experimental art and technology presentation

Curious Creatures by

Jimmy McGilchrist.

Photo: Jimmy

McGilchrist

Curious Creatures by

Jimmy McGilchrist.

Photo: Jimmy

McGilchrist

Experimental Art and

Technology in Australia

Jordana

Maisie,

Close

Encounters,

The Light in

Winter

Festival,

2012.

Photograph

courtesy the

artist

About the Inter-Arts Office and the

Experimental Arts Sector Plan

• Experimentation

• Labs/workshops

• Cross-disciplinary

• Emerging artforms

• Collaboration

• Exploration

• Risk-taking

• Creative partnerships

Types of experimental practices

• Locative media

• Augmented and virtual reality

• Embodied media

• Digital performance

• Robotics and haptics

• Bio art

• Transhumanism

• Data interpretation

• Experimental craft and design

• Experimental sound art

• Interactive moving image

Parkfield

Interventional

EQ Fieldwork

by D.V.

Rogers 2008.

Photo Scott

Haefner US

Geological

Survey

Locative Media

PVI Collective, Transumer, 2010

PVI Collective, Transumer, 2010

PVI Collective, Deviator, 2012

Augmented and Virtual Reality Thea Baumann, Metaverse Makeovers. Photograph courtesy Andrew Mac

Thea Baumann, Metaverse Makeovers. Photograph courtesy Russell Shakespeare

Thea Baumann, Metaverse Makeovers. Photograph courtesy Julian Viray

Thea Baumann, Metaverse Makeovers. Photograph courtesy Andrew Mac

Aroha Groves, Connections2, 2010

George Khut,The Heart Library Project, 2007

Embodied Media

George Khut,The Heart Library Project, 2007

Keith Armstrong, Intimate Transactions, 2005

Jonathan Duckworth, Elements, RMIT, 2009

06 August 2007 Presentation Title Digital Performance

Chunky Move, Mortal Engine, 2008

06 August 2007 Presentation Title


Chunky Move, Glow, 2006

Helen Sky, Darker Edge of Night, 2007

Helen Sky, Darker Edge of Night, PICA, 2009

Helen Sky,

Darker Edge of Night,

PICA 2009

Helen Sky, Darker Edge of Night, 2007

Alejandro Rolandi, Virtual Costume, 2012.

Courtesy the artist and photographer Matthew Syres

Mari Velonaki, Fish-Bird interactive robotic installation, 2004-07

Robotics and Haptics

• Wade and Kirsty


3D geometry representation of 2D art images Saeid Nahavandi, 3D geometry representation of 2D art images

Saeid Nahavandi, HEAR - Haptic-Enabled Art Realization Research Project

Saeid Nahavandi, Australian Research Council Expo, Canberra, 2011

Bio Art

Guy Ben-Ary, MEART -The

Semi Living Artist, 2006

Guy Ben-Ary,

Biofeel -The Robotic Arm, 2002.

Projection of neurons in real time.

Photograph Phil Gamblen

Guy Ben-Ary,The Robotic Arm,

Australian Culture Now, 2004.

Photograph Phil Gamblen

Guy Ben-Ary, Silent Barrage, 2011

Transhumanism Stelarc, Ear on Arm, 2007. Photograph by Nina Sellers

Stelarc, Ear on Arm Suspension, Scott Livesey Galleries, 8 March 2012

Photographer Claudio Oyarce

Stelarc, Exoskeleton 2003. Photographer Igor Skafar, Ljubljana

Stelarc, Walking Head 2006. Photographer Stelarc, Heide Museum of Modern Art

Experimental Craft and Design

Leah Heiss, Arsenic Jewellery (with mesoporous iron oxide), 2007-8

Leah Heiss, Arsenic Water Vessel -

closed, 2007-8

Leah Heiss, Arsenic Water Vessel-

open, 2007-8

Leah Heiss, Diabetes Neckpiece, 2007-8

Leah Heiss, Diabetes Ring and Patch, 2007-8

Experimental Sound Art

WIRED Lab, Cootamundra,NSW, 2008.

Piezo Mic.

WIRED Lab,

Cootamundra, NSW,

2008

WIRED Lab, Cootamundra, NSW, 2008. Tensioning end for long wires

(450 metre span) and short wires (350 metre span)

WIRED Lab, Cootamundra, NSW, April 2008. Dave Burraston field

recording from wire pickups

WIRED Lab, Cootamundra, NSW, 2008

WIRED Lab, Cootamundra,

NSW, 2008. Long wire pickup

and earth cables at dusk

AlloSphere Bridge, California NanoSystems Institute

University of California, Santa Barbara, 2012

Data Interpretation

The AlloSphere Artist Residency, California NanoSystems Institute

University of California, Santa Barbara

Sound artist David Rogers, AlloSphere Artist Residency recipient,

California NanoSystems Institute University of California, Santa Barbara, 2012

David Rogers, Inner Earth Interpreter, California NanoSystems Institute

University of California, Santa Barbara, 2012

Interactive Moving Image Advanced Visualisation and Interaction Environment (AVIE), iCinema, University of New South Wales

Dennis Del Favero, Scenario, iCinema, 2011.

Dennis Del

Favero,

Scenario,

iCinema,

2011.

Dennis Del Favero, Scenario, iCinema, 2011.

Jimmy McGilchrist, Curious Creatures, 2011

Splendour in the Grass music festival, 2010. Courtesy Splendour in the Grass

Jimmy McGilchrist, Curious Creatures, 2011

Curious Creatures, Vryfees 2012, South Africa. Photographer Matt West.

Conclusion

• Experimental technology artists create cross-disciplinary teams to realise their projects

• Their work requires substantial practice lead research and development time

• The art they create is iterative and changes with each new presentation and redevelopment

• There is often a high degree of interactivity and co-creation of the work

• The work is generally cross-artform, interdisciplinary and not easily defined as art

• Developing the work requires strong science, technology and creative industry partnerships

• There are mutual benefits to both the arts and non-arts partners

Keith Armstrong, Intimate Transactions, 2005 Some of these observations are backed -up by preliminary research conducted by ANAT and the University of

South Australia titled Creative Collaboration, Commercialisation and Career Study, June 2010

Aroha Groves, Connections2, 2010

Dr Ricardo Peach

Australia Council for the Arts

[email protected]

http://twitter.com/auscouncilarts

ricardopeach.com

Thank you

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