The work visualises the gallery as a site of disease and sickness - as malignant tumours and other diseased bodily matter appear within the space of the gallery. Concept, development, direction original model and textures: Ian Haig, Sound: David Haberfeld, Sculpting: Fiona Edwards, Programming: Oliver Marriott, 3D...
Intersecting both visual and media arts practices, Ian Haig interrogates alternate visions of the everyday, focusing on the visceral physicality of the human body. As playful as it is provoking, Haig’s practice embraces a wide range of media including site-specific installation, web delivery, animations, video, comics, drawings and interactive sculpture.
In luminesce Leah Heiss and Rosie Scott created an infinite subterrainean environment on the unreachable side of a shop front using a 2-way mirrored floor plane and Electroluminescent cable. The installation was part of the ambitious group show CONVERGENCE in which 8 artists/designers...
Polarity (2012) is the latest iteration of the 'Polarise' series begun by Heiss in 2008-09. Drawing on ideas of fragility, mutability and intimacy, this captivating installation places collections of customised glass vessels on a table, each filled with a nano-engineered solution. A layer of black magnetic fluid lies at the base...
The piece was conceived and constructed just a few days before the opening, based upon a dream I had of a bread roll filled with audio ...
Sculpture with motorized turntable video camera and monitor.
test pattern is a system that converts any type of data (text, sounds, photos and movies) into barcode patterns and binary patterns of 0s and 1s. Through its application, the project aims to examine the relationship between critical points of device performance and the threshold of...
The Avoca Project is an international art project in regional Victoria, Australia, centred on Watford House. Referred to locally as 'The Swiss House', this pre-fabricated gold-rush residence was imported from Germany in 1850. The house is thus an immigrant, its walls revealing stories of wealth and...
Yu Kao’s robotic artwork takes a critical view of human and computer interaction. The source of inspiration for this interactive work stemmed from various concepts of imperfection and impromptu, unrehearsed performances. By witnessing a number of intriguing street performances, the idea of manifesting spontaneous imperfection in a robot form was...
Place-Hampi is a vibrant theatre for embodied participation in the drama of Hindu mythology set into a real-world landscape. PLACE-Hampi provides the setting for a stereographic virtual landscape, populated by sixteen cylinders enclosing a constellation of cinematic events in which the audience can participate, traverse and examine at...
Unmakeablelove is a revisioning of Beckett’s initial investigation in ‘The Lost Ones’ (1972) that focuses and makes interactively tangible, a state of confrontation and interpolation between our selves and another society that is operating in a severe state of physical and psychological entropy.
In March 1971 Peter Kennedy held a pair of installation shows concurrently under the overall label of Interference Variables, which he described as an exhibition in two phases.
The Cardiomorphologies series explores the subjective spaces created through interaction with a simple geometric visualisation of realtime heart and breath rate data. The installation is comprised of one large foor-to-ceiling video projection, that is controlled by heart and breath signals from the participant who is seated...
Drawing Breath is the name of a series of breath-responsive works developed with artist and interaction designer John Tonkin. A stretch-sensing belt worn around the participant’s chest translates breath-related changes in chest diameter to a computer that transforms these movements into a dense array of trailing...
George Khut with David Morris-Oliveros and Caitlin Newton-Broad The Heart Library Project is an interactive art exhibition designed for presentation in hospital and health care settings, schools, museums and art galleries. It combines interactive heart rate controlled audio-visuals with audience participation to create a unique environment where...
Combining neurofeedback training with participatory art, and electronic music, Theta Lab explores the possibilities of a unique form of electronic art, in which attention, experience and compositional form become radically entwined.
The Australian International Video Festival, 1991. [This entry is edited from the AIVF '91 catalogue entry and program notes. - SJ]
Free Movies (1978) is an installation using film and sound, an entity that self generated, self governed. The work was shown at the SASA Gallery, Adelaide South Australia.
