Another interactive brooch: electronics (Lilypad microcontroller, sewable LEDs, pieces of standard LEDs)
A response to working in an open plan office: a traffic light that indicates the wearer's availability
The lights change through a switch on the shirt opening; the microcontroller is under the right collar
Hand washable
Later developed with assistance into a 3D printed standalone piece (inset)
Selected digital artworks
Postcards From Writing 2004
Above is a video transcript of an interaction with a small portion of the work
This is an interactive multimedia artwork: a kind of intellectual road movie
Expression of an encounter with a difficult but very promising linguistics theory and an exploration of its implications for new media writing and interfaces
Exhibited in the USA, the UK and Brazil; received an Honourable Mention in the UK
Above is a video transcript of an interaction with about a quarter of the work
This is an interactive multimedia artwork: a personal portrait of Tunis that teaches the user to read basic Arabic
Interaction with the work creates dynamic signs that cannot be theorised by a bipartite theory of signs (signifier/signified) and that transcend a distinction between the verbal and the non-verbal
Very successful: award-winning in several countries
Exhibited in fourteen countries; selected for the New Talent Pavilion at MILIA 97 in Cannes, still being exhibited today
Video retrieved from a neglected videocassette as a part of the "Creative Micro-computing in Australia, 1976-1992" ARC Future Fellowship
A playful video exploring possibilities, relationships, and intersections between gender, art, and technology
Exhibited in the USA (launching at MoMA in New York), Canada and Europe as part of "An Eccentric Orbit", a travelling survey exhibition of contemporary Australian electronic media art; finalist for an Australian award
Selected for "Bad Toys", The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art