- 114: NO THEME 13with J Toledo & C Tse 113: INVISIBLE WALLSwith A Walker & D Disney 112: TREATwith T Dearborn 111: BABYwith S Deo & L Ferney 110: POP!with Z Frost & B Jessen 109: NO THEME 12with C Maling & N Rhook 108: DEDICATIONwith L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik 107: LIMINALwith B Li 106: OPENwith C Lowe & J Langdon 105: NO THEME 11with E Grills & E Stewart 104: KINwith E Shiosaki 103: AMBLEwith E Gomez and S Gory 102: GAMEwith R Green and J Maxwell 101: NO THEME 10with J Kinsella and J Leanne 100: BROWNFACE with W S Dunn 99: SINGAPOREwith J Ip and A Pang 97 & 98: PROPAGANDAwith M Breeze and S Groth 96: NO THEME IXwith M Gill and J Thayil 95: EARTHwith M Takolander 94: BAYTwith Z Hashem Beck 93: PEACHwith L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong 92: NO THEME VIIIwith C Gaskin 91: MONSTERwith N Curnow 90: AFRICAN DIASPORAwith S Umar 89: DOMESTICwith N Harkin 88: TRANSQUEERwith S Barnes and Q Eades 87: DIFFICULTwith O Schwartz & H Isemonger 86: NO THEME VIIwith L Gorton 85: PHILIPPINESwith Mookie L and S Lua 84: SUBURBIAwith L Brown and N O'Reilly 83: MATHEMATICSwith F Hile 82: LANDwith J Stuart and J Gibian 81: NEW CARIBBEANwith V Lucien 80: NO THEME VIwith J Beveridge 57.1: EKPHRASTICwith C Atherton and P Hetherington 57: CONFESSIONwith K Glastonbury 56: EXPLODE with D Disney 55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUSwith M Chakraborty and K MacCarter 55: FUTURE MACHINES with Bella Li 54: NO THEME V with F Wright and O Sakr 53.0: THE END with P Brown 52.0: TOIL with C Jenkins 51.1: UMAMI with L Davies and Lifted Brow 51.0: TRANSTASMAN with B Cassidy 50.0: NO THEME IV with J Tranter 49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH with M Hall and S Seita 49.0: OBSOLETE with T Ryan 48.1: CANADA with K MacCarter and S Rhodes 48.0: CONSTRAINT with C Wakeling 47.0: COLLABORATION with L Armand and H Lambert 46.1: MELBOURNE with M Farrell 46.0: NO THEME III with F Plunkett 45.0: SILENCE with J Owen 44.0: GONDWANALAND with D Motion 43.1: PUMPKIN with K MacCarter 43.0: MASQUE with A Vickery 42.0: NO THEME II with G Ryan 41.1: RATBAGGERY with D Hose 41.0: TRANSPACIFIC with J Rowe and M Nardone 40.1: INDONESIA with K MacCarter 40.0: INTERLOCUTOR with L Hart 39.1: GIBBERBIRD with S Gory 39.0: JACKPOT! with S Wagan Watson 38.0: SYDNEY with A Lorange 37.1: NEBRASKA with S Whalen 37.0: NO THEME! with A Wearne 36.0: ELECTRONICA with J Jones
Ian Gibbins
Sedimentary
Relaxed, way out to sea, way out of my depth, unable to touch bottom, reef, bullkelp, urchin spine, I tread water, monitor backwash and rip, listen for dolphin jump, osprey, gulls in pairs, catch Southern Ocean surge, with neither compass …
Posted in 82: LAND
Tagged Ian Gibbins
LAST SHAVE
ants: again / thousands (pavementcracks). milling: triplefile / blind. Originals? Bios? mistakecheck: scrapdrop / nestpilfer / navigationmapswitch. Virts? gaitperfect: spacing (Fibonacci). Turings? translationcircuits: facialrecognition / 100% / insidious. childhood: insectswarm / stormbrew / electricroil / ozonebraze. nowaday: isobargradients (coincident). lives: …
Posted in 77: EXPLODE
Tagged Ian Gibbins
Light Thief
CodeBlockID: LightThief; /alias=BlackBox; /loc=?; /act=?; /run=true; DeviceLog: _VisPort01: PhotoScabard/stat=on /arm; _VisPort02: SpectraTrap/stat=on /arm; _VisPort03: QuLock/stat=on /arm; DataStream_SoundList: _HeadQuote01: <<Every photon is precious>> /src=SciMag@2016-03-11,l=8; _BaseQuote01: <<Light only goes where time is least>> /src=QED@FeynmanRP-1985,p=45; CrossCheck: waste=true /cess {/@re /@ex}; ServeVox01: /see /plain_night; …
Posted in 75: FUTURE MACHINES
Tagged Ian Gibbins
Review Short: Ian Gibbins’s and Judy Morris’s Floribunda
How far we are from the radical days of realism. Prior to Adorno’s dismantling of Lukacs and the Stalinist led state institutionalisation of it, realism may have laid claim to being an innovative aesthetic with agreeably progressive political inclinations.
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS
Tagged Ian Gibbins, Judy Morris, Robert Wood
SPSS
Please allow a few (or quite a few) moments for this film to load. Vimeo buffers at varying rates depending on where you are on Earth and when accessed. It is WELL worth the wait.
Posted in 68: NO THEME IV
Tagged Ian Gibbins
Rebecca Giggs Peers into The Microscope Project
In 2012 Flinders University decommissioned a set of powerful microscopes. Technologies long since surpassed, ETEC, JEOL, LEITZ and the VANOX ‘twins’ (scanning electron and fluorescence scopes) had been marked for scrap; their manuals, notes and schematics boxed for collection.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Catherine Truman, Deb Jones, Ian Gibbins, Rebecca Giggs
Synaptic Organisation (1998)
1. Unexposed our final site of integration trees, the size of which this idea, previous, rare aggregated around, closely associated, at odds with raise the question, regardless only random, the other hand directly, unambiguously our differences, clear, final 2. Processing …
Posted in 63: COLLABORATION
Tagged Ian Gibbins
Twelve Sights of the Sea
{sea-anemone} barely inside and out, the rippling enfoldment that adheres to your nerve-tips, that draws you further away, abandons any comfortable reassurance {sea-breeze} through your voice, strained to breakpoint, hastily called upon, past your lips, parched, cracking into bloodlines, blisters …
Posted in 60: SILENCE
Tagged Ian Gibbins
Conference Leave
All blank, all white, inhaling jellyfish, coughing up thylacines, my best intentions entangle, disentangle, bleach to silicon dust. Scrubbed to translucency, my equilibrium fails, both scabby knees bleed. Below the exit sign, you sit, head in hands, ringlets loose across …
Posted in 59: GONDWANALAND
Tagged Ian Gibbins
Dateline
>> this message could not be delivered because it was sent before it was received << POPmail born a day apart we are here today, yesterday but we are counting and the telephone rings and we stop, on time, today …
Posted in 54: TRANSPACIFIC
Tagged Ian Gibbins
Waiting for the Big One, West LA, 1982
We never did understand how that old pair of shoes ended up in the bathroom; neither could we fathom how our bed dropped like a rock, moments before sunrise; and, although we knew perfectly well why the moon turned red …
Posted in 54: TRANSPACIFIC
Tagged Ian Gibbins
