Tag: arts and science
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Lotus
L]otus is a commission for an environmental audio sculpture that is moored in the lake at ECU’s Joondalup campus. Left – Visualisation image, right – Lotus on-site and talking poetry. “Lotus” is a development of my previous solar-powered environmental audio works and is directly based upon the functional components of “Haiku” but here deployed within…
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Virtual Spirit
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AudioNomad + Syren
[dropcap character=”T”]he Audio Nomad project is an exciting development in Australian Research and Development that combines the skills and talents of Artists with those of Scientists in an imaginative collaboration that is developing technologies to support and deliver creative public sound-art events. Our specific interests are in location sensitive, mobile audio systems that generate immersive…
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Theorem
Between June 2004 and February 2005 Nigel Helyer worked as an Artist in Residence at the Paul Scherrer Institut, one of Switzerland’s largest research laboratories. The Following is extracted from the Institut publication ‘Aktuell’. How might an Artist approach the Paul Scherrer Institut, which by any standards, is a complex intellectual and social organism? My…
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LifeBoat
The lab floating in Oslo fjord. LifeBoat is a prosaic title indicating both the physical reality (the project is contained within a fully weatherproofed ship’s lifeboat) and somewhat more conceptually, as the lifeboat has become home to a Biotechnology lab; a home to the processes of life itself. On a metaphorical level, this project is…
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Toll
A Sound-sculpture installation located in two sites. Exhibited. The Muu Galerie, Helsinki, Finland and at the Cholera Basin, Helsinki Harbour 1996. Materials. x2 Bronze Bells, x32 Voltaic cells and electronic circuits, audio equipment with ISDN telephone line. Zinc wall texts. Dimension. Gallery installation :- 6m x 6m, Harbour installation :- variable. Toll. This project was…
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Sonic Landscapes
From June 1999 until September 2001 Nigel Helyer worked as an Artist in Residence at Lake Technology in Sydney, http://www.lake.com developing the Sonic Landscapes Virtual Audio Reality system. The project was funded for the first twelve months by the New Media Board of the Australia Council for the Arts under its Art and Industry partnerships…
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Metamorphoses
Exhibited. Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney 1997. Art Gallery of New South Wales 2000/1. Materials. Upholstery, Cast rubber, Aluminium, Audio electronics. Dimensions. Footprint variable x7 rooms. Individual units 05.m ~ 2.5m x7 works with identical soundscape. A singer who sings like a bird is an unproductive worker. When she sells her song, she is a wage…
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Host
Exhibited. Metronom Gallery Barcelona 2003. Auditori CAM, Alicante, 2003. Stanford University Gallery 2003. Ars Electronica 2007. The Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin 2011. Materials. X2 DVD projections, x100 Insect cages, x25 Laboratory stands, x200 Crickets. Dimensions. Footprint variable, individual units 2m x 2m x 2m. Notes. Host is an installation developed at the ‘SymbioticA’ Bio-Art…
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Everything’s Nice with American Rice
Exhibited. Everything`s nice with American rice” was installed in Matsudai, Japan as part of the Echigo-Tsumari Trienniale 2003. Materials. Fermentation Laboratory, Agricultural equipment, Rice. Dimensions. Laboratory ~10m x 6m x 3m. Rice and art have a strong bond in common, both are essential to our well being, both sustain and nourish us in different…