The Australian Video Festival, 1987. DENNIS DEL FAVERO AND FILEF - LINES OF FIRE Geoffrey Batchen
Cassandra forms part of the four-part Firewall project, exploring the concept of doors.
A half tonne explosives bag, strung up and sagging, leaks black fluid, its half dead presence bleeding out onto the floor. A minuscule screen flashes text of warning and outrage, a furious energy reduced to a micro scale easily overlooked. Helen Reddy’s optimistic anthem I Am Woman slowed to 50...
Donated body parts collected during Artists' Week of the Adelaide Festival 1994 were used to construct a computer based interactive work. About 30 women participated in the original event by scanning their chosen flesh and digitally recording a sentence or sound.
Augmented Reality for Bundanon Siteworks Program. Killing the Host is a digital artwork exploring systems and patterns of infestation, intrusion, tunneling, contamination and fatal damage. Sarcoptic mange in wombats is caused by the scabies mite burrowing in to the skin to lay eggs. As the mites tunnel, live and breed in the skin,...
The CD ROM Typhoid Mary was created on Macintosh computers at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales from 1989 to 1991. Photographic images were scanned and manipulated; a rough draft of the interactive structure was made with the software Hypercard and the final with Macromind Director. It can still be used...
In Depart Without Return the artist lies in a small canoe shrouded in indigo silk with live blind moths covering her face so that she too is blind. The males flutter excitedly, squirting vibrant copper colored fluid until they find a female with which to join. After copulation the females...