Interactive Digital Resource
How to use this resource
This resource is designed for the classroom,
displayed on an interactive whiteboard or via a
PC/laptop and projector.
Information for teachers, and suggested learning
activities are contained within the notes section,
along with links to further education resources.
Welcome to the MCA
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Pre-Visit
The Wandering:
Moving images from the MCA Collection
The Wandering features a
selection of moving image
works from the MCA’s
Collection.
There are over 4,000 artworks
in the MCA Collection.
What kinds of work does the
Museum collect?
Curator Glenn Barkley
explains…
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Pre-Visit
What is new media art?
Patricia Piccinini
Sandman 2002
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Daniel von Sturmer
Material from Another Medium (Sequence 2) 2001
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Pre-Visit
What is new media art?
How would you explain new media art to a friend?
Can you suggest a definition for new media art here?
New media art =
Pre-Visit
New media: new language
Can you use examples from the works you’ve just seen to explain
some of these key terms? Look up any words that are new.
During Visit
Press Pause!
The Wandering : Moving images from the MCA Collection
Installation view
Post-Visit
Grant Stevens: Focus on narrative
Grant Stevens uses
animated text to create a
visual narrative.
Try this Recall Challenge!
 Watch The Wandering
 Work in pairs - try and retell
the story. What ideas or
images can you recall?
 Watch the work again
Grant Stevens
The Wandering 2009
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 What else can be added?
Did you miss anything the
first time?
Post-Visit
Grant Stevens (continued…)
The Artist’s Voice:
Watch an interview with Grant
Stevens.
 How does the artist describe
his practice?
 What kind of material does he
draw on for his work?
 In what ways does Stevens
think about his audience when
he makes his work?
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Post-Visit
Grant Stevens (continued…)
The Wandering:
Conducted Performance
 Use a fragment from The
Wandering as inspiration for a
piece of writing.
GrantStand
Stevens in a circle around your

The Wandering 2009
‘conductor’ who will direct a
performance of your readings.
 The conductor may experiment
with multiple voices, speed and
volume to create a performance!
Grant Stevens
The Wandering (still), 2009
Post-Visit
Shaun Gladwell: Focus on Speed
How does the speed of a
moving image work change
the way we see?
Watch these excerpts from
Shaun Gladwell’s Kickflipper:
Fragments Edit.
Shaun Gladwell
Kickflipper: Fragments Edit 2000-03
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Post-Visit
Shaun Gladwell (continued…)
Show us your ‘slow-motion moves’!
 Mime a simple action of a hobby or
pastime.
 Perform it in slow-motion or speed it
up in a ‘fast-forward’.
 Record your actions and watch them
back.
 How does the speed of your
movement change the visual impact of
your action?
Shaun Gladwell
Kickflipper: Fragments Edit (still) 2000-03
Post-Visit
Shaun Gladwell (continued…)
The Artist’s voice:
Watch an interview with Shaun
Gladwell.
Why do you think Gladwell’s
works have been described as
‘moving paintings’?
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Post-Visit
Shaun Gladwell (continued…)
Shaun Gladwell has described
new media art as an “organised
series of still images”.
 Create a plan to transform
Kickflipper into a series of four
paintings.
 Sketch an outline for each
painting.
 What elements will you focus on?
Shaun Gladwell
Kickflipper: Fragments Edit (stills) 2000-03
Post-Visit
Lauren Brincat: Focus on performance
Lauren Brincat creates
artworks that document an
action in endurance
performances.
 How is the artist affected by
the performance?
 How does the performance
show time passing?
Lauren Brincat
Hear This 2011
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Post-Visit
Lauren Brincat (continued…)
The Endurance Experience
 Work in pairs to develop an idea for
an endurance performance.
 Present your performance to the
class.
 What are the challenges of your
performance?
 How did your audience respond?
Lauren Brincat
Hear This 2011
Post-Visit
Todd McMillan: Focus on time
Todd McMillan
By the Sea 2004
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Caspar David Friedrich
Monk by the Sea 1809
Post-Visit
Todd McMillan (continued…)
The Artist’s voice:
Watch an interview with
Todd McMillan.
 What were the challenges
of his endurance
performance?
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Post-Visit
Todd McMillan (continued…)
Imagine you are the performer in
By the Sea:
 Watch the work again and create a
stream-of-consciousness response.
Where does your mind take you?
Todd McMillan
By the Sea 2004
 Create a ‘time-lapse’ or summarised
version of your response. What are
the key thoughts, ideas or images that
remain?
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 What form could your response take?
(A performance? Drawing? Writing?)
Post-Visit
Tracey Moffatt: Focus on montage
In Other (2010) Tracey
Moffatt uses ‘montage’ to
build a narrative that
investigates the idea of ‘first
encounter’.
How does this editing technique
create meaning in the work?
Tracey Moffatt
Other 2010
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Post-Visit
Tracey Moffatt (continued…)
Create a DIY montage:
 Think of your favourite lines from a
movie, song or TV show.
 Perform your quote in a group to
create a montage.
 Experiment with the order of your
quotes - does this change the meaning
of your performance?
 Try this again...but based on a theme!
For example, love, death or
goodbyes…
Tracey Moffatt
Other (still) 2010
Post-Visit
Daniel Crooks: Focus on Sound
In Static No.12, Daniel Crooks
creates a soundtrack that
involves a combination of
sounds.
What contribution does sound
make to your experience of Static
No.12?
Daniel Crooks
Static No.12 (seek stillness in movement) 2009-10
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Post-Visit
Daniel Crooks (continued…)
Static No.12 Sound Drawing
Translate the soundtrack into a ‘sound
drawing’.
 As you listen to the soundtrack, create
a drawing on paper that responds to
the different sounds that you hear.
 How will you represent the different
layers of sound?
Daniel Crooks
Static No.12 (seek stillness in movement) 2009-10
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Post-Visit
The white cube vs. black box:
How can new media art be displayed?
Post-Visit
Extension project:
‘Every human being is an artist’
Experiment with narrative or the idea of
‘social sculpture’ by creating a 5
Vignettes video.
That is, 5 clips x 5 seconds each = 25
second narrative.
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 Here are some examples.
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Our supporters:
This exhibition has been supported by the Contemporary Touring Initiative
through Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program, and the
Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian Government and
state and territory governments.
We also appreciate the support of Deutsche Bank, our Education Partner.