Author: Nigel Helyer
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Bio_Logging and Under the IceCap
Bio_Logging is a collaboration between Artist Dr Nigel Helyer and Dr Mary-Ann Lea of the Institue for Marine and Antarctic Studies (University of Tasmania, Hobart) which seeks to link scientific bio-logging and GIS techniques with the Artist’s interests in interactive acoustic cartography, data signification and the development of Audio-Portraits to extend the conceptual and intuitive…
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Radiolarians
RadioLarians new public artwork for the Lake MacQuarie City Gallery, installed February 2011. Radiolarians consists of two interlocked sculptures, laser cut in 6mm Corten steel. The forms, one cylindrical and the other toroidal have a strong morphological relationship to microscopic marine creatures, sharing symmetry with the structure of primitive Radiolaria, countless millions of which form…
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New Host_V6
Somewhat to my surprise Host has been going through manifold iterations. Ironically the work has now been shown in various forms at six international venues but has never been exhibited in Australia ~ oh well, see what you have been missing! There are technical details on the original Host page so here is a little…
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Law of the Tongue
The Law of the Tongue ~ or the Sonic Whale. He who fights the monster should be careful lest he thereby becomes a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze into thee. Frederick Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil. The Sea and superstition go hand in hand. For centuries sailors…
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VoxAEther
VoxAEther has recently been on exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane and as part of the Asian Art Biennale at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan. The work consists of four laser-cut sculptural forms based upon the morphology and symmetry of microscopic Radiolaria, countless billions of which live in our oceans. …
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Padme
Views of the Padme Installation at MacQuarie University 2010. Padme is a solar-powered digital audio floating sculpture that is activated by wave motion and by water birds nudging the antennae-like motion sensing ‘whiskers’ that radiate from the work. A short radio interview about the installation. A favourite with the wildlife. Slight movement activated a chorus…
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New York Drawings
This is ancient history – a series of drawings made in New York during 1988. The studio was just around the corner from Pearl Paint the extraordinary art materials store trading in larger than life versions of everything including paper – so why not make a series of drawings in encaustic wax and pigments on…
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Teatro y Democracia
Act I. The Globe. It has been a standing joke for years now, each time I leave London I kick myself for again forgetting to visit the New Globe. Finally this inattention or amnesia has been remedied with the purchase of a five pound ticket for a standing place in the yard where I watched…
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Snap, Crackle and Pop; On listening, memory and amnesia
Snap, Crackle and Pop; On listening, memory and amnesia. Your words are preserved in the tin foil and will come back upon the application of the instrument years after you are dead in exactly the same tone of voice you spoke in then…This tongueless, toothless instrument, without larynx or pharynx, dumb, voiceless matter, nevertheless mimics…