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    Another Planet a program of Australian video, The Video Data Bank Conversations at the Edge series, media makers, critics, scholars and theorists in dialogue around the most provocative and daring works being produced in media today
    Dr Macarow, K (https://www.realtime.org.au/taking-the-gritty-backlash-to-the-usa/, 2003)
    Another Planet, Martine Corompt, Philip Brophy, Amanda Morgan, sue k, John Billan and Jennifer Sochackyj, Justine Cooper and Joey Stein, a program of Australian video at The Video Data Bank was as part of their Conversations at the Edge series media makers, critics, scholars and theorists in dialogue around the most provocative and daring works being produced in media today. Australian work from 1999 to 2002 was included, presenting a bastardised, glitched, self-reflexive and neo-materialist digital practice which countered the notion of the seminal, and was at odds with the generic and cyberish polish invested in much ‘new’ media art. The emerging gritty backlash to over purposed, under developed, high-end digital art.
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    Bibliomania
    Osman, R (The University of Melbourne, 2007)
    Bibliomania examines hoarding and the pathological compulsion to collect books.
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    Just death is true
    Sylvester, D (various, 2006)
    In 'Just Death Is True' a young woman lies with a blue face pack on, cradling an old fashioned phone against one ear, the thickly applied mask revealing lines in the young woman’s skin. The glazed eyes of the woman and her inability or unwillingness to speak into the phone emphasise the general feeling of entropy in this image, that speaks of youth, time and inevitable mortality.
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    All You Need To Know You Knew Early
    Sylvester, D (Various, 2007)
    'All You Need To Know You Knew Early', is part aphorism and morality tale in a photograph of an interviewer, cameraman, subject and us as viewers. Illustrating that on camera one may adopt gestures while looking into a lens as a subject and proposes that the instant of capture is itself a performance. The camera serves as a silent choreographer, dictating movements.
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    On Holiday
    Sylvester, D (Various, 2011-03-04)
    'On Holiday' features a 1:1 scale fabrication of the decommissioned Concorde with original cutlery purchased via eBay. Overlooking a sunrise, an elite traveller gazes at an unknown destination. This photograph plays on the minds interpretation of luxury aspirations, where the Concorde promised a future of supersonic travel that is now buried in history, existing only as a symbol of a decadent past. Using visual sleights used by advertising where travel is marketed as a way of both living in the moment and creating cherished memories, this work acts as a memory, a collective memory of what travel on the Concorde may have been.
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    What Happens Will Happen #3
    Sylvester, D (Various, 2011-03-04)
    'What Happens Will Happen #3' is one from a series of photographs that speaks of the idealism of youth, harbouring a dream to not just change physically by painting your face however by joining others in like-mindedness, change the world in protest. The image produces a skewed idea of wanting to be involved politically yet self consciously desiring to be cool at the same time. In this photograph a red haired girl paints a peace symbol over her face.
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    No longer exposed to problems or tension
    Sylvester, D (Various, 1999)
    From 1998, I began making staged, photography, works described as ‘encased miniature dramas’. These early images tended to explore ideas around relationships, conformity and individuality, and, started with written texts, in the case of 'No longer exposed to problems or tension' a small girl listens to music, already at this age seemingly with anxiety that only music can alleviate.
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