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Think about Ludea as a 21st century version of the board game Ludo. On the streets of Melbourne three warring cultures struggle for territory: Neo-Materialists use traditional forms of communication such as words. Post-Symbolics communicate only through images, and Post-Humans are reliant on machines for communication. Each tribe gathers resources and tags in colour - Neo-Materialist orange, Post-Symbolic green and Post-Human blue. Victory goes to the clan that achieves the widest domain. Ludea is a micro-nation seeping into our own world and visible for the first time.
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Iconica is an artificial world made of language, populated by lifeforms whose bodies are made of media encoded with different systems of representation. The artificial life model that generates the appearance and behaviour of this world is based on an iconic language which may be combined using grammatical rules to create an endless number of possible meanings. Trans'forms is an abbreviation of the term 'transitional forms' from evolutionary theory. This term refers to the inbetween states that occur when one species evolves into another new species. The new lifeforms depicted above apply this concept to digital media, capturing transitional forms in visual languages as they evolve and adapt to electronic space.
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Banalities for the Perfect House is a collaborative installation & performance work premiered at Sydney's Performance Space theatre on Sept 9 2005. The work posits the house as a condition through which we perceive the world - the city an extension of grid-like structures viewed through the frame of an open window. The performance space is arranged with wooden frames, boards and barricades resembling, in abstract form, a housing construction site. Each surface is rendered with text creating an immersive environment that can literally be read, and heard as speech.
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_Error_in_Time_ give us a compelling insight into geek space from the perspective of a female hacker. [It] uses sound, literature, performance and live code manipulations to explore the intimate workings of computer/human interfaces, surveillance and social media. _ Error_in_Time_ is a performance in which the character enters into her daily computer routine. The coded content of her screen is projected upstage. Networked presences, dancing, file searching and parsing are the main scenes of action. She weaves her story via performative algorithms and types in a surreal first person narrative touching on subjects from dark matter to rogue bots.
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Transcending the realm of the anecdotal, in the dark magic space of the shell, the artist divines classic texts, reconfigures it into lists, a literary pirate she reveals its treasure. Using command tools (cat, sed, grep, regex) from GNU/Linux community, in this particular work the artist parses through the essay 'A Room of One's Own' by Virginia Woolf, the semiotic analysis transfigures the work into its essence. Woolf's essay, a cogent masterpiece, sharply references the writer's experience and the place of women characters in the University, in fiction and in society per se.
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On a coding craft level "I am googable therefore I am" is coded to be a live aggregated feed, made with Beautiful Soup - a coding language mix of Python HTML/XML. This is programmed to hit the artists name each day to give a read out of amount of the google hits the name brings, in order to tell her she exists. Although available as live data feed - http://moddr.net/~sister0/cast/ The 'actual' artwork is not complete until fully installed.
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A live video feed from the room where I often sleep captures the canal outside the window, a well-traversed trade route into Amsterdam. A live web cam sequences at 6 sec time intervals and transmits this via the Internet, which opens up as a portal, a projection site in Hobart. A counter at the right bottom marks the date and time. On the left, each morning at dawn GMT+1. I add a personal aphorism. I ask the viewer to consider the detail in a scene that might otherwise be consumed in a momentary glance the light, the mood of the water, the position of the birds, the trash. The 6 sec. incremental changes are perceptible, revealed through changes of the reloading frame. Somewhere in between the image peel a cargo boat on the canal vanishes. The next frame we may only see its wake.
At times, the canal is completely still. A dark body of water. Or hours there is nothing happening and suddenly two birds are caught in mid flight. Because the work is Live it calls into question where the 'object' actually is - is it located at the server, on site in Hobart? Or in-between, the interstices of the world? In a sense, the work is un-locatable its point of origin is continually shifting. If you can tell me where it is, I would say it is dead.
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Pirating sensor data from the Roller Derby players to use as framework to trigger text feeds - past, present & realtime from skaters, audience and artists. Expanding the action on the track, the screen displays a data-mash: live tweets & text feeds, mapped with the cyclic rolling energy of the skaters, building vibrancy. A montage of conversation, description, conjecture & moments pirated from history and literature.
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This videoblog has existed in various locations since 2000 and is being consolidated here. The work is made by Adrian Miles and is experimental, which means it might not work for you. I have written extensively about video blogging and what I have called 'softvideo' and this site is a blog come portfolio of my softvideo practice. I have used several CMS's, including Movable Type and WordPress, and after experimenting with a new template (style) in WordPress decided it was just making everything too complicated. So I've returned to storing all the content in Tinderbox with good old fashioned export of static html and then just synchronising it via FTP to my host. Is this still a blog? I'm not sure. I am not offering comments, but I think comments get in the way of blogging. However, via this method I can't support trackback but if I pay attention to referrer information via something like Google Analytics then you can usually see who links here. However, this is only going to be video and I have an active blog (vlog 4.0) where I do my writing and more usual blogging.
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