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Bodytok Quintet
Published July 10, 2012 - No Comments
Interactive 5 Screen Projection. For Phil Dadson. In Melanesian pidgin, ‘toktok’ is a term for conversation. In Phil Dadson’s video installation Bodytok Quintet, five large monitors arranged around the room individually spring to life when an audience member triggers the re ...
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Conversations with Stones
Published July 10, 2012 - No Comments
In colaboration with Phil Dadson. Performed as part of the Australasian Computer Music conference, in, July 7 2011. Conversations with Stones was an analogue / digital conversation between the artists, centred around the sonic and visual properties of song stones – acoustically tuned roc ...
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iForm
Published July 9, 2012 - No Comments
Exhibited in Hybrids, MIC, Auckland, NZ Inside Out - Object Gallery, Sydney, AUS Inside Out. Pheonix Square, Leicster, UK. Inside Out is international touring exhibition which focuses on emerging digital design techniques and the growth of sophisticated rapid prototyping tools and metho ...
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Never Been to Huston
Published July 7, 2012 - No Comments
Exhibit Description Imagine a city that you’ve only seen in reproductions or perhaps have merely heard about. A place, like many others, that exists only through rumors, stories, novels, the nightly news, magazines, movies, and the Internet. Using these secondhand clues as fir ...
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Never Been to Terhan
Published July 2, 2012 - No Comments
Imagine a city that you’ve only seen in reproductions or perhaps have merely heard about. A place, like many others, that only exists for you through indirect sources–the nightly news, hearsay, literature, magazines, movies, and the Internet. Using these secondhand clues as fi ...
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The Dryland Transcoder
Published July 1, 2012 - No Comments
The Dryland Transcoder for CoVolutions: New Cartographies for Transversal Ecologies May 1-8 2009, Auckland and Mimiwhangata Costal Park CoVolutions was a one-week cross-disciplinary “Doers and Makers workshop” designed to stimulate interactions between a diverse range of artist ...
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TradeAir
Published June 27, 2012 - No Comments
TradeAir extends concepts surrounding recent projects (dForm, 2008, Constructing Purgatory, 2004) in which form as a fluid medium is explored in relationship to artist / audience interaction. Unlike dForm in which the viewer’s movement around the gallery activates machines manipulating c ...
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16 : sec
Published June 26, 2012 - No Comments
“About four years ago I began to investigate the Open GL potential of MAX/MSP/Jitter. What I found interesting was the way I could take data of any sort and use it to define three-dimensional co-ordinates. In the case of 16: sec the data I chose was video pixels. The easiest way to t ...
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Be My Mirror
Published June 25, 2012 - No Comments
In the 60′s Nico’s lyrics for the Velvet Underground reflected the narcissism of a generation and epitomized the self-absorbed escapism of Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory. “I’ll be your mirror. Reflect what you are, in case you don’t know” The Velvet ...
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dForm
Published June 25, 2012 - No Comments
The dForm explores the construction and perception of time-based events by examining the ability of static objects to encapsulate temporal information. It aims to question our relationship with physical objects an ...
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Bodytok Quintet

Published July 10, 2012 at 10:13 am - No Comments

Interactive 5 Screen Projection. For Phil Dadson. In Melanesian pidgin, ‘toktok’ is a term for conversation. In Phil Dadson’s video installation Bodytok Quintet, five large monitors arranged around the room individually spring to life when an audience member triggers the relevant motion sensors, thereby initiating a dialogue with some of the entertaining and somewhat ludicrous [...]

Conversations with Stones

Published July 10, 2012 at 10:12 am - No Comments

In colaboration with Phil Dadson. Performed as part of the Australasian Computer Music conference, in, July 7 2011. Conversations with Stones was an analogue / digital conversation between the artists, centred around the sonic and visual properties of song stones – acoustically tuned rocks. The piece was literally a trans-modal dialogue between the artists as [...]

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