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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 focusses upon the development…
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Songs from the UnderWorld
My practice is increasingly focussed upon 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 complexities…
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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…
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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…
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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