ADA – Aotearoa Digital Arts Network Artbase

$↪︎I↩︎ (Within Web of Mask) employs first-person 360-degree panoramic videos as a medium and method of practice, proposing that the "self" is a fictitious concept and exploring how it profoundly influences our illusions and ideologies. By presenting three VR scenes constructed based on the web, characters, symbols, and digital sculptures, the artwork delves into the intersections of self-fictionality, trauma in identity perception, and phenomenology in digital narrative. These scenes incorporate the artist's own body digital scans, virtual self-portraits, and colossal avatar, reflecting the digitization and concept of a fictitious self. Simultaneously, it articulates the complexity of the unconscious realm's self-structure and the fractures in perception, aiming to constitute possibilities for critique in simulation and identity.$

Xi Li李曦, ↪︎I↩︎ (Within Web of Mask), 2023

↪︎I↩︎ (Within Web of Mask) employs first-person 360-degree panoramic videos as a medium and method of practice, proposing that the “self” is a fictitious concept and exploring how it profoundly influences our illusions and ideologies. By presenting three VR scenes constructed based on the web, characters, symbols, and digital sculptures, the artwork delves into the intersections of self-fictionality, trauma in identity perception, and phenomenology in digital narrative. These scenes incorporate the artist’s own body digital scans, virtual self-portraits, and colossal avatar, reflecting the digitization and concept of a fictitious self. Simultaneously, it articulates the complexity of the unconscious realm’s self-structure and the fractures in perception, aiming to constitute possibilities for critique in simulation and identity.

November 13th, 2023

iForm

JAMES CHARLTON and COMOB, 2010
A process-based work that visualizes 3D forms from GPS data generated by the movement of iphone participants through the landscape.

March 19th, 2010

Huis Clos/No Exit – Jam

HELEN VARLEY JAMIESON (participant)
A performance screened at the HTTP gallery, London. Performers in Paris, Madrid, Hailuoto & Wellington were given a colour, and had four objects corresponding to one each of the colours. Our task was to perform sound whenever our colour appeared in someone’s web cam. We could choose which colour to show when, but we should try to listen to the piece, not to have one colour dominating, & not to show our selves.

February 12th, 2010

Day In A Life (DIAL)

HELEN VARLEY JAMIESON (participant), 2008
A Long Distance Dance performance originally created in 2008, and restaged for the Electrosmog Festival in 2010. Helen Varley Jamieson participated from Brisbane with Suzon Fuks, James Cunningham, Scotia Monkivitch and team.

July 19th, 2008

a gesture through the flames

HELEN VARLEY JAMIESON, 2008
A solo performance using a Pollocks toy theatre & figures to tell a tragic love story in images. the soundtrack was the looped & layered voice of sally rodwell saying “the story is mine”, and the online audience created their own narrative in the text chat window

January 29th, 2008

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

November 11th, 2004