Excerpt from Leonardo Flores' description in I love E-Poetry]]> Oscar Schwartz from the blog Melbourne Poetics Research]]> Description from Media Art Net, website for media artwork]]> ]]> Source of Description]]> Artist Statement
The 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 emergent context. Media elements also inform the understanding of the text. All of the media-elements present meaning forces that operate on each other. Different interactions and 'negotiations' of the space promote an ongoing meaning summing.
Excerpt from author's article The Illusive Nature of Context: The Negotiation of the Thoughtbody]]> Artist Statement
A slot machine for predicting death. Stripped down code of a slot game inserted with 15 five-line death fictions, poeticals.
Source of Artist Statement]]> Excerpt from How2, electronic Journal for experimental women's poetry. Vol.3 no.2]]> Gillian Fuller]]> Artist Statement
Trace is a mixed media installation exploring [...] biometric themes, a subject that becomes increasingly significant as the 'global war on terror' escalates and government security organisations are collecting physical data from citizens for identification purposes. In the first part of the installation the viewer engages with the biometric station, encouraged by friendly instructions to voluntarily register using palm scans, iris scans and voice analysis. Further into the exhibition an involuntary image capture occurs. Viewers can access these images from a database of previous exhibition visitors where the biometric data is blended with the captured images.
Source of Artist Statement]]> David Pagel, Los Angeles Times]]> Artist Statement
Iconica is an artificial world made of language, populated by lifeforms whose bodies are made of media encoded with different systems of representation. The artificial life model that generates the appearance and behaviour of this world is based on an iconic language which may be combined using grammatical rules to create an endless number of possible meanings. Trans'forms is an abbreviation of the term 'transitional forms' from evolutionary theory. This term refers to the inbetween states that occur when one species evolves into another new species. The new lifeforms depicted above apply this concept to digital media, capturing transitional forms in visual languages as they evolve and adapt to electronic space.
Description from Vimeo]]> Gillian Fuller]]> Excerpt from RealTime
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Tree of Fortune was a major public artwork comprising of 130 LED scrolling text boxes distributed throughout a large tree. Each module displayed an individual scrolling message presented in red LED text, created in collaboration with Brisbane writer Linda Carolli. The work was commissioned for and presented in a prominent riverbank location at Christchurch's 2004 Biennial. It was accompanied by a high quality catalogue publication. The project sought to foster private reflection amongst its viewers around the context of contemporary ecological crises, whilst also calling upon the power of their imagining as a method for retaining positive and critical mindsets in the face of adversity.
This was achieved through ostensibly presenting texts in the form of 'fortune cookie' style statements, but then configuring them to require a personal response. This sense of unravelling questions and answers was further cemented through the qualities of each scrolling text, which only revealed a small part of each phrase at any one time.
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Trope creatively intervenes in the ways that readers engage with literary texts and aims to expand writing networks and to further develop the virtual literary community. Trope features short fiction and poetry in selected exhibitions. Texts are repositioned in a spatialised visual format/s and audio designed for SL users to experience texts in a three dimensional world.
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Tunnel is a site about pornography and online sexuality, the cyber affair, and the ensuing tension between the real cyber sexual experience and the real flesh sexual experience. Tunnel charts the incongruity and incompatibility when the digitally coded self crosses the terminal boundary, questioning early notions of fluid identity and sexuality on the net. The location of cyber relations is the personal intimate feminine private space of online where the boundaries that define personal safety do not seem necessary. Sexual and Emotional Intimacy are achieved in an astoundingly short amount of time - after all online encounters are merely a projection of the self into another who exists only at our fantasy beck and call, who will disappear when the computer is turned off. Or do they? What happens when the cyber lovers meet in flesh space? Will the sensory /data overload blow both their buffers?
Statement from artist's notes.]]> ]]> _Twitterwurking_ comprised of sequential "tweets" posted via a microblogging platform called Twitter. The work itself was written in my mezangelle language - a type of merging of programming languages/code with poetic elements. The Twitterwurk sought to incorporate specific users into the narrative by typing the "@" symbol before their name. The users were then made aware of this focused reply and thus deliberately enfolded into the tweetstream/project.
Description from a transcription of Twitterwurking, created in the New Media Scotland Twitter Residency]]> Artist Statement
While net-art becomes increasingly more complex, more database and programming centered, this project shoots for simplicity. Utilizing the basic mouse-follower, Uncontrollable Semantics pulls together over fifty dramatically different sound, image and interactive environments, all through the simple mouse follower. While a simple innovation, this technique allows the user/player/reader to create their own experience, to feel the work come from the screen. Each environment offers four directions to four terms, four semantics, four named creatures. Explore and play and confuse yourself.
Source of Artist Statement]]> Extract from essay Voodoo Objects: “Under My Skin” by Anne Finegan]]> Artist Statement
The 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 street game, 768 IDEOTAGs, a public demonstration, a public information video in Federation square, a series of academic articles, and three urban planning proposals for the City of Melbourne.
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User Unfriendly Interface, CD ROM/Installation on themes of conspiracy theories, male vs female concept of space, dating services, mens issues and personality testing.
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Real-time weather rss feeds drive a series of visualizations. Artistically translates numbers into strange creatures.
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