Here-in you'll find a collection of writings - mainly on art theory, with a special emphasis on how art theory applies to digital multimedia art, and also the idea of "meta-art' - or a synthesis of the arts - long dreamed of by great artists and thinkers down the centuries.  You'll also find related and unrelated musings on

 The sections are categorised in the right hand menu under "Concerning DIGITAL ART".

The evolution of this site: Mutlimedia art tools, such as PhotoShop, and the gee-whiz array of graphic design, computer music, 3D animation & video editing software, when combined with the Internet as a gallery space, enable a new empowerment for creative types (or people with too much time on their hands) who would express their artistic urges.

Well sure, the World Wide Web has sufferred an increasingly rapid degeneration into a vast tacky virtual shopping mall - that's unfortunately true. Yet it still offers a handy new art space - a place to deliver art, creative writing and music to a potential audience of like-minded, or random people. 

If you are of a creative bent you simply can't ignore this immediate conduit to the wired world. (Ok, so the World may not be interested, but that's a secondary consideration - should one really care if the world is slow to catch up?)

If you're simply not content to be one of the sheep, you can sit seriously in a cave and meditate. (That's me pictured above during my "God" period, when I unsuccessfully tried that strategy).

Or maybe you can spend your time self-medicating, or you can try to lighten the dark clouds of doom and grim mediocrity of a confused society by becoming absorbed in your various creative outlets. It at least keeps the wayward mind occupied, and it's more satisfying than watching television.

Eventually you can't help but start thinking about the web as a place to play.

Because it's there...

Well, what do you do with a web-site? What's the point, unless you're selling something? Well, we all need a hobby. Web-sites & blogs are increasingly a bloke's (or shiela's) virtual shed. Full of interesting personal stuff.

In my case, I've broken up my various self-therapies and creative pursuits and made a web-site for each.

Check out the music site at www.barryferrier.com.  Experimental animation and interactive art is found at bentlystrange.com .

For more general information about my now abandoned academic career visit barringtonferrier.com (maybe the new Aussie Labour government will breathe life, idealism - and money - back into the sadly depleted and demoralised Post-Howard tertiary sector - and I may one day return. But to be honest, the only thing I miss is listening to Radio National in the car on the way home).

This latter site includes a photo collection from my travels in the Northern Territory, working with indigenous Australians, a profile of Lindsay Kemp, the eccentric mime artist and theatre director (who was  once, briefly, a big influence on Australian theatrical experience), and a tribute to aboriginal arts activist and great human being Rodney Gooch.