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Sydney's Siberia
Artist StatementSydney's Siberia recreates how networks build exploratory story-scapes through an interactive zooming/clicking interface. Using 121 poetic/story image tiles, the artwork dynamically generates mosaics, infinitely recombining to build…
Babelswarm
Artist StatementActivated by the voices of visitors in the real-world gallery and chat messaging from virtual visitors in Second Life, a swarm of letter cubes - programmed to seek out their original word position - slowly builds a morphing, virtual…
The Far South East of the Soul
Artist StatementThis is a simple work. It is a cycle of poems, randomly interlinked. It is not radical in its use of technology - the randomising perl script is the most natural way to navigate the cycle of poems because, while all the poems were…
Assemblage for Collective Thought [ACT]
Artist StatementACT - assemblage for collective thought - is an ongoing conceptual and aesthetic collaboration, an assemblage of technologies and techniques for collaboration. It enables participants to think collectively. By 'think' here we do…
Vog a (BETA) videoblog: Wednesday Bergen
Artist StatementThis is the video that was used in the vogma manifesto post. This was the manifesto I wrote outlining what I thought videoblogging should be. I still subscribe to these ideas. The video was shoot on the bus from Oslo airport into the…
Vog a (BETA) videoblog: Compendium of works
Artist StatementThis videoblog has existed in various locations since 2000 and is being consolidated here. The work is made by Adrian Miles and is experimental, which means it might not work for you. I have written extensively about video blogging…
READ_RUN_EXECUTE_ : Pirating the archaic energy
Artist StatementPirating sensor data from the Roller Derby players to use as framework to trigger text feeds - past, present & realtime from skaters, audience and artists. Expanding the action on the track, the screen displays a data-mash: live…
Take Me There: Bring Me Back
Artist StatementA live video feed from the room where I often sleep captures the canal outside the window, a well-traversed trade route into Amsterdam. A live web cam sequences at 6 sec time intervals and transmits this via the Internet, which opens…
I am Googable Therefore I am
Artist StatementOn a coding craft level "I am googable therefore I am" is coded to be a live aggregated feed, made with Beautiful Soup - a coding language mix of Python HTML/XML. This is programmed to hit the artists name each day to give a read out…
ism / breath / she / who / with / I
Artist StatementTranscending the realm of the anecdotal, in the dark magic space of the shell, the artist divines classic texts, reconfigures it into lists, a literary pirate she reveals its treasure. Using command tools (cat, sed, grep, regex) from…
Error_In_Time()
Sitting with her back to the audience, Nancy Mauro-Flude uncovers visually opening up the insides of the operating system behind our daily computer interactions. Through enquiring conversations, the amplified sound of Mauro-Flude's fingertips dancing…
The Use: Now you are talking
Chris Mann's poetry is complicated to the point of breathlessness. When engaging with a Mann poem for the first time it is as if one has suddenly become dyslexic: the words are there, but their construction resists meaning. The complex facade of a…
The Use
This work is a poetic tour de force in which Mann shows how much information can be lost when language is written down. Intonation, cadence, volume, emphasis, pause, breathing, and so much nonverbal information infuses the recorded vocal performances…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
