The Peoples’ Portrait: Portrait of the People
“If you approach somebody you don’t know, he might be a great poet, or great inventor, or… Anyway, the unknown is the richest field of all, because the unknown has no limits, no frontiers”[1]. From the...
View ArticleSound Artists In Extremis
Anyone who has taken an interest in the practice of field recording has probably noticed the extremes that artists have gone to in the past ten to fifteen years to document difficult and remote...
View ArticleAnita Johnston
Currently a Research Fellow at The Banff Centre in Canada, 25 year old Australian media artist and digital game designer Anita Johnston boasts an impressive folio of art-based games, projects that...
View ArticleLocative Media 101: An Introduction to the terminology and some locative...
A 3-way discussion led by Maria N. Stukoff with Jen Southern and Drew Hemment, January 2005 Maria N. Stukoff: When did the term LOCATIVE become known to you? Jen Southern: I first came across...
View ArticleTransmediale Report
The theme for Transmediale 04 was Fly Utopia—there is hope there is no hope. This offered interesting conceptual territory in terms of cultural theory and worried at the ongoing question as to the...
View ArticlePixelache 2004
In March and April 2004 I travelled to Helsinki for PixelACHE 2004 DIY Electronic Arts Festival: Audiovisual Architecture. During the first weekend of the festival I caught the ferry to Stockholm with...
View ArticleFuturesonic
Futuresonic produced its first festival in 1996, primarily celebrating the famous Manchester music scene. Over the years the festival has integrated visual and interactive works, leading to this year’s...
View ArticleI Like Frank – Blast Theory, MRL & Frank in Adelaide
For three days in January 2004, a Masterclass with Blast Theory (UK) was held at the well-equipped Technology School of the Future, Hindmarsh SA. Participants from across Australia spent their time...
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