NOUMINA screens at Design Festa Gallery next week - from Sunday the 17th - Tuesday the 19th of July, at Gallery 302. Opening on the 17th, from 6pm. Come down if you're in Tokyo for opening drinks at 302 & the Design Festa cafe/bar. More info on NOUMINA at the project art page. Map HERE LINK on Design FESTA Facebook Event Hope to see you there. Read More
To celebrate the first anniversary of the audio-visual project NOUMINA, I have decided, after much deliberation, to release it online for free download. NOUMINA uses open-source material: hi-res images from NASA, the Planetarium software Stellarium - and as such is offered to the public under a creative commons license. For release, I've never wanted to compromise on quality - which seems to be a given with web video at this point in time. So I have decided to avoid the compression ...Read More
I'll be taking part in BYOB Utrecht, a one-night-only video projection exhibition. BYOB stands for 'Bring Your Own Beamer' - that's 'projectors' for all us non-Europeans. The night is being run by Setup Media Lab, and I'm fortunate enough to have them arrange an install of Mute City Dreemz (2010) for me. From the Setup website: The white space reinvented. For one night we will take over the Utrecht Center for Fine Arts and turn the walls of the space into a ...Read More
Recently, I had the privilege of attending an immersive cinema lab in Perth, entitled DomeLab 2010. It was a one week intensive residency on live-action content-creation for 'Full Dome' , or 'Planetarium cinema', presented by the Australian Network for Art and Technology. I was interested in attending the residency for it's immersive potential, and being a media and sound artist was intrigued about the possibilities for a high-definition cinematic experience. The workshop was a hectic 6 day experience, meeting upwards of 30 artists, designers, technicians, tutors, ...Read More
My recent film/installation work NOUMINA has been accepted into CINESONIKA, a film Festival in Vancouver, Canada. From the festival website: "This first annual festival will showcase international works of film and video with fascinating soundtracks, idiosyncratic sound design, eclectic scoring and innovative approaches to the sound-image relationship. Read More
NOUMINA presents a story, an abstract narrative, a cinematic journey through the cosmos. From a twinkly gaze at the stars, we are confronted with a presence, a geometric object, and are taken on a journey to its domain. Through super hi-resolution images of the Universe, the participant experiences multi-dimensional layers, geometric viewports to other-worldly realities. Accompanied by a hypnotic original score, the piece swoons and arcs over multiple moods and territories, finishing back at our home world, again at the gaze of ...Read More
Liquid Architecture is Australia's premiere annual festival of sound arts. Events often include concerts, immersive sound presentations, audio-visual and recorded work, exhibitions and installations. 2010 sees 'LA' hit its 11th year, with a program in 7 Australian cities. The festival presents an array of local and international artists engaged in the field of sound, in a range of live and installation settings. Read More
The Gertrude Street Projection Festival is a week of projected light along Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Melbourne. The free street-based event provides audiences with a navigable gallery across a multitude of buildings, shop fronts and venues. It's hosted by the Gertrude Association and is now in it's 3rd year with the 2010 theme ME.YOU.US. Read More
Lately I've been totally obsessed with film & cinema. I've got a few shows coming up this year (predominantly installation) and I started checking out a lot of sci-fi as part of research for the work. Slowly it bled over to just more film-watching in general. Read More
By and large I spent little time at the conference of this festival. It was just too much to do the conference, see films, exhibitions, and then manage to see all the acts of the night concerts without feeling completely exhausted. So I tended to skip the conference and come in for the night-time. I would have liked to see Jeffrey Shaw's talk, hopefully there'll be a podcast online. I managed to pick up quite a few items along the way: ...Read More
Julien Maire 'Digit' - De Balie FoyerA lone man sits at a desk passing his hand over blank pages. Miraculously, words appear, as if typed. I was unsure how this piece was executed, either by some form of 'stamp' hidden within the artists' palm, or perhaps some kind of heat sensitive system, however resulted in an intriguing and entertaining spectacle. Read More
Leeraum (Pe Lang & Zimoun) LIVE at Melkweg Media Room, AMSTRDM An interesting minimal piece that used motors controlled by pots to affect the speed of the 'necklace' objects that rotated around them. The surface under each machine was amplified by contact mics while the material was changed from cardboard to felt and other materials, affecting timbre. Read More
'The Drone People' - Live @ Paradiso (BJ nilsen, Joachim Nordwall, Mika Vainino, Hildur Gudnadottir, Spencer Yeh, Carl Michael von Hausswolff). Read More
