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  • Date
  • December 1, 2013

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 …

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  • Date
  • May 30, 2011

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 …

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  • 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 1, 2010

Bloodbath Live Event: bump projects

Bloodbath was the creative development and beta testing of a live event: . 5 artists, who work with data visualisation and or the body, each create a work that responds to live incoming data from collisions in a Sydney Roller Derby League, all-girl flat track roller derby game. Sensors attached to players send information to a …

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