Over two years ago I was commissioned to write an essay for a book to document "Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet". Edited by Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark, originally for University of Technology, Sydney, the book was finally published by …
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The domain address
toysatellite.com.au, as of today, has been de-registered.
In discussions with Grant (
c2o Technical Director) it was suggested that closing the address would reduce a significant amount of spam. A rather drastic action, but we haven't used that domain name, officially, for nearly 5 years.
Our first address was:
peg.apc.org/~toysatellite/
A year or so after …
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In April 2002 c2o/Toy Satellite's Artistic Director, Andrew Garton, was commissioned by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) to design and produce a public interactive for the Memory Grid, a community media exhibition and access space. The result of 8 months research and design …
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From the first and only performance of Memory Effect, Small Black Box, Brisbane, 2002.
Photo by Andrew Kettle
Andrew Garton was next presenting
Memory Effect, a collaborative piece by Toy Satellite, a Melbourne based non-profit multidisciplinary production house. It was a performance of considerable complexity, both logistically and semantically and …
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