Tag: arts and science
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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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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…
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The Sound of Place; Environmental Artworks at Bundanon.
This essay by Nigel Helyer and John Potts listens to the sound of place: of Bundanon, a three thousand acre property in the Shoalhaven river valley in rural NSW, Australia. Bundanon is today an artists’ colony and education centre, following the gift to the Australian people in 1993 of the entire property—including homestead, artist studio…
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A Dissimulation of Birds
Our capacity to communicate, and more so our ability to sing is directly related to our intimate evolutionary relationship with the acoustic genius of birds. Our species has internalised and evolved the trills and warbles of birdsong to form language and music. A Dissimulation of Birds pays homage to the virtuosity of our feathered friends…
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The Biological Mixer
By Sarah Moss. Dr Nigel Helyer, also known as Dr Sonique, has a fascination with data sonifications. “I’ve done quite a lot of projects where I build a really big audio library, maybe in certain categories,” he said. “It might be environmental sounds, local music, aural history archival sounds or from early radio in that…
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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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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! and again and again… This is a complex bio-art project that spans thirteen years, undertaken at three different laboratories. This post records that journey from its inception to a final successful realisation and recounts the pitfalls, frustrations and the final accomplishment. Please scroll to the end of the post to listen to…
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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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Float like a Butterfly; Sting like a Bee