Art
ANYCAST MESH NETWORK
ANYCAST was a networked, participatory art installation commissioned by the 2009 International Symposium for Electronic Art. It displayed data gathered from a temporary, free, DIY, mesh WiFi network. The network was situated in cafes and galleries in Belfast (Northern Ireland). It was made possible by participating organisations who shared their excess bandwidth to create a robust, distributed, free broadband network. Users had to contribute a ‘thought’ to gain access. ANYCAST was a commentary on the contribution of excess energy, or 'spare cycles' to enable others, while exposing some of the challenges associated with open digital infrastructures.
EXHIBITED
International Symposium of Electronic Art 2009
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Networked art installation
MY FELLOW AUSTRALIANS
My Fellow Australians was a net art work developed during a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada) in 2004. The work interrogated Australian national identity and xenophobia, inspired by the residency theme: Intranation. The work was exhibited at D’Art 2004 and archived by the Australian National Library’s Pandora internet archive. The residency was funded by the Australia Council for the Arts.
EXHIBITED
D’Art 2004, Sydney Opera House
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Net art
NEOCONFESSIONAL
Neoconfessional was a networked, participatory art installation developed during a residency at the This Is Not Art festival in Newcastle (Australia). It explored ingrained conservatism through the provocation of “outing your inner conservative”. Neoconfessional combined the tradition of covertly writing secrets on toilet walls, with contemporary online 'confession' culture enable by sites such as YouTube. The work collated the confessions and presented them as a collective outing of conservative tendencies.
EXHIBITED
This Is Not Art festival 2008
Pro-Tribute Darwin 2008
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Networked installation
BOAT-PEOPLE.ORG
boat-people.org was a group of Sydney-based art and media workers who collaborated on public work about issues of race, history and borders between 2002 and 2014.
EXHIBITED
Melbourne Festival 2003
Cockatoo Island Sydney 2008
TarraWarra Biennial 2014
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Artist collective
NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL
As part of the 2006 Next Wave Festival, I devised and faciltated the community cultural development project Bitscape. I worked with youth from Morwell, Wagga Wagga and the Macedon Ranges to create audio-visual works, some of which were displayed as large-scale projections on a 90 metre high power station. The festival was themed ‘Empire Games’ to coincide with the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.
EXHIBITED
Next Wave Festival 2006
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Community artist & creative producer