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
BAITHOUSE – Henry Lai-Pyne, Emile Zile, Audrey Pfister, Liam Wolfs, Babs Rapeport
https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/acmi-rmit-audience-lab/march-expo-2024/
BAITHOUSE is a 3D animated motion-capture livestream talk show. Using live motion capture, physical performance and animation, guests and hosts will be presented in a constructed digital world and in conversation with one another. As an expanded form of hybrid public programming, performance and critical discourse BAITHOUSE is a new digital and artistic platform that will host hyper-threaded conversations around networked technologies, contemporary aesthetics and new media. Accessible to view online and presented as a hybrid live event for local audiences BAITHOUSE invites guest artists, writers, academics, and designers from across Australia to engage in Q&As and discussion around swamp technology, digital life, and internet (sub-)cultures.
Session times: 11.30am, 1pm & 2.30pm
ACMI Fed Square 16/03/24
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/
In the early 00’s I made a video about my experience of appearing on The Price is Right television game show. You can watch it on Vimeo; Larry Emdur’s Suit.
Today at 5pm AEDT [November 1 2023] I’m appearing on Channel 9’s Millionaire Hotseat with Eddie McGuire. My lifelong meta-artwork to be on every TV gameshow continues.
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
I’m undertaking a Test Sites opportunity in October/November, supported by City of Melbourne. Generous support to test a public art idea and work with concepts of public space, private space, emotional engagement on the street, commercial and non-commercial interaction.
The Test Sites program helps local artists test and develop their temporary public art ideas by providing practical advice, funding and support to work creatively in public space. The program increases local artists’ capability and confidence to work in the public realm through creative and professional development, support and mentoring, while engaging with the city, its sites and infrastructures as a place for creative expression.
LI-MA Presents: digital trees and talking machines
Saturday, 24 June, 2023 QUAI10 in Charleroi, Belgium
Programme: 20:30
Entrance: €6
https://www.li-ma.nl/lima/news/li-ma-presents-digital-trees-and-talking-machines-0
LI-MA has had the honor to curate a digital art program taking place at arts center Quai10 in Charleroi during the festival Canaux, Pays-Bas x Pays-Noir.
Thanks to communication technologies working at the speed of light, we are everywhere, all the time. We are in constant contact with each other, but what does that mean, and what are the consequences? In this video screening programme, artists ask themselves and us how we are connected to each other and the surrounding landscape in technological times. Curator Sanneke Huisman selected six video works made between 1970 and now, which are each from the LI-MA collection. Together they show a broad palette of new relationships between people, landscape and technology through the lens of video art. A colorful procession of analogy tricks and digital techniques breaks through existing boundaries of the natural and the artificial. Find yourself surprised by early experiments with the video camera, get lost in a dilapidated digitized primeval forest and become familiar with the strangest AI creations. With works by Steina, Broersen & Lukács and Emile Zile, and more!
This event is made possible with the support of ‘Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgium’.
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