Category: Projects
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Lotus
L]otus is a commission for an environmental audio sculpture that is moored in the lake at ECU’s Joondalup campus. Left – Visualisation image, right – Lotus on-site and talking poetry. “Lotus” is a development of my previous solar-powered environmental audio works and is directly based upon the functional components of “Haiku” but here deployed within…
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Magnus Opus
Monsanto may have stolen the Native Medicines Novalis may own your cell-line and Microsoft may have locked up all the picture archives. But we’ve got your number! Visit Magnus Opus
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Preaching to the Converter
Exhibited at the Art Gallery of NSW during Perspecta 1985 Preaching to the Converter combined Triwall Cardboard, Velvet and Cast Iron in a seven-metre flow across the Museum floor. A stage set of gigantic proportions, or rather a normal room viewed from the perspective of a child. Castles and reverberatory furnaces, a liquid river of…
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Virtual Spirit
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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 + 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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An Unrequited Place
Year : 1992 Exhibited. As part of the Working in Public project, John Barrett-Lennard and ArtSpace, Sydney, 1992. Materials. Steel Bell, Performer, Radiophonic Broadcast. Dimensions. 25m x 12m overall installation ~ performance space with Nationwide live broadcast at Midnight for 21 days. Nelia Justo tolls the midnight bell. Notes. The Story so far…Catalogue text for…