Author Archive
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Gameboy: Sean Kerr
ESSAY by ANDREW CLIFFORD, 2005
for SEAN KERR’s Game Boy exhibition at Michael Lett Gallery
Although Sean Kerr’s work often pays cheeky homage to the icons of art history, he is coy about citing specific influences. -
Projection: Janine Randerson
ESSAY by SEAN CUBITT, 2005
for JANINE RANDERSON’s ‘Peace in Space’ exhibition at the NZFA -
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. -
Entropy & Digital Installation
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. -
Fantastic Planet: Jae Hoon Lee & Amanda Newall
ESSAY by TESSA LAIRD, 2005
Jae Hoon Lee has been exhibiting digital artworks of ever-evolving complexity for a couple of years now. He specialises in scanning textures, from human skin to plant life to gravel and concrete. Also treating the digital medium with satisfying complexity was Amanda Newall’s Sic Games at the Film Archive. -
Autumn Collection, Symptomatic Treatment: Jason Lindsay
ESSAY by MICHELE MENZIES, 2005
for JASON LINDSAY’s exhibition at Special Gallery
Jason Lindsay’s work has tended to repeat itself— both internally, inside a series, and between series. Boxes shadow boxes, and echo other boxes: shelves, tables, slats, speakers, a bunker.