Author Archive
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Symposium, 2004
The 2nd ADA symposium was hosted by AUT University in Auckland, and was titled simply: SYMPOSIUM. A range of artist presentations looked at definitions of the digital, as well as asking questions of the ADA network itself: who are we? what do we want? and where are we going?
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Jon Bywater: et al.
LINDA HERRICK interviews JON BYWATER, 2004
about et al. for the New Zealand Herald
With work like et al’s, work that doesn’t make sense according to established conventions, like paintings that picture recognisable things, this presents a Catch 22 for the artist. -
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. -
Static Mansion performance festival #3
PHOTOS by DANIEL BATKIN-SMITH, 2004.
A four-part performance series of NZ experimental and abstract electronic sound artists, djs, composers and improvisers, in collaboration with experimental filmmakers, visual collagists and vjs, Static Mansion is an opportunity to explore the interactivity of the live forum for performers who are engaged in exploring new, innovative and wayward directions in NZ electronic music, -
Phil of the Antarctic: Phil Dadson
ESSAY by BRIDIE LONIE, 2004.
for The New Zealand Listener
Collectively called Polar Projects, Dadson’s suite of works was built from footage recorded over a single week of camping with science teams in the Taylor and Garwood Dry Valleys. It takes seriously the job of providing information, simulation and analysis. -
QUICK
ESSAY by MICHELE MENZIES, 2004
for the ‘Quick’ exhibition at Window and the George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
I’m particularly intrigued by work in which the communicative dimension is relayed with a degree of discretion: by which word I’m gesturing towards a quality of containedness, a sense of self-conscious restraint and subtlety, perhaps even humour. When ‘meaning’ is positioned at this kind of oblique angle to “subject“, there is space left for the un-prescribed.