Author Archive
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Pōneke/Wellington symposium 2021
Please find the symposium programme below and head over to new.ada.net.nz to view our new website with all symposium content. Indeterminate Infrastructures – Objects, signals and architectures is the 10th ADA Network symposium, taking place in the form of a one-day online symposium on Saturday 4th December 2021. Contemporary media have been continuously shaped by […]
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Keynote: Digital Whanaungatanga and Aroha: Indeterminate Infrastructures in my creative practice – Toi Rerehiko
Rachael Rakena (Ngāi Tahu, Ngā Puhi) Rakena coined the term ‘Toi Rerehiko’ to centre, claim and name digital space within a Māori paradigm. She describes and locates Māori digital/video/electronic-based art practice in terms of continuum, motion, and collaboration. Her art installations have evolved to enculturate and politicize water itself, navigating issues of ongoing Pacific diaspora, […]
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Infrastructures of Data and Twine
David Ciccoricco In 2021, during New Zealand’s second major lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Peter Wills, a high school science teacher in Auckland, created a short text adventure game for his students using the open-source digital authoring platform Twine. The narrative positions you as Prime Minister and, using statistical modelling available at the time […]
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Idiospatium
Robbie Pattinson Idiospatium is a novel musical interface developed as an iteration in the field of artificial reverberation technologies. The work exists as an intermediary between the worlds of sound sculpture and musical interface design. Idiospatium takes audio from the analog electrical realm and performs an ‘acoustification’ on the audio through the use of an […]
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An ecology of Net Art
Vicki Smith Vicki Smith weaves a path through four works that intersect with the Aotearoa Digital Arts Network, either via network members or in typifying the often multi-disciplinary approaches of ADA artists. She uses a metaphorical net to draw connections between the works and the communities they encompass, and how technology threads her creative investigations. […]
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Reflect
Kinetic Sculpture, 2021 Reflect is a site-specific and environmentally responsive kinetic sculpture crafted for use primarily in outdoor installation contexts. The sculpture consists of a large rotating mirror which reflects and distorts images of the environment in which the sculpture is placed, driven by a solar-powered motor which allows the environmental conditions to determine its […]