Residency Begins at Hazelhurst Regional gallery as part of the group show 'Ghost' curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham. An incredible line up including Wade Marynowsky, Kate Murphy, Robyn Backen..etc.
Exhibition Opens 4/12/2010 – 29/1/2011.



National Geographic Feature, 'Steve Shoots Dan'

Thanks to noted Blue Mountains photographer, Stephen Babka for the photo 'Dan on Dogface'. This photo features Stephen Babka's exemplary photographic excellence taken whilst suspended precariously 100 mtrs over the Jamison Valley in order to shoot me climbing the exposed cliff line of 'Dogface'. This incredible geographical feature is the result of a recent landslide in the 1970's, which was heard in Sydney, as the face of the cliff fell to the Jamison Valley floor. This shot won the well known photographer several awards. Please see the link at the National Geographic Magazine website at:
ngm.nationalgeographic.com/myshot/gallery/270737#/enlarged/906145/
Further adventures to follow.


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Original concept proposal submission 'Letters to the Editor' 2010.

'Letter to the Editor' Presentation

There will be a public opening of the Rookwood interactive sculpture 'Letters to the Editor' officially recognizing the acquisition of my work to the cemetery and a public ceremony to release the letters collected to date. This work invites visitors to the cemetery to deposit letters to their loved one's who may have passed on, offering an opportunity to pass on thoughts and comments to the loved one's when the opportunity was not possible prior to them passing.




ABC presenter, Richard Morecroft opens 'Into the [B]Voyd' Solo Exhibition at Shoalhaven Regional Gallery.



Installation view showing various works from'Into the [B]Voyd' 2010.

‘Into the [B]Voyd'
[A contemporary derive' - Arthur Boyd rolls with Daniel Kojta]
Solo Exhibtion Shoalhaven City Arts Gallery
Video Installation, Sculpture, Digital Stills.
Daniel Kojta August 2010.



Daniel Kojta, new media artist and 2010 Bundanon Residency recipient.

Daniel Kojta, Blue Mountains based new media artist will undertake the second A.Arts Bundanon Residency during April. In 2004, Kojta graduated with an Honours degree in Visual Arts from the University of Western Sydney, where he was awarded the university medal. Since that time, as well as developing his own practice, Kojta curated a new media survey exhibition at the Bathurst Regional Gallery in 2008, received sponsorship from Arts Access Victoria and ANAT to attend the Super Human Revolution of the Species Symposium in 2009 as a Master Class Participant, and presented on the panel ‘Excellence – What is it anyway?’ at the Power House Museum Sydney, Arts Activated National Conference in 2010. Kojta’s current new media practice investigates the parameters of human form as well as bringing life and movement to inanimate elements of the everyday. He aims to create a series of video installations and interactive sculptures during his time at Bundanon, inspired by the presence and legacy of Arthur Boyd. Opened by well known ABC presenter, Richard Morecroft, these video projections and sculptural interventions will be shown in a solo exhibition at the Shoalhaven Regional Gallery in July 2010.


July - August Shoalhaven Regional Gallery Solo

‘Into the [B]Voyd'
[A contemporary derive' - Arthur Boyd rolls with Daniel Kojta]
Solo Exhibtion Shoalhaven City Arts Gallery
Video Installation, Sculpture, Digital Stills.
Daniel Kojta August 2010.



‘Finding a Boyd in the kitchen cupboard’
HD Video Loop. 6’00’’
Daniel Kojta 2010 Bundanon Residency

Into the [B]Voyd will present a series of media installations by New Media artist and curator, Daniel Kojta, produced on residency at Arthur Boyd’s property, Bundanon.

The video and sculptural installations of ‘Into the [B]Voyd’ reference the artists wanderings throughout Bundanon whilst on residency, as a derive’ by the contemporary flaneur. The attraction of the terrain immerses the flaneur in a timeless presence, a fold between the subjects of so many of Arthur Boyd’s paintings, and the paintings themselves.

This in-between space of reality and timeless presence, is experienced as a shift between the two dimensions of Arthur Boyd’s paintings and the three dimensional space of their subject; Bundanon. Into the [B]Voyd references this shift or fold as the relationship of time based media in the works presented, and the experience of Arthur Boyd’s paintings of Bundanon.



'Stand up for your self'
HD Digital still.
Daniel Kojta
Bundanon Residency Gravity Intervention [V]
2010.



’Get over yourself'
HD Digital still.
Daniel Kojta
Bundanon Residency Gravity Intervention [V]
2010.



