• Jane Shadbolt – ink_test_11 (2009) digital animations on loop. Hair, silk, veils, ink, water.
• John Tonkin – these are the days 1994 (2004) (produced in assoc with the Australian Film Commission), Computer animation these are the days, a meditation on time, from birth and death certificates to supermarket receipts, our lives are documented by a trail of paper. The endless stream of falling paper suggests the meditative space of a waterfall yet also speaks of consumption and waste. -man ascending 1996 Computer animation a lone figure climbs an endless staircase while children contemplate their future.
• Solange Kershaw
Dididahdit was created for 60X60, repeating the word s-i-x-t-y in morse code and having a little fun building itself around the emerging pattern.
• Nigel Helyer
The Naughty Apartment A d/Lux/MediaArts touring exhibition
Naughty Apartment is an interactive sound-sculpture inspired by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov's novel “The Master and Margarita”. Much of the action in the book unfolds within the writer’s own apartment - the infamous apartment No.50 of 302-bis Sadovaya Street. “It is an exploration of architectural space in the realm of fiction and fiction within architectural space!
The work consists of 8 miniature rooms enclosed in a clear acrylic frame. The visitor is asked to wear a set of headphones and carry a magnifying glass. Drawing the magnifying glass near the room induces an audio narrative in the headphones. Each of the eight rooms spread before the visitor contain a vital scene from the novel with the dramatic events elaborated by an audio narrative, written in the very same apartment building ~ perhaps as Bulgakov would have it, in the 5th Dimension!
The transmission of the soundscape is simple. Each of the laser-cut acrylic model apartments conceal a simple wire loop antenna, which although ‘powered’ by an audio signal in fact emits only a weak, local electromagnetic field (i.e. the models do not make any sound per se). Each hand-held unit contains both a magnifying glass and matching coil-antennae (surrounding the lens) that when placed in close proximity to the model’s antenna is, in turn, energised by the electromagnetic field. The resulting signal is processed by a small audio amplifier (located within the magnifiers handle) and sent to headphones
• Roger Mills & Neil Jenkins Idea of South (work in progress)
Inspired by our relocation from the United Kingdom to Australia twelve months ago, Idea of South explores the quintessence of southern sentience through sound. Part phonography and part psychogeography, Idea of South maps an evolving collage of sound events through a web based interface. As a work in progress, this impressionist soundscape will evolve as further contributions are added, and there is an ongoing call for locational recordings which can be submitted by following the links at ideaofsouth.netpraxis.net. The coordinates from each location will also plot a tonal composition for an eventual contrapuntal radiophonic work to be performed in the Autumn.
• Neil Jenkins Entrance Entrance uses slit camera techniques to transform a live video feed of the loop space entrance, visitors are 'scanned' as they move in and out of frame creating a continuous temporal visualisation of the space mapped over time.
• Damian Castaldi Coal Country is a work in progress to be installed in full at the NCAC (Newcastle Community Art Centre) gallery in April this year. It is a mixed media (sound, photomedia and collected materials) installation looking at the impact of climate change on 6 locations between Newcastle East and Newtown, Sydney.
• Norie Neumark & Maria Miranda
Homicide Rumours Homicide, an Australian TV series from the 1970s, is said to be the most important and most popular television drama series ever produced in Australia – set on the streets of Melbourne between 1964-76. The original episodes, in black and white, feature a pair of detective buddies, dressed sharply in thin 60s pants, ultra thin ties and black porkpie hats, driving their cars through the gritty urban streets of Melbourne. Homicide Rumours is part of the ongoing project Museum of Rumour. It takes us back 40 years to those “same” Melbourne streets revisiting characters and scenes with a new twist. A slash/mash that both re-remembers a more intimate relationship and plays with that other genre of fan fiction – slash fiction. Slash fiction is usually associated with science fiction fandom. It is a genre of fan fiction created by female fans of Star Trek in the early 1970s which re-interpreted the seeming platonic relationship between the Vulcan Spock and Captain Kirk (Kirk/Spock) as a passionate homosexual relationship.
