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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,…
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
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…
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…
ProseThetic Memories
Artist StatementProseThetic Memories is a collaborative, fictocritical and cross-genre text which combines prose, poetry, cultural theory and philosophy. It challenges traditional ideas about memory as a process of storage and subsequent retrieval.…
Time the Magician
Time, the magician is a collaboration by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean written in the real-time algorithmic image-processing program Jitter. The piece begins with a poem, written by Hazel, on the subject of time: influential on the writing of the poem…
SoundAFFECTs
Artist StatementThe multimedia work, soundAFFECTs, employs the text of 'AFFECTions' as its base, but converts it into a piece which combines text as moving image and transforming sound. For the multimedia work Roger Dean programmed a performing…
The egg, the cart, the horse, the chicken
Artist StatementThe egg, the cart, the horse, the chicken was written by Hazel Smith (text) and Roger Dean (sound). The hypertext and animations, written in Flash by Hazel Smith, are designed for a split screen. The texts in both the upper and lower…
Walking the Faultlines
A work created for CD-ROMs interactive participation, and amongst the winners of a competitive submission to the International Computer Music Association, who released it in 2000, on their 'Cyberquilts' CD-ROM anthology. The work can also be…
Wordstuffs: the city and the body
This is an interactive hypermedia piece, designed for the web, and comprising text, sound, graphics and animation. Participants can create their own alternative pathways and combine the elements in many different ways. The work concerns the interface…