Emile Zile is an artist, filmmaker and performer.
The reader is the audience. The reader is the market. The reader is the critic. The reader is the buyer. The reader is the voice in your head.
Over the course of the Stallholder Fair, Emile Zile will read publicly, privately, obviously, convulsively, discreetly, silently, annoyingly, desperately, lazily.
Melbourne Art Book Fair
23 May – 02 June
Great Hall, NGV International
180 Saint Kilda Road, Southbank Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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 the game and at anonymous third parties. Using longform recording, stream of consciousness rants and animation, We Are As Gods seeks to find the human in the network, the flesh in the data packet.
Work commissioned through Gallery 5 will enter the ACMI collection.
Many thanks to Senior Curator Fiona Trigg for her focus and patience and Jini Maxwell, Isabella Hone-Saunders at Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Visual FX don Henry Lai-Pyne for being the best in the game, Web maestro Simon Lofler for the clickable NPC streaming interactivity, Flood Slicer for the green screen studio and all Mountain Dew drinkers out there preparing to raid.
Showing now online at ACMI; https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/emile-zile-we-are-as-gods/
https://adelaidefilmfestival.org/expand-2023-participants/
Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) announced today the 30 participants selected to take part in AFF EXPAND Lab 2023. This intensive five-day Lab brings together some of Australia’s most creative and inventive artists, filmmakers and XR and VR practitioners in a development and commissioning process to foster new ideas for moving image artworks.
Following a national call for Expressions of Interest, 95 applications were received for the 30 places in the Lab (15 South Australian and 15 national participants). Participants will form teams during the Lab and develop concepts to pitch for the AFF/Samstag $100,000 Moving Image Commission. In addition, two projects will be selected for mentoring by Illuminate Adelaide and the Art Gallery of South Australia.
The mentors for 2023 AFF EXPAND Lab are time-bending digital artist DANIEL CROOKS, theatre maker & media artist ROBERT WALTON, highly respected moving image & film producer BRIDGET IKIN with video artist and filmmaker AMOS GEBHARDT joining as a mentor for the first part of the lab.
AFF EXPAND Lab is an initiative of Adelaide Film Festival with Samstag Museum of Art, Art Gallery of South Australia and Illuminate Adelaide. It is supported by Principal Partner The Balnaves Foundation and Arts South Australia.
Tully Arnot (NSW) – Visual Artist, Media Artist, XR/VR Creator
Max Brading (SA) – Visual Artist, Media Artist, XR/VR Creator
Jake Bresanello (SA) – Visual Artist, Media Artist, Filmmaker
Thom Buchanan (SA) – Visual Artist
Linda Chen (ACT) – Writer, Performer
Marcus Chong (VIC) – Visual Artist, Filmmaker
Chloe de Brito (NSW) – Visual Artist, Filmmaker
Miles Dunne (SA) – Visual Artist, Media Artist
Nisa East (NSW) – Filmmaker, Cinematographer
Deborah Kelly (NSW) – Visual Artist
Isobel Knowles (VIC) – Visual Artist, Media Artist, Filmmaker, XR/VR Creator
Bryce Kraehenbuehl (SA) – Visual Artist, Filmmaker, Videographer
Anna Lindner (SA) – Visual Artist, Filmmaker, Writer
Liang Xia Luscombe (VIC) – Visual Artist, Media Artist, Filmmaker
Chris Luscri (VIC) – Filmmaker
Charlotte Mars (NSW) – Filmmaker
Orlando Mee (SA) – Visual Artist, Media Artist, XR/VR Creator, Games Creative
Conor Mercury (SA) – Filmmaker
Kim Munro (SA) – Media Artist, Filmmaker
Yasemin Sabuncu (SA) – Visual Artist, Media Artist, Videographer, Games Creative
Ryan Sahb (SA) – Visual Artist, Media Artist, Filmmaker, Videographer
Cynthia Schwertsik (SA) – Visual Artist, Performance
Liam Somerville (SA) – Media Artist, Filmmaker, XR/VR Creator, Games Creative
Van Sowerwine (VIC) – Visual Artist, Media Artist, Filmmaker, XR/VR Creator
Will Spartalis (SA) – Visual Artist, Media Artist, Filmmaker, Composer
Kate Vinen (NSW) – Filmmaker
Yandell Walton (VIC) – Visual Artist, Media Artist, XR/VR Creator
Raymond Zada (SA) – Visual Artist, Media Artist, XR/VR Creator
Emile Zile (VIC) – Visual Artist, Media Artist, Filmmaker
Amber Gibson interviewed me about humour, performance, technology and gesture in her ongoing series that profiles artists working at ACMIX.
