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These worlds are presented as cognitive excursions that allow the viewser to consider the works not just as they are presented but also in manner that begs interpretation through engagement. Not much moves in these worlds, that is except for the viewser. They are not amazing places of hide and seek, instead they offer a transient escape where one wanders whilst reflecting. These places offer sound to accompany and integrate the experience. In some cases the sounds are spatially adjusted to the viewer's location at other moments they are static.

The object_series and drivein were originally created as part of the qjumping exhibition in Adelaide, South Australia (August 2001). The voices heard at the drivein are recordings of the other artists involved in the exhibition. The artists were asked to explain the pieces they were exhibiting at qjumping. These recordings were then edited to remove any sense of direct linguistic meaning. This left the inflections of language, best described as the 'not what you say, but how you say it' elements.

The object_series takes both visual and aural samples from FTR's trip to Amsterdam in 2000. The textures for the object sets have been lifted from video (VHS-C) stills. The audio has been taken from the same video recordings. Hence there is a rejoining of media elements found in new spacial context. This once again removes the literal interpretation of the original media, leaving the viewser to experience the subtle nuance of place and space.

Keep all Channels Open (KACO), and Yummy Classic are older pieces that have been integrated via the drivein. KACO represents the final moments of the last two surviving nodes in a worldwide internet collapse. It is an interpretation of the corruption of data as the final connections falter. The data is dirty, the transmission is not clean, the viewser is left travelling the final path of a dying data stream.

Yummy Classic is a representation of plastic cake packaging that became infested with moth larva after sitting on cooperblack's fridge for eight months. Together we photo documented the cake tin and again added audio to match. Yummy classic begs the viewser to enter the cake tin and forces reconsideration of scales of perspective - that is, to become moth size.

Together these worlds are no fantastic technical achievement, instead they offer portals of expression through basic technical knowledge. The intent of the artists is to disguise the use of Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) technology through competent mediated experience.

KACO