Critical Writing

Catalogue Essays

Morning Mesostics Project

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Published Articles
Gail is associate editor and regular writer on sound, media art and performance for RealTime, Australia's leading contemporary arts magazine.

Sound

Sounds solid, sounds fluid
RealTIme 87 October/November 2008

Listening to the turning world: Sydney Biennale 2008
RealTime 86 August/September 2008

Elemental vibrations: What is Music? Sydney
RealTime 85 June/July 2008

Car, crash, contemporary: the Aurora festival
RealTime 85 June/July 2008

Showman or shaman: Kimmo Pohjonen
RealTime 83 February/March 2008

Sonic extremities: Liquid Architecture 8
RealTime 81 October/November 2007

Pelt: Fast, furious, fleeting...
RealTime 75 October/November 2006

DualPlover: A decade of DIY
RealTime 74 August/September 2006

Oscillations: the sound artist as educator
RealTime 74 August/September 2006

Mistral: Acoustic essences
RealTime 73 June/July 2006

Alva.Noto & Joyce Hinterding: Edison’s children
RealTime 72 April/May 2006

Totally Huge: Knots and flames
RealTime 70 December2005/January 2006

Liquid Architecture 6: celebrating sound
RealTime 68 August/September 2005

Garth Paine: Composing Potentials
RealTime 67 June/July 2005

Selling new sounds
RealTime 67 June/July 2005

the NOW now - present and accounted for
RealTime 65 Feb/March 2005

Circuitous journeys
RealTime 62 August/September 2004

3D and other worlds
RealTime 61 June/July 2004

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Media Arts

Dark Sightings: Jessica Tyrrells :the braille box:
RealTime 82 December 07/January 08

Fine with a chance of cloud: Talking about the Weather
RealTime 80 August/September 2007 online

Liquid City: Daniel Crooks
RealTime 77 Feburary/March 2007

EPIC program: Nurturing media art in the regions
RealTime 73 June/July 2006

ACMI's World Without End
RealTime 68 August/September 2005

MAAP04: When words flail you
RealTime 64 (MAAP04 Coverage) Dec 2004/Jan 2005

MAAP04: An eye for sound
RealTime 64 (MAAP04 Coverage) Dec 2004/Jan 2005

MAAP04: Computer juice
RealTime 64 (MAAP04 Coverage) Dec 2004/Jan 2005

MAAP04: Conceptual leaps
RealTime 64 (MAAP04 Coverage) Dec 2004/Jan 2005

MAAP04: The weight of public spaces
RealTime 64 (MAAP04 Coverage) Dec 2004/Jan 2005

Transmediale 04 - the art of hope
RealTime 60 April/May 2004

Technology will eat itself
RealTime 59 Feb/March 2004

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Performance

A game with the works: Wayfarer
RealTime 81 October/November 2007

Spat&Loogie: The young & the restless
RealTime 76 December 2006/January 2007


 

Catalogue Essays

The rational and the fantastical: the morphology of Nigel Helyer
Catalogue essay for Nigel Helyer's BioSonics exhibition, Western Plains Cultural Centre, August 2008

Memory slips, trips and trades
Catalogue essay for Nigel Helyer's Quint de Loup II, January 2007

What Survives: Sonic residues in breathing buildings
Performance Space Gallery, 2006
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unNatural Selection
Manning Regional Art Gallery, 2006

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The Morning Mesostics Project
NB: this section of the site is yet to be redesigned.

This is an experiment in hypertextual writing that took place over the deadly boring Christmas/ NewYear period of 2002/3.*
It uses a free interpretation of John Cage's Mesostics -
the use of chance methods to create texts in relation to a word written vertically down the page.

I use the basic structure as an impetus for automatic writing.
It assists in creating a compressed, bastard-haiku style that should be read for allusion and association rather than meaning.

Words from each poem then become the vertical stimulus for each subsequent stage.
Some lead to stage 4, some end at 3 so if you hit a deadend wander back through the branches and make another choice.
There are 56 poems in total.

The focus of the work is text - thus the graphic interface is minimal in order not to distract.

The piece remains unfinished as the world and work woke up again in February.
As it seems like an almost endless project, I've decided to put it up anyway rejoicing in
the open-ended, non-permanent nature of the web.

START HERE

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