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User Unfriendly Interface
Artist StatementUser Unfriendly Interface, CD ROM/Installation on themes of conspiracy theories, male vs female concept of space, dating services, mens issues and personality testing.Source of Artist Statement
Urban Codemakers: rezone the city through play
Artist StatementThe Urban Codemakers operated in Guildford Lane between August 2010 and February 2011. Their urban renewal project sought to rezone the city through play. It consists of three guilds, street signage, 100+ blog posts, four blogs, a…
Tree of Fortune
Unbearable Lightness (tree of fortune) is a collaboration between Keith Armstrong and Linda Carroli recontextualising the Christmas tree. On the South Bank Cultural Forecourt, a fig tree is decorated with small glowing baubles which on closer…
The World Generator/The Engine of Desire
Artist StatementThe World Generator promotes a form of active looking/listening/interacting/understanding. Through interaction with this virtual world generator, text potentially qualifies differing emotive aspects of the current computer-based…
Talking about the Weather
Artist StatementTalking About the Weather is an ongoing cross media project sparked by our response to the terrifying spectre of global climate change. Sheer terror at the possibilities that are being talked about led us to talking about the weather.…
Suspended Disbelief
From within the pile of books, on an endless loop, comes the sound of two voices telling an endless story. The story is made from quotations from more than sixty different novels. The pieces are put together in such a way that they suggest a…
Suppermassive
Working in a variety of media, including sculpture, drawing and photography, as well as video, Stevens experiments with sound, text and imagery to explore and manipulate the conventions of narrative. At the core of his practice is a desire to…
Space Junk
Space junk is a video and sound installation that continues out-of-sync situationist inspired practice of making work that starts with performative encounters in public places. The work dwells textually, aurally and visually on the paradoxes and odd…
Space Between
Artist StatementAttempting to write four different letters simultaneously with the use of extensions attached to arms and legs.Source of Artist Statement
Searching for rue Simon-Crubellier
A site specific performative multi-media experiment/exploration of myth and map making, of bodies, space and the many modalities of old and new media. The work documents the artists' search/research for fictional site in Paris inspired by the work of…
Raft
The idea of a raft is of something lashed together, an inventive solution to a problem, of making do from available materials, of creating something which may be lifesaving. A raft also suggests travelling, and specifically travelling over water.…
Pulling Strings
Artist StatementAttempting to write two different letters by pulling and releasing strings attached to each of the four limbs.Source of Artist Statement
Points of View II - Babel
Artist StatementPoints of View II - Babel addressed issues relating to the Falklands War. It implemented functional and iconographic structures that were similar to Points of View I. Egyptian hieroglyphs were used to articulate both a visual and…
Points of View I
Artist StatementPoints of View was a 'theatre of signs' with both stage and protagonists being provided by a three-dimensional computer graphics simulation that was video projected onto a large screen in front of a seated audience...The…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
Internal Aliens
Artist StatementA mixed media installation exploring the female body and alien conspiracy theories.Source of Artist Statement
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…
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…
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…