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Suspended Disbelief
From within the pile of books, on an endless loop, comes the sound of two voices telling an endless story. The story is made from quotations from more than sixty different novels. The pieces are put together in such a way that they suggest a…
Sydney's Siberia
Artist StatementSydney's Siberia recreates how networks build exploratory story-scapes through an interactive zooming/clicking interface. Using 121 poetic/story image tiles, the artwork dynamically generates mosaics, infinitely recombining to build…
Tableau: Greetings from Adelaide
Tableau's premise is the city: Adelaide. As place, time, tense, sense. It's the 'about' of writing oneself autobiographically, through the physical stratas of city, and it's especially 'about' how to write that to/for someone, as audience/reader,…
Tableau: Here
Tableau's premise is the city: Adelaide. As place, time, tense, sense. It's the 'about' of writing oneself autobiographically, through the physical stratas of city, and it's especially 'about' how to write that to/for someone, as audience/reader,…
Take Me There: Bring Me Back
Artist StatementA live video feed from the room where I often sleep captures the canal outside the window, a well-traversed trade route into Amsterdam. A live web cam sequences at 6 sec time intervals and transmits this via the Internet, which opens…
Talking about the Weather
Artist StatementTalking About the Weather is an ongoing cross media project sparked by our response to the terrifying spectre of global climate change. Sheer terror at the possibilities that are being talked about led us to talking about the weather.…
Televirtual Chit Chat
Artist StatementDuring Imagina '93 computer graphics installations in Monte Carlo and in Karlsruhe were connected by modem through a conventional telephone line. Facing large video screens, the two distant players each shared the same virtual image…
The Adventures of i
This narrative 'cyberpoem' started in 1995 with the goal of developing into a lengthy 'soapie' about the life of i. The project obviously didn't go on for a long time, though the 18 webisodes plus two alternate guest webisodes collected here are a…
The Art of Walking
The Art of Walking is a small, deft and moving contemplation on walking as both art and remix. The Art of Walking was created specifically for the website of Mark Amerika's 'Remix the Book' Project, which itself was a remix of Amerika's 'theoretical…
The Bomar Gene
Artist StatementWithin every human there is a singular gene, unique only to that individual. And with that gene comes a singular ability, a rare, mostly never realized capacity for interacting with the world. The Bomar Gene explores this mythical…
The Chopstick Technique
Artist StatementWith two pens in each hand the artist attempts to write four letters simultaneously.Source of Artist Statement
The City We Build
Artist StatementGet lost in the hidden places of Brisbane's Fortitude Valley. Discover secret doorways and forgotten phone boxes, dance with ghosts of the streets' past and future. In The City We Build, create your own pathways. Weaving words into…
the data][h!][bleeding texts"
This multimedia poem gives a voice to a body and mind imagined through computational conditions. Mary Anne Breeze / Mez / Netwurker has developed a language practice known as mezangelle, which she uses in this poem to create a cyborg lyric voice. The…
The Dead Tower
This narrative poem is arranged on a darkly atmospheric virtual world designed to both creep you out and pull you in through curiosity. Like the proverbial moth, the reader's attention is drawn towards the brightest things around: white words float…
The Disappearing
The Disappearing is an interactive phone app that uses GPS technology to connect poetry to place. Over 200 poems linked to particular locations around Australia can be accessed via the phone app. What the poems have in common is that they all address…
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…
The Exquisite Mechanism of Shivers
33 brief image and musical scenes are each based on a sentence of ten words. These exquisite image and sound compositions are mechanically combined, but internally organized by a poetic logic. The fragmentary aspect of splinter as well as the…
The Far South East of the Soul
Artist StatementThis is a simple work. It is a cycle of poems, randomly interlinked. It is not radical in its use of technology - the randomising perl script is the most natural way to navigate the cycle of poems because, while all the poems were…
The Flight of Ducks
Artist StatementThe Flight of Ducks [is] a participatory online documentary built around a collection of objects from a camel expedition into Central Australia in 1933. [This work] takes the textual form of a journey through a landscape and turns it…
The Heart of the Matter
Two armchairs face each other across an island of carpet. One of them is occupied by a large red plastic love heart, steadily beating and pulsing with light. As anyone approaches, the heart beats faster and louder, subsiding as s/he moves away again.…
The Mother country
A short hypertext poem which subverts notions of Mother Country by thinking through the obverse: 'a mother becomes a country'. The work repurposes the 'look and feel' of other of Caney's poems, for instance, Time's Daughter, through reuse of html…
The Narrative Landscape
Artist StatementIn this installation images are projected onto a large screen lying flat on the floor of the exhibition space. The spectators stand on a surrounding balcony where a joystick enables any one of them to interactively operate the work by…
The Net.Art Browser
Artist StatementThe Net.Art Browser is a means of conjoining information space with the museum space and hybridizing the interactivity of surfing the Internet with the museum tradition of wall mounted images. While painting, cinema and TV construe…
The Poetry Cube
Artist StatementOne possible reading is as 3-dimensional concrete poetry sculpture generator. The cube interface allows the reader to move the interface in 3-dimesional space, with the all elements placed on the cube transforming in proportion to the…