Coming Through…
What do you do after a life on the land, the rail, the road, leaves you in despair, confused, angry? Well, you have to do something…
Poetry
Street video art
My video poem 42nds is now being projected onto the eastern wall of the Target building in Rundle Street, Adelaide, as part of a project funded by the Adelaide City Council and the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) along with 3 other vids by by Caroline Daish and Stewart Daish; John Denlay and David Chapple; and Jessica Lumb. If you can’t make it to the city, you can see it on the small screen, with sound, here.
42nds from Ian Gibbins on Vimeo.
“Friends with Drinks”
Friends with Drinks is a worldwide creative collaboration mapping drinking & place set-up by Kathryn Hummel in Adelaide, as part of her digital writer-in-residence gig at SA Writers’ Centre, 2016.
This is my contribution, taken from labels on wine bottles on our wine racks right now, the names of growers, owners, makers, dedicatees, mostly from McLaren Vale and Clare Valley, some are friends, some we’ve come to know from 30 years of enjoying their cellar door hospitality, some are long gone…
Light Thief in Cordite: Future Machines
In a future where energy conservation is paramount, where artificial intelligence and automated drones control most of life, photons are precious, they cannot be wasted. When resources are in short supply, a black market will always ensue, the Light Thief plies a new trade…
“accidentals (recalculated)” – finalist in 2016 Carbon Culture Poetry Film contest!!
One of five international finalists for the 2016 Carbon Culture Poetry Film contest, accidentals (recalculated) uses the symbols of mathematics to explore the probability that accidents do happen, if you slip and fall, fly too close to the sun, if your car runs off the road, if you cut your finger, miss a secret assignation, catch (or not) a slip of the tongue, when words fail, when all you have left is abstraction, operators, a lasting approximation, a mathematician’s code…
Watch it on vimeo or check it out with the winner and other finalists here.
Click on the link to read the code: accidentals
Featured video
open home was published in Uneven Floor (2016), where you can read the text.
Cataplexy was published in e•ratio 21 (2015), where you can read the text.
SPSS was published in Cordite Poetry Review, 2015.
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Game Over: Grand Final Edition
This piece uses text sampled from The Advertiser and is published in otoliths 40 along with another animated poem: The Various Contrivances By Which….
The images here are screen grabs from the video-poem below: