Selected Works

Travelogue: a recording of minute expressions, 2011

Travelogue: a recording of minute expressions was commissioned for The World Is Everything That Is The Case exhibition for ISEA2011.

The project visualises the potential tourist trade in Istanbul.The ‘world’ is seeded or initialised with statistical census data on tourism in Turkey, September 2010. Data from the ‘monthly number of arriving foreigner visitors’ provides the initial resources to populate the work. Other data, such as ‘$ spent per foreigner’ and ‘number of foreigners of nationality and group of age-gender’ populate other variables in the system, which are used to mathematically describe the drawing ‘agents’ (expressions). 

The visualisation captures the intercultural traffic both in human 'migration' and in migrating ideas from cinema, film and artificial life with other techniques for visualising the human endeavour.

Documentary nShape, 2009

Documentary nShape creates and evolves a generative film using computational processes. The system is designed to create and select shapes that it (the computer) finds 'interesting'; if the shapes are interesting the system visualises them. Shapes the system doesn't 'like' are modified until the system either finds them interesting or boring, in which case the shapes are forgotten. The screen on the right is the documentary of the most interesting shapes.

Laboratories of thought and future forms of subjectivation, 2007

Laboratories of thought and future forms of subjectivation explores the tensions inherent in employing the rationalisation of pictorial space as a model through which to filter our emotionally and biologically mediated perceptual experiences of the world. This project uses a three dimensional games engine to re-render the dominant model of subjectivity (perspective) to a model in which the spatial form accords with my emotional valency of space. Even though the spatial configuration of the model is an accurate footprint of the Trocadero ArtSpace my favourite location in gallery, my partners studio, is always foregrounded.

Ecstasis, 2004, principal artist with Metraform

Ecstasis explores the relationship between the physical and social dimensions in which we play out our everyday lives - a real time transformational space for individual and collective action. Four participants interact with each other and the virtual environment through head-mounted motion tracked stereoscopic glasses. The work unfolds and is determined by individual action but also by the sum and differences of the multi-user collaborative system. This intra-dependant engagement transgresses away from our cultural efficiencies–always doing something–to being present to one's self and others. A consensual hallucination.

Symbiosis, 2001, principal artist with Metraform

Symbiosis premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2001 to a sold out audience. The work explores a sequential journey through six discreet chambers, six habitats for the imagination.  These chambers create a complex visceral experience that challenges our perceptual kinaesthetic experience of being in the world.