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Melinda Rackham - "Empyrean" | |||||||||||||
How do you define someone by nationality or culture in the era where your essential identifer is an email address which could be hosted on any server any where on the planet? When locality is a fast moving data packet can it mean anything at all anymore..? These sites from net.artists who physically reside [ most of the time ] in Australian or New Zealand are twinned with their artist statements* into 6 categories displaying the difference and sameness of works emminating from one geographical region. They reflect global concerns in art and culture, but as well exhibit particular southwestern Pacific sensibilities perspectives from exoticised island lands, from self defined marginalities, from other centers of gravity. [ Most of the sites will require a Version 4.0 or higher browser (however Netscape 6 is NOT recommended), some with Quicktime, Shockwave and Flash pluggins. ] >> reconstructing reality John Tonkin’s meniscus http://www.johnt.org/meniscus “is a series of web works that explore ideas relating to scientific belief systems, subjectivity and identity. Elective Physiognomies - choose which of the faces is most / least trustworthy, intelligent ... homosexual. Elastic Masculinities - reshape the artists body to construct a brave, vulnerable... sensual bodies. Personal Eugenics - self improvement made easy. Upload your face, evolve to match your ideals.” Garry Zebbington’s Termite http://murlin.va.com.au/eyespace/termite/term1.htm “infests historical time through a colony of words. By hyperlinking famous statements and events across time, history is played as a consensual artifice of words which act as a time-based nutrient for a transbiotic awareness.” >>hyper textuality Between Shades of http://www.archiving.com.au/betweenshadesof/start.html from Robin Petterd and Diane Caney is located “In a time before electronic communication, where two lovers converse across immense distances, after one has been sent to the other side of the earth. There is a sense that after the anguish of separation, the couple's memories have become sensuous and dreamlike, overcoming time, space and despair.” sky scratches http://beehive.temporalimage.com/content_apps25/skyscratchez/00.html “from mez ][mary-anne breeze][ & talan memmott (usa) is a collaborative tex][ne][t.work, instigated from a gestural mezangelled [mary-anne breeze] text, sent to the other [talan] & con][sub][sequently re.][net][worked, d-fined & visualized.” >> virtual viral carrier http://www.subtle.net/carrrier by Melinda Rackham (me..;) “weaves an intimate love story between you , the viewer, and sHe, the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Carrier repositions viral infection as positive biological merging with the flesh - it is a 'becoming symborg model for the emerging millennium, as we seek a way reposition ourselves as the boundaries between human / machine /species dissolve.” Graham Crawford’s MirrorWound http://www.queer-arts.org/y2gay/MirrorWound is an oddesy..thru the queer and diseased body. ” The MirrorWound virus has been progressively re-wiring my website into a representation of my mind. The vector based flash 2 animations are retina burn eyecandy, superficial flesh that hangs around like a somnia animalia of my gay existence. This is not a gay body, perhaps its not even a queer body. It is still in the messy stages of construction and is yet to be named. >>delivering data Linda Wallace’s - lovehotel www.machinehunger.com.au/lovehotel “is a video based on excerpts selected by Linda Wallace from the book-length text "fleshmeat", by Australian internet artist Francesca da Rimini. fleshmeat details the online life of the entity <gashgirl> from 1994-1997. It is intended for gallery installation, as a loop with still images in the space, as a single screen video and also as a stream. It is streaming from three servers: ova.zkm in Germany, location1 in NY and humboldt in Australia.”
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