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This page contains biographical, review, and critical writing about my art work. It's by no means an exhaustive list if you know anything you think I should add please let me know. There's also a section of book and magazine covers that I've done, plus an incomplete list of newspaper articles, television programs and radio programs about my work. This page: reviews / critical articles | books | images | other See also: Publications: for information on articles and papers I have written. |
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Liminal
Product (Frances Dyson and Douglas Kahn ) Artificial life: a hard call
(review of dLux conference Future Screen 00 Artificial Life: Hard/Soft/Wet),
in Real Time, 41, Feb-March 2001, Open City Media. |
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Milne,
Esta Nameless things and thingless names: A review of the Byte Me Forum
Bendigo Art Gallery, Saturday 24 July 1999, in Mesh 13, Cyberbully.
Experimenta Media Arts, 1999. |
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Marshall,
Ben "Painting x Numbers", Australian Style, Issue 31, p.
102-105, 1999. (With the rather unfortunate cover!) |
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Jonson,
Annemarie "Jon McCormack: Booting Fantasia", Art+Text,
No. 56, p. 27-29, Feb. - April 1997. |
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Goodall,
Jane "Possessing the new imagination" (Review of Elastic Light),
Real Time, No. 16, p. 18, Dec. Jan. 1996/1997. |
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Kent,
Rachel "The Interactive Museum", Gazete, University of
Melbourne, p. 9, Autumn 1996. |
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Harley,
Ross "Jon McCormack: computer artist", HQ, p. 18-19, Sept/Oct
1996. |
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Brown,
Paul "Emergent Behaviours towards Computational Aesthetics", Artlink,
16(2 & 3), p. 16-20, Winter 1996. |
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Thwaits,
Tim "It's life Jim, but not as we know it", Montage, p.
7, Monash University, May 1996. |
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Thwaits,
Tim "Accidental Art", Monash University Research Review,
p. 8-9, Monash University, 1996. |
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Dutchak,
Phillip "Computer Start / Fine Art", Cinema Papers, No.
108, p. 18-21, Feb. 1996. |
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Murray,
Kevin "In case of Millennium, Break Glass", Art Monthly Australia,
No. 86, p. 28-30, Dec 1995 Feb. 1996. |
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Goodall,
Jane "The Gardening Program", MESH, (Journal of the Modern
Image Makers Association), No. 7, p. 2-5, Summer 1995. |
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Lucas,
Adam "Virtual Life", Black+White, No. 14, p. 20-21, August
1995. |
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Dersot,
Lionel "Special Interview: Jon McCormack", CD-ROM Fan,
July 1995 (In Japanese). |
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Wark,
McKenzie "The Terminal Garden", World Art, No. 1, p. 52-56,
1995. |
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Wark, McKenzie "The Cyberouqe World", (Interview with Jon McCormack
and Troy Innocent at Siggraph '95) World Art, No. 1, p. 57-60, 1995. |
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Van
Der Plas, Wim "Third International Symposium on Electronic Art",
(in Dutch) PIM, No. 1, p. 36-39, The Netherlands, 1993. |
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[books that include reference to, or commentary about my work] |
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Reichle,
I. Kunst Aus Dem Labor, Springer, Wien, 2005. |
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Tofts,
D. Interzone: media arts in Australia, Craftsman House (Thames & Hudson),
Fisherman's Bend, 2005. |
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Whitelaw,
M. Metacreation: art and artificial life, MIT Press 2004. |
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Russett,
Robert HYPERANIMATION: Digital Images and Virtual Worlds, University
of Louisiana (Expected to be published in 2001). |
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Goodall,
J. "The nemesis of natural history", in Uncertain Ground: essays
between art + nature, Martin Thomas, Ed., Art Gallery of NSW, 1999.
