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Art Projects:
A non-linear, never-ending computer animation of pollen and other microscopic fossils made from a collage of images obtained through high-resolution digital microscopy. The images used were taken from both archival slides and recent material collected by palynologists and paleontologists from such regions as the Galapagos islands, southeast Asia, and northern Australia.Caterwaul
A work that spans the internet, Second Life and an art gallery. A forbidding, monolithic wall in the real world becomes a site of great mourning and sorrow.
This work is currently being developed and will be exhibited in Boston from the 1st of February 2008. link: Caterwaul Pollen Soup  link: Pollen Soup Abstract Microecologies The Abstract Microecologies project is the result of a 4 month residency in the Department of Archaeology and Natural History at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. Generative computer graphic processes seem to be particularly good at creating morphologies and narratives from large quantities of data and this proved to be a useful tool to navigate the reference collections of the Paeleoworks lab. The main output of this residency was an automated system for creating collages of images obtained through high resolution digital microscopy. The ability of an algorithmic collage to assemble contrasting and diverse images and to produce an overarching narrative was useful in the portrayal of natural and cultural ecologies. link: The blog of the residency Abstract Microecologies Voiceprints
Weave patterns with your voice.
True Blue Love
True Blue Love is a mobile phone social networking experience, designed to explore the politics behind intimate phone-based relations. Inspired by a trip to Tokyo, Japan, the capital city of mobile technologies, I was struck by the ability of the mobile phone to enhance polygamous activity through non-verbal and thus unnoticeable phone text messaging. link: True Blue Love
Synchronised Swamp
A real-time sonofication of synchronisation as developed by the mathematician Steven Strogatz,
using the concept of synchronised frog and cricket sounds as the basis for an algorithmic audio-visual installation.
Synchronisation occurs widely in nature, from the blinking of fire flies to the firing of pace-maker cells in a heart contraction. link: Synchronised Swamp
CRASS Robot
Developed in collaboration with Mexican artist Annabel Meagher Castro, Crass is an ugly bastardised three wheeled
automated robot equipped with pyroelectric, audio and sonar sensors to detect
the presence of humans in the vicinity. It has the ability to recall phrases of
the Caliban character from the Tempest and direct them to people in the
environment. All of these phrases are insults, and Crass has no ability to
listen to responses, so communication is one-directional. This is the basis for
its (artificial) stubbornness. link: CRASS
Synaptic Sound Bath
An experimental electronic music performance using EMG amplifiers that
harnesses the electricity produced through muscle contractions in my arms (EMG) to create sound, which is then processed using
a patch created with the Pure Data software. This has been performed in Sweden and Iceland.
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