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  Maryella Hatfield
Range of experience
  Australia 1993
Videotape, 11:15, colour, stereo
"Welcome to Range of Experience Productions Incorporated. Make your selection in the grid", a female voice whispers with the evocative power of a tempting advertisement. Since William Gibson's visionary SF novel 'Neuromancer' we dream about cyberspace and it won't be long before we can plug into the grid of the entertainment leg of the super information highway for a couple of laps of dry runs through a dense wood full of fingers or a breakneck ride on a surreal rollercoaster. With some light irony Maryella Hatfield offers a preview of the commercial excrescences of the possibilities cyberspace will hold in store for us. Smart salespeople will deceive us into believing that a plunge into virtual reality has therapeutical qualities. Neo-new age advertising bozos will tell us that their product is excellently suited to the conquering of our fears and that it also offers the opportunity to discover hidden dimensions of our consciousness. Although the serene voice of Range of Experience Productions Incorporated withholds it, the message is "float now, pay later".

Erik Quint

Assistant director: Jaqui Fine, Camera and lights: Kathryn Milliss, Camera assistant: Peter Karty, Grip: Adam Good, Focus puller: Nao Tharavanij, Editing: Anne Pratten, Peter Butterworth, Sound: Ben Cheah, Jodi Rose, Alicia Slusarski, Music: Maryella Hatfield, Sound mixing: Martin Oswin, Voice: Taylor Owynns, Xhian Behm, Titles: Janet Merewether, With: Saledad Cordeaux, With thanks to: Elisabeth Knight, Gary Warner, Lynn Gailey, Production: Marc Gillezeau, Lisa Duff, A.F.T.R.S.