20 JULY 2022. MISCELLANIA 2/401 SWANSTON ST MELBOURNE VIC.
Curated by Mark Andrejevic, Laura McLean, and Joel Stern, this free experimental program at Miscellania club features artists, musicians, writers and researchers thinking with and against the logic of digital automation, algorithmic culture, and AI in order to trouble and subvert systems that extract, aggregate, model, and predict.
With performances and presentations by Monica Lim, Sean Dockray, Mara MacDonald, Vaughan Wozniek O’Connor, Roslyn Orlando, Emile Zile, Zacharius Szumer, Jathan Sadowski, Tom Smith, Sahej Rahal, Shareeka Helaluddin, Karen Ann Donnachie and Andy Simionato.
Logical Conclusions/Automation Effects is part of the 2022 ADM+S Symposium ‘Automated Societies: What Do We Need To Know?’ showcasing the Centre’s distinctive cross- and multi-disciplinary approach to automated systems and exploring a range of critical current and emerging problems, challenges, and conceptual questions.
Logical Conclusions/Automation Effects is presented by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society and Liquid Architecture.
Entering the final stretch of my practice-based PhD at Digital Ethnography Research Center RMIT. Presentation to outside assessor occurred on 5 July 2021, no revisions required.
Next steps;
– Revise and rewrite chapters on public performance works ‘4500 Lumens’, ‘Audience / Performer / Lens (after Dan Graham)’, ‘Becoming The Icon’
– Write concluding chapter and refine introduction chapter
– Confirm public screening and talk in late 2021 at ACMI Cinemas
I am producing a series of podcast interviews and a live weekend of events for Melbourne Art Book Fair, Melbourne Design Week commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria. Full event program below, the live event will be streamed via NGV website.
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/program/event-print-screen-new-publishing-now/
Podcast audio production by Carl Anderson, Graphic Design by Lauren Messina
Melbourne artist Emile Zile hosts a podcast series and live event for Melbourne Art Book Fair and Melbourne Design Week at the NGV.
Looking at the state of alternate publishing and new forms of distribution, PRINT SCREEN will host discussions on the widespread disruption of traditional media channels and the accelerating digitisation of shared cultural consumption. Via podcast and live forum PRINT SCREEN will open up a vital discussion on the new waves of publishing and promotion that are located in simultaneously public and private realms.
What are the possibilities for new forums of cultural dispersion? Is there any escape from software after Covid? Where is the new gatekeeper? Who is making new claims? Is this moment of destabilisation a significant opportunity to reimagine publishing?
Saturday 27 March – Great Hall, NGV International
12-1.15pm
Newsletter DJ (Tiesto) LG Hill
Christopher LG Hill plays his newsletter live and direct, chopping download links and slinging .zip archives. Taking his esoteric and wide-ranging email newsletter as a starting point, Melbourne artist, publisher and musician LG Hill flips the great (dance)hall on its ear for Melbourne Art Book Fair.