'Manipulating gravity like a bad lover'
HD Digital still.
Daniel Kojta
Bundanon Residency Gravity Intervention [M]
2010.

'Knock & Run - rolling terrorism'. Expeditions of the 'Psuedo Utopian Socialist'. The role of this expedition is to locate areas of visual and audio silence; an indigenous space of the 'natural' which escapes the velocity of visual and auditory noise of contemporary society. The actions are based on the vacancy which remains between 'conveyor belt consciousness' and authentic surprise. This search has been a motivating force within my practice for some time.



Knock & Run [rolling terrorism I]
HD Digital still.
Daniel Kojta
Studio Gravity Intervention [M]
2010.



Knock & Run [rolling terrorism II]
HD Digital still.
Daniel Kojta
Studio Gravity Intervention [M]
2010.



'Art Collector'
'First Flush' Group Exhibition Parramatta City Council
Mixed Media installation'
Daniel Kojta 2010


NEWS 'Letters to the editor' from the 'Hidden' Group Sculpture Exhibition Curated by David Capra, has been acquired by the Rookwood Cemetery Trust as a permanent installation/sculpture on the grounds. Thanks to David Capra and the staff of Rookwood.

Solo Exhibition 'Into the (B)Voyd', Daniel Kojta, Video Installation, sculpture. Shoalhaven Regional Gallery. June 2010

Selected for Group Exh. 'The Ghost Show' Hazelhurst Regional Gallery Nov. 2010

Currently Showing Daniel Kojta 2010




'First Flush exhibition', investigates and celebrates this novel but important contribution the Macquaries made to modern Australia. Chamber pot to WC - Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie were the first in NSW to import and install a flushing toilet into their then residence, Old Government House, Parramatta.

'The First Flush' exhibition will be installed in locations around Parramatta CBD. Look out for the works of Anna Watts, Jodie Whalen, John Spiteri, Linda Brescia, Frances Bickle (aka Heath Franco and Jodie Whalen), Kay Armstrong, Lada Dedic, Anne Gaulton, Alli Sebastian Wolf, Daniel Kotja, David Capra, Jason Wing and Kerrie Kenton in Parramatta from 30 June.

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Current Works Daniel Kojta 2010
Bundanon Residency



'Walking all over my friends'
HDD Video, 6:00 loop.
Daniel Kojta
Bundanon 2010.

'Walking all over my friends' 2010, is a contemporary derive' through a perception of phenomena; a virtual miracle in which the artist's relationship to gravity is altered by the omniscient power of the 'Edit'.

Artist Daniel Kojta, directs colleagues to film the lower half of their bodies as they walk, and unites their movement with his torso in a choreographed 'derive' through the geography of a single body. The result presents Daniel (paraplegic) walking through the geography of Arthur Boyd's Bundanon as contemporary flaneur.
Contributing artist's include: Claire Healy, Sean Cordeiro, Wade Marynowsky, Malcom Whittiker, Adam Cullen, Mark Bolotin, and others.


Trapping the gaze - [trap series I]
Interactive installation, found objects, lights, audio, HD video.
Daniel Kojta 2010.
Thanks to Bundanon Residency



"The fascination of the mystery saturates my practice. By confronting the creative process through consistent explorations into the ambiguities of reality, illusion and perspective, my works assimilate the forces that comprise my understanding of perception and interaction. This force has illuminated a navigation process of constant recontextualisation of perspective along a line of flight traversing the liminal borders where an evolving system is on the verge of generating an alternate mode, a raw perception of being. The 'alien' is emerging."




Group Exhibition 'Hidden'
Curated by David Capra
Daniel Kojta - 'Letters to the Editor'
Rookwood Cemetery
2010.



The front of the work provides a letter box slot into which the audience at the cemetery are invited to submit letters and notes to loved ones who have passed on, to which they may have missed the opportunity prior to their death.





'Letters to the editor'
'Hidden' Group Sculpture Exhibition Curated by David Capra
Sculptural installation
Sandstone, stainless steel, perspex.
Daniel Kojta 2010.





Art Month Sydney Launch Party Video Exhibition
CUSTOMS HOUSE SYDNEY

Elvis Richardson
Soda_Jerk
Jessica Hayley & Hayley Forward
Sarah Goffman
Daniel Kojta
Rachel Scott
Pete Volich
Sam Smith
Agatha Gothe-Snape
Daniel Mudie Cunningham





'Letters to the Editor'
Sandstone Sculpture
Sandstone, Stainless steel, LED light, Letterbox insert.
Daniel Kojta 2010.

