Browse Items (263 total)

raskopoulos_footnotes_image1.png
Art happens slowly in Eugenia Raskopoulos’ installation: Footnotes. Certain letters appear and then fade away. Words are formed with stuttering gestures. Nothing is spoken. A language emerges from the spitting onto and the caressing of a surface.…

raskopoulos_under_my_skin_image1.png
Eugenia Raskopoulos’ latest installation straddles dark domestic and political territory. The messages range from blunt to subtle. A video camera looks through a car windscreen across which the word “refugees” is written against a clear blue…

fraser_name_that_movie_image1.png
"‘Name that Movie’ explores common colonisation techniques through the “gods eye” of mainstream movies with an international reach. When witnessing a recurring action, some say ‘I’ve seen that movie’. it is an ambiguous expression of…

fraser_other_wize_image1.png
In her multimedia installation, other[wize], Jenny Fraser recounts and reflects on her family history, and she describes it as ‘celebrating the lives of Mununjali family members that were moved from their traditional homelands in South East…

fraser_I_saw_signs_image1.png
Jenny Fraser works within a fluid screen-based practice of bold and confronting art that utilises popular cultural references as a bridge to challenge viewer’s frames of reference. Her practice has also been partly defined through a strong…

http://w0504.uws.edu.au/adeltaImages/Zervos/adventures/Zervos_adventures_image2.png
This narrative 'cyberpoem' started in 1995 with the goal of developing into a lengthy 'soapie' about the life of i. The project obviously didn't go on for a long time, though the 18 webisodes plus two alternate guest webisodes collected here are a…

http://w0504.uws.edu.au/adeltaImages/Zervos/javaPoems/Zervos_javaPoems_image1.png
This trio of early e-poems were written in HTML and use Java applets to shape their linguistic texts with a careful touch. 'Infinity' and 'Internet Junkie' both change the colour of the text over a schedule to shape readings and to imbue them with a…

http://w0504.uws.edu.au/adeltaImages/Zervos/gifPoems/Zervos_gifPoems_image1.png
This selection of six poems built with a type of composite image known as animated GIFs used to create the earliest animations in the Web. In Zervos' experienced hands (see his 'Dimocopo' suite), this simple technology can be very expressive indeed,…

http://w0504.uws.edu.au/adeltaImages/Zervos/exsquisite/Zervos_exsquisite_image1.png
A suite of five online poetry generator that produce a shifting lines of poetry in the manner of an exquisite corpse.ELMCIP: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice

http://w0504.uws.edu.au/adeltaImages/Zervos/dimocopo/Zervos_dimocopo_image1.png
This suite of 28 early animated poems from 1995-1997 were created as animated GIFs but are really powered by a vibrant enthusiasm over the ability of computers to write kinetic language. In this suite, we see words morph into other words and into…

http://w0504.uws.edu.au/adeltaImages/Zervos/childhood/Zervos_childhood_image1.png
In Childhood in Richmond, Komninos Zervos uses a collage of photos to tell a story about his life in 1950s Richmond, Victoria. The piece begins, 'I remember my childhood in the backstreets of Richmond/And the visions that leave a lasting impression/…

http://w0504.uws.edu.au/adeltaImages/Zervos/flashPoems/Zervos_flashPoems_image1.png
The first two of this list of poems stand out because of their use of Flash. Komninos' approach to Flash in his poem 'Beer' is similar to the work he published in animated GIFs: a sequence of words, morphing from one to the next producing surprising…

http://w0504.uws.edu.au/adeltaImages/Zervos/cyberpoetry/Zervos_cyberpoetry_image2.png
A perceptual joy-ride, full of visual attractions and sonic energies, cyberpoetry underground is notable for its sheer momentum and solid graphic punsmanship. Animated text, three-dimensional letter-forms and 360-degree views turn electronic space…

http://w0504.uws.edu.au/adeltaImages/Carroli_Wilson/tink/Carroli_Wilson_TinkAndLina_image1.png
[Lux]: is an array of texts by local and international writers and artists whose practices extend to online digital environments. The works published here were originally exhibited as text on paper at Adelaide's Contemporary Art Centre of South…

http://w0504.uws.edu.au/adeltaImages/Waterson/trope/Waterson_trope_image1.png
Artist StatementTrope creatively intervenes in the ways that readers engage with literary texts and aims to expand writing networks and to further develop the virtual literary community. Trope features short fiction and poetry in selected…

http://w0504.uws.edu.au/adeltaImages/WalkerLinda/stars/WalkerLinda_stars_image1.png
[Lux]: is an array of texts by local and international writers and artists whose practices extend to online digital environments. The works published here were originally exhibited as text on paper at Adelaide's Contemporary Art Centre of South…

http://w0504.uws.edu.au/adeltaImages/WalkerLinda/ocean/WalkerLinda_ocean_image2.png
Artist StatementThe work featured here belongs to a bigger project called A Drop In The Ocean, Slowly. This is a slow process of making visible texts and images which have been written and gathered over many years and are continuing to be…

http://w0504.uws.edu.au/adeltaImages/Walker/Venice/Walker_Venice_image1.png
Artist StatementVenice is usually presented as an anachronism: a ‘timeless’ or even anti-modern city, whose only practical use in the twenty-first century is as a catalogue of picturesque motifs (gondolas, reflected bridges, maskers). Precisely…

http://w0504.uws.edu.au/adeltaImages/VNS_Matrix/dirtyGirls/VNS_Matrix_dirtyGirls_image1.png
The project which they pursued was one of debunking the masculinist myths which might alienate women from technological devices and their cultural products. They believe that women who hijack the tools of domination and control introduce a rupture…

Tags: