JANINE RANDERSON, 2008.
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008.
Janine Randerson explores how new media art is “enmeshed with the old”.
ADAM HYDE, 2008.
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008.
Hyde explains why he believes free software should be accompanied by free documentation or user manuals, and sets some parameters for identifying and developing good quality documentation.
EU JIN CHUA, 2008.
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008.
Should we consider short Internet movies a form or genre? Eu Jin Chua explores the unique qualities of streaming Internet films – often fuzzy, fragmented or re-edited with “unpolished amateurism”, and shaped by the necessities and constraints of transmitting over the Web.
STELLA BRENNAN & STEPHEN CLELAND, 2008.
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008.
Brennan and Cleland explore the complex relationship between Internet art and contemporary art galleries, and recall some important onsite and online initiatives and exhibitions that have developed out of New Zealand’s gallery spaces.
JACQUIE CLARKE, 2008.
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008.
The development and growth of The Big Idea, New Zealand’s largest creative sector community website, is considered by Clarke in terms of a “localised digital social ecology”.
KURT ADAMS, 2008.
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008.
Adams shares his ‘system of drawing’ using three-dimensional modelling software and hand-drawn images, and discusses the imperfections, irregularities and glitches that make up the language of his digital landscapes.