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2021 artists | labour | networks | viral life | Netherlands
Pandemic Exchange
Each chapter by a media artist or writer from across the globe, weaves a tapesty of joy and trauma inart and life duing the COVID-19 pandemic, as it happened. Pandemic Exchange: How Artists Experience the COVID-19 Crisis, Ed Josephine Bosma Theory on Demand, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam. English
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2020 labour | artists | installation | Australia
Its Flattery Lies
In the catalogue for the inaugural multi-site Kyneton Contemporary Art Triennial (KCAT), I discuss the luscious seduction of artist Elvis Richardson's works Settlement and Artist Lifestyle which were installed across the town. Force Fields: Art, Architecture and Audience, Kyneton Contemporary Inc, Victoria. p 27-35
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2019 cyberfeminism | networked art | manifestos | Spain
Manifesto
Exploring the origins, impacts and legagcies of the 1991 VNS Matrix Cyberfeminist Manifesto (translated by Federico Fernández Giordano). Ciberfeminismo: de VNS Matrix a Laboria Cuboniks, eds Remedios Zafra & Teresa López-Pellisa, Holobionte, Barcleona. p180-198 in Spanish
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2009 Virtual reality | limerance | performance | UK
Love Bytes - Stendhal Syndrome in Second Life
A vintage VRML world romance - great nostalgia for simplier time of performiance and attraction in networked worlds. Interfaces of Performance, Eds Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Janis Jefferies & Rachel Zerihan, Routledge, London, p 180-198
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2008 Virtual Reality | Second Life | Germany
The Grand Tour: Art in Second Life
Co-author Christian McCrea and I explore the multiple potentials of virtual art experiences and how they ressonate back into physical structures. Space Between People: How the Virtual Changes Physical Architecture, Ed Stephen Doesinger, Prestel, Munich. p 148-156
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2007 affect | subjectivity, | embodiment | USA
Safety of Skin
Where do we start and end in the digital age - proding boundary and surface, metaphorically and physically. These are creative and critical perspectives on skin and bodily transformation as it intersects with digital technologies. re:skin, Eds Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth, MIT Press, Cambridge and London, p 51-79
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2006 e-literature | viral life | USA
Electronic Literature Collection, Vol. 1
The first global collection of electronic literature on Web and CD-ROM included my web work carrier (becoming symborg). The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1, (CD) eds: N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg, Stephanie Strickland, Electronic Literature Organization ISSN: 1932-2011
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2001 Virtual reality worlds | limerance | net art | Australia
Empyrean - soft_skinned _escape
Oh to be so excited about the possibilities of virtual reality 20 or so years ago :) Politics of a Digital Present: An inventory of Australian net culture, criticism and theory, Eds Hugh Brown, Geert Lovink, Helen Merrick, Fibreculture Publications, Melbourne, p 177–183
2004 artists | labour | networks | Taiwan
Networked Soft Space
"a future where humanity is created from a data seed in a computer environment, within an empty space ( ), at a zero point in a void, produced out of nothing but a few snippets of code." Art and New Media, Eds Yu Wei-Cheng & Phillip George, Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan. Mandarin p 112-119, English p 209-214
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2001 viral life | Hepatitis C | embodiment | UK
carrier: becoming symborg
Exploring the metaphors and experiences of both physical and digital contagion as a concept reconceptualisations of embodied subjectivity. Contagion - Cultural and Historical Studies, Eds Alison Bashford & Claire Hooker, Routledge, London, p 217-226
2002 labour | Virtual Reality | Austria
Wesen und Konstruktion des virtuellen raums
Exploring Virtual Worlds, back when they were exciting newly minted cultural spaces on the network, ripe for adventure. Webfictions - Zerstreute Anwesenheiten in elektroischen Netzen, Eds Manfred Faßler, Ursula Hentschläger & Zelko Wiener, Springer-Verlag, Wien and New York, p 128-133 in German
1999 networked poetry | electronic writing | UK
Werri Patch
My segment in an assemblage of patches from writers and poets around the world, forming a fabric of noon-time impressions during 1998-1999. Noon Quilt Book, eds. Teri Hoskin and Sue Thomas, Online scripting: Ali Graham, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK. no page numbers

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