Cosmology of an Island
Charles Avery on The Islanders

01/10/07  Tom Morton

Charles Avery (Scotland, 1973) has been working since 2004 on his epic The Islanders, a description in text and images of life on an imaginary archipelago and of the characters who live there. This vast project, which probably will occupy Avery for the rest of his life, can perhaps best be described as a meditation on the making of art and the impossibility of discovering the truth. His work is now shown at the Athens and Lyon Biennal.

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The Lessons of Digital Identity

22/07/06 

On the internet the imagination is king, particularly in role plays in which you and I can participate and take on a different identity in the form of avatars we have made up ourselves. The games may have been quite simple initially, but by now apparently perfect and extremely complicated imaginary worlds have been created, which merge seamlessly with real life.

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