My artworks, for the Signals in the City Exhibition have been up for 2 weeks at the Hannah Maclure Centre, and it is only now that I can think about it, and reflect on the processes. After the flurry of getting everything done, not only was I exhausted, but I just had no more room left in my head for any of it.

At the private view, it was interesting to see the way that people interacted with my works. We have precedents or accepted ways of behaving in certain situations, when works like mine sit across different modes of interaction, some people don't know what to do. The works were print based and hanging on the wall, so one would first of all assume traditional modes of viewing... but you are invited to pick up a nearby phone to interact with it... but we use phones to listen, not to see.... and in gallery spaces people have been taught to look but no touch... and in mobile phone stores everything is chained down. So my works broke many conventions that people subconsciously have learned to abide by.

After the shock of being allowed to play, experiment and explore most people were very diligent in engaging with the works. Unfortunately the slicker designed 6300 phones were the ones which users gravitated towards to use, when in fact they don't work as well as the N70's. Goes to show how important good device design is.  Once over the fear of breaking the technology, and getting it to work, many users spent a rather long time with the works. Much more time than I would have expected. They really examined the content quite closely and referred back to original images, particularly in the home.html series, which I am quite chuffed by.

Although the medium I am working in is non-linear, and I jump in and out of my works in a non-linear fashion, viewers in the gallery looking at my works do not seem to. They work through the series of works, from the place where the pedestal with the handsets is, along the wall of images, just like people do in conventional gallery spaces. It has never ceased to amaze me (and sometimes annoy me) the way people shuffle along from one image to the next in a gallery space in one big long queue, which can be a bit boring if it is crowded and you have stopped in front of a blank wall.  Whenever I walk into a room, be it a gallery space, lounge room, lecture theatre, I survey the whole room, and then zero in on the aspects that appeal to me. So in a gallery space I stand back look at all the images then go straight for the ones I like the look of. I may ignore some things all together, while spend especially long times with other works, probably much to the annoyance of the shuffling sheep who like to follow the linear structure defined by the curator.

Perhaps I am a little odd not going in the correct order; I'd love to know -  what do other people do/ think when they go into a gallery space?