Sarah Waterson

  • Date
  • August 8, 2024

WeatherState project

WeatherState is an ongoing project that critically investigates senses of place within the vast heterotopias of the world oceans. In the face of the climate crisis, these enigmatic realms hold profound significance as regulators of global temperatures, absorbing carbon dioxide, shaping weather patterns, and world trade. They act as analogous spaces, as isomorphs for the …

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  • Date
  • October 28, 2022

Weather Assemblage Project: Sea States v.1-3

Initial research and prototyping The project presented here is a sketch to develop generative water states that are mapped to sound data and is part of a larger ongoing data mapping and visualisation investigation. In oceanography, sea state is the general condition of the free surface on a large body of water—with respect to wind waves …

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  • Date
  • April 13, 2017

Hothouse

Hothouse installation work at Cementa17. Hothouse brings the weather system from Mount Kinabalu, Borneo to nurture a rare and fragile orchid, the Paphiopedilum Rothschildianum, named for the family who owns the world’s banks (including the Reserve Bank of Australia). This work invites the audience to consider the relationship between weather and capital, at a time …

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  • Date
  • September 24, 2011

Animals, People – A Shared Environment: An Exhibition

Exhibition of Sniff Data work at the 4th Biennial Australian Studies Group Conference, 2011, Griffith University, South Bank Campus, Brisbane. The animal conference brought together animal theorists and scientists from a broad range of academic disciplines to examine the inter–relationships between human and non human animals. POP Gallery exhibition.  

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  • Date
  • May 30, 2011

Laika’s Dérive Sydney

Laika’s Dérive invited Sydney’s inner west dogs and their owners to record a walk in their local area.  This walk offered a chance for interspecies communication and a sharing of knowledge that results in a collaborative mapping of place. Each dog is kitted-out with a GPS, accelerometer and camera that automatically photographs the dog’s favourite vistas and …

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Image of robot guitar
  • Date
  • October 1, 2010

Axle Grind

Axle Grind was part of the Bloodbath event. Axle Grind borrows the electric violence of the roller derby pack and transforms it into noise, vibration and the rock power chord. Axle Grind maps the collision data from the roller derby players to Joan Jett’s I Love Rock n’ Roll. A robotic pink electric guitar hangs in …

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  • Date
  • September 30, 2010

Laika’s Dérive Prototype

Laika’s Derive is a new work that uses GPS, accelerometer data and interval timed sports photography to explore embodiment and the psychogeography of place. A sketch for this project was produced during the Kiss Club incubator residency at the Performance Space, Carriageworks, Sydney. Feb 2010.(A minisite for the project prototype can be found here) An interval …

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  • Date
  • September 30, 2010

33ºsouth | 33ºsur

33ºSouth is a three-channel audio-visual installation that juxtaposes the cities of Sydney (Australia) and Santiago (Chile) using a custom made data mapping system and database. Both cities lie on parallel 33ºSouth, and are post-colonial urban spaces with complex cultural and political histories. This project aims to set in motion a set of relationships between these …

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