Issue 58

Projection art in public spaces is increasing in popularity and commissioned works have been appearing across Australian urban-scapes for several years now. (more…)

I’ve rented a lot of houses that have only realised their full potential at night. It’s a time in which you can use lighting, or the absence of it, to determine the sort of relationship you want to have with your space, free from the restrictions of tenancy agreements or the incommensurability of bad carpet and dodgy paint jobs. (more…)

Lynette Wallworth’s media artworks offer us a tactile experience of digital aesthetics. Her latest piece, Unheard Voices: Invisible by Night, is an outdoor, interactive video installed at the Melbourne VIsitor Centre, Federation Square. Commissioned by Experimenta, Invisible By Night uncovers the secret history of Melbourne’s most public building. (more…)

Chris Caines is a Sydney based artist who has been working across the media of film, video, online media and public art for the past 15 years. His recent work Go This way explores some of the new artistic possibilities presented by GPS (Global Positioning System) and mobile communication technologies to create public art works where the action takes place across online (virtual) and real (physical) spaces. (more…)

David goes to work: The pvi collective have a long standing pre-occupation with producing artwork that investigates invisible invasive technologies, the morality of surveillance in the name of security and safety. (more…)

ISEA 2004 was an extremely popular event. Most people I know were keen to get there this year, so I feel particularly privileged to have been one of them. This ISEA had been established as a sustained networking event which included combined ferry, land conference and exhibition venues. (more…)

What is paradise? For me it has been flying the Observatine surveillance airplane – my ongoing research project into embodied topological flight (more…)

The theme of this year’s Ars Electronica, Timeshift: The World in 25 Years, marked the 25th anniversary of the Ars Electronica festival. (more…)

Fifteen artists from all parts of Australia participating in the Indigenous Media Lab held this year at QANTM, arrived in Brisbane for a two and a half week program of intense professional development for participating practitioners from film, animation, video, interactive media, photography and visual arts backgrounds. (more…)

Lynne Sanderson is a new media artist whose works have been exhibited widely, including ISEA95 Montreal, MTV Australia, MoMA NYC, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Biennial of Electronic Art Perth (more…)