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Spring 1993
Cover: from First End by Paul Borderi, part of Experimenta Tour #3: Diversionary Tactics
MESH #1
Events:
MIMA at the State
Film Theatre
Dusan Marek Retrospective
Writing:
Film and video,
Cain and Abel by Adrian Martin
Vive Les Differences by Freda Freiberg
Video:
'Please Allow
Me To Introduce Myself' The Devil You Don't Know by Kevin
Murray
Underbelly Of The Psyche: Looking at Alan Sondheim by Andrew Whelan
Interview:
Spotlight on
Pale Black Interview with Marie Craven
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Summer 1993
Cover Image: Still from Autarky by Kim Bounds part of a program of new imaging technologies to be presented by MIMA and WIFT(Vic) in February 1994
MESH #2
Contents:
Working With
New Imaging Technologies
My Memory Your Past; Interview With Moira Corby
Portraits of People Living With Aids and Interactive Documentary by Hazen Reed by Brecon Walsh
New Image Research
Within the Crystal Palace; City Screens & Metrodome by Steven Ball
Little Statues For Our Loungeroom; an Interview with Arf Arf by Vikki Riley
Tracey Moffat Retrospective by Penny Webb
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Autumn 1993
Front and back cover: still from Empire by Andy Warhol
MESH #3
Contents:
Marl Video Art Prize
Pollination with essay by Julie Clarke
Experimenta Update
Facing the 90s Fringe Film & Video Work and its Avant-Garde Status by Barret Hodsdon
Gamegirls: Women Working With New Imaging Technologies by Jyanni Steffensen
Nothing If Not Full-On: The S-Thetix of Cyberdada Films by David Cox
Paula Dawson; The Secret of Happiness by Brecon Walsh
QED Choose Film:Cine Bohemio by Steven Ball
St Kilda Film Festival
Empire
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Spring/Summer 1994
MESH #4
Contents:
Australian Film and Video at Experiment a '94 by Vikki Riley
The Australian Scene by Robert Nery
Grainy, Scratched and Out of Focus by Steven Ball
The Light Of Other Days: Reflections and Refractions on Recent Films by Paul Winkler by Quentin Turnour
Earwitness: Excursions In Sound by Sonia Leber
How To Die: The Films Of Mike Hoolboom by Jack Rusholme
Always Fair Weather (with scattered clouds passing during the day): French Film and Video at Experimenta '94 by Yann Beauvais
Beyond Destination and Desire: An Interview With Ian Rashid by Chris Berry
Eden and After: Stan Brakhage's `A Child's Garden and The Serious Sea' by Adrian Martin
Looking Awry: Experimental Film and Video From Aotearoa New Zealand by Annie Goldson
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Autumn 1995
MESH #5
Contents:
Peter Mudie on Michael Snow
Kevin Murray on the AFC Conference: Narrative and Interactivity
Heather Barton on Linda Dement and Brad Miller
Barbara Allen on Creative Nation
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Winter 1995
Front cover: Requiem N.o 1 (Paul Winkler, 1969).

Winter 1995
Front cover: Requiem N.o 1 (Paul Winkler, 1969).
MESH #6
Contents:
Let's Go AIMIA by
Dave Sag
Would You Make Love To A Stick Figure? Academic and performance artist Dr Sandy Stone in conversation with Julie Clarke
Look It's Drinking The Water!" It's increasingly difficult to draw a line between good and bad digital art these days by Chris Gregory
Digital Wombs, Male Phantasms and Female Embodiment by Ross Moore
Paul Winkler in Retrospect by Robert Nery
RAM-BAM Thank you M'am by Juna Ann Lam
DISTant Horizons by Jan McConchie
Grim and Darkly Humorous by Brecon Walsh
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Summer 1995
Front cover picture: Still from Rene Clair's Entr'acte, 1924
MESH #7
Contents:
The Gardening Program.
Jane Goodall on the phenomenon of the Electronic Garden
Paradise Lost? The Avant-Garde & Reprising the "Primitive Moment" of Early Cinema by Barrett Hodson
Ubu Films' 30th Anniversary by Peter Mudie
A Virtual Q & A
The Virtualities exhibition raises more questions on the meaning of and
reception for interactive art by Jun-Ann Lam
1995 ISEA Conference by
Mike Leggett
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Autumn/Winter 1996
Special Robotica Double Issue
MESH #8/9
Contents:
Robotica Foreword by
Shiralee Saul
Microscope Phakoetre/Espanaphorascope Phlatergometre by Peter Morse
The Information Processing Unit: Robots and Artificial Intelligence by Ann Morrisson
Prosthetic Aesthetics by Laura McGough
New Robots: Cyborgs, Softbots and Avatars by Kathy Cleland
Mapping the Code: Artists Concieving Data-Bodies by Zara Stanhope
Fembots:Sexy Home Appliances by Jyanni Steffensen
Making Robots: An Interview with Ron Newson from Showtronix by Kathy Cleland and David Cranswick
'Default', Marion Harper, Melbourne by Helen Stuckey
Patricia Piccinni + Alison Main, Adelaide by Suzanne Triester
Nothing Natural, Melbourne by Anna Clabburn
Stelarc, Sydney by Brecon Walsh
Digital Primate, Melbourne by James Rowland
Joy Saunders, Sydney by Alex Gawronski
Digital Aesthetics One, Sydney by Cindy Lee
Urban Exiles On-line Gallery by Werner Hammerstingl
