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Artist StatementLarge LED alphanumeric units are mounted in a 13 x 9 grid on the stage tower of this theatre. Like a conventional news sign textual information is scrolled through these elements, but because the alphanumeric units are spaced far…
Alice's Room
Artist StatementIn this installation at the International Art & Science Exhibition a large, back projected high-resolution monitor was mounted on a motorised turntable. An infra-red joystick controlled the 360-degree rotation of this screen and…
Anamorphoses of Memory
Artist StatementFor the exhibition Kunst Over de Vloer artists were invited to create works in the rooms of a private apartment building. Anamorphoses of Memory was located in a sparse and untidy student's bedroom. A monitor was placed on a mattress…
Points of View I
Artist StatementPoints of View was a 'theatre of signs' with both stage and protagonists being provided by a three-dimensional computer graphics simulation that was video projected onto a large screen in front of a seated audience...The…
Points of View II - Babel
Artist StatementPoints of View II - Babel addressed issues relating to the Falklands War. It implemented functional and iconographic structures that were similar to Points of View I. Egyptian hieroglyphs were used to articulate both a visual and…
Wordstuffs: the city and the body
This is an interactive hypermedia piece, designed for the web, and comprising text, sound, graphics and animation. Participants can create their own alternative pathways and combine the elements in many different ways. The work concerns the interface…
Walking the Faultlines
A work created for CD-ROMs interactive participation, and amongst the winners of a competitive submission to the International Computer Music Association, who released it in 2000, on their 'Cyberquilts' CD-ROM anthology. The work can also be…
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…
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…
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…
ProseThetic Memories
Artist StatementProseThetic Memories is a collaborative, fictocritical and cross-genre text which combines prose, poetry, cultural theory and philosophy. It challenges traditional ideas about memory as a process of storage and subsequent retrieval.…
Instabilities 2
Instabilities 2 [...] subjects a discontinuous text to various kinds of processing. The screen is divided into three sections which counterpoint each other. The top section consists of a video made by Hazel Smith comprising twelve short texts. The…
Clay Conversations
Artist StatementClay conversations arose out of collaborative conversations I had with British ceramicist Joanna Still. After several meetings and exchanges, Joanna created some ceramics which evoked various forms of communication, for example a clay…
Film of Sound
Electronic art video and interactive works generally prioritize image over sound, this is also the case in commercial culture at large. For this work, we chose a different approach, in keeping with the central focus of the commissioning ensemble,…
Internal Aliens
Artist StatementA mixed media installation exploring the female body and alien conspiracy theories.Source of Artist Statement
Incompatible Elements: Days Like This
Artist StatementIncompatible Elements is an ongoing project that evolved during an artist residency at Performance Space, Carriageworks. The media art installation explores ways of representing the relationship between nature and culture, embedding…
Incompatible Elements: A Living Body
Artist StatementThis video by Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski embeds the words 'a living body' into an image of the Coorong, South Australia. This is how Tom Trevorrow, a Ngarrindjeri elder and custodian described the Coorong wetlands.Source…
Rivercat Project: Waterways
Artist StatementThis project will use the Rivercat Ferry Service as a moving platform to deliver a location sensitive audio and visual exploration of the river, it's people and their many stories The Parramatta River is also a living narrative, with…
sms_origins
Artist StatementA phone number is displayed on a large screen in a public space along with the instruction 'sms your family origins' Participants sms their own and their parents places of birth to this number and linked curved vectors are added to a…
Seeker
Artist StatementThe Seeker installation uses three large projections to explore migration, territorial boundaries, conflict commodities and human displacement. Seeker's interactive component enables participants to map their own personal family…