Project Details
Work titles:
“The Trajectory Cabinet” · “The Poetic Touch of QLD Architecture” · “Microfilm Cabinet Poetry 1” · “Microfilm Cabinet Poetry 2” ·
“The Spanish Swindle” · “The Library Table” · “Directions for Ziggurats to Scale”
I was the electronic literature writer in residence at the Queensland State Archives in 2018/2019.
My project was to create an exhibition of interactive and screen based digital writing works
(poetry or fiction) inspired by or directly informed from materials in the state archives.
The result of the residency was an exhibition that contained 6 different works of digital writing.
These works re-used old library archive equipment them into vehicles and interfaces for digital
fiction and poetry. As an electronic literature writer I wanted to reveal these poetic wonders,
these evidences of error and random thought in government documents. To do this I’ve created a series
of interactive and video-based artworks. Additionally, I found a lost storeroom filled with dusty machines.
For over half a century, Card Catalogues, MicroFilm Readers, Research Tables were the primary interface
for us to discover these stories,
to find these unknown and poetic trajectories.
Published & exhibited
Queensland State Archives, The Winders of Lost Trajectories solo-exhibition.
The Trajectory Cabinet, ELO2021 Platforming Utopias Exhibition.
Select impact
A Finalist for the Digital Writing Award, Australia.
Runner-Up for the ELO Coover Award.