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Onsite and Online
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. -
Processing the Robot: Toby Collett
ESSAY by LUKE DUNCALFE, 2005
for Toby Collett “Processing Vision” exhibition at Window Gallery
Like the depressed Marvin from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to Tony Oursler’s screaming avatars, we recognise more of ourselves in the disorders of behaviour than in any representation of personality functioning as personality ought to. -
Invisible Cities: Alex Monteith
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. -
Severe Tropical Storm 9301 Irma: Billy Apple
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. -
Translucent: Jae Hoon Lee
ESSAY by MARK HARVEY, 2004
for JAE HOON LEE ‘Translucent’ at Window Gallery, Auckland
To be translucent is to operate with transparency, or, to diffuse the pathway of light. What we think we see might be what we see, though, it just as easily might not. -
al-jabr > FleSH-n-FLASH @ TheGatesof_Baghdad and Other Equations
JULAINE SUMICH, 2004
An essay and Flash movie in which the paradoxical logic of military actions is nested within the symbolic logic of Flash architecture.