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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …