Texts on and by members of The ADA Network, including reviews, interviews and essays.
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Speedrunner Hero: An Interview with E-Kare and Tokerau Teokotai Brown
With a shared interest in gaming, chiptune music production and utopian beliefs of world-building, Tokerau Teokotai Brown (Big Fat Raro, Fanau Spa) takes us on a journey through the practice of E-Kare, the artist duo consisting of Jos van Beek (Fauxhound, T.A.B) and Piupiu Maya Turei (PMT). Tokerau leads a fluid yet interwoven conversation around […]
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Optimism has its precedents: situating the rise of NFTs by Nina Dyer
In the space between the publication of The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader in 2008 and the writing of this text, significant global developments in the marketability of born-digital art have taken place. Unlike earlier forms of dematerialised art production such as Conceptual Art, digital art has largely managed to avoid institutional recuperation through its resistance […]
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Finding an Anchor in Digital Space: Sione Tuívailala Monū, Ming Ranginui + Connor Fitzgerald by Moya Lawson
The first image in the Instagram account @sione_has_doubts is a drawing. It’s rendered with brushes and pens in an iPad painter’s app and presents a self-portrait of the artist, Sione Tuívailala Monū, candidly glancing beyond the frame. Monū holds a cigarette in one hand and could be picking an eyelash off their cheek with the […]
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Digital Anaesthetics by Tim Corballis
“It was not only the patient who was relieved from pain by anaesthesia. The effect was profound upon the surgeon.” [1] Susan Buck-Morss Anaesthesia is not only a medical tool. Long ago I read Susan Buck-Morss’s essay about anaesthetics, in which she characterised it as an aspect of aesthetics—an aspect, that is, of the sensory relations […]
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A Transitional Imaginary
In November 2015, the Aotearoa Digital Arts Network (ADA) brought together eight artists and writers in post-quake Ōtautahi Christchurch for a ‘book sprint’, the collaborative writing of a book over the course of five days. The result, A Transitional Imaginary: Space Network and Memory in Christchurch
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Strange land singing: the video art of Bridget Reweti by Cassandra Barnett
Bridget Reweti’s whenua-based video artworks exude an everydayness so disarming it almost camouflages their wero to colonial landscape conventions (picturesque, sublime, wild, pure, natural). Almost, but not quite – because the everydayness is the wero. Reviewed by Cassandra Barnett