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Essays on Cinema, Video Art and New Media
Published by Artspace & Power Publications, 2008
Mutant Media gathers together a selection of John Conomos’ essays across the years, tracking the trajectory of his cinephilia since the 1960s, his ongoing interests in film criticism and theory, as well as his deep involvement in video art and new media since the 1980s.
A major contribution to the realm of moving image and new media theory, Mutant Media is also a kind of autobiography of an artist, writer and educator whose life centres around cinema’s grand, unpredictable adventure spanning three centuries.
Read an extract from the book.
George Alexander’s introduction to Mutant Media book launch, Gleebooks, Sydney.
It’s a great pleasure to launch this book and a great pleasure to read it …

An homage to Mark Rothko, and also in the long take cinema tradition (specifically Jean-Marie Straub and the late Daniele Huillet’s Too Early, Too Late [1982]), a landscape video about the ‘disappearing’ lake located outside Canberra, Australia.

A video essay on the new ‘technological’ sublime in every day life.

An homage to Nam June Paik TV Buddha series, this video sculpture represents Ned Kelly as Australia’s first ‘cyborg’ outlaw.

A three-channel video photo and neon installation dealing with the Diasporic Greek reflections on the artist’s childhood, cinema and the visual arts.

Autobiographical performance about the artist’s childhood in a milk bar at Tempe and his ancestral forbearers from the Greek Island of Kythera.
23 minutes, SP Beta