Cybercultures, Sydney by Ann Morrisson
Peter Hennessey's I.C.U., Basement Gallery Melbourne by Rosemary Burne
News/ Websites, compiled by Sally Tulloch
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Spring 1996
Front cover inset: Martine Corompt, Cute Machine, 1996
MESH #10
Contents:
Your Place or
Mine? Locating Digital Art by Darren Tofts
MESH speaks with festival director, Peter Handsaker
Strangled by An Intestine : An Interview with Guy Maddin by Darren Wershier-Henry
Silver Delirium/Crimes & Confessions by Marie Craven
Stan Brakhage Retrospective by Peter Mudie
To See Through Soiled Eyes; Richard Kern by Lance Sinclair
CD-ROM the 21st Century Bronze (reprinted with permission from the MCA Catalogue for Burning the Interface) Mike Leggett
Listening as Performance: The Reflective Space by Lawrence Harvey
women@art.technology.au supplement
Australian Women Artists and New Media Technologies by Kathy Cleland
Interactivity, Intersubjectivity and the Artwork/Network by Zoë Sofoulis
Sound, Electricity and Women by Deborah Durie
Domestic Disturbances (or Prometheus Housebound) by Shiralee Saul
Martine Corompt's Cute Machines by Helen Stuckey
Jun-Ann Lam's North East South West - the Yellow Peril Virus by Lisa Daniel
Alison Main's Techno-Grammar by Bala Starr
Sarah Waterson's Mapping E-Motion by Zoë Sofoulis
The Body Remembers by Zara Stanhope
Re-possessing the Body by Josephine Grieve
100 Years of Cruelty: Artaud Conference by Antonia Bruns
impact@6months.conf by Gillian Morrison
Digital Gumbo: SIGGRAPH by Simon Britton
Lauren Tan's Octogene by Kurt Bereton
Norie Neumark's Separation Anxiety by Deborah Durie
Garth Paine & Craig Madoc's MQM: an Intelligent Virtual Environment by James Rowland
Suzanne Triester's Dying for Your Sins by Catriona Murtaugh
Angela Valmanesh's Calculations and Deborah Ostrow's Where to From Here by Alison Main
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Spring 1997: Altered States: Pschotropic Visions and the digitally-corrupted gaze
MESH #11
Contents:
Psychotic Reactions:
Why we are not Sirius, by Helen Stuckey
Transcendence in Cyberspace: Of virtual and other realities, by Deborah Drurie
Troy Innocent: Memespace, by Darren Tofts
Tim Gruchy: Synthing, by Shiralee Saul
Lindsay Colborne: Serendipity and the road to happiness, by Emily Clarke
Consciousness Reframed: Art and consciousness in the post-biological era, by Taylor Nuttall
The Digital Mirror Stage: Or the pixelated gaze, by Kurt Brereton
Altered States: Metamorphosis and cyberbole, by Shiralee Saul
Jon McCormack: Turbulence an interactive museum of unnatural history
Tina Gonsalvas: Process of becoming, by Jane Leonard
Rebecca Young: Are you happy yet?, by Christine Adams
When Meme Meets Gene: Mindflux, mutagen and the virtual replicators, by Belinda Barnet
Techno-utopianism in Video Art and the Digital New Media: from the ‘Psychedelic' Sixties to the ‘Cyberdelic' Nineties, by John Conomos
The Art of Dance, by Benjamin Brady
Norie Neumark's Shock in the Ear, by Mike Leggett
Psy Harmonic's Psy Visions, by Jackie Cooper
Drome, by Helen Stuckey
Dorian Dowse: OmTipi
Off The Rails: Introduction to a speculative history of mental imagery in cinema, by Adrian Martin
Browsing MOO_Media, by Ann Morrison
Towards a Mass Psychology of the Net, by Geert Lovink
From the Inside Out: Isabelle Delmotte's Epileptograph: the Internal Journey, by Kathy Cleland
Naomi Herzog: Playing in Mined Feelds, by Amanda King
pH7.2 Watchtower, by Peter Hennessey
Christopher Langton: PVC satire, by Chris Gregory
The Art of Speed, by D. J. Huppatz
Foreword: Writing in, writing on (a work in progress), by Adrian Miles
Bad Mojo, by Ian Haig
Escape Velocity: Company in Space, by Sophie Hansen
Mark Dundon: U-boats, aeroplanes and cruel seas, by Helen Stuckey
Trick or Treat: An installation by Martine Corompt, Ian Haig and Phillip Samartzis, by Dominic Redfern
William Yang and The North, by Tracey Benson
Cyber Cultures, by Ann Morrison
Trophies of Sickness: An installation by Emily Clarke, by Suzy Morton
Big Banana Time Inc.: Tracey Benson's Uncanny Australia, by Kimberly Miller
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1998/1999: Game Theory
Cover artwork: Moira Corby
MESH #12
Contents:
Editorial by Keely
Macarow
Emergent Culture by Paul Brown
Un Autre Coup De
Des.
Multimedia and The Game Paradigm
by Darren Tofts
Audience Participation by Ian Haig
Whose Game by Dirk de Bruyn
Slots of Fun by Laurens Tan
Up the Snakes and Down the Ladders by Steven Ball
Art Scratchy: Spend the rest of your life by Kurt Brereton
Eye Fly Triangular by Paul Rodgers
The Prize is Right by Amanda King
The New Abstraction by David Cox
Anagramatology by Lisa Gye
Body Status by Judy Clarke
The Y2K Problem: Donna Haraway and the modest witness by DX Raiden & Dominic Pettmen
Review: ISEA97 by Norie Neumark
Review: Self Remembering- Home by Werner Hammerstingl
Review: Macbeth Project by Dr Edward Scheer
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