Guest Editorials

Singapore has turned me into a Formalist. I moved to the nation-state after teaching and making art at UCLA where my students and I were creating films about radical left-wing politics, (more…)

Still a young industry, there are many questions surrounding the validity and usefulness of experiments with smart textiles, textiles and electronics, electro-textiles, wearables and interactive clothing. Is it really practical to integrate hard electronics into our soft and washable fabrics? What’s the difference between an intelligent garment and an interactive garment? (more…)

Contemporary art and science share a great deal in common. Not so much in the productions, but certainly in the thought processes they use to get there.  (more…)

The ways in which we interpret public space and its contents vary considerably across the globe, as it is occupied by a myriad of inherent and overt visual content. (more…)

Sound and video are, on the face of it, the most unremarkable ingredients in the new media arts. (more…)

The rapidly expanding field of wearable technologies fuses fashion and object design with portable, networked communication devices that respond to a range of environmental, biological and electronically mapped signals in unique ways. (more…)

Broadcasted acts of terror, handheld devices recording atrocities. Democracy bloggers disappearing, totalitarian regimes active. Home theatre systems, labour rights eroded. A decade of conservative government, bad brains for P.M. Celebrity babies birth, children dying. Art in Australia, responding to fear and entertainment… (more…)

Rule 1: Adults do not play games, therefore Australia does not require an adult rating on computer games, and any game requiring an adult rating will be automatically banned in Australia. (more…)

If you listen to what mainstream media, corporate giants, and governments tell us about some Internet users of digital content you might expect bandanas, scimitars and pirates’ gold. (more…)