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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…
Transitional Forms; new life from Iconica
Artist StatementIconica is an artificial world made of language, populated by lifeforms whose bodies are made of media encoded with different systems of representation. The artificial life model that generates the appearance and behaviour of this…
Ensemble Logic + Choragraphy: Therapeutics, some notes for a project
[Ensemble Logic + Choragraphy] is a 'project' with many components. A series of eight lectures were posted to the site at two weekly intervals, beginning June until September 1998. The invited theorists, artists, writers where each asked to speak…
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…
In My Empty House
A major new installation work by Ruark Lewis, In my empty house, includes a collaboration with experimental filmmaker Loma Bridge. The exhibition is a portrait composite of internationally renowned anthropologist Vivienne Kondos and her husband Alex…
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…
Euphemisms for The Intimate Enemy
Constructed of five hundred and fifty 55 gallon drums, this architectural scale installation explores the limits of language and its capacity to adequately convey meaning in the cross-cultural context. Drawing on the post-colonial texts of the Indian…
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…
Homeland Illuminations
Drawing on the rich cultural history of the CarriageWorks building, the surrounding suburb of Redfern and his grandfather's heritage as a labourer, Jonathan Jones collaborates with Ruark Lewis to create a striking installation piece from raw…
Raft
The idea of a raft is of something lashed together, an inventive solution to a problem, of making do from available materials, of creating something which may be lifesaving. A raft also suggests travelling, and specifically travelling over water.…
The Use
This work is a poetic tour de force in which Mann shows how much information can be lost when language is written down. Intonation, cadence, volume, emphasis, pause, breathing, and so much nonverbal information infuses the recorded vocal performances…
The Use: Now you are talking
Chris Mann's poetry is complicated to the point of breathlessness. When engaging with a Mann poem for the first time it is as if one has suddenly become dyslexic: the words are there, but their construction resists meaning. The complex facade of a…
Error_In_Time()
Sitting with her back to the audience, Nancy Mauro-Flude uncovers visually opening up the insides of the operating system behind our daily computer interactions. Through enquiring conversations, the amplified sound of Mauro-Flude's fingertips dancing…
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…
I am Googable Therefore I am
Artist StatementOn a coding craft level "I am googable therefore I am" is coded to be a live aggregated feed, made with Beautiful Soup - a coding language mix of Python HTML/XML. This is programmed to hit the artists name each day to give a read out…
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…
READ_RUN_EXECUTE_ : Pirating the archaic energy
Artist StatementPirating sensor data from the Roller Derby players to use as framework to trigger text feeds - past, present & realtime from skaters, audience and artists. Expanding the action on the track, the screen displays a data-mash: live…
Vog a (BETA) videoblog: Compendium of works
Artist StatementThis videoblog has existed in various locations since 2000 and is being consolidated here. The work is made by Adrian Miles and is experimental, which means it might not work for you. I have written extensively about video blogging…