Texts on and by members of The ADA Network, including reviews, interviews and essays.
ESSAY by SU BALLARD, 2005
for THE FIBRECULTURE JOURNAL
Ballard suggests that entropy, rather than being a hindrance to understanding or a random chaotic force, discloses a necessary and material politics of noise present in digital installation.
ESSAY by RON HANSON, 2005
“Korea is a very technological society. People are very good with the Internet and everybody’s into flip-phone mobiles. It’s about being connected. Computers have become our new life.”
ESSAY by TESSA LAIRD, 2005
Jae Hoon Lee has been exhibiting digital artworks of ever-evolving complexity for a couple of years now. He specialises in scanning textures, from human skin to plant life to gravel and concrete. Also treating the digital medium with satisfying complexity was Amanda Newall’s Sic Games at the Film Archive.
ESSAY by MICHELE MENZIES, 2005
for JASON LINDSAY’s exhibition at Special Gallery
Jason Lindsay’s work has tended to repeat itself— both internally, inside a series, and between series. Boxes shadow boxes, and echo other boxes: shelves, tables, slats, speakers, a bunker.
ESSAY by MARY MORRISON, 2005
for BILLY APPLE ‘Severe Tropical Storm 9301 Irma’ at Window Gallery, Auckland
In March 1993, Apple was a passenger aboard the Chiricana, a refrigerated cargo vessel transporting a cargo of high quality squash from New Zealand to Japan.
ANDREW CLIFFORD interviews ADAM HYDE, 2005
for National Radio’s The Music Mix
In the first instance it was a medium for open, creative exploration of radio. Then, after a while, Honor and I started to wonder about what does this actually do to challenge the paradigm of radio itself?