The Discrete Dialogue Network is a telephony-based communication network for leaving anonymous voice messages to strangers in public space. This network proposes an alternative to the flatness of common online social networks. It is a medium that works outside the business of profile pictures, status updates and “Like”-buttons.
Drawing on participatory practices and through the use of mobile devices, the ‘Long Time, No See’ project prompts participants through a process of thinking, mapping, talking and walking in their locality with a view to provoking grounded reflection about care and futuring. The intent is to map the intensities of shared values and commitment in a gradually expanding global network of affinity and momentum for change.
The Videodrome descends from a Vogel Street Penthouse on request from the participant. Once wearing the diving helmet participants must trust the iPhone device adhered to the inside latch in order to navigate their immediate/ restricted environment via live action camera. The object/ device integrates the physical surroundings, blending site-specific virtual data using Augmented Reality technology.
I’M SORRY, BUT I SHOULD REMEMBER YOU? Collecting and Re-collecting One’s Thoughts in Otautahi, Christchurch A brief story of attempting to continue engagement with a city centre that was disappearing before our eyes is recounted through a series of digital images. The ‘project’ I describe is an intuitive response to living in a situation of […]
RADIO CEGESTE : Christchurch Radio Memorials In a series of works conducted in the past three years, I have been attempting a response to the destruction of the city of Christchurch, a micro-Odyssean journey which has been conducted from my current home of Dunedin. This has been both a response to the fragmentation of material […]
The Unavailable Memory of Gold Coin Café Screen Shot 2013-08-21 at 9.22.21 AM Left: The artist’s family, Gold Coin Cafe, Willis Street, Te Aro, Wellington, 1980s Right: The Yeung Shing Restaurant backroom circa now. My name is Kerry Ann Lee and I am a visual artist and educator living in Dunedin. My project, The Unavailable […]