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Museum of Rumour
The Museum of Rumour, 2003, is both an internet work and a site specific installation originally installed at Callan Park, which had once been an insane asylum and is now Sydney College of the Arts. The website uses Gertrude Stein as a node for a…
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.…
Space Junk
Space junk is a video and sound installation that continues out-of-sync situationist inspired practice of making work that starts with performative encounters in public places. The work dwells textually, aurally and visually on the paradoxes and odd…
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…
In Search of the Inland Sea
In Search of the Inland Sea is a three part video/sound work, installation and performance event that remixes a journey of early Australian explorer, Charles Sturt, in which he hauled a whaleboat overland in search of an inland sea. As the artists…
Searching for rue Simon-Crubellier: The Fourth Floor: le quatrieme etage
The Fourth Floor: le quatrieme etage is a bi-lingual Internet work and is the first part of a larger project entitled The Search for rue Simon-Crubellier. The work explores real and imagined relations to place and poses the question: is it possible…
Searching for rue Simon-Crubellier
A site specific performative multi-media experiment/exploration of myth and map making, of bodies, space and the many modalities of old and new media. The work documents the artists' search/research for fictional site in Paris inspired by the work of…
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…
On medication: Twills (tweets about pills)
Artist StatementTwills is a generative video work, dynamic and mostly text-based. It was projected on the wall in the show and explores the roles of medication in contemporary life and the complex responses people have to these. I harvested twitter…
Postcards from Writing
Artist StatementWhat exactly IS writing? Is picture writing something that is half way between pictures and writing? And is it a useful concept for thinking about new media writing and interfaces? One approach to these questions is provided by…
Postcard from Tunis
Artist StatementPostcard from Tunis is not an objective documentary (if such a thing actually exists). Instead, it's a playful, artistic exploration of writing: its histories, its inscriptions, its relationships with pictures and its relevance to the…
A.Land
A.Land is an online DHTML project in which users move through fragments of texts and images: both original and borrowed from sources as diverse as Heraclitus to Katherine Hayles presented via 'portholes of perception'. These portholes were inspired…
Carrier
Carrier is an interactive immersive multimedia work that was conceived to be experienced in discrete darkened space and projected through a data projector with an external sound system. It could also be experienced through a computer monitor. The…
Empyrean
Empyrean is a VRML online installation that generates a virtual geography that self-consciously works within and disrupts protocols of code. Described by the artist as soft skinned e-scape, the user navigates seven connected zones sensually, through…
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…
Tunnel
'Tunnel' is an html site,using javascript, java applets and animated gifs and images that explored cybersexuality which in the early 1990s was an emerging area in both cyberculture and cyberart. It explored the intersection of female sex and…
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…
Foul Whisperings, Strange Matters
Artist StatementFoul Whisperings, Strange Matters brings Shakespeare's world renowned and extraordinarily influential play Macbeth into a virtual worlds environment. This is an appropriate, timely use of pop culture as an adaptive bridge between…
Sub-Scape
sub_scape is a real-time generative system for manipulating data streams. The software is extremely robust and will generate hours and hours of varied material by sampling, folding and remapping one data set onto another. Using elegant rules,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
B.E.T.T.Y.
Artist StatementWhen ELIZA, the world's first chatbot, was born in the 1960s, users were startled at how much the psychotherapist in the program resembled a human. Since then, chatbots have become increasingly sophisticated; some predict that a…