The ADA Network presented Cloudland, a showcase of New Zealand artists for ISEA 2008 in Singapore. Curated by Su Ballard, Stella Brennan and Zita Joyce the exhibition featured film, video, installation, and sound works by Len Lye, et al., Stella Brennan, Alex Monteith, Kentaro Yamada, Bruce Russell, PSN Electronic and Adam Willetts.
ESSAY by JAN BYRANT, 2006
AV Scenario is a distillation of all the possible trajectories of film analysis and observation into one, formulaic shot.
ESSAY by MARIA WALLS, 2005
for ALEX MONTEITH’s ‘Invisible Cities’ at The Physics Room, Christchurch and Window Gallery, Auckland.
You are the unsuspecting auteurs: ladies and gentlemen, teens and pornographers, corporates and grandparents, uploading your likenesses. You are sponsoring the show.
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.