NOW IN ITS SECOND YEAR, HIDDEN: A ROOKWOOD SCULPTURE WALK UNVEILS THE WORK OF 24 ARTISTS' RESPONSES TO THE ROOKWOOD SITE, ONE OF THE LARGEST CEMETERIES IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE. THROUGH ASSEMBLAGES AND EPHEMERAL, TEXT AND SOUND BASED INSTALLATIONS, ARTISTS OPEN UP QUESTIONS ABOUT DEATH AND GRIEF AND EXPLORE THEIR OWN PERSONAL CONNECTION TO THE SITE.



One Minute Films - Dir. Daniel Kojta Selected Shanghi World Expo 2010





Daniel Kojta is a curator and new media artist based in the Blue Mountains Australia. In the tradition of Panamarenko and Bill Viola Daniel’s works engage the senses, often through an interactive experience within installations, sculptures, performances and video projections.

The latest curatorial gathering assembled by Daniel featured over twenty works by some of Australia’s most celebrated new media practitioners at the Bathurst regional Gallery. From the award winning immersive media installations by Jordanna Maisie to the expansive cinema practice of Video Art collaborators, Soda Jerk, this exhibition remains one of the years highlights.

Most recently Daniel was awarded the 2010 Bundanon artist's residency at Arthur Boyd’s south coast paradise, Daniel will be working through a media series of video installations and interactive sculptures that will present a body of human traps to the audience featuring the allure of some of contemporary society’s most desirable consumables within the awaiting bait.

This latest work follows on from previous explorations in urban myth and social history in which Daniel documented the 2009 sightings of the Western Suburbs Yowie. As a hero figure of the unattainable, the Yowie series immersed those who chose to believe, in a romance of absence and invisibility from our world of loud and inescapable noise.





ONE MINUTE FILMS LAUNCHED TO WEB
Five films selected - Dir. Daniel Kojta (Sydney)

In City One Minutes life in each city is divided into 24 one minute portraits, each depicting one hour of the day. Every film is a personal impression of the city in which the artist lives or in which he is staying.

On cityoneminutes.org you can browse through time and place in a number of ways. For example: Follow the life in Beijing throughout 24 hours; explore life in each city between 5 and 6 in the morning; watch all the films in a mosaic of cities.

Selected for screen by Daniel Kojta (Sydney)



It must be a sign..
00:00 - 01:00
The Harbour bridge plays host to a bill board prophet. The sedentary directions usually offered by street signs have given way to a personality. It must be a sign.

Sydney Santstone
10:00 - 11:00



Accidental Tourist
11:00 - 12:00
Tourists frequent the Sydney Harbour bridge as a similar traveler traverses the foreground horizon. Both species are known to carry their home with them on their travels directed by the rythm of the heart.



Yowie Sighting in Sydney_Daniel Kojta
18:00 - 19:00

Eternity 2009
21:00 - 22:00
During the 1930's an anonymous legend of Sydney, Australia, left the word Eternity written in chalk all over the city on walkways, walls, buildings, it was seen everywhere and it soon became a legend of Sydney history. Here, technology of 2009 has reinterpreted the insignia of the people... Does it offer the same divinity of the original? Shot beneath the Harbour Bridge - a favored location of Eternity.



Blue Mountains based new media artist, Daniel Kojta has been awarded the 2010 Accessible Arts Bundanon Residency.


The Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence program is open to professional artists and groups, from all disciplines. The program supports artists’ new work, research and collaborations. Australian and international artists are hosted in purpose-built studios located at the Bundanon properties on the Shoalhaven River in NSW. As a gift to the Australian people, Arthur Boyd’s vision for Bundanon was to provide an inspirational haven for artists to pursue their practice.



Attending Re:live Media History Conference

The next iteration of the Media Art History conference is Re:live which is to be held in Melbourne, Victoria in 2009. The event follows the success of the two previous Media Art History conferences, re:fresh (Banff 2005) and re:place (Berlin 2007). The conference series is an initiative of Leonardo / ISAST (International Society for Art, Science and Technology) whose International Advisory Committee will publicise the event and referee papers.




