August 30, 2003

Spotted - my rig!

Whlist contributing to a thread about hardware versus software on the Aus-Noise list, someone asked whether the gear on this page looked familier:

Electronic Music and Audio - Analogik, Brisbane, Australia

In fact, it's mine! This photo looks like it was taken when we were performing Undercurrents at the Power House, Brisbane, for the Multimedia Arts Asia Pacific Festival.

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August 27, 2003

write the web

Just a reminder to keep an eye on this site for ongoing research...

WriteTheWeb - News for web users who write back

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August 26, 2003

Webcam Art

I chanced upon this site whilst doing some research on the history of arts and information communication technologies...

Synergistic Art Project /Gallery

The work on this site has something of the spirit of Paul White's new work... stills carved out of DV footage and trimmed back to the smallest file size with the most minimal of lines to suggest an image, often resulting in poignent, delicate references to events, moments, people and place.

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August 22, 2003

Losing touch?

Are we losing touch with the intuative side of our species? Take a good look at the face of this person. Whether she is the child's mother or a carer matters not, she looks puzzled, fearful and clearly reliant on the device being held up to the child.

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Baby is clearly troubled, but that people will resort to a translation device to understand the basic needs of a child suggests that we are losing touch with not only our maternal instincts, but each other. Are we really to believe that we need such devices?

Source: Baby Translator and Geisha asobi blog.

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Sites to adore

This has got to be one of the most reliable sources of adorable sites and products. Geisha asobi blog never ceases to amaze, delight and... freak one out just a little!

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August 20, 2003

Lies

"The problem is not propaganda but the relentless control of the kind of things we think about..." Mr Eno's second notable article, coming in at a time of disquite and uncertainty.

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August 08, 2003

Post-D3

Apart from a couple of odd health days, I'm starting to regain my energy since D3 went public. It's been up for two weeks now and seems to have been received with overwhelming enthusiasm... 1000 people had been through the gallery on the first weekend it was open.

ACMI has all the important data about D3 on their site. We have some photos from the installation, courtesy of ACMI Public Programs.

It's now 3:02, second attempt at getting this published! It's the first all night session Grant and I have been able to get in since completing D3. We find one all nighter, every so ofter, gets us through some of the more complex items on our c2o/Toy Satellite/Secession to do lists. Well, it helps having someone to cheer you along, particularly if one is making progress!

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Here's Supercat, watching over us from his new perch, constructed from crates I'd bought in Byron Bay, made from off-cuts, off-cuts from a planned UFO landing pad! Oh, and a pile of cushions.

Justina is in Manila having just completed a WENT trainers workshop. Very shortly she'll leave for her first visit to the Philippines country side, including one night in Baguio, where I had spent an inspiring week, at the Tamawan Artists Village, last November.


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Bobby (same guy who loves our WOK CMS...) at the entrance to Tamawan Village.


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A sculpture of an eagle on a distant rock someone managed to carve. Baguio does that kind of thing to people...

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Baguio taxi... yeh, lots of mirrors and they charge far less than cabs in Manila... and pretty friendly too.

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Back to the present... at least within the past hour. Grant just having solved the "how do we get multiple forms to work on the WOK" problem. He's coding up the "Punter of the Month" questionnaire for the Lambsgo Bar site we recently rolled out...

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And a rare one of me... prefering life behind a camera... hairy too... a week indoors, chilling out with no serious deadlines, music to keep me curious, and emails from Craig Bellamy to keep my brain from stagnating.

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August 03, 2003

CAN do...

two days ago i saw for the first time video recordings of CAN from 1972 and 1974... as a musician, as a composer, as a performer i was entirelly smitten... i have been a CAN fan since the early 80s when i was first introduced to their music by robert iolini, who played bass and guitar in Lingo Babel, the band we had at the time.

seeing these videos my respect for CAN has shot through the roof. what i thought we were doing at the time, keeping within the spirit of improvisation and deep listening and collaboration pales in the face of what i have just been exposed to... that said, i am inspired to continue on my own journey with sound and music and will do so knowing there is a legacy that continues to unfold from the CAN camp, that continues to enlighten me all those years on...

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