ELMCIP: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice]]> Excerpt of Leonardo Flores' description, I love E-Poetry]]> Excerpt of Leonardo Flores' description, I love E-Poetry]]> Excerpt of Leonardo Flores' description, I love E-Poetry]]> Artist Statement
This piece is a narrative cyberpoem which i first began working on in 1995 for my cyberpoetry CD-ROMs. That version, called "reality is a construct" was created in logo-motion in 3D and ran for seven minutes. This version, because of different connection speeds, different browsers, different hosts, etc., has to be restricted to animated gifs and whatever comes packaged with Netscape 3.
Source of Artist Statement]]> Source of Description]]> Excerpt from Other[wize] essay, Linda Carroli]]> Artist Statement
other[wize] is a new media arts project that celebrates the lives of Yugambeh family members that were moved from their traditional homelands in SE "Queensland", to work on properties in the Gulf of Carpentaria. The project highlights an era of 1800's colonial australia and explores the prickly issues of Native Policing, dispossession, displacement, massacres and survival [… ]other[wize] is an interactive work where stories are imparted through the use of family photographs, video, audio, and text - including Yugambeh language and relevant historical documents. The 'objects' are representative of important people or events and they transport the viewer to a story about someone from the past […] Events evolve in a non-linear way, grasping at the unknown, not sure of what will be found or how it relates to other information, until perhaps another time, leaving the viewer without a Narrator. This concept reflects how many Aboriginal people experience family histories. The viewer has the opportunity to experience a similar 'fragmentation' of history and they might think about their own relationship to place and times.]]> The object of the game is to guess the movie through summary cues and a film excerpt. There are only nine (re)colonisation techniques named here, but there are plenty more. If you don’t recognise these movies then when you’re next on the couch – keep your sharp eye open. If you do recognise these colonisation techniques, then you need to get off the couch – with your sharp tongue! keep naming the movies."]]> Extract from essay Voodoo Objects: “Under My Skin” by Anne Finegan]]> Extract from essay "Ghost Words" by Nikos Papasteriguadis & Victoria Lynn]]>