Australian video art scene has proven to be one of the most prolific. In my opinion, this can be caused by the work of Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski whom I mentioned in my previous posts. The artist worked and lived in Adelaide and produced some of the most innovative pieces using mini computers, and also kinetic and laser artworks and performances in collaboration with scientists, technicians, dancers and musicians and could have been an influence on some of the artists featured in this post. Integrated (fused) audiovisuals, closely tied to experimental sound and music, can be explored comparably to a synaesthetic experience. Similar to the presence of hiss and hum, the audiovisual elements of a signal guide us towards the abstraction and transduction happening within or beneath our media streams. Audio influenced by glitches relies on disruptions on the surface, instances of interruption that hint at and embody their own underlying structure.

ANAT – Australian Network for the Art and Technology is an arts organisation in Adelaide, Australia. In 2008 the DVD was published with the work of Jean Poole, Robin Fox, Andrew Gadow, Gordon Monro, Wade Marynowsky, Abject Leader, Pxi+Delire, Botborg and Ian Andrews. The DVD is a take on Chion’s concept of synchresis, although far more alternative and abstract than the sychresis described in Chion’s “Audio-Vision”, whose cinematic role is mainly the representation of the human body, quite predictable and ubiquitous.