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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…
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…
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,…
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…
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
User Unfriendly Interface
Artist StatementUser Unfriendly Interface, CD ROM/Installation on themes of conspiracy theories, male vs female concept of space, dating services, mens issues and personality testing.Source of Artist Statement
Suppermassive
Working in a variety of media, including sculpture, drawing and photography, as well as video, Stevens experiments with sound, text and imagery to explore and manipulate the conventions of narrative. At the core of his practice is a desire to…
Tranquility Falls
Tranquility Falls, is a floor-to-ceiling projection of what appears to be a synthetic waterfall and a cascade of phrases that describes various features of self-help culture. The words start slowly, earnestly and meditatively. Accelerating to an…
Crushing
Video installation
All New Gen
Female cybersluts and guerrillas, anarcho cyber-terrorists infiltrate cyberspace and hack into the controls and databanks of Big Daddy Mainframe, the Oedipal man. The aim of the game is to sow the seeds of the New World disorder to the databanks and…
Dirty Work for Slimey Girls
The project which they pursued was one of debunking the masculinist myths which might alienate women from technological devices and their cultural products. They believe that women who hijack the tools of domination and control introduce a rupture…
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…
A Drop in the Ocean, Slowly
Artist StatementThe work featured here belongs to a bigger project called A Drop In The Ocean, Slowly. This is a slow process of making visible texts and images which have been written and gathered over many years and are continuing to be…
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…
Trope
Artist StatementTrope creatively intervenes in the ways that readers engage with literary texts and aims to expand writing networks and to further develop the virtual literary community. Trope features short fiction and poetry in selected…
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…
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…
Flash Poems
The first two of this list of poems stand out because of their use of Flash. Komninos' approach to Flash in his poem 'Beer' is similar to the work he published in animated GIFs: a sequence of words, morphing from one to the next producing surprising…
Childhood in Richmond
In Childhood in Richmond, Komninos Zervos uses a collage of photos to tell a story about his life in 1950s Richmond, Victoria. The piece begins, 'I remember my childhood in the backstreets of Richmond/And the visions that leave a lasting impression/…
Dimocopo - digital moving concrete poetry
This suite of 28 early animated poems from 1995-1997 were created as animated GIFs but are really powered by a vibrant enthusiasm over the ability of computers to write kinetic language. In this suite, we see words morph into other words and into…