As of the 18th August, I’m now working as an artist/programmer at the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz, Austria. I’m working on both small and large interactive installations for an upcoming project of theirs…more about this as things progress.

Me Everybody

I’m currently working on a sound design to a new dance piece conceived by Olof Persson.

The name of the piece is Me – Everybody (“Jag – Alla Kroppar” in swedish) and will be presented on  6-9 November at 19.00 at  Atalante in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Nine sequences dissect the movement in shape and time for the stage and the exhibition space, where the body is central for the work.

I went to Sweden in April to work on the development of this project…and I’ll be returning there on the 28th October for the final performance.

Long over due, I’ve put up some information regarding my work in conjunction with the Future Applications Lab on the smart fridge poetry magnets.

My piece Caterwaul opened on the 7th February at the Mixed Realities exhibition in Boston, USA. This was a commission by networked art group turbulence.org.

Mixed Realities is an exhibition and symposium that explores the convergence “through cyberspace” of real and synthetic places made possible by computers and networks

Other projects were:

Imaging Beijing
by John (Craig) Freeman
NO MATTER
by Scott Kildall and Victoria Scott
Remote
by Neill Donaldson, Usman Haque, Ai Hasegawa, Georg Tremmel
The Vitruvian World
by Michael Takeo Magruder, Drew Baker and David Steele

I’m currently working contract for Transmission Games, formerly known as IRGurus, doing some sound and FX programming. The title I’m working is called Heroes Over Europe and will be out some time next year I think.

My work Pollen Soup, previously exhibited at FILE 2007, has been selected to be part of the FILE Rio 2008 edition. The event will be taking place at Oi Futuro, an art institute in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from February 26th to March 29th.

Tonight I will be showing some generative audio-visual pieces on the big screen at Loop Bar in downtown Melbourne, including a performance using electrodes to hook up my forearm to a 3D game engine. The voltages produced by the muscle contractions in my arm will drive the shape of an abstract 3D form. The event is detailed here.

On the 5th-7th October I attended ANAT’s Still/Open forum and workshop.
The initiative briefly explored “the practice and theory of open source which can be applied through networked art and software development, print and online publishing, and in the scientific arena”.
Almost all of my work today employs open source technologies and after trying several Linux distributions over the last 6 years I have moved to Ubuntu for its reliability and the time I save from not having to reconfigure everything from scratch every time I upgrade. A small blog of the workshops can be found here

The Pollen Soup animation, one of the works I created while artist in resident in the Department of Archaeology and Natural History at the Australian National University, has been included in the media art component of the File 2007 Sao Paolo festival. More details here.