Month: August 2005
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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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McMahon Interview
Listening in Melissa McMahon bugs Nigel Helyer. Nigel Helyer is an English-born, Sydney-based sound artist, lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, and co-founder of SoundCulture, a Pan-Pacfific organisation focusing on sound art. Helyer’s work is of an essentially composite, or in his words “pluridisciplinary”, character, in the sense that not only does any given…
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Leaven_Goldberg
Trouble in Paradise: Swelter – An Artists’ Project for the Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens May 1999 – January 2000, Sydney by Michael Goldberg Includes review of the Leaven project
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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.