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All New Gen
        Female cybersluts and guerrillas, anarcho cyber-terrorists infiltrate cyberspace and hack into the controls and databanks of Big Daddy Mainframe, the Oedipal man. The aim of the game is to sow the seeds of the New World disorder to the databanks and…    
    
        Tags: VNS Matrix
Tranquility Falls
        Tranquility Falls, is a floor-to-ceiling projection of what appears to be a synthetic waterfall and a cascade of phrases that describes various features of self-help culture. The words start slowly, earnestly and meditatively. Accelerating to an…    
    
        Tags: Grant Stevens, Video installation
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…    
    
        Tags: Grant Stevens, Installation, Video
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    
    
        
    
    
    Paranoid Poetry Generator
        Artist StatementThe Paranoid Poetry Generator was a net.art piece which collected people's paranoid episodes and generated haiku-like poems from them.Source of Artist Statement    
    
        
    
    
    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…    
    
        
    
    
    Bio Tek Kitchen
        Bio Tek Kitchen takes the form of a first person role playing game, deploying both the pixelated aesthetics and simple but multiple narrative outcomes of early video games. The work playfully engages with many of the tropes of bio-art at the time,…    
    
        Tags: Game, Josephine Starrs, Leon Cmielewski
Trace
        A playful mixed media interactive installation that showcased biometric technologies, such as iris, palm and voice scanners, image capture and cumulative databases to engage visitors with everyday biometric technologies and the practices of biometric…    
    
        
    
    
    Floating Territories
        Floating Territories uses both the site (non)specificity of a ferry in Baltic Ocean (the site of ISEA 2004 for which the work was devised) and video-gaming to explore issues around real and 'virtual' territories. Presented as a game, players were…    
    
        
    
    
    Seeker
        Artist StatementThe Seeker installation uses three large projections to explore migration, territorial boundaries, conflict commodities and human displacement. Seeker's interactive component enables participants to map their own personal family…    
    
        
    
    
    sms_origins
        Artist StatementA phone number is displayed on a large screen in a public space along with the instruction 'sms your family origins' Participants sms their own and their parents places of birth to this number and linked curved vectors are added to a…    
    
        
    
    
    Rivercat Project: Waterways
        Artist StatementThis project will use the Rivercat Ferry Service as a moving platform to deliver a location sensitive audio and visual exploration of the river, it's people and their many stories The Parramatta River is also a living narrative, with…    
    
        
    
    
    Incompatible Elements: A Living Body
        Artist StatementThis video by Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski embeds the words 'a living body' into an image of the Coorong, South Australia. This is how Tom Trevorrow, a Ngarrindjeri elder and custodian described the Coorong wetlands.Source…    
    
        
    
    
    Incompatible Elements: Days Like This
        Artist StatementIncompatible Elements is an ongoing project that evolved during an artist residency at Performance Space, Carriageworks. The media art installation explores ways of representing the relationship between nature and culture, embedding…    
    
        
    
    
    Internal Aliens
        Artist StatementA mixed media installation exploring the female body and alien conspiracy theories.Source of Artist Statement    
    
        Tags: Installation, Josephine Starrs
Film of Sound
        Electronic art video and interactive works generally prioritize image over sound, this is also the case in commercial culture at large. For this work, we chose a different approach, in keeping with the central focus of the commissioning ensemble,…    
    
        
    
    
    Clay Conversations
        Artist StatementClay conversations arose out of collaborative conversations I had with British ceramicist Joanna Still. After several meetings and exchanges, Joanna created some ceramics which evoked various forms of communication, for example a clay…    
    
        Tags: Hazel Smith, Joanna Still, Roger Dean, Video
Instabilities 2
        Instabilities 2 [...] subjects a discontinuous text to various kinds of processing. The screen is divided into three sections which counterpoint each other. The top section consists of a video made by Hazel Smith comprising twelve short texts. The…    
    
        
    
    
    
























