Appropriately enough for someone who renders the spectacle of Washington in such gloriously mutant pixels, Kenneth Hung’s first exhibition in Australia will be at the White House gallery as part of ‘Straight Out of Brisbane’. Kenneth seems amped too about … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, August 9, 2006 1 Comment
From Aug 15-20 Straight Out Of Brisbane offers up it’s wintery festival goodness to the sunshine deprived. Aside from a mammoth gigs, art and new-media program, special guests glitch-pop queen Kevin Blechdom & net-artist Kenneth Hung, AV scratching by Collapsicon(.net), … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, August 5, 2006 0 comments
“Is it a game, or is it real?” asked Matthew Broderick in War Games, an 1980’s take on Stanley Kubrick’s Dr.Strangelove, and an amusingly Hollywood reflection about automated defence systems and the dangers posed. We’ve had two Gulf Wars since … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, July 29, 2006 0 comments
Those who recognise the power of comics beyond superheroes, who enjoy their capacity to emotionally overwhelm and powerfully persuade, have probably already read Maus by Art Spiegelman. A landmark graphic novel, it portrays an astonishing and utterly moving true story … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, July 29, 2006 0 comments
Whether you want to call it participatory journalism, citizen journalism or just the noise of the many, the ease of online publishing tools for quick, spontaneous expression means there are a whole world of alternative war perspectives online. Wikipedia has … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, July 27, 2006 0 comments