Category: Installation

  • BioSphere/DataSphere

    BioSphere/DataSphere

    The 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…

  • Sounds and Sweet Airs

    Sounds and Sweet Airs

    Sounds and Sweet Airs is part of a long-term web project Soniferous Cities; Islands of Sound that experiments with the creation of sonic cartographies. The project which is part of the Öres21 Summer Exhibition aims to create rich interactive audio-portraits of a range of geographies, environments and communities. Sounds and Sweet Airs links sites on…

  • Tracing Silence; Ecocide and Omnicide.

    Tracing Silence; Ecocide and Omnicide.

    Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein. Nietzsche, Beyond good and Evil 1886 In the words of the ancient Chinese proverb, May you live in interesting times! — and it would appear that we do — a time in which centuries of accumulative environmental degradation forms a…

  • Sonus Maris

    Sonus Maris

    The Brain is wider than the Sky For put them side by side The one the other will contain With ease and You, beside The Brain is deeper than the sea For hold them Blue to Blue The one the other will absorb As Sponges, Buckets do The Brain is just the weight of God…

  • Breathless; Take a Deep Breath

    Breathless; Take a Deep Breath

    Take a Deep Breath; Breathless My creative practice is increasingly focussed upon bringing together the physical and ecological environments together with our social and cultural contexts. Using the media of multichannel sound installation; data sonification and sonic cartography these hybrid works are designed to create new forms of sonic space in which it is possible…

  • Supereste ut Pugnatis (Pugnatis) ut Supereste

    Supereste ut Pugnatis (Pugnatis) ut Supereste

    Supereste ut Pugnatis (Fight to Live) was the motto of the Chemical Defence Establishment* and is the metaphorical banner of a work developed for the SemiPermeable+ exhibition mounted by SymbioticA at the PowerHouse Museum, Sydney as part of ISEA2013. The work examines the intersection between the Visual Arts and Bio-Sciences and focuses on the development…

  • Songs from the UnderWorld

    Songs from the UnderWorld

    My practice is increasingly focused on bringing together the physical and ecological environment together with our social and cultural contexts. Using the media of multichannel sound installation; data sonification and sonic-cartography these hybrid works are designed to create new forms of sonic space in which it is possible to experience, examine and reflect upon the…

  • Milk and Honey

    Milk and Honey

    Milk and Honey is a new eight channel sound installation commissioned for SiteWorks by the Bundanon Trust.  The work is installed in the music room of the old Homestead and incorporated the Steinway piano. A short documentary video of Milk and Honey (put together by Mike Leggett) that shows the disposition of the audio actuators.…

  • VoxAura

    VoxAura

    VoxAura; The River Sings. This is the VoxAura; The River Sings project which opened on August 4th 2011 as part of the Turku is Listening programme during the Turku 2011, European Capital of Culture. Download the local information here. voxaura_esite2.pdf A pre-event discussion of the VoxAura Project. Our blood has the same salinity as the…

  • CrayVox

    CrayVox