This October, London-based AV pioneers D-Fuse visit Auckland to exhibit at MIC, take part in an artist panel and screening, and perform live at Galatos. Re-imagining the City focuses on our shared urban future through the eyes of designers, architects, film makers and creatives.

Curated by British Council and onedotzero, Re-Imagining the City is part of Creative Cities, a cultural and artistic project promoting global citizenship across East Asia.Two video installations - Small Global and Undercurrent - will feature at MIC's 321 K' Road Gallery.

Small Global explores the impact of corporate giants on local economies and the environment using data-driven, multi-screened environments, 3D animation, still photography and vector maps to deconstruct our daily diet of convenience and technology.

Undercurrent examines the psycho-geography of urban life in cities in China and the UK, following rivers through post-industrial landscapes to investigate urban architecture, economic and social change, as well as our personal relationship to the space that surrounds us.

D-Fuse will also be joined by local creatives Caroline Robinson (Cabal), Sue Gallagher (AUT) and Richard Reid (Architect) to discuss the role of artists in shaping cities of the future on 17 October. This will be followed by a screening of graphic cities - innovative moving image work re-interpreting urban environments, curated by onedotzero (UK).

On 18 October, D-Fuse present the world premiere of Surface - live sonic cinema inspired by the sights and sounds of our rapidly changing urban environments. New collaborative content will be added as D-Fuse tour East Asia with this evolving work - in NZ this will be through the Creative Technologies Lab, a new partnership between AUT School of Art & Design and MIC.

Look out for local scenes onscreen. D-Fuse have played/performed at Sonar (Barcelona), The V&A Museum (London), Tribeca Film Festival (New York), Mori Arts Centre (Tokyo) and Life Hub (Shanghai). They have collaborated with musicians including Scanner, Swayzak, Steve Reich + the London Symphony Orchestra and Beck - who commissioned a series of videos and a world tour based on his 2005 album Guero. The D-Fuse exhibition is curated exclusively in NZ by MIC Toi Rerehiko.

24/9/07