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Little Boy and Fat Man
STELLA BRENNAN, 2007.
Artist Pages from The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008. -
Cloudland
The ADA Network presented Cloudland, a showcase of New Zealand artists for ISEA 2008 in Singapore. Curated by Su Ballard, Stella Brennan and Zita Joyce the exhibition featured film, video, installation, and sound works by Len Lye, et al., Stella Brennan, Alex Monteith, Kentaro Yamada, Bruce Russell, PSN Electronic and Adam Willetts.
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A/V Scenario: Alex Monteith
ESSAY by JAN BYRANT, 2006
AV Scenario is a distillation of all the possible trajectories of film analysis and observation into one, formulaic shot. -
Unusual Portraiture: Kentaro Yamada
REVIEW by JAENINE PARKINSON, 2006
Kentaro Yamada has created an unusual set of portraits. They are not unusual in their subject matter – depictions of his friends – nor in their style – a cool clean aesthetic reminiscent of a modern photo shoot. They are unusual because they listen to anyone who will talk to them. -
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! -
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.