Metazoa, 2008, Angela Main, Super Human Exhibition

Superhuman Masterclass Participant Daniel Kojta

FOR THOSE FEELING THE URGE TO EVOLVE, MELBOURNE IS THE PLACE TO BE IN LATE NOVEMBER AS LEADING MEDIA ARTS MAKERS, COMMENTATORS AND HISTORIANS CONVERGE FOR THE ANAT’S SUPER HUMAN: REVOLUTION OF THE SPECIES. CELEBRATING THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PUBLICATION OF DARWIN’S ORIGIN OF SPECIES, THE EVENT INVOLVES A SYMPOSIUM, MASTER CLASS AND MONTH-LONG EXHIBITION EXPLORING COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN THE SCIENCES AND THE ARTS AND THE IMPACT THESE HAVE ON BEING HUMAN.

Keynote speakers for the event include Ju Gosling (UK), working with digital lens-based media exploring ideas of the able and disabled body; Tami Spektor (US) an organic chemist with an interest in nanotechnology; Barbara Maria Stanford (US) who explores the intersection of visual arts and neuroscience to shape our senses; Paul Brown (UK) media artist exploring robotics and neuroscience; and Junichi Ushiba (Japan) who has developed the Brain-Machine Interface (BMI), offering the potential for people to operate avatars in SecondLife just by thinking about it.

There will also be two days of masterclasses with a wide range of international and Australian artists, curators and thinkers with practical advice on resource networks, marketing and audience development, as well as theoretical discussion, from the likes of Amanda Macdonald Crowley, George Poonkin Khut, Lizzie Muller, Kim Machan, Jens Hauser, Sarah Cook and Daniel Kojta.

Presented by ANAT in association with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI).


catalog design & production Pro-Brand.


draft promotional image design Daniel Kojta

Showing Off
a new media exhibition curated by Daniel Kojta

Friday 7 August to Sunday 20 September 2009
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70-78 Keppel St, Bathurst, NSW

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) is pleased to present Showing Off,a large-scale New Media survey exhibition curated by one of Australia’s most exciting emerging curators, Daniel Kojta.

In 2008 BRAG was one of only three galleries to receive an Arts NSW grant under their Emerging Curators Pilot Program. BRAG invited Daniel Kojta, an artist and curator based in Wentworth Falls, to develop a New Media exhibition which would showcase emerging and established, regional and metropolitan artists.

Exhibiting Artists 'Showing Off':
Keith Armstrong, Ella Barclay, Kirsten Bradley, Cash Brown, Ben Denham, Leah Heiss, Soda_Jerk, Janice Kuczkowski, Alexandra Gillespie & Somaya Langley, Sofie Loizou, Jordana Maisie, Peter Newman, David O’Donoghue, Jasper Streit & Rene Christen, Justene Williams.

This visually and intellectually engaging exhibition will demonstrate diverse trends within current New Media Art including wearable technology, locative media and video arts says Curator Daniel Kojta.

While referencing both obsolete and cutting edge technologies, Showing Off will offer regional and metropolitan audiences a unique experience of New Media Art.

The exhibition will be opened by Dr. Blair French, Executive Director, Artspace, 6pm Friday 7 August.

Written by Brad Hammond for Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 2009

PLEASE NOTE : The documentation below provides a brief outline of curatorial and exhibition practice to date. At present I am recovering from compulsory surgery and able to produce or curate works which I am able to complete whilst confined to bedrest. Thank you for you interest.
Artist/Curator/Teacher, Daniel Kojta


2009

Curating 'Showing Off'
Daniel Kojta
New Media Exhibition
Bathurst Regional Gallery
Info: dkojta@dodo.com.au


Daniel Kojta is an emerging curator / new media artist. The works engage the senses, often through an interactive experience within installations, sculptures, performances and video projections.
In the tradition of Panamarenko and Bill Viola, the works call from the participants an alternating range of rational reflections and spontaneous emotions by apprehending the creative tension between subjective response and the kinaesthetic experience of philosophical ideas. Prior to surgery Daniel was working within remote Aboriginal communities of the Gulf of Carpentaria, and far west NSW. in the development of New Media programs.
Although not practicing due to medical complications from surgery Daniel holds a history of practice within local and metropolitan galleries throughout Australia, focusing on Sydney. At present works are restricted to what can be produced from a hospital bed.

2009

Exhibiting ATVP 'Bushwacked' Group Show
'I told you it was there'
Installation. Micro flouro, Electronics, Glass.
AWARDED SECOND PLACE
Daniel Kojta Feb 2009


'I told you it was there'
Daniel Kojta 2009.


