Author Archive
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The Graph as Landscape…
JULIAN OLIVER, 2008.
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008.
Oliver discusses the development and reception of Packet Garden, a ‘walk in graph’ where users can generate a garden each day that becomes “a personalisation of the unseen life of the network”. -
New Data…
LISSA MITCHELL, 2008.
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008.
Mitchell discusses why we need to think beyond assumptions underlying the practice of cultural preservation in order to document and care for digital art. To “outwit oblivion and obsolescence”, according to Mitchell, gallery professionals and artists must re-examine how they participate in the care, storage, interpretation and display of artworks. -
Real Time, Virtual Space, Live Theatre
HELEN VARLEY JAMEISON, 2008.
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008.
Helen Varley Jameison discusses the development cyberformance (a live performance event that involves some form of networking) in relation to her own theatre practice. -
Contemporary Maori Women’s New Media Art Practice
MAREE MILLS, 2008.
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008.
Maree Mills explores the new possibilities of digital media for female Maori artists through three Maori concepts: the wharenui, taonga tuku iho, and manawa whenua. -
Local Knowledge and New Media Theory
DANNY BUTT, 2008.
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008. -
Electromagnetic Dreams…
ZITA JOYCE, 2008.
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008.
Zita Joyce examines the work of New Zealand artists exploring the broader social and political implications of radio transmission and attempting to “find human meaning” in radio space.