projects

enter AliaK [filter] site or search for Australian electronic music, hip hop, sound art & arts project listings content. articles are still available via web search too.

socials

::: twitter
::: instagram
::: @AliaK@genart.social mastodon
::: substack
::: medium
::: linkedin ::: companies worked for: Synamedia, Cisco, NDS, FOXTEL, Optus Television, Seven Network (Channel 7 Brisbane), with APAC based customers such as: Sky New Zealand, Tata Sky (India), FOXTEL, Dogan (Turkey), True Vision (Thailand), Astro (Malaysia), Network Ten, Cricket Australia, STAN, Mediaworks (NZ), Fox Sports Australia + more

AliaK projects

::: coaxials ::: digital provenance backed by the blockchain in this increasingly AI content laden world
::: suitable for generic usage, starting with an artist profile platform with decentralised certificate of authenticity (COA) and provenance of their physical and digital work + more (WIP)

::: tech art lab ::: tech + art + creative services + office + studio space + gallery + bookseller ::: see also the withdrawing room

::: [filter] Australian electronic music, hip hop, sound art & arts project listings & AliaK blog (main site) ::: slowly migrating to AliaK [filter] site/url

::: ark[hive] ::: an ark[hive] | archive of articles by AliaK / blog / 3log, hosted/archived on the tezos blockchain / IPFS ::: alt sites: AliaK ark[hive]

::: briz:b:e:a:t:s internet radio show held on pulseradio.net from 2000-2004 (being transferred from aliak.com & aliakfilter.com where it's currently located to http://www.brizbeats.com)
see also:
Swales, Kris. 2000. "LUCID STREAMING - Two Turntables and A Cable Modem." Firehorse. https://web.archive.org/web/20000925084500/http://www.firehorse.com.au/f.... ( Archive PDF copy ) ( Archive PDF copy2 )

::: AliaK records ::: digital download of some talented Australian music artists (+ dreams of 7" vinyl releases which are still on todo list)

::: Brisbane dance parties archive ::: an archive of Brisbane dance music, electronic music, hip hop and sound art from 1987-2001 (research stages) ::: main site under maintenance - check earlier versions at archive.org

::: the Stealth collection ::: an archive listing the Stealth Magazine Australian hip hop CD collection

::: #turntabletag ::: documenting the current state of play in Australian turntablism via turntablists' videos

::: love you Brisbane remix project ::: CD launched at Straight Out of Brisbane (SOOB) Festival 2002 - see http://www.aliakrecords.com/love-you-brisbane-remix-project ::: http://www.loveyoubrisbaneremixproject.com

textiles

::: textiles, fibre, fabric manipulation, art, printing, painting, drawing, art books, projects, communities and artists :::

::: textiles arts calendar + textiles reading list ::: textile arts listings for projects, workshops and exhibitions

::: explorations in textiles ::: AliaK's textile explorations (& uni course blog) (2020 update: migrated to AliaK.com blog)

::: dropping the feed dogs ::: a place for hand & machine embroidery, knitting, weaving, textiles art (2020 update: migrated to AliaK.com blog)

::: haptic human ::: exploring the human touch in handmade objects (2020 update: migrated to AliaK.com blog)

::: atoms of sound ::: sound recordings made by AliaK over the years – sound walks, conferences / talks, some interviews (often low/noisy audio quality though)

driftings in drawings ::: blockchain based NFT digital art

::: butiq - digital art portfolio ::: specture ::: sentimental chairs ::: api drawings ::: blokerakt ::: 3D art objects ::: string figures ::: words ::: video art ::: one line one breath ::: events
::: h=n / HEN / hic et nunc - digital art
::: teia digital art
::: Tz1and - virtual world - 3d art objects
::: fx(hash) - generative code-based drawings
::: typed.art - text, articles & a blockchain MOO
::: 8scribo - haiku
::: versum - digital art

community projects

::: funds for da masta ::: documenting the fundraising auction for da masta

::: the stealth board 10th anniversary cd project
see also:
Blaze. 2011. "Mental Combat Hip Hop with Blaze." 3D World - Sydney. 1044: 26. https://issuu.com/spa_magazines/docs/3dn_1044. ( Archive PDF copy )

::: stop killing whales ::: news on whales

::: swap for Hunts ::: documenting the #swapForHunts project that Mass MC organized

::: Wikipedia editing ::: mostly Australian music articles, some Australian women artist/musician articles

holding room

::: ark[hive] magazine ::: an ark[hive] of Australian electronic music, hip hop and sound art from 1987-2004

::: kindreds press ::: ebooks and chapbooks

feature articles on / about my projects

in date order

Swales, Kris. 2000. "LUCID STREAMING - Two Turntables and A Cable Modem." Firehorse. https://web.archive.org/web/20000925084500/http://www.firehorse.com.au/f.... ( Archive PDF copy ) ( Archive PDF copy2 )

Blaze. 2011. "Mental Combat Hip Hop with Blaze." 3D World - Sydney. 1044: 26. https://issuu.com/spa_magazines/docs/3dn_1044. ( Archive PDF copy )

The Tickle. 2021. "The Tickle - Issue #25." The Tickle. https://teia.art/objkt/600375.

AliaK. 2022. "specture ::: topology and context." Fx(hash). https://www.fxhash.xyz/article/specture-:::-topology-and-context.

The Tickle. 2023. "The Tickle - Issue #88." The Tickle. https://objkt.com/asset/KT1KhepNMQ38DQ84QzT2ijVtsP1cMrvAyzJj/13.

exhibitions

May 2014. Spoon! at The Slowclub (now called The Snug), Melbourne, curated by Kate Kingsmill ::: info here
May 2022. "Shimmer" art work included in Flora | Fauna #2 exhibition at Tz1and.com virtual world, curated by Melody Owen (Pearl Hyacinth) and Michelle Brown (theBadLament) ::: info here and here

selections of my writing

2002. ""Silver Stars" Shine Brightly for Vision Four 5." AliaK.com. http://www.aliak.com/content/silver-stars-shine-brightly-vision-four-5.

2011. "Turntables of Doom." Dancecult Journal. https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/article/view/322/316. DOI: https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/article/view/322/316.

2011. "Hunter SBX - The Words." AliaK.com. http://www.aliakarchive.com/7584. Archived from OzHipHop.com.

2022. "entanglement." AliaK.com. http://www.aliakarchive.com/7637.

2022. "specture ::: topology and context." Fx(hash). https://www.fxhash.xyz/article/specture-:::-topology-and-context.

more via http://www.aliak.com/category/interview