Resistance, curatorial essay written on the occasion of the Screenrab7: Resistance exhibition at eMerge Media Space, James Cook University and PInnacles Gallery, Townsville, Australia. September 2015.

For Screengrab7 all forms of resistance were considered, by an international community of over 400 media arts practitioners from some 54 countries: the politics of resistance, the physics of resistance, the messiness of resistance, and the urgency of resistance. In this age of contradiction – and as Bruce Sterling has observed, of “favela chic and gothic high-tech” – it is the duality of our relationship to the forces of order and control that is central to the examination being conducted here.

Velocity, curatorial essay written on the occasion of the Screenrab7: Velocity exhibition at eMerge Media Space, James Cook University and PInnacles Gallery, Townsville, Australia. September 2014.

Screengrab6 seeks to investigate accelerationism – direction, position, speed and most importantly context. It is as much about movement and shifting points of view as it is about studying objects from a fixed position. Velocity operates under various guises: hypervelocity exists at supersonic speeds in often imperceptible parcels of reality, while glacial velocity is represented by incremental modicums of change over a long extended period of time, while terminal velocity is the final act – the ultimate rendition – often going nowhere, preserved in its inertia back here where we started.