August 2008

Teaching Wilcannia Central school - Art & Science/Secondary.
Indigenous community - Paakantji People.

Alternate Project 1. Documenting magnetic polarity suspension phenomena - Darling River Plains - Darling River Wilcannia.






Photo credit Laurice Ghannoum.


Currently Showing 'Myth' Exhibition Parramatta Artists Studios, Group show. NSW.
'Yowie Evidence AX G - 73' - security camera footage as captured Western Suburbs during ascent of Mt. Druitt. 2008. Data Projection, audio, Ledger book 1936, water mark, plynth. Daniel Kojta.


'Metholated Spirit - safely hidden'
Rubber, 'Witches Hat' boundary marker, cotton military pattern cover.
77 W x 67cm H.
Mori Gallery, Sydney. 'Battle Feel' Group Exh. April 2008.
Daniel Kojta

This sculpture juxtaposes the extreme attraction of the 'witches hat' used to gain attention, with the concealment of the military camouflage, used to remain hidden in a given situation.


April 2008

MORI Gallery Sydney. Group Exhibition 'Battle Feel' Sculptural Installation, 'Metholated Spirit'. Opening April 9 6pm. All welcome.

Jan 2008




EXHIBITION OF THE YEAR SYDNEY 2007
Voted as Photo media exhibition of the year, Sydney by Peter Frost of Artlife, with a number of critics including Robert McFarlane. Alien Presence - [handmade echo], Daniel Kojta, Stills Gallery Paddington. Jan 2007 with Paul Adair, Pete Volich.



Artlink Magazine Feature Article written by Daniel Kojta.
Artlink, Vol 27 no 4, Reskin: Intensive Collaboration.
www.artlink.com.au/articles.cfm?id=3037




'Line Describing', Architectural Projection, Electrofringe Festival, Newcastle. Daniel Kojta 2007.


The installations are designed to activate the attention of the visitor or participant, beyond that which is allocated to chance or phenomena. They capture ordinary moments and present them as a discovery, or application, as an experience unique to each visitor.



Most recently Daniel has begun a new series of work. The works focus on the relationship of gravity and movement. Movement in flight, movement as the experience of the contemporary Flaneur, a journey through the senses. The first in the series explores movement only visible through stasis. In 'Digital Flaneur', Daniel employs technology to transform the 'position of view' in order to achieve the anonymity required by the contemporary Flaneur.




Showing Vanishing Point Gallery, Newtown. Climate Change Show.



April 2007



Showing Vanishing Point Gallery, Newtown. Gallery Opening Show. Group. April.Installation 'Digital Flaneur', 2007.

A video install showcasing the results of a 'miracle' by technology. Daniel is healed by technology and walks. In memory of Baudrillard, 'Digital Flaneur' explores the simulacra in the power of contemporary technology to produce reality, 'The Super Real' as ref. by Merleau Ponty, and ponders the entropy of reality through a modern day miracle.



March 2007


'Light Scribe' Anat Residency LAB RESKIN, Australian National Museum. Daniel Kojta Feb. 2007

Completed LAB residency, Reskin ANAT www.anat.org.au/reskin see images: www.flickr.com/reskin, or article written by Daniel Kojta: www.artlink.com.au/issue.cfm?id=2740


Jan - February 2007


'Alien Presence - [handmade echo]' Stills Gallery Paddington. Daniel Kojta Feb 2007

Showing at Stills Paddington, 'Alien Presence' Video Installation.
This video installation presents a synchronised moment through twelve video works produced all over the world at the same moment with each work sharing a common horizon line. Directed by Daniel Kojta the installation includes works by noted artists; Adam Cullen, Greg Brown, Carly Leimbech, Katryn Nyholm, Stephen Barrass, and others.



'Sleep' Ahros, National Contemporary Gallery Denmark. Katrine Nyholm, Carly Leimbach, Daniel Kojta. Installation presenting a telepresent projection of people sleeping, shot live in Australia, projected on bed in Denmark State Gallery.


'Alien Presence - [erewhon seduction]' Pelt Gallery Sydney Daniel Kojta. Apr 2006

'AP Erewhon Seduction' engaged four Artists each evening through the course of the exhibition. They slept on the constructed beds wired for video and audio recording. The footage was captured through the evenings and presented following time treatment next day as a large wall projection at end of each bed. The complete install was set up as a lab research event. Sleepers included; Stephen Barrrass, Inga Liljestrom, Adam Cullen, Daniel Green, Jasper Streit, Laurice Ghannoum.