<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial; "><font size="3"><b>MIC Toi Rerehiko Gallery Opening<br>Friday, 4th March 2011 <br></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; text-align: left; font-family: Arial; "><font size="3"><b>6:00pm - 8:00pm <br></b></font></div><span style="font-weight: bold; "><br>A Collection of Video and New Media Works By Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski <br><span style="font-style: italic; ">running through 25 March </span><br></span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">MIC Toi Rerehiko presents...</span><br><p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 16px; "><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-size: 11pt; ">Incompatible Elements is an immersive experience, using video projection soundscape and photographic imagery to explore the complexities of the relationship humans have with the natural environment and their interaction to it.</font></font></font></p><p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 16px; "><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-size: 11pt; ">Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski’s video and new media works have been shown extensively in Australia and internationally. Previous installations have explored issues of migration, territorial boundaries, conflict commodities and human displacement.</font></font></font></p><p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 16px; "><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-size: 11pt; ">For Incompatible Elements, Starrs and Cmielewski have used pixel manipulation and embed poetic texts into animated satellite images of landscapes at particular risk from global warming. The failure of nations in 2009 to reach an agreement at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen has highlighted the huge gap between the scientific consensus, and the political and public perceptions of the issues. Responding to climate change in ways that are mythical, biblical and chemical, Incompatible Elements questions the urban perception that humans exist apart from, or outside of, the natural environment.</font></font></font></p></span></span></font><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px; "><strong>MIC | Toi Rerehiko - Media and Interdisciplinary Arts Centre</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px; ">Website: <a href="http://www.mic.org.nz">www.mic.org.nz</a> - Email:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px; "><a href="mailto:info@mic.org.nz">info@mic.org.nz</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px; ">Telephone:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px; "><strong>+64 9 379 9922</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px; ">- Physical location</span></div><div style="background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px;"><br></span></font><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><table bgcolor="" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr align="center"><td><table bgcolor="white" width="450" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><img src="http://email.thechurch.co.nz/open.php?M=21385&L=42&N=520&F=H"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><br><table bgcolor="" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr align="center"><td><table bgcolor="white" width="450" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><img src="http://email.thechurch.co.nz/open.php?M=21385&L=42&N=520&F=H"></div></span></body></html>