poetry / video / music / science
My crime poem Interrogation is now out in otoliths 54. It is set-up in the form of a questionnaire. There are two different interactive versions of it as well, one made with SurveyMonkey, the other using WordPress plug-ins and CSS code. You might like to try an interactive version first…
Click here to read the text of Interrogation in otoliths.
Click here to try the Survey Monkey version.
Click here to try the WordPress version.
future perfect is another experiment in seeing how far we can reduce language to its core elements and still have some semblance of legibility… strip off the prefixes and suffixes, get rid of articles and modifiers, ask a text-to-speech algorithm to read it…
Click here to read the text of future perfect in e•ratio 28.
My video dog daze is being screened at the Cinema Kosmos in Moscow as part of the 2019 Film and Video Poetry Society Symposium on 14 July 2019. Click here to see details of the event as well as other international events as part of this year’s symposium.
In June, dog daze also screened at Grindhouse iii Film Festival @ Zoetrope in Bolton, UK.
My video, BLUE MOON, inspired by David Bowie, Arthur C Clarke / Stanley Kubrick and the Pioneer 10 / 11 space probes to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, will be screened at a community screening event as part of the Westend Film Festival in Brisbane (29th June, 2019).
non-compliant is an amazing new project by Angelique Joy and Brent Leideritz bringing a wide range of subversive arts together. Existing at the intersection of culture, art, activism & thought leadership, non-compliant is a curated, quarterly publication available online & in-print.
My video, unvoiced, is one of the most extreme language manipulations I have done so far. Its source is the text of Articles 18-22 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, I have removed all the vowels, rendering the text unvoiced…
If you like what you see, please consider supporting non-compliant via the links below.
Click here to read more about unvoiced in non-compliant.
Click here to see more about non-compliant issue 01: censorship.
Two of my videos 42nds and SPSS were screened at the Adelaide Festival Centre during April 2019 as part of their Screening Artists program. 42nds was on a giant LED screen overlooking King William Road, one of Adelaide’s main thoroughfares, while SPSS was shown on a large LED screen in the main foyer of the Festival Theatre itself.
Click here for a link to the Adelaide Festival Centre info.
You can watch the videos themselves below.
What will our cities look like when sea levels rise amid the permanent consequences of climate change?
At last, here is the final version of my “floodtide” video. I first showed and performed it at the Paroxysm Press Showcase event at this year’s Adelaide Fringe Festival.
Nearly every scene in the video has been artificially composited and animated from multiple sources, comprising over 600 clips, originally filmed in various locations around the greater Adelaide area, the Fleurieu Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, inner city Melbourne and its Port, Far North Queensland, and more…