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  • 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…

  • Exhibition of Laika’s Dérive London

    Laika’s Dérive toured to London as part of Furtherfield’s WWW: World Wild Web exhibition. Other artists in the exhibition included: Paula Crutchlow & Helen Varley Jamieson, Andy Deck, Mary Flanagan, Genetic Moo, Dominic Smith, and Sarah Waterson Date: Thursday 18 October – Saturday 1 December 2012 Venue: Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion You can view the London dog’s view here:  http://laikasderive.sarahwaterson.net Laika’s Dérive/Dog’s…

  • 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.

  • Laika’s Dérive Sydney

    Laika’s Dérive invites Sydney’s inner west dogs and their owners to record a walk in their local area.  This walk offers 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…

  • genart_sys | a window on digital culture

    BLOODBATH documentation  exhibited in genart_sys | a window on digital culture Australia Council, 372 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010 20 Jan to 9 March 2011. You can also view a documentation video on the Bump projects website here.  

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Australian Centre for the Moving Image: subscapePROOF

    sub_scape PROOF is a datamapping system with video of the pulpit-like rhetoric of the professional politician; ‘secular confessional’ TV; advertisements, and TV reportage with its increasingly value-added, Baroque display. sub_scapePROOF was commissioned by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image for the exhibition “Proof – the act of seeing with one’s own eyes”, Melbourne 2004…

  • subscapeBALTIC ISEA04

    Exhibition at ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic Art), Baltic Sea Helsinki to Talinn, Estonia, August 11-21 2004. sub_scape is a conjuring and evocative work aimed at the interstices of metaphorical and material space. It is a playful and ironic critique on the traditional politics and power dynamics of knowledge-through-mapping. By mapping one space into another…