A lot of the images in my work are a kind of visual diary of places I've been, what I've seen, heard, smelt.
Francesca da Rimini

All history is pornography.
Francesca da Rimini

Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
Francesca da Rimini

I am ashamed to be Australian in these times.
Francesca da Rimini

I do suspect that this world is hell.
Francesca da Rimini

I like to travel. I will be in Banff next year. I would like to make a series of DVDs at Banff. I won't talk about where they will end up... just not in the media art world.
Francesca da Rimini

I need to borrow a camera to take some pix of my studio, which is basically the kitchen table.
Francesca da Rimini

I was working as an art and tech researcher in '84. At that time there had been a small government program of assistance for artists for at least three or four years. I was working with Super 8 film then. And video in '85 and public radio in the early '80s.
Francesca da Rimini

My Roman girlfriend translates bits from Italian into English. It is sublime.
Francesca da Rimini

Occasionally I still do a bit of stuff with people I met there seven years ago. It's like looking up an old lover IRL. But on the whole I've personally exhausted that avenue of research, so it no longer draws me. I did write a novel as a kind of document of that era.
Francesca da Rimini

Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.
Francesca da Rimini

The few remaining truths are graffiti, suicide notes, shopping lists.
Francesca da Rimini

The work gets more political as I become older and more aware, I guess, of power and justice issues.
Francesca da Rimini

We have had government funding for new media since the early '80s.
Francesca da Rimini