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I’m delivering a Public Lecture at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery on May 16th 2010 at 3pm.

‘Communism was our utopia’: Traces of the past in utopian futures.
This talk will contextualise the exhibition ‘Cao Fei: Utopia’ in the ongoing tradition of art’s engagements with utopia. Departing from Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” the talk examines the ecological, economic, political, and technological history of utopian dreams. This is the last day of the exhibition. Cao Fei: Utopia is a joint project by ARTSPACE Auckland and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.

Su Ballard and Stella Brennan, (eds.) The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader Auckland and Dunedin: Clouds Publishing, July 2008. ISBN: 97-095827899-7

Su Ballard with Matthew Fuller and Eric Kluitenberg “Keynote Conversation: Digital Matters” The 6th ADA symposium, School of Design, Victoria University, Wellington 26-28 June 2009. [Keynote Lecture, live interview and public conversation via remote networks streamed live on Second life.]

Su Ballard. “Erewhon: framing media ecologies in the antipodes” Re:live Media Art Histories, refereed conference proceedings. ed. Sean Cubitt and Paul Thomas. University of Melbourne and Victoria College of the Arts and Music: Melbourne, 2009. p. 6-11. ISBN: 978-0-9807186-3-8

Su Ballard. “Susan Norrie: Enola” [catalogue essay] The Enlightenments: Susan Norrie Enola and SHOT, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, curated by Juliana Engberg, Edinburgh International Festival of the Arts, August 2009.

Su Ballard. “Antipodean Media Ecologies: Journeys to Nowhere and Back” in ISEA 14^th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Singapore conference proceedings. edited by Ingrid Maria Hofd, et al. Singapore: ISEA2008 Pte Ltd. p.44-46. ISBN: 978-981-08-0768-9.

Su Ballard.“Dirty Princesses” in Michele Beevors: Debbie Does Disney, Dunedin Public Art Gallery: Dunedin, November 2008.

Su Ballard. “The Geekosystem reviewed” Eyeline volume 67, (November 2008): 65

Su Ballard. “Emergence: the generation of material spaces in Anthony McCall’s ‘Line Describing a Cone’.” Digital Creativity, volume 18, No. 1 (2007): 34-42. Routledge: New York. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a773459159

Su Ballard. “Susan Norrie,” in Taking Time: Tempo ao Tempo. Biennale of Time Based Media curated by Isobel Carlos, Fundación MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain, October 2007, pp. 192-197, 348-349. (published in English, Catalan and Spanish).

Su Ballard. “Information, Noise, and et al.” M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, Vol 10, issue 5, October 2007, edited by Mark Nunes and Kelly McWilliam. http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0710/02-ballard.php ISSN 1441-2616.

Su Ballard. “Distraction and Feedback: Sound, Noise and Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand.” Mesh vol. 19 (online) http://www.experimenta.org/mesh/mesh19/ballard.html ed. Maria Rizzo, Experimenta: Melbourne, September 2006. http://www.experimenta.org/mesh/mesh19/pdf/Mesh19-SuBallard.pdf

Su Ballard. “Entropy and Digital Installation” Fibreculture Journal, issue 7. Dec 2005. (unpaginated) <http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue7/issue7_ballard.html> ISSN: 1449-1553

Su Ballard and Caro McCaw. “Embedded Ecologies: Teaching Digital Theory in Art and Design,” SCOPE: ART volume 2, (November 2007): 26-37.

Su Ballard. “Nam June Paik: Mercurial Global Guru”, and “ Techno-utopianism: Computers and a new world” entries for the Digital Media Art Prototype, an online resource for teachers and researchers of digital media. Intercreate Research Centre, New Plymouth, edited by Trudy Lane, 2009. http://www.intercreate.org/view/dmap-artist-review and http://www.intercreate.org/view/dmap-topic-techno

Su Ballard. “A commitment to noise; finding messy spaces inbetween art history, digital media, and the gallery” in Cultural Futures: Place, Ground, and Practice in Asia Pacific New Media Arts, ed. Danny Butt, Nova Paul and Jon Bywater, Auckland University of Technology: Auckland, December 2005. (unpaginated)