The Sonus Maris project displayed the classic characteristic of ‘creeping features.’ In the time domain, our ‘not so friendly’ viral cousins intervened to turn what might have been a smooth art and science collaboration into a staccato and episodic programme, that saw the work start then stop and, repeat…we struggled on! In terms of objectives, […]
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on April 27, 2023in Articles, Blog, interactive new media, Projectstags: Art and Science, Data Sonification, new music composition

Scribbly Gum Suites
on June 9, 2021in arts and science, environmental project, Projects, Research and Development Writingtags: Art and Science, bio-art, sound-art

The Scribbly gum tree; Eucalyptus haemastoma, Eucalyptus racemosa and Eucalyptus rossii are found throughout New South Wales coastal plains and hills in the Sydney region. These Eucalypts are easily identifiable by the graphic scribbles created under their smooth yellow-grey bark by the larva of the Ogmograptis racemosa scribbly gum moth caterpillars. The gum-tree stands by […]
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on October 6, 2020in Articles, arts and science, Essays, interactive new media, Research and Development Writing, sound sculpture, Textstags: Art and micro-biology, Art and Science

This paper examines a series of creative sound-works which combine human and biological agents to re-mix, create and re-invent musical scores. The central concept is to consider Genes, Memes and Musical notation as parallel mnemonic structures that function as instructions for the fleshing-out of life across temporal barriers. GeneMusiK and associated works Under the IceCap […]
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on December 16, 2019in arts and science, Installation, interactive new media, Projectstags: Art and Science, Data Sonification, Marine environment, sound installation

The Brain is wider than the Sky For put them side by side The one the other will contain With ease and You, beside The Brain is deeper than the sea For hold them Blue to Blue The one the other will absorb As Sponges, Buckets do The Brain is just the weight of God […]
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on November 14, 2019in Textstags: Art and Science, critical writing, environmental project, installation, research and development

Where Science Meets Art – the CultureScape book. Finally the book detailing the four year When Science meets Art research project has been published. You can read a version of the Culturescape book here. The beautifully illustrated hardcopy version is available via the Bundanon Trust online shop.
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on May 28, 2019in arts and science, Essays, Textstags: Art and Science, installation, interactive new media, sculpture

SPPS_for ISEA Papers:s
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on April 22, 2017in Projectstags: Art and Science, environmental project, research and development, sound installation

An exhibition at the Macquarie University Gallery (March ~ May 2017) exploring the Shoalhaven River Valley.
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Heavy Metal
on October 1, 2016in Projectstags: Art and Science, sonification, sound installation

Elements and minerals lay buried in the landscape tracing diagrams of human activity. Specks of alluvial Gold washed down to the flood plain from worked-out mountain mine shafts; the mineral auras that reveal the long-vanished outlines of farm-buildings and the tell-tale chemical fallout from workplaces. Boyd painted this (mineralised) landscape with colours which were themselves […]
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on November 23, 2015in Projectstags: Art and Science, bio-art, new music composition
The ‘Under the Icecap‘ art and science collaboration aims to illuminate the fundamental connection between human activities and planetary dynamics, by creating an experimental installation and performance series that will visualise and sonify scientific and statistical datasets. In essence Under the IceCap renders complex environmental bio-logging data-sets collected by Southern Elephant Seals on their under-ice […]
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on January 15, 2013in Essays, Textstags: Art and Science, articles, research and development, writing
Under the IceCap. Dr. Nigel Llwyd William Helyer and Dr. Mary-Anne Lea Maquarie University & University of Tasmania Contact: Dr. Helyer https://www.sonicobjects.com Contact: Dr Mary-Anne Lea http://www.imas.utas.edu.au/people/profiles/current-staff/mary-anne-lea Abstract. Under the IceCap is one of a series of creative outcomes resulting from the Bio_Logging Art + Science project at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic […]
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