Participatory, collaborative and networked works, with emerging technologies, web-apps, and multi-platform installations.
The Library of Nonhuman Books, 2019-ongoing. An autonomous art system centered around a custom-designed and coded reading machine which uses Artificial Intelligence to make new books from existing publications through a process by which it reads, interprets and 'illuminates' (or more simply, illustrates) any physical book placed below its dual-cameras, in real-time.
+ Premiered at xCoax 2019, Milan, Italy, and exhibited at ELO2019 Cork, Ireland, ICCV, Seoul, Korea, and NeurIPS Vancouver, Canada.
+ Featured in Tokyo TDC "The Best of International Typography and Design", 2020
+ Winner Tokyo Type Director's Club Award, 2020
+ Winner Cornish Family Prize for Art & Design Publishing, 2020
+ Winner Robert Coover Award for A Work of Electronic Literature, 2020, from ELO
📺 The Library of Nonhuman Books [on vimeo]
📚 The Library of Nonhuman Books [on Atomic Activity Books]
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A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance
Athrowofthedicewillneverabolishchance.com, 2015-2018, explores the artistic legacy of Stephane Mallarme's 1897 poem "Un Coup de Des Jamais N'Abolira' le Hasard" through Google's reCaptcha program. As the reCaptchas are indecipherable by OCR, 'A throw' generates poetry for non-human readers-a metaphysical search for meaning by the kinds of Artificial Intelligence programs currently in development by corporations such as Google.
+ Exhibited in: Calculated Chance, Société Electrique, Brussels, Belgium, 2019; Hybridity and Synaethesia , Lydgaleriet, Bergen, Norway for ELO2015 Electronic LiteratureFestival, 2015; Words Beyond Grammar, Spectrum Project Space, Mt Lawley, Western Australia, 2016; TDC2017, Tokyo Type Directors Club exhibition @DDD Gallery, Kyoto & Ginza Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
+ Prize-nominee for Tokyo Type Director's Club Award, 2017
The Situational Library
Situational Library, ISEA 2013, local area open wifi server, printed materials. A participatory installation in which the public could freely share and shape a digital archive
+ Exhibited in ISEA, Sydney, 2013
Bookghosting, artist-in-residence project, Careof Milan, 2015. Local area wifi networks embedded in electric votive candles broadcast digital artworks to cemetery visitors and residents.
Bookghosting, Milan Monumental Cemetery, 2015. Curated and programmed local area captive wifi modules, electric candles. Multimedia artworks broadcast from artists' and authors' graves within the cemetery.
+ Grant recipient Department Culture & Arts, Western Australia, 2015.
+ Exhibited "Book-Ghosting" at Careof, Fabbricadel Vapore, Milan, Italy, 2015
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This is a magazine (about nothing), 2002-ongoing, founded with Andy Simionato. A macro project in experimental on- and off-line art publishing, in collaboration with various artists.
+ Exhibited in CMYK Festival, Barcelona, 2004; We Love Magazines, Luxembourg, 2004; Episodes in Time and Space, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, 2009;
+ Winner Stuttgarter New Media Prize, 2003; Gold Ink Award, 2005.