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Welcome to Panopolis
Welcome to Panopolis takes the form of an imaginary travellers/tourist online guide that outlines a series of predictable and cliched experiences in what influential anthropologist Marc Auge, has labelled 'the non-places of supermodernity': spaces…
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).…
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…
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…
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…
Tableau: Greetings from Adelaide
Tableau's premise is the city: Adelaide. As place, time, tense, sense. It's the 'about' of writing oneself autobiographically, through the physical stratas of city, and it's especially 'about' how to write that to/for someone, as audience/reader,…
Mr Dawes Pronounces Well
Artist StatementDevelopment stage of a multi-disciplinary performance work based on the notebooks of First Fleet marine / astronomer / surveyor William Dawes who recorded his encounters between 1788-1790 with the indigenous peoples of the Sydney…
Life After Wartime
Artist StatementLife After Wartime is a suite of multimedia artworks by Kate Richards and Ross Gibson. Based on 3000 archival scene-of-crime images from Sydney and thousands of evocative texts by Gibson, each iteration within the suite uses various…
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…
Foul Whisperings, Strange Matters
Artist StatementFoul Whisperings, Strange Matters brings Shakespeare's world renowned and extraordinarily influential play Macbeth into a virtual worlds environment. This is an appropriate, timely use of pop culture as an adaptive bridge between…
The Disappearing
The Disappearing is an interactive phone app that uses GPS technology to connect poetry to place. Over 200 poems linked to particular locations around Australia can be accessed via the phone app. What the poems have in common is that they all address…
Footnotes
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.…
Under my Skin
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…
Tunnel
'Tunnel' is an html site,using javascript, java applets and animated gifs and images that explored cybersexuality which in the early 1990s was an emerging area in both cyberculture and cyberart. It explored the intersection of female sex and…
Line
Line is an imaginal and textual narrative simultaneously existing in several media: 1. An internet site tracks an intimate electronic relationship between two net users: one an artist who works online and physically located in Australia, and another…
Empyrean
Empyrean is a VRML online installation that generates a virtual geography that self-consciously works within and disrupts protocols of code. Described by the artist as soft skinned e-scape, the user navigates seven connected zones sensually, through…
Carrier
Carrier is an interactive immersive multimedia work that was conceived to be experienced in discrete darkened space and projected through a data projector with an external sound system. It could also be experienced through a computer monitor. The…
A.Land
A.Land is an online DHTML project in which users move through fragments of texts and images: both original and borrowed from sources as diverse as Heraclitus to Katherine Hayles presented via 'portholes of perception'. These portholes were inspired…
Postcard from Tunis
Artist StatementPostcard from Tunis is not an objective documentary (if such a thing actually exists). Instead, it's a playful, artistic exploration of writing: its histories, its inscriptions, its relationships with pictures and its relevance to the…
On medication: Twills (tweets about pills)
Artist StatementTwills is a generative video work, dynamic and mostly text-based. It was projected on the wall in the show and explores the roles of medication in contemporary life and the complex responses people have to these. I harvested twitter…
Postcards from Writing
Artist StatementWhat exactly IS writing? Is picture writing something that is half way between pictures and writing? And is it a useful concept for thinking about new media writing and interfaces? One approach to these questions is provided by…