Exposive Revelations (2008) by Daniel McKewen of the program Great Expectations.

NEXT WAVE festival - May 15-31 2008: a biennial festival all around Melbourne, presenting genre-busting new works by the next wave of Australian artists. The theme "Closer Together" refers to the way society is - for the better or for the worse - becoming increasingly connected by media and communication technologies.

Sceptical of the acclaimed social achievements of new technologies, the Brisbane-based artist-run initiative Boxcopy sets out to explore the futility of human activities with a collection of works entitled Great Expectations as part of the Membrane Project, a major site-specific exhibition, infiltrating the cracks and crevices of Federation Square.

A few other projects deal with media interventions in Public spaces such as Spinning a video projection by Kotoe Ishii is running on the Night Projection Window of the Centre for Contemporary Photography. Serial Blogger a unique digital narrative and performance installation based on a hyper-real crime scene investigation. The project invites audiences to pry into the lives of a group of bloggers who get a little too close to someone stranger than themselves a serial killer…. Esky a Moving architectural intervention is a quirky, curious and nomadic intervention, an unexpected inflatable bar and venue that will occupy periphery and unconventional urban spaces. Urban Screens wil be presented at the Polyphonic’s Forum 3 on Sunday 25th.