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Cyberpoetry Underground
A perceptual joy-ride, full of visual attractions and sonic energies, cyberpoetry underground is notable for its sheer momentum and solid graphic punsmanship. Animated text, three-dimensional letter-forms and 360-degree views turn electronic space…
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…
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 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…
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…
Post-digital conversation
Artist StatementThe World Machine originates in Ludea. Its function is to transmutate the city streets to provide a suitable habitat for Ludean lifeforms. At its core are seven tags that appear in scenes that are at once familiar and alien…
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…
Noemaflux
Artist StatementNoemaflux describes an act of shifting perception. The work is centered on an augmented reality that enables different ways of seeing the city. Participants use AR markers and generative writing systems to create an experience of…
Urban Codemakers: rezone the city through play
Artist StatementThe Urban Codemakers operated in Guildford Lane between August 2010 and February 2011. Their urban renewal project sought to rezone the city through play. It consists of three guilds, street signage, 100+ blog posts, four blogs, a…
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,…
I Am A Singer
Artist StatementI Am A Singer is an experiment in multimedia writing, a search into approaches towards style and form, narrative structure, and notions of engagement within a multimedia context. Concerned with memory and identity, it tells the…
Of day, of night
Artist StatementOf day, of night ( 2002) is a major interactive narrative/ electronic hypertext operating at the intersection of narrative and interactive forms. Funded by the Australian Film Commission, the project integrates video, audio, stills,…