Tag: interactive new media
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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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An Unrequited Place
Year : 1992 Exhibited. As part of the Working in Public project, John Barrett-Lennard and ArtSpace, Sydney, 1992. Materials. Steel Bell, Performer, Radiophonic Broadcast. Dimensions. 25m x 12m overall installation ~ performance space with Nationwide live broadcast at Midnight for 21 days. Nelia Justo tolls the midnight bell. Notes. The Story so far…Catalogue text for…
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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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Siren Song
Exhibited Installation form ~ Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1992. Radio Broadcast component ~ 120 minutes Opera for ABC Radio. Materials. Perforated Zincalum, Steel, Wire rigging, Audio electronics. Dimensions. Each unit 2.5m x 2.5m (diameter). Broadcast Structure. Text generated with interactive text programme. Human Vocals with synthetic orchestration. Duration. 120 minutes. Notes. Siren…
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Seed
Exhibited. Arizona State University 2002. Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth 2002. Stanford University Gallery 2003. Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney 2003. Materials.Timber, Carpet and Prayer Mats, Facsimile Landmine and Mine detectors, Audio electronics x16 channel, projection. Dimensions.19m x 10m x 4m. Notes.In English, we speak of mines sown in fields or laid somewhat akin to an…
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Ship to Shore
A marine sound installation for the Albert Dock, Liverpool, UK, and accompanying radio broadcasts. Exhibited. Albert Dock, Liverpool, UK as part of ISEA 1998. Materials. Marine Buoy + audio/electronics. Dimensions. Buoy 3m x 2m diameter. Sonic footprint variable. Soundtext x2 Audio Cd in random shuffle loop mode + Broadcast. Radio Broadcast; x12 broadcasts of x5…
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Re-Entry Vehicle; Natural Science in the Spirit World
Exhibited. Spectro Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K. 1982. Materials. Section 1. Circle: Pigmented sand; carbonised wood; pit fired earthenware vessels (x8) (35cm dia); carbonised grain; seabird skulls/bones; metal blades; Polaroid photograph.Section 2. Canoe: Steel and Weldmesh framework; clay; straw; steel wire; glass and mirror fragments (x8); Polaroids and associated negative waste; strip lights 40w. (x8). Section 3…
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Naughty Apartment
Exhibited. RMIT project Gallery, Melbourne 2003 as part of “House of the Future” + The Moores Building Fremantle as part of the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth 2004. + The Performance Space as part of “What Survives” 2006. Medium. Interactive Sound-Sculpture – plastics, metal and audio-electronics. Notes ~ Fictionalising Fiction!. In the beginning; As a…
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Mute in TalkTown; the sweet warm breath of science
Exhibited. The Performance Space, Sydney, 1990. Materials . Element #1: – Sax/Motor; Steel, Structural plywood, Flame manifold, Audio equipment. Element #2: – Laboratory structures (x2); Aluminium, Glass, Bunsen burners, Honey, Gyroscope, Tuning fork, Projection lamps. Element #3: – Top structures; Aluminium, Motors, Spinning tops, Power supply. Dimensions. Element #1: – 3.5m (dia) x 10m. Element…
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Meta-Diva
Exhibited.Nine Dragon Head Festival, Lake Teachong, Korea 2001.+Winner – Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award, Melbourne 2002. Materials.Aluminium, Audio and Solar electronics. Dimensions.Footprint variable, each unit 0.5 m dia. x 3.5 m. Meta-Diva displayed at the Nine Dragon Head Festival, Lake Teachong, Korea 2001. Meta-Diva is an environmental Sound Sculpture, designed for installation in wetlands sites. The…