Dim O'Gauble

"Andy Campbell’s 'Dim O’Gauble' strikes us as a piece that would not be out of place in an art gallery. The exit tunnel sequence, with its backwards audio track and the purposeful blur of text and image, alone is one of the finest pieces of video art that we’ve yet encountered. Visually stunning, Campbell’s story is framed around childhood drawings and is governed by a fragmentary postmodern dreamscape sensibility.

Campbell writes that 'it feels energising and empowering to be producing original material that still requires some effort and tries to fuse together the incredible advances in new media with the power of the written word.'

Unfairly, digital writing is often denigrated in supposed literary circles for the lack of craft given to its textual elements. The form, so says its detractors, favors bells-and-whistles techno trix over language.

It is Campbell’s care with the written word that is so powerful.

When reading 'Dim O’Gauble,' we urge you to linger though each of the nodes. Text often rises to the surface where you least expect and, fitting to the faculties of dream and memory that Campbell explores, sometimes erases itself just as you rely upon it." -- From The New River Journal