The Artist
Nigel Helyer (a.k.a. Dr. Sonique) is an Australian based Sculptor and Sound
Artist with an international reputation for his large-scale sonic installations, environmental sculpture works and new media projects.
His practice is actively interdisciplinary linking creative practice with scientific research and development. His research activities include; the development of Virtual Audio Reality systems in collaboration with Lake Technology (now Dolby Australia). He became a Visiting Professorial Fellow and the Artistic Director of the subsequent AudioNomad Research Group in location-sensitive Environmental Audio at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales (funded by the Australian Research Council and later established as a start-up company.
The Updates
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Imaginary Beings; three characters walk into a Bar.
Three characters walk into a bar, a Virus, a Human and Santa Claus. The bartender refuses to serve the Human and Santa Claus on the basis that he regards them as chimera, but happily serves the Virus with three beakers of industrial alcohol, which the Virus generously shares with his two colleagues. As the bar…
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Freeze Frame; Cinema and the Afterlife.
Post In: Models, Projects, Research and Development Writing, Sculpture, social history, sound sculpture, TextsQuelle est votre plus grand ambition dans la vie? Devenire immortel et puis mourir. Jean-Luc Godard, À bout de souffle 1960. Fictionalising fiction. As a thirteen-year-old lad, I along with a couple of friends, were once left to kick our heels for the day in central London —we were the crew in a sailing regatta…
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BioSphere/DataSphere
Post In: arts and science, Installation, interactive new media, Projects, Sculpture, sound sculptureThe BioSphere|DataSphere project acknowledges the deep, longstanding and ongoing connection of the Palawa and Pakana people to the wild, beautiful coast and sea country where the Tasman Fracture Marine Park is situated. Between 2021 and 2024 artist Nigel Helyer worked with an interdisciplinary and multi-agency, team of scientists researching the environmental productivity of the Tasman…
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Sonus Maris; the concert!
The Sonus Maris concert was developed in collaboration with the New Music Collective (UNSW) as an elaboration of the original data-derived monophonic musical scores. In terms of objectives, the original plan was to create an audio-visual work for the International Conference of Coastal Engineers, which was duly held at the Sydney International Conference Centre in…
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Sonique; the life and art of Dr Sonique (the Graphic Novel)
Sonique; the Life and Art of Dr.Sonique, is the authorised biography of Dr. Nigel Helyer in the form of a speculative fiction Graphic Novel. The work is a collaboration between Sydney-based comic writer Mark Hobby, the Taiwan-based graphic designer The Milkman, and Dr. Sonique himself who provided copious amounts of factual, anecdotal, and totally fictional…
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Sonus Maris_V2
Download the Sonus Maris – Catalogue (mobile) Download the essay from ISEA 2022 Sonus Maris_Helyer_ISEA22(small) Download the Interview Sonus Maris _An interview with Nigel Helyer Listen to Sonus Maris the Concert Sonus Maris the Concert Part 1; an orientation. We are neurologically predisposed to seek patterns in our surroundings, in fact, pattern recognition is…
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