Listen to Emile Zile interview Chris at Print Screen podcast.
https://disclaimer.org.au/contents/one-year-of-a-link-based-email-newsletter
https://printscreen.simplecast.com/episodes/christopher-lg-hill
1.30-2.45pm
NFT fireside chat with Joe Hamilton and Nic Hamilton
Digital Artists Joe Hamilton and Nic Hamilton talk about their individual video practices and the newest category of commercial art, the NFT. Join us for a jargon-free primer for those curious about all that is non-fungible.
Followed by audience Q+A
https://foundation.app/joehamilton/hyper-geography-7426
https://www.nichamilton.info/collection
Sunday 28 March – Great Hall, NGV International
12-1.15pm
Digital Self-Publishing with Amelia Winata, Diego Ramirez and Anador Walsh
Art Criticism is migrating online, join leading local writers and editors to discuss digital art criticism, self-publishing and the challenges and limitations of being very online.
With Amelia Winata of MeMO review, Anador Walsh of Performance Review, Diego Ramirez of Running Dog
Followed by audience Q+A
https://memoreview.net/
https://www.performancereview.online/
https://rundog.art/
1.30-2.45pm
Static Bodies, Networked Bodies with Shian Law, Lilian Steiner, Harrison Hall and Sam Mcgilp
During COVID-19 dancers found new ways to move. How did dancers and choreographers publicise and distribute themselves under pandemic conditions? What was learnt in the great pivot to digital, what is to be kept? What is to be left in 2020?
Followed by audience Q+A
With Shian Law, Lilian Steiner. Harrison Hall and Sam Mcgilp
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/melbournenow/artists/shian-law.html
https://harrisonhall.com.au/
https://www.sammcgilp.com/
http://www.liliansteiner.com/
4500 lumens
Emile Zile
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 a participant in the development of the Western artistic tradition, his new performance takes place in a subdued, dark environment surrounded by five hundred year old devotional wood carvings.
Emile Zile is an artist, filmmaker and performer. Utilising a darkly comical re-use of media broadcasts, communication protocols and online platforms, his work reflects a distributed humanity, a yearning for transcendence and the limits of language. Emile Zile is a PhD candidate at Digital Ethnography Research Centre RMIT and is profiled in ‘Australiana to Zeitgeist: an A to Z of Australian Contemporary Art’ 2017 Thames & Hudson and ‘Companion to Mobile Media Art’ 2020 Routledge.
Jan 29, Feb 3, 6, 8, 10, 12
8:00 – 8:20pm
Gallery 13 Level 1
ARTLANDS CONVERSATION SERIES: REGIONAL ARTS AUSTRALIA
What role do we want technology to play in connecting our art practices to the wider world? What skills are artists working in isolated or remote parts of the world equipped with? Can issues such as digital saturation and digital inequality be overcome in order to create a more sustainable future?
Like many regional artists, Kim Goldsmith and Alana Hunt often create work in relatively isolated parts of Australia. In contrast, Jessica Olivieri and Emile Zile both practice in metropolitan areas, but have been no less impacted by the isolation imposed by lockdowns. What can these artists teach each other about isolation and digital connection, and how might this inform our thinking about where to next as arts practitioners?
Online Conversation on 25 Nov 2020
https://conversationseries.artlands.com.au/program/sessions/connection-in-times-of-isolation
AEST: 03:30pm – 04:30pm
ACST: 03:00pm – 04:00pm
AWST: 12:30pm – 01:30pm
During Plague 2k20 *the big PAUSE* I have been having conversations with Melbourne-based artists, writers and creative operators about their responses to COVID-19 and what media they are consuming while under quarantine, lockdown, isolation and/or temporary hiatus… While our bodies are slowed and our antennas are raised I’ve tried to capture some of the social histories of CV-19.
Subscribe on all major podcast platforms [Apple, Spotify, Google, WWW, RSS]
https://pandemicplaylists.simplecast.com
pandemicplaylists@protomail.com
Sound by Carl Anderson, Graphic by Lauren Messina.
Pandemic Playlists is supported by the City of Melbourne Covid19 Quick Response Art Grants.