Author Archive
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Biological Rhythms:
Uncalculated (aka Rewa Wright and Simon Howden) In the video series ‘Biological Rhythm’, electrical signals generated by plants will be sonified and captured to drive real-time data visualisations. From this live data, we will create a series of eight video pieces. Living plants and the human body may appear to be very different entities, but […]
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Weir – The Infrastructure of Flow
Dr Tracey M Benson | Josiah Jordan | Ross Thompson The definition of a weir is described as: a low dam built across a river to raise the level of water upstream or regulate its flow. an enclosure of stakes set in a stream as a trap for fish. In this work, the weir is […]
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Play Pen
Play Pen is an explorative place-making game that playfully seeks to engage community in creating solutions to adapting Whakatū / Nelson’s urban environment to future impacts. Installed at Refinery ArtSpace 19-25 September as part of the 2022 ADA Symposium Indeterminate Infrastructures – Objects, Signals & Architectures
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A Transitional Imaginary
In November 2015, the Aotearoa Digital Arts Network (ADA) brought together eight artists and writers in post-quake Ōtautahi Christchurch for a ‘book sprint’, the collaborative writing of a book over the course of five days. The result, A Transitional Imaginary: Space Network and Memory in Christchurch
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Strange land singing: the video art of Bridget Reweti by Cassandra Barnett
Bridget Reweti’s whenua-based video artworks exude an everydayness so disarming it almost camouflages their wero to colonial landscape conventions (picturesque, sublime, wild, pure, natural). Almost, but not quite – because the everydayness is the wero. Reviewed by Cassandra Barnett
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ADA BookSprint Launch event
The ADA BookSprint – Space, Network, Memory: Media Art and the Transitional City – Launch event at the XCHC. Nibbles and a cash bar, sound provided by Toshi Endo and Sound Sky.