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Rehearsal of Memory, Graham Harwood
UK, 1996
An interactive artwork created during work with residents in a high-security mental hospital. A simple single-screen projection features the bodies of residents - eerie self-portraits created by pressing their bodies against scanners. Touching their scars triggers their stories of self-damage and pain; an embodied history. Viewers can navigate across many bodies, painfully aware of their responsibility in which wounds they choose to probe. A piece of great depth and breadth, a far cry from the simplistic point and click of many single-screen works.
Split: Whiteness, Retrofuturism, Omega Man, Leah Gilliam
USA, 1999
Welcome to the End of the World.
Everything is different: Everything's the Same...
Split is an on-going CD-ROM project that investigates the science fiction film's unique relationship to representation, racial classification and allegory. Cycling through the B-movie thriller Omega Man (1971), the Aldous Huxley screenplay Ape and Essence (1949) and the Mars Pathfinder mission, Split reads a range of texts that are futuristic in scope but retrogressive in world view.
In my gash, Linda Dement
Australia, 1999
In My Gash takes you into the flesh of a depressed and dangerous girl, drug fucked and damaged. Four wounds are entrances to the nightmare interior where the stories and horrors of bodily memories emerge under the cursor on screen. Each gash leads to the black hole of despair where soundloops and suicide circle endlessly.
Cybergirl Fleshmonster, Linda Dement,
Australia, 1995
Donated body parts have been used to construct a computer based interactive work. About 30 women participated in the original event by scanning their chosen flesh and digitally recording a sentence or sound.
The work is a macabre, comic representation of monstrous femininity from a feminist perspective that encompasses revenge, desire and violence.
…No other symptoms. Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky, Suzanne Treister
Australia, 1999
..Rosalind Brodsky (with whom Suzanne Treister shares similar Anglo/Eastern European/Jewish roots) is a delusional time traveller who believes herself to be working at the Institute of Militronics and Advanced Time Interventionality in the 21st century.
Cyborg. Engineering the body electric, Dianne Greco
USA, 1995 (hypertext)
Part human and part machine, the cyborg is a familiar figure in cyberpunk science fiction. But this figure looms ever larger -- as metaphor and as reality -- in all our lives. Today, cyborgs are real; in cyberspace, we are all cyborgs.
Diane Greco explores the significance of the cyborg in 20th century writing. from Thomas Pynchon and William Gibson to Haraway and Derrida. The cyborg is more than just an interesting fiction; the work explores cyborg's impact on political action and personal identity.
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