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Old Noise, New Sounds…
SU BALLARD, 2008.
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008.
Su Ballard looks at New Zealand artists who have challenged the ‘silent contemplation’ of artworks through their use of sound in gallery spaces. Ballard describes how these artists have explored the ‘cultural battle’ between sound and image to create “new sounds” in contemporary art. -
Onsite and Online
STELLA BRENNAN & STEPHEN CLELAND, 2008.
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008.
Brennan and Cleland explore the complex relationship between Internet art and contemporary art galleries, and recall some important onsite and online initiatives and exhibitions that have developed out of New Zealand’s gallery spaces. -
New Work for PCs and Unreal Gallery
MORGAN OLIVER, 2008.
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008.
When ‘play’ becomes art: Morgan Oliver reflects on two videogame works set in virtual gallery spaces. Although the setting is a white cube, the “most basic functions” of video game logic remain: “spawn/kill”.