Texts on and by members of The ADA Network, including reviews, interviews and essays.
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HITLabNZ Converge
Flyer by DEIDRE BROWN, IAN CLOTHIER, LONNIE HUTCHINSON, JANINE RANDERSON, ANGELA MAIN and CAROLINE MCCAW, 2005
with an introduction and artists’ statements about four projects that were made in collaboration with computer science students from the HITLabNZ at the University of Canterbury. -
History Curator: Stella Brennan
ESSAY by ROBERT LEONARD, 2004
for STELLA BRENNAN’s exhibition Tomorrow Never Knows.
Brennan’s digital print reproduced an aerial view of a gigantic geodesic dome on fire, a plume of dark toxic smoke billowing from its pre-fab acrylic panels. It could have been a riff on Ed Ruscha’s The Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Fire (1965-8), except that Brennan’s fantastic image was for real. -
Stitch in Time: Stella Brennan
ESSAY by SEAN CUBITT, 2005
for STELLA BRENNAN’s Dirty Pixels Exhibition.
Sometime between the upsurge of science fiction writing in the 1960s and the beginning of the new century, the future happened. The paranoia and the technofuturism were true: we have videophones! A shadowy cartel of vast corporations runs the planet! -
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.