Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture
Vol. 8, No. 1, 1994
Electronic Arts in Australia
Edited by Nicholas Zurbrugg
I offer a very critical account of technology and of technology's impact on the world. I'm not the only one to do this - everybody speaks of technology in this way. But now having reconsidered technology ... I'm beginning to formulate another hypothesis ... In other words, there's a difference of vision. Let's say that the rather critical or pejorative vision of technology represents a first position.
Now, from a second position, I'm more interested in seeing technology as an instrument of magic ... Up to now I think that technology has been analysed in too realistic a way ... it has been typecast as a medium of alienation and depersonalisation. That's what we've done, and that's what we're continuing to do in analyses of virtual reality - it's possible to continue forever in this sort of direction.
But I sense now that a sort of reversal of focus is taking place ... I'll always continue to offer a radically critical analysis of media and technology - one's obliged to do this. But it's also necessary to identify another sort of analysis - a more subtle form of analysis than that one. - Jean Baudrillard (Paris, 4 June, 1993)
Contents
INTRODUCTION: Contemplating Electronic Arts
PETER ANDERSON - Tim Gruchy: Electronic Media Art, Popular Culture and the Experimental Avant-Garde
ARF ARF Interviewed by Nicholas Zurbrugg
ROS BANDT Technology in Australian Sound Installations: Three Recent Approaches
WARREN BURT Installation at Experimenta: Fighting the "So-What" Factor in Electronic Art
WARREN BURT Thoughts on Physicality and Interaction in Current Electronic Music and Art
WARREN BURT Collaborating with Amanda Stewart- Interviewed by Nicholas Zurbrugg
PETER CALLAS Interviewed by Nicholas Zurbrugg
SUSAN CHARLTON - Six Degrees of Freedom: Apres Orlan
HENRI CHOPIN - Concerning Chris Mann
JOHN CONOMOS - Rethinking Australian Video in the Nineties
GRAHAM COULTER SMITH - Exploring the Technological Other: Robyn Stacey and Rosemary Laing
DIRK DE BRUYN Text - Texture - Gesture
LINDA DEMENT - Interviewed by Glenda Nalder
LINDA DEMENT The Tales of Typhoid Mary Strip #4
LYN GALLACHER Of Course: A Grammatical Tech Check
ERIC GIDNEY & TONI ROBERTSON Computer Communications for Visual Designers
JOHN GILLIES Interviewed by Nicholas Zurbrugg
JAMES HARLEY & SHIRALEE SAUL A.I.P.: An Installation Publication
LEIGH HOBBA 'Between the glaze and the surface' - Five Uneasy Fragments
BETH JACKSON - Self-Inscription in the Work of Doppio Teatro, Tracey Moffatt and Linda Dement: An Interpretation of Feminist Use of Technology according to Deleuze's Writings on Masochism
ANNE KIRKER - Bashir Baraki and Pat Hoffie: Extending the Vernacular of Prints
FELONIUS KRANK The Snuff-Jazz Conspiracy
BRIAN LANGER Video Art and the Australian International Video Festival
BRIAN LANGER - Chronology of the Australian International Video Festival
ANNE MARSH Bad Futures: Performing the Obsolete Body
ADRIAN MARTIN Hold Back the Dawn: Notes on the Position of Experimental Film in Australia 1993
ANDREW MCLENNAN A Brief Topography of Australian Sound Art and Experimental Broadcasting
CATHIE PAYNE Visible Spaces, Electronic Records: John Conomos and Tracey Moffatt
SIMON PENNY Working in Electronic Media
TONI ROSS - Portrait of the Artist as Photocopier: Jane Richens
SAM SCHOENBAUM - The Electronic Paws of Jill Scott
JILL SCOTT Paradise Tossed
BILL SEAMAN The Emergence of New Electronic Forms in Australian Art - Rodney Berry. John Colette, Linda Dement, Phillip George, Joyce Hinterding, Jon McCormack, Stelarc, VNS Matrix
ZOE SOFIA Technoscientific Poeisis: Joan Brassil, Joyce Hinterding, Sarah Waterson
STELARC - Interviewed by Martin Thomas: "Just Beaut to Have Three Hands"
URSZULA SZULAKOWSKA - Rose Farrell and George Parkin: Art History and "Primitivism" in Contemporary Australian Performance Photography
DAVID TAFLER - Does the Outback Represent the Centre? Tracing Electronic Art Tracks across Australia
VNS MATRIX AND VIRGINIA BARRATT - Interviewed by Bernadette Flynn
LINDA WALLACE 2000 Thunderstorms: Joyce Hinterding
JOHN WALLER - Interviewed by Nicholas Zurbrugg
LARRY WENDT Sentient Percussion: Ernie Althoff's Music Machines
ADAM WOLTER "So you want to be a computer artist"?
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