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Suppermassive
Working in a variety of media, including sculpture, drawing and photography, as well as video, Stevens experiments with sound, text and imagery to explore and manipulate the conventions of narrative. At the core of his practice is a desire to…
User Unfriendly Interface
Artist StatementUser Unfriendly Interface, CD ROM/Installation on themes of conspiracy theories, male vs female concept of space, dating services, mens issues and personality testing.Source of Artist Statement
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…
Internal Aliens
Artist StatementA mixed media installation exploring the female body and alien conspiracy theories.Source of Artist Statement
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The World Generator/The Engine of Desire
Artist StatementThe World Generator promotes a form of active looking/listening/interacting/understanding. Through interaction with this virtual world generator, text potentially qualifies differing emotive aspects of the current computer-based…
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…
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).…
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…
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…
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…
Life After Wartime: Bystander
Artist StatementBystander is an immersive environment composed of photographs, sequences of short text, and musical patterns that all knit together to conjure haunting moods and stories for a large, darkened gallery space. The images, texts and sound…
Searching for rue Simon-Crubellier
A site specific performative multi-media experiment/exploration of myth and map making, of bodies, space and the many modalities of old and new media. The work documents the artists' search/research for fictional site in Paris inspired by the work of…
In Search of the Inland Sea
In Search of the Inland Sea is a three part video/sound work, installation and performance event that remixes a journey of early Australian explorer, Charles Sturt, in which he hauled a whaleboat overland in search of an inland sea. As the artists…
Space Junk
Space junk is a video and sound installation that continues out-of-sync situationist inspired practice of making work that starts with performative encounters in public places. The work dwells textually, aurally and visually on the paradoxes and odd…
Talking about the Weather
Artist StatementTalking About the Weather is an ongoing cross media project sparked by our response to the terrifying spectre of global climate change. Sheer terror at the possibilities that are being talked about led us to talking about the weather.…
Museum of Rumour
The Museum of Rumour, 2003, is both an internet work and a site specific installation originally installed at Callan Park, which had once been an insane asylum and is now Sydney College of the Arts. The website uses Gertrude Stein as a node for a…