Author: Nigel Helyer
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Biography
Getting close and Personal. Each night I would have the same dream, I was four years old, lying awake, afraid to fall asleep, afraid to enter that inevitable landscape. The ground surface was uniformly smooth, formed of dense iron plates extending to a featureless horizon line. Roaring from this iron ground and billowing all around…
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Models
Ah, it now seems a luxury to have had the time to play around with cardboard and glue, making miniature structures! Model for Mute in Talk Town.
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AudioNomad Treatments
Four brief ‘Treatments’ representing user experiences for AudioNomad mobile locations sensitive augmented audio systems.
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AudioNomad + Syren
The Audio Nomad project is an exciting development in Australian Research and Development that combines the skills and talents of Artists with those of Scientists in an imaginative collaboration that is developing technologies to support and deliver creative public sound-art events. Our specific interests are in location sensitive, mobile audio systems that generate immersive sound…
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Theorem
Between June 2004 and February 2005 Nigel Helyer worked as an Artist in Residence at the Paul Scherrer Institut, one of Switzerland’s largest research laboratories. The Following is extracted from the Institut publication ‘Aktuell’. How might an Artist approach the Paul Scherrer Institut, which by any standards, is a complex intellectual and social organism? My…
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LifeBoat
The lab floating in Oslo fjord. 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…
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Web References
Wild2000 http://www.year01.com/issue10/australia.html Magnus-Opus http://www.swr.de/swr2/audiohyperspace/engl_version/audioart/projects/magnus_opus.html SonicLandscapes + AudioNomad http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/adv/uniken/uniken0308/page4.html http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/snap/new/sonic_demo.htm http://www.isea2004.net/mainframe.php?id=hot_syren NoiseFloor http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2003/february19/sound-219.html LifeBoat. http://www.life-boat.org http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/article835831.ece http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/article835830.ece http://numedia.scola.ac-paris.fr/index.php?rub=2 http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=231716 http://www.isea2004.net/mainframe.php?id=hot_lifeboat Commentary in Realtime. http://www.realtimearts.net/rt58/kg_sound.html http://www.realtimearts.net/rt62/beap.html http://www.realtimearts.net/rt50/helyer.html http://www.realtimearts.net/rt58/kg_sound.html http://www.realtimearts.net/rt61/leggett_synapse.html http://www.realtimearts.net/rt46/kahn.html http://www.realtimearts.net/rt46/jones.html http://www.realtimearts.net/beap/percival_sonic.html http://www.realtimearts.net/beap/muller_small.html http://www.realtimearts.net/rt62/beap.html http://www.realtimearts.net/rt50/mowson.html http://www.realtimearts.net/rt51/priest_sound.html http://www.realtimearts.net/rt51/rackham.html http://www.realtimearts.net/beap/priest_sonic.html http://www.realtimearts.net/rt58/content.html http://www.realtimearts.net/rt55/gallasch_berlin.html http://www.realtimearts.net/rt48/soboslay.html Seed/OzCo http://www.ozco.gov.au/arts_in_australia/projects/projects_new_media_arts/nigel_helyer_-_seed/ Australian Sound Design Project http://www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au/web/biogs/P000087b.htm Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/web/general/whatson/html/nigelhelyer.html Globe http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/visarts/globe/issue7/nhtxt.html http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/visarts/globe/issue11/mgtxt.html…
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Synapse Leggett
The science and art synapse Mike Leggett With increasingly evil results to all of us, the separation is every day widening between the man of science and the artist…. [the artists] not only do not desire, they imperatively and scornfully refuse, either the force, or the information, which are beyond the scope of the flesh…
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SonicDifference_02 Percival
Sonic ecology: SonicDifference Conference Bob Percival Plato’s Cave is the first place that I am metaphorically taken to by Nigel Helyer, the curator of the Sonic Difference exhibition and convener of this parallel conference. Plato had evoked a very powerful image, a gathering of puppeteers performing in a cave, their audience of chained prisoners with…
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SonicDifference Priest
Siege culture: SonicDifference conference Gail Priest Discussion of sound and its place in the hierarchy of arts practice frequently takes the position of an artform under siege. Despite or because of the fact that hearing is considered our most constant sense–the first developed in the womb, and that which we can not shut out through…