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The World Machine originates in Ludea. Its function is to transmutate the city streets to provide a suitable habitat for Ludean lifeforms. At its core are seven tags that appear in scenes that are at once familiar and alien simultaneously read by humans and machines augmenting and mutating urban space.
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Autograf is an asemic writing system that generates tags by recombining marks and gestures used in graffiti tagging. The languages generated by this process are both familiar and alien its tags look like letters but remain indecipherable. It is constantly and rapidly reinscribing itself as if being generated by a gang of autonomous mecha-graf artists. The tags consume and erase one another and those that survive reproduce with one another to create stylistic hybrids. The processes behind this interaction are modelled on an experimental ecosystem made of language tags have energy, they live and die, replicate, and may steal or give energy to their neighbours. This ecosystem is sonified the generated soundtrack reflects the ebb and flow of energy in the system.
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Colony is part artificial lifeform, part icon of a digital media landscape. The weathered totems use light and sound to communicate with one another in response to human presence. Affect the colour and sound patterns of the artwork by walking through the environment or playing the totems with your iPhone.
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Think about Ludea as a 21st century version of the board game Ludo. On the streets of Melbourne three warring cultures struggle for territory: Neo-Materialists use traditional forms of communication such as words. Post-Symbolics communicate only through images, and Post-Humans are reliant on machines for communication. Each tribe gathers resources and tags in colour - Neo-Materialist orange, Post-Symbolic green and Post-Human blue. Victory goes to the clan that achieves the widest domain. Ludea is a micro-nation seeping into our own world and visible for the first time.
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Iconica is an artificial world made of language, populated by lifeforms whose bodies are made of media encoded with different systems of representation. The artificial life model that generates the appearance and behaviour of this world is based on an iconic language which may be combined using grammatical rules to create an endless number of possible meanings. Trans'forms is an abbreviation of the term 'transitional forms' from evolutionary theory. This term refers to the inbetween states that occur when one species evolves into another new species. The new lifeforms depicted above apply this concept to digital media, capturing transitional forms in visual languages as they evolve and adapt to electronic space.
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Banalities 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 city an extension of grid-like structures viewed through the frame of an open window. The performance space is arranged with wooden frames, boards and barricades resembling, in abstract form, a housing construction site. Each surface is rendered with text creating an immersive environment that can literally be read, and heard as speech.
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_Error_in_Time_ give us a compelling insight into geek space from the perspective of a female hacker. [It] uses sound, literature, performance and live code manipulations to explore the intimate workings of computer/human interfaces, surveillance and social media. _ Error_in_Time_ is a performance in which the character enters into her daily computer routine. The coded content of her screen is projected upstage. Networked presences, dancing, file searching and parsing are the main scenes of action. She weaves her story via performative algorithms and types in a surreal first person narrative touching on subjects from dark matter to rogue bots.
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Transcending the realm of the anecdotal, in the dark magic space of the shell, the artist divines classic texts, reconfigures it into lists, a literary pirate she reveals its treasure. Using command tools (cat, sed, grep, regex) from GNU/Linux community, in this particular work the artist parses through the essay 'A Room of One's Own' by Virginia Woolf, the semiotic analysis transfigures the work into its essence. Woolf's essay, a cogent masterpiece, sharply references the writer's experience and the place of women characters in the University, in fiction and in society per se.
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