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Truth or Consequences
Film
Past event
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
Five new works for cinema by artists Andrew de Freitas, Jeremy Leatinu’u, Vea Mafile’o, Janine Randerson and Bridget Reweti.
Truth or Consequences is curated by UK-based academic Erika Balsom. Presented with CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand and introduced by CIRCUIT director Mark Williams.
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Going online
I’ve never actually seen the Mona Lisa, and it’s a fair bet that most people reading this article haven’t either. Yet, according to Wikipedia, the painting is ‘the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world’. So how to account for the fame of an artwork we haven’t seen? And what have reproductions of Da Vinci’s sixteenth-century portrait got to teach us about time-based art and the online environment in 2015?
