I Wish I Was Lonely had a rave review in TimeOut London, and Thorpe sounds as surprised as he is pleased that he and Walker are coming Perth to perform the show, but no matter how far they travel it remains all about connecting with people – genuinely rather than ironically, given the subject mater. … Continue readingMaking connections
Described by PIAF as Australia’s first ‘art hack’, participating entrants have 24 hours to create a digitally interactive artwork. Whether an app, website, robotics or a projected presentation, if it’s interactive and it’s art, it will find a place in Hack The Festival. … Continue readingIt’s Cool To Hack
“In a way everything I’ve done is an homage to Michael Crichton,” he says. “Dinosaurs were real and Crichton was brilliant recreating them with DNA. What I’ve done is taken a mythological creature and had even more fun with it. I knew there’d be comparisons but I’m confident my story is completely different.” … Continue readingGreat Monster Mash
Nothing makes us feel quite a superior as reading a blog post or forum comment that’s so badly spelled a semiliterate six-year-old could’ve done better, and jumping down the offender’s throat (albeit virtually) has become a 21st century pastime. … Continue readingNever Lost For Words
More recently we’ve seen darker narratives as varied as Wolf Creek and Toni Collette-starrer Japanese Story (2004), where Australia can be a dangerous place full of monstrous people. … Continue readingNovel Sees Grey Areas of People Smuggling
Along with contemporaries like Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, CJ Dennis helped legitimise the Australian pioneer/larrikin archetype. Giving plenty of entertainers and politicians their public profiles, the iconographies of old Australiana fell out of favour in the 1980s with the rise of economic deregulation and hip cafes. … Continue readingLarrikin Poet a Man of His Time
The book talks about how Ive and his contemporaries led us out of the ‘beige box’ era by straddling a unique gulf in the still-developing personal computer field, where designers occupied one side of the fence and engineers the other. … Continue readingDesign Guru Changed Game
Even if you’re not a gamer, you can’t fail to notice electronic gaming has evolved exponentially since it became mainstream entertainment some time in the 1970s. … Continue readingGame Changers
Ironically it’s science that has given us the means for art, culture and economics. But according to The Science Delusion, we should think twice before making it our only worldview. … Continue readingMoist Robots on the March
A ‘digital program’ at a major arts festival might sound like a nightmare to some – a squawking cacophony of computer games, expensive websites built with grant money that nobody looks at and self-aggrandising video clips from people who think they’re artists. … Continue readingPerth International Arts Festival’s Digital Program
