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The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader
STELLA BRENNAN and SU BALLARD (eds), 2008.
A comprehensive anthology, The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader provides a snapshot of digital art practice in Aotearoa New Zealand with essays, artists’ pageworks and personal accounts that explore the production and reception of digital art. -
Sound Stories: Phil Dadson
ESSAY by PHIL DADSON, 2006
Some years back, having written a few sound stories of my own, I began collecting anecdotes from sound artists and experimental instrument builders I met with whilst travelling in the USA. Each artist would be asked to tell a yarn about a sound experience imprinted on their memory that may have influenced the direction or path they were to take as artists. -
Considering Digital Arts in New Zealand
PAPER by SU BALLARD, 2006
Presentation given at Transmediale Berlin reflecting on the development of ADA the facilitation of digital practice; the ways that these histories are being recorded and constructed; and the kinds of relationships that might be emerging across public and gallery spaces. -
Framed: Sean Cubitt
SIMON MILLS interviews SEAN CUBITT, 2006
for Frame Journal
At the heart of it all is communication, and the actuality of communication is mediation: the fact that all communication is mediated, takes a shape in matter and energy, space and time, and now in entropy and emergence. -
History Curator: Stella Brennan
ESSAY by ROBERT LEONARD, 2004
for STELLA BRENNAN’s exhibition Tomorrow Never Knows.
Brennan’s digital print reproduced an aerial view of a gigantic geodesic dome on fire, a plume of dark toxic smoke billowing from its pre-fab acrylic panels. It could have been a riff on Ed Ruscha’s The Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Fire (1965-8), except that Brennan’s fantastic image was for real. -
A Torrent of History
ESSAY by ADAM HYDE, 2004
while Digital Artist in Residence at Waikato University
It needs to be said that sharing music online has been going on for a very long time. Perhaps the first substantial example of this was with the sharing of Tracker files over Bulletin Boards.