hrmmm

Well, the lid's blown off. Or is it? Graham insists he has no idea how or why his name came to be embedded in that Fischer document, and he may well be right. But grouped with two other Melbourne avant-garde artists, the implications do seem kind of damning, don't they?

Let's take a quick look at our collaboratuers. First there's Brendan Lee, of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the VCA (Hely's old stomping grounds). Lee, who is attached to the university's PVC Design & Social Context Creative Media department, has a particular interest in experimental film and video production. (Need a fake torture tape, anyone?)

Lee, as curator of Projekt Video Catalogue from August 2002 through December 2003, had no shortage of opportunity to become familiar with the works of Robin Hely (see Issue 1, misspelled as Healy) and Peter Burke (Issue 4).

Next we have Briele Hansen, another RMIT artist with an interest in video installation.

I wrote to Bridget Fischer to get the denial (of Graham's involvement, specifically) straight from the pony's mouth, and in due course received this response:

Dear JH

This processing error is of no consequence. The names within the macro
data are past and present operatives.

Cheers

Bridget

I wrote to Lee and Hansen to inquire of their Neurocam involvement; they should be drinking their morning coffee right about now, so we'll see if they eventually reply.

Comments

[Shemyaza]

Lady J - some thoughts on Oulis' latest on my blog.

Feel free to harvest if useful.

[QBKooky]

Allright... I'm starting to wonder... the thing is, attaching something as a .doc is SO obvious. I'm beginning to wonder... is Neurocam (or Graham?) dumb enough to slip something like that accidentally? Even if he is behind it and has been preserving the illusion for a year... I'm beginning to wonder. =\

[qed]

The Word doc was evidently not sent to everyone. I received the guide as part of the body text of the email from Bridget welcoming me to Neurocam. Either they caught their error and changed the procedure, or let it out selectively and deliberately as a red herring.
Who knows?

ex nihilo nihil fit,

qed.