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Landscape/Portrait
An exhibition at the Macquarie University Gallery (March ~ May 2017) exploring the Shoalhaven River Valley.
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Heavy Metal
Elements and minerals lay buried in the landscape tracing diagrams of human activity. Specks of alluvial Gold washed down to the flood plain from worked-out mountain mine shafts; the mineral auras that reveal the long-vanished outlines of farm-buildings and the tell-tale chemical fallout from workplaces. Boyd painted this (mineralised) landscape with colours which were themselves…
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CultCult – audio illumination from the Ocean
All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea – whether it is to sail…
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BioLogging Retrofit
The ‘Under the Icecap‘ art and science collaboration aims to illuminate the fundamental connection between human activities and planetary dynamics, by creating an experimental installation and performance series that will visualise and sonify scientific and statistical datasets. In essence Under the IceCap renders complex environmental bio-logging data-sets collected by Southern Elephant Seals on their under-ice…
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BioPod
The BioPods project was developed for the Bundanon Trust annual Siteworks 2014 festival but is also the debut project of When Art meets Science a three year ARC (Australian Research Council) project conducted between the artist and cultural and environmental researchers at Macquarie University; with The Bundanon Trust and the Australia Council for the Arts…
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Eine Kleine GeneMusiK
GeneMusiK rides Again! <scroll to the end of this page for new stuff> The GeneMusiK project had its origins in 2003 during a three-month Artist in Residence hosted by the SymbioticA lab at the University of Western Australia. At that time I worked in the Department of Agricultural Sciences with Dr Gary Cass on the…
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Songs from the UnderWorld_v3
Songs UnderWorld_V3 at the siva)(zona a.k.a. grey) (area Space for contemporary and media art, Korčula, Croatia. Songs from the UnderWorld has entered its third reincarnation at the siva)(zona gallery, Korčula, Croatia. The work continues to examine the issue of death from the perspective of the myth of Orpheus and his journey into the Underworld and…
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Architecture for Bees; Bees for Architecture
Architecture for Bees and Bees for Architecture is a three day workshop at the Kaisanemi Botanical Gardens, Helsinki, Finland offered by Australian artist Dr. Nigel Helyer as part of the ongoing Melliferopolis urban bee project. Architecture for Bees and Bees for Architecture is a project that considers the architectural capacities and potentials of colonial bees…
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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…
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Public Art concepts
Whilst the Sonic Objects; Sonic Architecture site is full of large scale public art and environmental projects they are of course the tip of the iceberg. Man proposes and God disposes as the saying goes; or in the realm of architectural and public art competitions the final call may not be 100% divine. So here…
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Ars Memoriae Mexicana
[dropcap character=”T”]he outstretched palm, that of the Buddha etched with the precious objects, of Islam warding off evil; of Christ before Golgotha, of a Toureg woman tattooed in cyphers or a simple punctum ~ Stop! The mind works too fast for logic, it sifts, sorts and assembles metaphors, associations and gestalts, this hand I had…
Projects (106 )
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Sonus Maris; the concert!
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Sonique; the life and art of Dr Sonique (the Graphic Novel)
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Sonus Maris_V2
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The Past is our Future; The Future is our Past.
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Sounds and Sweet Airs
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Freeze Frame
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Scribbly Gum Suites
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Virtual talking in 2020
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Sonus Maris
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The Oratorio for a Million Souls
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Two Islands
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LandFall
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The Deluge Ark(ive)
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A Dissimulation of Birds
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The Biological Mixer
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Landscape/Portrait
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Heavy Metal
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CultCult – audio illumination from the Ocean
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BioLogging Retrofit
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BioPod
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Eine Kleine GeneMusiK
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Songs from the UnderWorld_v3
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Architecture for Bees; Bees for Architecture
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Bristle
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Breathless; Take a Deep Breath
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Public Art concepts
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Ars Memoriae Mexicana
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Float like a Butterfly; Sting like a Bee
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Supereste ut Pugnatis (Pugnatis) ut Supereste
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Songs from the UnderWorld_V2
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Songs from the UnderWorld
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BeeWork
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VoxAura
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CrayVox
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Bio_Logging and Under the IceCap
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Radiolarians
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New Host_V6
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Law of the Tongue
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VoxAEther
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Padme
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New York Drawings
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Adrift
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Zephyr II
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BioSonics
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Run Silent Run Deep
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Sculpture in the Vineyards
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WA Marine Facility ~ Ondes
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AudioMaze
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Quint de Loup II
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Talking Stick
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Syren for Port Jackson
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Factory Spirit.
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Swarm
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What Survives
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Spinner
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Lotus
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Magnus Opus
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Preaching to the Converter
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Virtual Spirit
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Models
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AudioNomad + Syren
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Theorem
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LifeBoat
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An Unrequited Place
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Voyages from Eden to Utopia; Hercules
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The Transit of Venus
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Toll
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A Symphony for Other Cultures
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The Lament
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Sonic Landscapes
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Siren Song
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Re-Entry Vehicle; Natural Science in the Spirit World
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Naughty Apartment
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Mute in TalkTown; the sweet warm breath of science
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Leaven
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Host
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Gyro-Diva
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Haiku
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Everything’s Nice with American Rice
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Drift
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Dual-Nature (Ebb and Flow).
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Din
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Die Melodie der Welt; Bringing Home the Bacon
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Aura
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