Texts on and by members of The ADA Network, including reviews, interviews and essays.
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A Torrent of History
ESSAY by ADAM HYDE, 2004
while Digital Artist in Residence at Waikato University
It needs to be said that sharing music online has been going on for a very long time. Perhaps the first substantial example of this was with the sharing of Tracker files over Bulletin Boards. -
Writing 4 Cyberformance
ESSAY by KARLA PTACEK and HELEN VARLEY JAMIESON, 2004
for trAce Online Writing Centre
This article was first published on the trAce web site and won the Process Award in trAce and Writers for the Future’s New Media Article Writing Competition, Nov. 2004 -
Translucent: Jae Hoon Lee
ESSAY by MARK HARVEY, 2004
for JAE HOON LEE ‘Translucent’ at Window Gallery, Auckland
To be translucent is to operate with transparency, or, to diffuse the pathway of light. What we think we see might be what we see, though, it just as easily might not. -
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. -
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.