pp. 106-123. |
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Spalter,
A. M. The Computer in the Visual Arts, Addison Wesley Longman, Reading,
MA, 1999. |
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Tofts,
D. Paralax: Essays on Art, Culture and Technology, Interface Books,
1999. |
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Australia
Council Annual Report 1999/2000, Commonwealth of Australia, 2000. |
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Generation
Asia (Asialink Circle Newsletter), Issue 11, September 2000. |
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Museum
National, Vol. 9 No. 1, Museums Australia, August 2000. |
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First
Iteration, CD, CD-ROM and Proceedings covers, CEMA, December 1999. |
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Art Beat (Newsletter from the Commonwealth Dept. of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts), Spring 1998. | ||||
Images
du Future '97, Catalogue and flyers, May 1997. |
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Gazette
(The Moving Image), University of Melbourne, Autumn, 1996. |
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Museum
National, Vol.4 No. 2, November 1995. |
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Art
& Cyberculture, Media Information Australia, AFTRS, Sydney 1992. |
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"Lighting up Federation Square" by June Yu, Monash News, June 2001
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"Data Sperm" by Sean Healy, 3D World, July 2001
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"Coding
Lifeforms Designer Profile: Jon McCormack" by Mary Byrne, IT
Graphics, Issue 014 Dec./Jan. 2001. |
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"New
Life at CasulaPowerhouse" by Mary Byrne, IT Graphics, Issue
013, Nov. 2000. |
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"Virtual
Worlds" by David Nerlich, IF (Independent Film Magazine), October
2000. |
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"In
touch with new art currents" by Sharifah Hamzah, Life Sunday
(Malaysia), May 26, 2000. |
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"Pameran
seni multimedia 'Arus' petanda realiti baru" by Hasmi Hashim, The
Star (Malaysia), April 4, 2000. |
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"Life
through computer algorithms" by Amanda Wells, New Zealand Infotech
Weekly, No. 419, November 15, 1999. |
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"Wired
and Wonderful" by Simon Plant & "Marvellous Mutations"
by Kirsty Simpson, Herald-Sun (Weekend), October 26, 1998. |
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Artificial
Life, Art Beat (Newsletter from the Commonwealth Dept. of Communications,
Information Technology and the Arts), Spring 1998, p. 6-7, (also cover image). |
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"But
is it Art?" by Melissa Fyfe, The Age, March 7, 1998. |
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"Art
with a 'full-body' mouse" by Jenny Sinclair, The Age IT Supplement,
October 28, 1997. |
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"State
of the Arts" by Greg Callaghan, The Weekend Australian, October 25-26,
1997. |
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"Interact
with the beauty of Turbulence" by Trudi Macintosh, The Australian,
September 30, 1997. |
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"High
Tech Horizons" by Tom Twentyman, The Express (UK), April 22,
1997. |
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"Playing
God" by Kevin Delaney, Manchester Evening News (UK), April 21,
1997. |
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"Waiting
for a bigger splash", The Guardian (UK), April 17, 1997. |
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"Beats
watching TV" by Robert Clark, The Guardian - Arts Reviews (UK),
April 17, 1997. |
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"A
leap in the dark" (Review of Video Positive 1997) by Victoria Guerrero,
The Independent (UK), April 15, 1997. |
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"What
goes up must come down" by Sean Smith, The Big Issue (UK), April
14-20, 1997. |
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"Contemporary
art out now on video" by Nick Taylor, Independent on Sunday
(UK), April 6, 1997. |
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"Do
you want to play God?", Manchester Evening News (UK), April
4, 1997. |
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"Netcetrera:Multimedia",
Museums and Galleries (UK), April 1997. |
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"No-fear
kids go hands-on" by Jennifer McCarthy, The Australian (Computer
Supplement), August 26, 1997. |
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"Virtual
Unreality" by Fiona Hudson, Herald-Sun:Encore supplement, p.
4-5, February 9, 1997. |
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"New
technologies forge a radical vision of art" by Richard Jinman, The
Australian, October 12, 1996. |
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"Demain
la veille" by Stéphane Baillargeon, Le Devoir (Canada),
May 12, 1996. (In French) |
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"Turbulence:
Computer Art", Hot Chips, ABC Television, Original transmission
date: August 2, 1995, Reporter: Graham Phillips. 1995. |
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"Spectaculaire
Beeldtaal Kunst per Computer" by Moniek Janssen, InterInfo,
p. 44, May/June 1995. (In Dutch). |
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"Painting
by Digits" by Nicole Brady, The Age Arts Extra, May 1994. |
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"When
Art & Technology make fine bedfellows" by Lisa Mitchell, The
Age, May 10, 1994. |
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"The
Reality Engine" by Anthony Horan, Beat, Issue 398, May 11, 1994. |
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Special
Report: Siggraph '94, ASCII Magazine (Japan), p. 361-368, No. 10, 1994. |
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"Jon
McCormack", Desktop, No. 56, p. 82, November 1991. |
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