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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…
Failed Hope Syndrome ... Unrealistic Expectations Of Self Change
Tags: Installation, John Barbour, Linda Marie Walker, Poetry
Exchange Fields
Artist StatementExchange Fields (2000), commissioned by the Vision Ruhr Exhibition in Dortmund Germany, incorporates the recorded dance and choreography of Regina van Berkel. The programmer Gideon May also became involved in this project. The central…
Tags: Bill Seaman, Installation, Text, Video
Everything Is Going To Be Ok
Artist StatementMillions of people are sharing their intimate secrets on social media. Every day, over 300 people across the globe will tweet 'don't leave me' to their significant others or try to reassure anxious loved ones by tweeting the words…
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…
Tags: Installation, Ruark Lewis
Epiphany
Tags: Bill Seaman, Installation, Text, Video
Enquire Within Upon Everybody
Enquire Within Upon Everybody, developed by technologist Andrew Burrell and writer Chris Rodley, is one of the most engaging of the works in The Portals (or perhaps that's because I've been lured too far into the Twittersphere over recent years).…
Data Fiction v0.1
It's often said that dialogue in fiction is determined by the conventions of the novel, rather than by the way that people actually speak. However, artist Andrew Burrell and writer Chris Rodley aim to change all that by creating the world's first…
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…
Tags: Installation, Ruark Lewis
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…
Architext
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…
Tags: Installation, Jeffrey Shaw, Media Art
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…
Tags: Installation, Jeffrey Shaw, Media Art
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…
Tags: Installation, Jonathan Jones, Ruark Lewis
1000 Broken Hearts
Artist Statement On the Internet, a heart breaks every 4 seconds.1000 Broken Hearts was an installation presented at Oxford Act Factory in October 2013 as part of the City of Sydney's Art and About. It reconfigures the last thousand heartbreaks from…