SEAN CUBITT & BEVIN YEATMAN, 2008.
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008.
Cubitt and Yeatman look back on the Digital Artists in Residence Programme at Waikato University, born out of a framework of ‘criticism and creativity’ in 2000.
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.
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.
REVIEW by ANDREW CLIFFORD, 2005
of STELLA BRENNAN’s Wet Social Sculpture at St Paul St Gallery
After opening an exhibition, most artists are usually worn out from frantic last-minute preparations, working the room and then the obligatory late dinner out.
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.
ESSAY by SEAN CUBITT, 2005
for STELLA BRENNAN’s Dirty Pixels Exhibition.
Sometime between the upsurge of science fiction writing in the 1960s and the beginning of the new century, the future happened. The paranoia and the technofuturism were true: we have videophones! A shadowy cartel of vast corporations runs the planet!