“LifeBoat” is a prosaic title indicating both the physical reality (the project is contained within a fully weatherproofed ship’s lifeboat) and somewhat more conceptually, as the lifeboat has become home to a Biotechnology lab; a home to the processes of life itself. On a metaphorical level, this project is designed to deal with concepts of sustainability, survival and notions of biological, cultural and ideological re-generation, and naturally its obverse, the...
TAG: arts and science
A Sound-sculpture installation located in two sites.
Exhibited. The Muu Galerie, Helsinki, Finland and at the Cholera Basin, Helsinki Harbour 1996.
Materials. x2 Bronze Bells, x32 Voltaic cells and electronic circuits, audio equipment with ISDN telephone line. Zinc wall texts.
Dimension. Gallery installation :- 6m x 6m, Harbour installation :- variable.
Toll. This project was realised in the Muu Galerie, Helsinki, October 1996 as part of the “Sounds From Elsewhere”...
From June 1999 until September 2001 Nigel Helyer worked as an Artist in Residence at Lake Technology in Sydney, http://www.lake.com developing the Sonic Landscapes Virtual Audio Reality system. The project was funded for the first twelve months by the New Media Board of the Australia Council for the Arts under its Art and Industry partnerships category.
The salient feature of the Sonic Landscapes project waqs the juxtaposition of a fictive (but very convincing) 3D...
Exhibited.
Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney 1997.
Art Gallery of New South Wales 2000/1.
Materials.
Upholstery, Cast rubber, Aluminium, Audio electronics.
Dimensions.
Footprint variable x7 rooms.
Individual units 05.m ~ 2.5m
Notes.
A singer who sings like a bird is an unproductive worker.
When she sells her song, she is a wage earner or a merchant.
But the same singer, employed by someone else to give
concerts and bring in money, is a productive...
Exhibited.
Metronom Gallery Barcelona 2003.
Auditori CAM, Alicante, 2003.
Stanford University Gallery 2003.
Materials.
X2 DVD projections, x100 Insect cages, x25 Laboratory stands, x200 Crickets.
Dimensions.
Footprint variable, individual units 2m x 2m x 2m.
Notes.
Host is an installation developed recently at the ‘SymbioticA’ Bio-Art and Technology Laboratory (University of Western Australia) in which an audience of live Crickets attend a lecture concerning the sex...
Exhibited.
Everything`s nice with American rice” was installed in Matsudai, Japan as part of the Echigo-Tsumari Trienniale 2003.
Materials.
Fermentation Laboratory, Agricultural equipment, Rice.
Dimensions.
Laboratory ~10m x 6m x 3m.
Notes.
Rice and art have a strong bond in common, both are essential to our well being, both sustain and nourish us in different ways!
The title of this project, ‘Everything’s Nice with American Rice’ is an...
Exhibited.
Under development.
Materials.
Music and E. Coli Bacteria.
Dimensions.
Microscopic.
Notes.
GeneMusiK is an experimental biological music mixing and generating system currently under development by Dr Nigel Helyer at the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Western Australia under the aegis of ‘SymbioticA’.
The GeneMusiK project is designed to establish a functional relationship between conventional Western...