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Believe
Artist Statement Believe is both a website and a novel which is being written by my fictional character, Theodora Free. It will circulate around ideas about isolation and despair while also trying to find some form of peace/bliss. The novel is still…
Banalities for the Perfect House
Artist StatementBanalities for the Perfect House is a collaborative installation & performance work premiered at Sydney's Performance Space theatre on Sept 9 2005. The work posits the house as a condition through which we perceive the world - the…
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…
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…
Autograf
Artist StatementAutograf is an asemic writing system that generates tags by recombining marks and gestures used in graffiti tagging. The languages generated by this process are both familiar and alien its tags look like letters but remain…
Augmented Reality
Artist StatementThe nine signs for Ogaki in this work originate in Japan during a residency in September 2010 at IAMAS an Art & Science research institute in Japan. During this month I surveyed the small town of Ogaki via bicycle and identified…
Attached By One's Own Action
A miniature TV monitor is embedded in an illustrated dictionary. A viewer can sit at a desk an put on earphones. The sound track is a monologue on reading & writing - the constructing of meaning through these practices. The video shows archival…
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…
Art Work Net Behaviour Residency
Artist StatementNet Behaviour is an open email list community for sharing ideas, posting events & opportunities in the area or networked distributed creativity. Also facilitating collaborations.Source of Artist Statement
Architext
Artist StatementLarge LED alphanumeric units are mounted in a 13 x 9 grid on the stage tower of this theatre. Like a conventional news sign textual information is scrolled through these elements, but because the alphanumeric units are spaced far…
Architecture of Association
The Architecture of Association is a large-scale, generative artwork that draws associative links between media elements to form an evolving visual collage. A distributed flow of image, video and poetic text is "intelligently" distributed over a…
Another Emotion
The music is the poem, magnifying the words the block's sideways, backways motion. Simple rollovers for simple background accents.Source of Description
Anamorphoses of Memory
Artist StatementFor the exhibition Kunst Over de Vloer artists were invited to create works in the rooms of a private apartment building. Anamorphoses of Memory was located in a sparse and untidy student's bedroom. A monitor was placed on a mattress…
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…
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…
Alice's Room
Artist StatementIn this installation at the International Art & Science Exhibition a large, back projected high-resolution monitor was mounted on a motorised turntable. An infra-red joystick controlled the 360-degree rotation of this screen and…
Alarmingly These Are Not Lovesick Zombies
Artist StatementTop-down zombie shooter where the artwork is generated by playing. [W]inning and losing has video rewards.Source of Artist Statement
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…
A Tree with Managers and Jittery Boats
Artist StatementMulti-level menus as poetry generator, for when lines branch and branch. When writing a poem, often any line could generate out new directions, intersecting poems, branching possibilities. Using the modified code of a menu-sub-menu, I…
A tracing
Overpowering soundings pull the poetics along to certain conclusions. A simple creation, with the reader/user determining the order of stanzas.Source of Description
A Drop in the Ocean, Slowly
Artist StatementThe work featured here belongs to a bigger project called A Drop In The Ocean, Slowly. This is a slow process of making visible texts and images which have been written and gathered over many years and are continuing to be…
