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1000 Broken Hearts
Artist Statement On the Internet, a heart breaks every 4 seconds.1000 Broken Hearts was an installation presented at Oxford Act Factory in October 2013 as part of the City of Sydney's Art and About. It reconfigures the last thousand heartbreaks from…
An Index for Kindness
The works by Ruark Lewis and Jonathan Jones are orchestrated in a colour symphony of reds, blacks and whites. As one enters the space, you are greeted by 'flags' with superimposed printed text, objects that are painted over with stripes, and a…
Anamorphoses of Memory
Artist StatementFor the exhibition Kunst Over de Vloer artists were invited to create works in the rooms of a private apartment building. Anamorphoses of Memory was located in a sparse and untidy student's bedroom. A monitor was placed on a mattress…
Architext
Artist StatementLarge LED alphanumeric units are mounted in a 13 x 9 grid on the stage tower of this theatre. Like a conventional news sign textual information is scrolled through these elements, but because the alphanumeric units are spaced far…
B.E.T.T.Y.
Artist StatementWhen ELIZA, the world's first chatbot, was born in the 1960s, users were startled at how much the psychotherapist in the program resembled a human. Since then, chatbots have become increasingly sophisticated; some predict that a…
Banalities for the Perfect House
Artist StatementBanalities for the Perfect House is a collaborative installation & performance work premiered at Sydney's Performance Space theatre on Sept 9 2005. The work posits the house as a condition through which we perceive the world - the…
Data Fiction v0.1
It's often said that dialogue in fiction is determined by the conventions of the novel, rather than by the way that people actually speak. However, artist Andrew Burrell and writer Chris Rodley aim to change all that by creating the world's first…
Enquire Within Upon Everybody
Enquire Within Upon Everybody, developed by technologist Andrew Burrell and writer Chris Rodley, is one of the most engaging of the works in The Portals (or perhaps that's because I've been lured too far into the Twittersphere over recent years).…
Euphemisms for The Intimate Enemy
Constructed of five hundred and fifty 55 gallon drums, this architectural scale installation explores the limits of language and its capacity to adequately convey meaning in the cross-cultural context. Drawing on the post-colonial texts of the Indian…
Everything Is Going To Be Ok
Artist StatementMillions of people are sharing their intimate secrets on social media. Every day, over 300 people across the globe will tweet 'don't leave me' to their significant others or try to reassure anxious loved ones by tweeting the words…
Exchange Fields
Artist StatementExchange Fields (2000), commissioned by the Vision Ruhr Exhibition in Dortmund Germany, incorporates the recorded dance and choreography of Regina van Berkel. The programmer Gideon May also became involved in this project. The central…
Fuzzy Love
Artist StatementIn the Fuzzy Love Dating Database people voluntarily photograph themselves and answer a series of questions as a kind of entry fee allowing access to the database of previous respondents, however access is limited to searching through…
Homeland Illuminations
Drawing on the rich cultural history of the CarriageWorks building, the surrounding suburb of Redfern and his grandfather's heritage as a labourer, Jonathan Jones collaborates with Ruark Lewis to create a striking installation piece from raw…
In My Empty House
A major new installation work by Ruark Lewis, In my empty house, includes a collaboration with experimental filmmaker Loma Bridge. The exhibition is a portrait composite of internationally renowned anthropologist Vivienne Kondos and her husband Alex…
In Search of the Inland Sea
In Search of the Inland Sea is a three part video/sound work, installation and performance event that remixes a journey of early Australian explorer, Charles Sturt, in which he hauled a whaleboat overland in search of an inland sea. As the artists…
Internal Aliens
Artist StatementA mixed media installation exploring the female body and alien conspiracy theories.Source of Artist Statement
Life After Wartime: Bystander
Artist StatementBystander is an immersive environment composed of photographs, sequences of short text, and musical patterns that all knit together to conjure haunting moods and stories for a large, darkened gallery space. The images, texts and sound…
Metabolism
A temporary installation in the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. A hole is cut into a sealed over fireplace in what was once a boy's classroom.. A sound work is placed inside the chimney of a lesson being given on the human digestive system. A…
Museum of Rumour
The Museum of Rumour, 2003, is both an internet work and a site specific installation originally installed at Callan Park, which had once been an insane asylum and is now Sydney College of the Arts. The website uses Gertrude Stein as a node for a…
Noemaflux
Artist StatementNoemaflux describes an act of shifting perception. The work is centered on an augmented reality that enables different ways of seeing the city. Participants use AR markers and generative writing systems to create an experience of…
Ooh! Aah!
A temporary installation to accompany Suite Talk, for the Adelaide Festival Fringe. The work is made of books and has a sound work of a variety of exclamations.Excerpt from the Australian Sound Design Project