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Postcard from Wilcannia

Bob Georgeson, Wilcannia, 2018, Photomedia

Produced for the exhibition "SPAMM FUTURE ft. Perfect Users" as part of SPAMM (spamm.fr) and the Perfect Users Collective (facebook.com/groups/perfectusers). The theme was: Your Vision About Spam Messages In The Future...

Subvert the dominant paradigm (and build a better world while you're at it)

Graphic by David Quiles Guillo

Today is the last day of The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale Version 3 and what a buzz it has been! I am absolutely stoked to have been a small part of it, not just because it is the largest art event in world history, not just because it challenges notions of what art is and where it should be seen, not just because it is inclusive where unknowns like myself can rub shoulders with established practitioners and everyone in between, and certainly not because it is a trendy thing to do. It might be tempting to see The Wrong as simply about technology, and sure much of the art either refers to it or uses it as the preferred method of delivery, but there is an underlying humanity that pervades the Pavilions and Embassies where artists have melded science and creativity to comment on the direction of our society and the threats to our freedom of thought and expression. In doing so The Wrong is more about community, and the experience for those not only involved as participants but as audience has enabled people to reach out across a troubled world and feel like they are part of something not only special, but important. The event is also somewhat political. It hovers over the traditional power structures within the art world, not in an attempt to replace them but pointing out in some cases how anachronistic they have become, and to offer an alternative to those people who would otherwise never have had the opportunity to become engaged. The Wrong is not a pointer to the future. It is the art of NOW. To David Quiles Guillo and his crew for setting the whole thing up and Sava Zolog and his for the Prosthetic Pavilion I dips me lid. And, I can't wait for the next one!

Ritual

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You like noodle?

The Way Out

Postcard from Birriwa

This is the best work of art I have seen for some time. Not that it was intended to be a work of art by it's creator. I am not sure what their motivation was and I wasn't prepared to stop and ask lest I became one of the exhibits as we drove through the tiny 6 house settlement of Birriwa in the New South Wales central west district. It's unusual to say the least but on closer inspection the tableaux has a distinctly menacing feel to it, and so I appropriate it as a surrealist work. Photo taken by Joy Georgeson.

The Road Ahead

Official selection for the Prosthetic Pavilion as part of The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale November 2017 - January 2018

Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series, Taiwan 2017

My film 'Why is this happening?' is an Official Selection for this years Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series, Taiwan 2017. Shows September 27th in Hsinchu City...