METADATA by Amelia Dale, is dedicated to George Brandis, the patron of Australian arts today, and the instigator of a profoundly disruptive conceptual project in surveillance poetics: to collect and archive the metadata of every Australian resident. METADATA takes its cue from Brandis’ monumental attempt to store countless “electronic web addresses” until they become stale. Like Brandis, METADATA is preoccupied with the staling materiality of proliferating information. Like Brandis, METADATA asks whether the frame is in the picture. Like Brandis, this book asks where data ends and metadata begins.