Category: art

  • McKenzie Wark discusses new projects

    Her is a (re-posted) article from Realtime abous McKenzie Wark and written by Darren Toffs. Wark is involved in a very interesting online book project (link). Search for ‘New Wark Vectors’. He was the young turk of Australian cultural studies in the 1980s and an architect of the emerging cyberscene of the 90s. He gave…

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  • A Stoaway’s Guide to the Pacific

    The new batch of interactives or ‘online documentaries’ (or what ever you call them) from the ABC are really wonderful. Check out the Stoaway’s Guide to the Pacific. It’s a wonderful story, rendered well in flash, with some truly bizzare side journeys. (Produced by the Melbourne-based crew, Arcimedia Technorati : abc, australia, documentary, pacific, video…

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  • What is Podcasting? Ask a Ninja

    Ever wondered what Podcasting was? Well here is an explanation from a Ninja. And the funny thing is, if your search via ‘Ninja’ on youtube, you fill find lots of copycat Ninjas. In fact there is a whole cult of Ninjas (but this one appears to be the chief Ninja). Thanks to Andrew G for…

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  • Guns: by Negativeland and Peter Neville

    After wading through the ‘funniest home video genre of youtube, it is a pleasure to be directed toward some real gems; like this doco called ‘Guns’ by Negativeland (thanks to Andrew G for this link). Technorati : guns, negativeland, video, youtube Del.icio.us : guns, negativeland, video, youtube Ice Rocket : guns, negativeland, video, youtube 43…

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  • Who is Mark Amerika?

    Mark Ameika has been around the traps for a while now (he was a visiting fellow at a school here in melbourne that I studied in for a while). One of my favorite works of his is 'filmtext'; certainly one of the most complex and worldly examples of net art that you are likely to…

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  • The Dumpster: Net Art

    Have you ever been dumped by a text message? Well checkout the Dumpster at the Tate in London. Net art at it's best! It is a portrait of romantic breakups collected form blogs in 2005 (by Golan Levin, Kamal Nigan, and Jonathan Feinberg). If you want to see more commissioned Net Art, see 'Artport' at the…

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