ioSonics is a significant development of former prototype works that investigate the morphology of microscopic marine organisms. Installed at the Western Plains Museum and Art Gallery 2008. A short introduction filmed by Julia Burns. he rational and the fantastical: the morphology of Nigel Helyer, by Gail Priest. Despite Star Trek’s propagandist efforts for space […]
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on June 7, 2008in Projectstags: radiophonic, social history
uring 2008 Nigel held the ABC Radiophonic Fellowship and developed a project entitled GhosTrain that deals with memories (and amnesia) surrounding Sydney’s Eveleigh Railyards. The first stage of the GhosTrain project created a series of short Radio Broadcasts and a Podcast website focused upon the Redfern Locomotive & Eveliegh Carriage Works. The project addressed the […]
Read More →Run Silent Run Deep
on June 7, 2008in arts and science, environmental project, Installation, interactive new media, Projectstags: arts and science, environmental project, interactive new media, sound sculpture
igel undertook an Artist in Residence at The Marine Mammal Laboratory (Tropical Marine Science Institute) of the National University of Singapore; developing a project for ISEA2008 exhibited at the National Museum of Singapore, July ~ August 2008. Run Silent, Run Deep creates a multi-vocal and multi-cultural AudioPortrait of Singapore – in particular the area around […]
Read More →Mexico Is Different
on June 7, 2008in Essays, Textstags: critical writing
This article originally appeared in RealTime Edition 83, Febuary/March 2008 and is reproduced here with the permission of the writer and RealTime http://www.realtimearts.net
“MÉXICO IS DIFFERENT LIKE A TRAVEL FOLDER SAYS.” THUS QUOTH THE IMMORTAL BARD, RY COODER. THROUGH THE LENS OF THE RECENT TRANSITIO_MX02 FESTIVAL OF ELECTRONIC ARTS & VIDEO YOU CAN SEE WHY. OVER A PLATE OF CHILES RELLENOS, DIRECTOR OF THE TRANSITIO_MX02 FESTIVAL GRACE QUINTANILLA RECOUNTS A STORY HER YOUNG SON TOLD HER, IT GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS:
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