ACMI Gallery 5 – We Are As Gods We Are as Gods explores the informal, spontaneous commentary that accompanies cooperative videogame streaming. Through a series of portraits of gamers in the act of live streaming, we hear dialogue that is simultaneously directed at the players themselves, at a remote audience, at a rival player of …
Re:Capcha
2022 Performance
In July I wrote a few short stories about the individuals contained within CAPTCHA™ web authentication panes. Elaborating on the digitally-native and banal daily existence of these users, stories were told about mid-level DJ decks streaming to twitch, small claims disputes over stolen gaming computer property, checking job application CVs in the cloud via McDonalds …
4500 Lumens
2021 Performance
Continuing with his ongoing interest in light as a carrier of information, be it the projected image, shadow play or expanded cinema performance, Emile Zile presents a new performance in the Gothic and Medieval galleries of NGV International for Triennial EXTRA. Referencing the scientific measurement of light and the once-new technology of the candle as …
Becoming The Icon
2020 Short film
Watch film; https://2020.bleedonline.net/program/becoming-the-icon/becoming-the-icon-film/ Becoming The Icon is a film in which the language of power manifests in familiar yet uncanny ways. Echoing the rhythms of political speech and gesture, artists Lilian Steiner and Emile Zile reveal the ways in which truth and conviction are more than abstract concepts, instead finding surprising roots in our embodied …
Pandemic Playlists
2020 Podcast
Emile Zile interviews Melbourne artists, writers and creative operators about their media-consumption patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic and continual rolling lockdowns. Starting with discussion of their binge-watching, late night listening or reality TV indulgences, conversations spill out onto other topics and quickly move to less stable zones. https://pandemicplaylists.simplecast.com pandemicplaylists@protomail.com Pandemic Playlists is supported by the …
Performer / Audience / Lens
2018 Performance
Performer / Audience / Lens (after Dan Graham) Emile Zile 2018 Export Happenings is a part of the MEL/NYC program, coinciding with the 2018 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition presented by the National Gallery of Victoria in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art in New York. http://nextwave.org.au/event/14471/
Liquid Cooled
2017 Solo show
Liquid Cooled: new works by Emile Zile April 26 – June 14, every day 6 – 11 PM LI-MA Media Art Platform, Amsterdam http://www.li-ma.nl/site/news/liquid-cooled-new-works-emile-zile
Desktops
2015 Solo show
Desktops solo show and performance Fort Delta Melbourne 5 – 21 November 2015 For his exhibition Desktops at Fort Delta, Zile further explores our attraction to communications technology and their ability to translate and encode our lived experience through a series of assemblages, constructed from office furnishings and other objects related to white-collar labour, self-help …
James Cameron’s Avatar (Mes 56)
2014 Performance
‘Put Up a Signal’ residency and group show Performance 21 November 2014 at Ruang MES, Indonesia 56 Participating artists: Alfi a.k.a Setro Gondo Mayit, Greatest Hits, Agan Harahap, Yusuf Ismail, Oliver van der Lugt, Eugenia Lim, Rowan McNaught, Sean Peoples, Eldwin Pradipta, Wok the Rock and Emile Zile. Curated by Agung Nugroho Widhi, Akiq AW …
I follow Yoko and Yoko follows me
2014 Performance
Experimental Universe Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 6 February 2014, 6:00-9:00pm Experimental Universe is a program of events featuring films, music and performances created by Australian artists responding to Yoko Ono’s rarely-visited instructional works, Six Film Scripts (1964) and Imaginary Film Series (1968). Running over two nights (6 February and 13 February) the program also …
Western Digital
2013 Short film
I am a monk. I am a tourist. Within the street I see the stage for every human conflict and negotiation. Specifically for this video I was interested in contrasting the buddhist principles of mindfullness, meditation, removing yourself from time to the act of photography, grasping for permanence, embalming a moment. The last shot of …
Post Studio Practice
2013 Video
Post Studio Practice, 2013 2K HD video, 1.35 minutes. Camera and cut: Emile Zile Screenings: Screen Space Melbourne, 14 March – 26 April 2014. http://screenspace.com.au/screenspace.html
Jack
2012 Short Film
Emile Zile’s film focuses on a figure lost, or purposely drifting through, the light industrial non-site of suburban Footscray. Footscray acts here as a non-site that could be almost anywhere: Queens in New York or Salford in Manchester. The figure we follow emerging from a crepuscular time is recognisably ubiquitous the world over – a …
DVD Burner (NIMk)
2012 Performance
DVD Burner (NIMk) was a solo performance commissioned by the Netherlands Media Art Institute to mark it’s last event before funding cuts forced it to amalgamate with Smart Project Space Amsterdam. A site-specific work inviting audience members to reflect a laser beam of light around the room using DVD discs gathered from the extensive and historical video …
Subtitle Kino (Färgfabriken)
2012 Performance
Cinema-based solo audiovisual performance that extracts the subtitle track from three King Kong films (1933, 1976, 2005) and recombines them within one frame. A live sound mix is performed to create a compressed version of the one narrative over multiple epochs. A feature-length re-encoding of the scripts based on chance and narrative conventions. Performances: Färgfabriken, …
OMG_sisyphus
2011 Performance
Wednesday November 30 2011, Open Archive Melbourne Thanks to Jared Davis, Helen Grogan, Lara Thoms, Ry David Bradley Photography by Jo Duck With his history of performances that engage with popular culture and consumer technology Emile Zile recently premiered OMG_Sisyphus. The Greek mythology of Sisyphus, a tale of burden and absurdity, is used as a …
*best*RapidEssayNSFW!!
2011 Performance
*best*RapidEssayNSFW!! is a live video essay by Amsterdam-based Australian artist Emile Zile. It uses online and prepared video sources from YouTube, 24hour news streams, scientific trials, viral marketing blips, social software and monologues by .com-era cult leaders to weave an audiovisual portrait of contemporary culture and its acceleration of signs. As a live performance, *best*RapidEssayNSFW!! …
Five Production Company Logos in 3D
2010 Video
Diane Tanzer Gallery + Projects Melbourne April 2-23 2011 Urzsula Dawkins review in Realtime 103 ‘Signalling, not clowning’ Philip Brophy catalogue essay ‘Ego Logos & Euclidean Cum Shots‘ Original audio by Adam Milburn Emile Zile’s Five Production Company Logos In 3D presents an imaginary ‘real man’ behind these grandiose charades born of selfimportant declaration. Just …
One million Paradiso guitar solos
2009 Performance
Compaction and compression of the guitar solo, Mouth microphone channeling the eternal guitar solo, noise and liberation, freedom and egotism. Presenting a metaphorical exorcism of the guitar solo. A channelling of the guitar solos delivered to audiences at Amsterdam’s iconic live music venue Paradiso. 18 September 2009, http://www.paradiso.nl Live sound mix by Danny O’Really Photographs …
Post-it Kino
2008-2011 Performance
‘Emile’s Post-It ™ Kino is the abject reality of what cinema has become – or more precisely, how it has reduced itself to such a state through trumpeting the power of ‘the script’. His performances are part-pitch, part-direction, part-analysis, part-expose, part-revival, part-review. His faux-Power Point ™ presentation – playing film music to a DVD screen …
Larry Emdur’s Suit
2002 Video
‘Zile is chosen as a contestant on The Price is Right. He comes-on-down, gliding and shuffling. He shrugs, waves his hands, twitches and finishes up on stage, generating a series of movements that range in possible interpretation from ‘right on’ to ‘wow’ and then well beyond meaning. Host Larry Emdur can’t talk, he can only …