonging. His prints and paintings often envisage Polynesia as a futuristic urban utopia. In these re-imaginings, the Samoan fale acts as the symbolic archetype for skyscrapers and apartment housing while the vaka stands in for rocket ships. These works reflect Sheyne’s research into his Samoan heritage and symbolism, his travel wanderlust and his taste for big overseas cities. They also reveal ongoing influences, such as the world of fantasy, comics, and cartoons, which add a sense of immediacy and humour to his subject matter.

https://www.sheynetuffery.com

6pm April 2nd 2019

UK artist duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt are Semiconductor. Assisted and informed by access to scientific data and technology, their visually spectacular, intellectually engaging video projects delve into unseen and unseeable worlds, making the invisible visible. Many of their works have developed out of fellowships at science facilities—places like NASA, CERN, and the Smithsonian.

Their show Semiconductor: The Technological Sublime has just opened at City Gallery Wellington and is open until July 14th 2019.

Ruth and Joe will discuss the practicalities of making their work at an informal event for artists and practitioners, hosted at TKO.

Places are limited so please contact info at tko dot net nz to request an invitation.

This event is enabled by City Gallery Wellington and kindly supported by Victoria University Cultivating Creative Capital theme committee.

Wednesday 19th December 2018, 7pm

A last minute gathering to celebrate Saturnalia with Gavin Starks who will perform his Acoustic Cosmology

Starks, who has a background in radio astronomy and electronic music, has been working on developing an ‘acoustic cosmology’ for more than 20 years in collaboration with Prof Andy Newsam of Liverpool John Moores University. Their aim is to test whether mathematical relationships that describe cosmology and quantum mechanics can be applied to a sonic universe, or ‘soniverse’.

Starks explains: “If we look at the way that music has evolved from mediaeval plainsong to the algorithms that generate current chart-hits, we can see parallels developing in the way we describe music and descriptions of our perception of the universe. We can now create new types of sound from scratch – electronic sounds that simply couldn’t have existed before. It leads us to think about a digital sound world that we can’t enter, because it physically doesn’t exist. The question is – what next?

Read more http://www.binarydust.org/

Listen to the radio-cube of the Antennae Galaxies
http://www.binarydust.org/2017/05/18/listen-to-the-radio-cube-of-the-antennae-galaxies

Click and drag to play demo 8MB

Nov 15th 2018 – April 2019

The Weight of Information 2.0 is a satellite based artwork by Julian Priest. During his residency at TKO the observatory was transformed into a ground station installation to track the progress of TWOi a 2cm pico-sattelite. read more http://julianpriest.org/twoi

The project is kindly supported by Wellington City Council Public Art Fund and Experience Wellington.