Far from the bleak expanse of the blank page, words are spilling from the mouths, canvases, screens and speakers of contemporary Australian art. NYWF and Electrofringe present a nation-wide exhibition of visual, installation and sound art which takes and transforms the word. Discover the madness of life in a Darwin housing commission, find desire in the erasure of old books, control your world through Braille or lose yourself in the sound of words under extreme pressure. Come explore the intersection between language and form as we highlight the vibrancy of this exciting movement in contemporary art.

Chayni Henry Chayni Henry is a Northern Territory-based visual artist. She was born in 1983 and moved to Darwin in 1988, where she has been (hell) raised and (badly) educated. >> Also featuring in...	dkdc Collective dkdc is a loosely formed social and creative group that grew out of performance nights at UTS. Mostly writers interested in collaborative work, there is also a sound artist, dancer, designer, filmmaker, programmer and musician. >> Also featuring in...	James Newitt James Newitt lectures in visual communication at the Tasmanian School of Art and was a founding member and past director of INFLIGHT art, Hobart’s only artist-run initiative. www.jnewitt.com >> Also featuring in...
James Stuart James Stuart is a poet, editor/curator and new media artist. He also co-directs arts and debate night The Salon. Recent projects include editing an e-anthology, The Material Poem (www.nongeneric.net ), and creating online poem-world The Homeless Gods (with Karen Chen) ­ www.thehomelessgods.net . He is completing a Masters of Creative Arts at UTS, centred on poetry as material form. As a poet, James has won a number of awards and fellowships, including the 2004 Newcastle Poetry Prize¹s New Media category for the poem Frequencies and the 2002 Australian Young Adult Poetry Fellowship. His new media poem In Between Berowra was commissioned by Macquarie University Art Gallery as part of the exhibition Berowra Visions: Margaret Preston & Beyond (2005). >> Also featuring in...	Jeremy Bakker Originally from Canberra, Jeremy makes art in Melbourne from meticulously handwritten text. Winner of the Jenny Birt Award (2006) while at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney, he is now a Master in Art candidate at RMIT. >> Also featuring in...	Jessica Tyrell Jessica Tyrrell is a new media artist, documentary filmmaker and poet. Her video art, short films and online documentaries have been included at various festivals in Australia, such Real Life on Film, ACMI and Liquid Architecture. >> Also featuring in...
Justy Phillips Justy Philips is a Hobart-based artist and lecturer at the Tasmanian School of Art and a graduate of the Royal College of Art. www.expectinggoodweather.com >> Also featuring in...	Krista Berga Krista Berga makes poetic ‘books’ – beautiful, beautiful poems made from erasing the pages of books to leave just a few words visible. www.kristaberga.net >> Also featuring in...	Nicolas Low Nicolas Low is a writer, installation artist, designer and organiser of stuff. He is co-director of NYWF, and secretly wants to be a full-time bedroom DJ. www.dislocated.org >> Also featuring in...
Rebecca Giggs Rebecca Giggs is an award-winning Perth-based writer and researcher, member of The Concrete Organisation, Postgrad student at UWA, editor of The New Critic, and sits on the steering committee of the West Australian Legal Clinic for the Homeless. >> Also featuring in...	Stranger of the Month Stranger of the Month is network-driven collision of writing, performance and art being developed by Kerrie-Dee Johns as part of the Next Wave Festival’s Kickstart program. >> Also featuring in...	Thomas Knox Arnold Sydney-based artist Thomas Knox Arnold is completing a Bachelor of Electronic Arts (Honours) at UWS. He performs and exhibits as himself and Lucas Darklord. >> Also featuring in...