Bio_Logging is a collaboration between Artist Dr Nigel Helyer and Dr Mary-Ann Lea of the Institue for Marine and Antarctic Studies (University of Tasmania, Hobart) which seeks to link scientific bio-logging and GIS techniques with the Artist’s interests in interactive acoustic cartography and the development of Audio-Portraits which extend the conceptual and intuitive grasp of otherwise abstract data.
Kerguelen Islands
The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) has supported this residency which will be structured around a series of four one month intensive work periods allowing the collaboration to involve a range of research activities and associated technologies.
Screenshot from the interactive sonic cartography.
The artist will participate in the working life of the lab, joining field trips to make (for example) hydrophone and ambient recordings as well as water quality measurements and visual documents.
Heard Island
We envisage that each of the four sessions will comprise a ten day field trip where the Artist will work directly with a Scientific survey team, followed by a twenty day period in the Hobart lab working with the collected data and developing this into interactive works.
Kerguelen and Heard, satellite image.
The images show Bio_Logging Beta exhibited in Hobart February 2011 as part of the CSIRO International Bio_Logging Conference. This work in progress, sonifies satellite tracked bio data from the Sub-Antarctic and layers this into an interactive map interface which can be explored, mixing the layered audio in real-time.
