See the recent review of the Remnant V2 HERE .

Dear Friends and Supporters

I am pleased to announce the first showing of my new interactive installation FINITUDE (Mallee:Time) [v01].

WHERE:  Room 22, The Ka-Rama Motel, Deakin Ave, Mildura, Australia for Palimpsest #08.

WHEN: 10-11TH SEPTEMBER, 10AM-5PM
Created in close collaboration with senior sound artist/composer Roger Dean (austraLYSIS), artist/designer Stuart Lawson (ex Intimate Transactions/Knowmore House of Commons) and 3D programmer Darren Pack (ex.Knowmore House of Commons).

“Time is change, time is finitude. Humans are a finite species. Every decision we make today brings that end closer, or alternatively pushes it further away. Nothing can be neutral”. Fry, T 2010

SHORT STATEMENT:  Finitude (Mallee: Time) v01 is a major new media art/sculptural/sound hybrid to be premiered at the Mildura Palimpsest. Acknowledging that we as a species are finite, the work re-positions ‘time left’ as a plastic medium that we can each choose to ‘give to’ or ‘take away’ from.  Resting on a motel room bed with a semi-transparent touch screen above them, participants influence 3D imagery, the movement of dioramas glimpsed through the screen and an immersive soundscape.

The Remnant V2 opens in Cairns on 6pm Friday 3rd June and runs till  6 August. Gallery page here . Download invite here ..

check out a video QUT made about me recently - the practice led researcher

THE BAT-HUMAN PROJECT

Ever Met a Live Bat up Close?
Hung Upside Down with a bunch of other Bats?
Done the Bat Rap?

Bring along your family, friends & a picnic for a sunset experience

Learn about the importance of flying foxes in Australia & how to save this threatened species

Live bats & talks by scientists, batty idea-fest, wildlife documentaries, face painting & creative activities.

MC Adam Hill & performances by Tess de Quincey

Friday 29 April 2011, 5pm – 8pm
Cook & Phillip Park, Sydney
(below St Mary’s Cathedral)
FREE
www.remnantartlab.com
Presented by: Remnant Emergency Art Lab

The REMNANT/EMERGENCY Artlab has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body in collaboration with QUT Creative Industries, the UTS Research Centres for Contemporary Design Practices and Human-Centred Technology Design, Walkabout Wildlife Park and many others.
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I was invited as a Keynote Speaker to Siteworks at Australian painter Arthur Boyds old property Budnandon and Riversdale - 3 hours south of Sydney on the Shoalhaven River. The forum is an interdisciplnary investigation into art/science and ecology.

I have begun adding lots of background information to the Artlab Blog - leading up to a series of meetings in Sydney this July to develop our second lab event (November 2010) - considering the rehousing of the bats that are soon to be moved from the Sydney Botanical Gardens.

The Mediataions Biennial we will be showing has been announced - our work Knowmore (House of Commons) will be shown alongside international artists such as Jeffrey Shaw, Luc Courchesne, Masaki Fujihata, Eduardo Kac, Christa Sommerer + Laurent Mignonneau, George Legrady and Ken Feingold. See full list here.

The Remnant v1 interactive installation to be launched on 28th May with opening on Sunday 30th May at 11am at the venue - Location details and press releases now available on the web page for download.

We have been awarded an Australia Council Artlab - working with Natalie Jeremijenko at NYU, Tony Fry, Scanz New Zealand, James Muller, Leah Barclay, QUT Creative Industries, The Edge, and a host of partners :)

2010 looks like a good year!  I have received an invite for the 2010 Mediations Biennial in Poznan Poland and have been asked to develop a major interactive Festival Work, amongst many others!

I have just had a book chapter published on practice-led research written called 'Sustaining the Sustainable? Developing a Practice and Problem-led New Media Praxis' in the 2009 Edinburgh University Press book, 'Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts'.

I will be giving a Keynote Address at MATERIAL INVENTIONS: APPLYING CREATIVE RESEARCH, Deakin University, Melbourne,  30 November -1 December, 2009

The Last Generation shows at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery - opening 7th August.  

Today I released a new documentary video of the Knowmore (House of Commons) project on this website. Also a full page Review appeared in Realtime about the project called "Animating the Interactive Spin" by Greg Hooper - available online or in paper format.

I will be speaking about my ideas and work at: artscience@theinterface 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009 @ the 2009 IDEAS Festival
Time: 3:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: State Library of Qld, Brisbane - Auditorium 2

A symposium, presented as part of the 2009 IDEAS Festival,  that will chart the ways in which art and science gravitate towards one another within contemporary culture.

Speakers:
Dusan Bojic
Dr. Oron Catts (Symbiotica)
Dr. Keith Armstrong
Dr. Greg Hooper
Svenja Kratz
Prof. Jason Mattingley

Knowmore (House of Commons) has opened at the State Library of Queensland Brisbane and runs for 3 months - Early reports are that its been a roaring success with the public and the opening/artist talk was well attended.

The next leg of the Visions of Australia tour of Intimate Transactions has opened in Rockhampton (Central Queensland) and Gypie Regional Gallery (Close to Brisbane). See the GEO site for full details.

Shifting Intimacies is reviewed in the new Realtime here :)

The next leg of the Visions of Australia tour of Intimate Transactions in Mildura (country Victoria) and Frankston Arts Centre (Close to Melbourne, Victoria) is about to kick off. Details have also just been confirmed of the showing of the new project Knowmore at the State Library of Queensland Gallery in February 2009.

Shifting Intimacies will be shown in the Cairns 'On Edge' and Brisbane Festivals this month (July 2008):

Brisbane Festival Website

Cairns On Edge Festival Website

Intimate Transactions opened simultaneously at the National Art Museum of China and the Beijing Art Museum of the Imperial Palace tonight, 5pm as part of Media Art China's Synthetic Times Exhibition.

Intimate Transactions has been awarded a Visions of Australia touring grant (2008-09). It will also be presented in Beijing China during the 2008 Olympics as part of Media Art China 2008 at the National Art Museum of China and the Art Museum of the Imperial Palace. A third node of the work will be located at California State University, USA.

The interactive installation Shifting Intimacies will be premiered in Australia at the On-Edge Festival, KickArts Cairns, Mon 22nd July – Sunday 27th July 2008 and the Judith Wright Centre For Contemporary Art, Brisbane International Arts Festival, Wednesday 30th July - Saturday 2nd August 2008.

Embodied Media is about to launch its new site - A long time coming and the product of avid documentation practices over many years. I'm proud to say it is Creative Commons licenced under the Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives Rules. Yeah

A major new book based around the practice-led, interdisciplinary experiences of creating of Intimate Transactions is now available - Intimate Transactions Art, Exhibition and Interaction within Distributed Network Environments. ORDER HERE.

My next project is a major new interactive installation work: Knowmore (House of Commons) . This is an important new collaboration with artists Chris Barker, Darren Pack and Luke Lickfold.