Fred Truck's ArtEngine
A case study in the problematics of software art. The author test drives Fred Truck's ArtEngine a robot artwork that makes art. (sic). The work is in the form of a sizable piece of software written for the Mac2 computer.
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Traces of Light: An Interview with Thierry Kuntzel
The slide from film to video may perhaps one day be compared to the move away from the alexandrine and toward free verse poetry - out of this there emerged a reflection on the literary fate of language and the same is happening today for the image.
A Lyrical Containment: Sculpture by Nicole Page-Smith
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Tony Oliver Gallery
Melbourne Victoria
Getting the Picture? The Visual Arts in Australia in the Electronic Media
There's no climate of criticism which takes the media themselves seriously as art, so it's hardly surprising if the media return that compliment to art.
Biennale of Sydney Authority = Potential
The last 10 years has seen a noticeable empowerment of the visual art institutions in Australia. As recently as the late seventies the Sydney Biennale still sometimes happened every three years. In 1980 the Adelaide Festival was as yet innocent of Artist's Week and the Adelaide Biennial.
Art and Architecture Thesaurus
Book review Art and Architecture Thesaurus: Toni Peterson (director) New York: Oxford University Press
Published on behalf of the Getty Art History and Information program 1990
Set of three volumes
ISBN0-19-506403 -8
Looking Back: A decade of Artlink 1981 -1991
History of the trials and triumphs of Artlink over its first decade - a wonderful achievement for a small regional arts magazine.
Contemporary Soviet Art
How can one describe contemporary Soviet fine art? How is it connected with the heritage of the avant garde of the revolutionary years? How are they related to the urgent problems of international art?
The Route You Take...
Photographs of Fiona Hall's work The route you take... installation shot and details, aluminium soft drink cans
Contemporary Art Centre
October 1990
Australian Centre for Photography
November - December 1990
Breaking the Toy
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at the Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide South Australia
1990
Quo Vadis Sculputre: The Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial
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A Critical Evaluation of the First Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
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