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Museum of Fire
Museum of Fire is one third of a three part portmanteau project made in collaboration with John Conomos and David Haines. The work plays with and across various types of motion landscapes: an early motif for many new media artists in the 1980s and…
Tags: Chris Caines, Electronic writing, Video
Mr Dawes Pronounces Well
Artist StatementDevelopment stage of a multi-disciplinary performance work based on the notebooks of First Fleet marine / astronomer / surveyor William Dawes who recorded his encounters between 1788-1790 with the indigenous peoples of the Sydney…
Mid-Air Conversations
A motile and spatial algorithmic speech piece, performed by Greg White and Roger Dean. The text by Hazel Smith which forms the basis of Mid-Air Conversations consists of seventeen short fragments. All the fragments are stylistically and thematically…
Michelangelo Project
The Michelangelo project is an interactive CD ROM which involves the construction of facial portraits of Michelangelo through a model based on police identikits and historical material from the writings of Vasari. The work thus bridges the gap…
Tags: Anna Gibbs, Interactive artwork, Nola Farman
Metabolism
A temporary installation in the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. A hole is cut into a sealed over fireplace in what was once a boy's classroom.. A sound work is placed inside the chimney of a lesson being given on the human digestive system. A…
Tags: Installation, Nola Farman
Make or Break
A temporary installation for an exhibition at the Women's Gallery in Melbourne - curated by Penny Webb. The work was made in collaboration with Anna Gibbs who wrote & performed the sound work with Nola Farman. The work used net hammocks &…
Lux: Tink and Lina Chat
[Lux]: is an array of texts by local and international writers and artists whose practices extend to online digital environments. The works published here were originally exhibited as text on paper at Adelaide's Contemporary Art Centre of South…
Lux: Notes for an impossible electronic writing
Lux is an array of texts by local and international writers and artists whose practices extend to online digital environments. The works published here were originally exhibited as text on paper at Adelaide's Contemporary Art Centre of South…
Lux: Born of Stars (1) (2) (3)
[Lux]: is an array of texts by local and international writers and artists whose practices extend to online digital environments. The works published here were originally exhibited as text on paper at Adelaide's Contemporary Art Centre of South…
Ludea
Artist StatementThink about Ludea as a 21st century version of the board game Ludo. On the streets of Melbourne three warring cultures struggle for territory: Neo-Materialists use traditional forms of communication such as words. Post-Symbolics…
Long Time No See
Artist StatementLong Time, No See? is a collaborative, online artwork that focuses Australian and global audiences upon our long-term futures. The project seeks to link the local and the everyday with the global and the distant future, generatively…
Locative New Media
Artist Statement A growing area of cultural and technology theory and practice that centres on how technology recreates/reforms our relationship with the land/builtscape. LNM is not depended on any particular tech, not are new tech innovations…
Tags: Digital poetry, Jason Nelson, Net art
Line
Line is an imaginal and textual narrative simultaneously existing in several media: 1. An internet site tracks an intimate electronic relationship between two net users: one an artist who works online and physically located in Australia, and another…
Tags: Digital poetry, Melinda Rackham
Life After Wartime: Bystander
Artist StatementBystander is an immersive environment composed of photographs, sequences of short text, and musical patterns that all knit together to conjure haunting moods and stories for a large, darkened gallery space. The images, texts and sound…
Tags: Installation, Interactive, Kate Richards, Ross Gibson
Life After Wartime
Artist StatementLife After Wartime is a suite of multimedia artworks by Kate Richards and Ross Gibson. Based on 3000 archival scene-of-crime images from Sydney and thousands of evocative texts by Gibson, each iteration within the suite uses various…
Tags: Kate Richards, Multimedia artwork, Ross Gibson, Suite
Let Us Burn the Gondola: Venice as a modern city
Artist StatementVenice is usually presented as an anachronism: a ‘timeless’ or even anti-modern city, whose only practical use in the twenty-first century is as a catalogue of picturesque motifs (gondolas, reflected bridges, maskers). Precisely…
Tags: Jonathan Walker, Multimedia
Legible City
Artist StatementIn The Legible City the visitor is able to ride a stationary bicycle through a simulated representation of a city that is constituted by computer-generated three-dimensional letters that form words and sentences along the sides of the…
Tags: Interactive video, Jeffrey Shaw, MediaArt
Java Poems
This trio of early e-poems were written in HTML and use Java applets to shape their linguistic texts with a careful touch. 'Infinity' and 'Internet Junkie' both change the colour of the text over a schedule to shape readings and to imbue them with a…
Tags: Cyberpoetry, HTML, Java, Kinetic, Komninos Zervos, Responsive
IUXTA
Artist StatementIUXTA investigates the narrative possibilities of the network. IUXTA generates a user generated, augmented reality network will evolve across world. I invite you to participate in this multi-nodal narrative, a narrative that is always…
ism / breath / she / who / with / I
Artist StatementTranscending the realm of the anecdotal, in the dark magic space of the shell, the artist divines classic texts, reconfigures it into lists, a literary pirate she reveals its treasure. Using command tools (cat, sed, grep, regex) from…
Intertwingling
Tags: Hazel Smith, Hypertext