Workin' hard for the money

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.

Posted on 15/12/2007 12:00:46.

Pollen in Rio

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.

Posted on 13/11/2007 04:19:32.

Geek Chic

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.

Posted on 13/11/2007 04:14:50.

Still/Open Workshop

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

Posted on 05/10/2007 10:12:55.

Pollen Soup @ FILE

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.

Posted on 13/08/2007 05:47:30.

Lost in hyperspace

I left Canberra in very early December 2006. The last 6 months has seen me beavering away deep in the bowels of the Future Applications Lab in Sweden. The results of that work are not quite ready to be released...yet. Otherwise I've been travelling hither and thither, to the Netherlands to play a gig and catch the DEAF festival organised by V2, to Somerset in SW England to one of the All Tomorrow's Parties Festivals, to the European Centre for Living Technology in Venice for a meeting, and to the very wonderful and very awesome Media Lab Madrid for an intense 2 week workshop called Interactivos led by the talented artists Daniel Canogar, Simone Jones and Zachary Lieberman. Up and coming is my project Caterwaul that has been commissioned by Turbulence as part of their Mixed Realities Commisions, a juried, international networked art competition.

Posted on 26/06/2007 06:16:55.

Abstract Microecologies

Yikes! I'm in Canberra. check out the blog of my residency here.

Posted on 09/09/2006 12:20:04.

Voiceprints

Finally got around to putting up some info on my Voiceprints project which I worked on in Sweden. Use your voice to weave some graphics and sound, in a fashion. Check it out here.

Posted on 23/07/2006 06:59:29.

V2_ residency

I recently completed a 3 month stay in Rotterdam where I was artist in resident, working on a virtual reality piece based on the theme Disembodiment in Virtual Spaces. Check out the V2_ description of the project. More details will appear on this site in the next few months.

Posted on 20/07/2006 05:03:54.

Intelligent Fridge Poetry Magnets

This is a project I carried out with Mattias Rickardsson and Kavita Thomas, a result of brainstorming while interns at the Future Applications Lab in Göteborg. It got some attention from the ABC Science online people.

Posted on 20/01/2006 08:08:19.

Hz webzine

My article on Synchronised Swamp got published on-line at the Fylkingen on-line magazine called Hz. Check it out here. Fylkingen is an experimental arts organisation based in Stockholm and founded in 1933.

Posted on 28/12/2005 10:07:49.

Generative Art Conference 2005

I presented my Synchronised Swamp work again at the Generative Art Conference in Milan. There were some dull papers but there were also some great ones, for example James Basson wrote a brief history of the garden, breaking gardens into their constituent components with a mind to creating a model for generative gardens. Some architects from ETH Zurich talked about Three complex structures built with a digital production chain which was a fascinating insight into full cycle computer aided design. The food in Milan was amazing....and Celestino's zest for life is infectious.

Posted on 28/12/2005 09:57:59.

Generative Arts Practice

I gave a paper called Synchronised Swamp : Uncanny Expressive Mathematics at the Generative Arts Practice symposium held at the University of Technology, Sydney. Paul Brown gave an interesting history of early generative practices in the UK as well as the aftermath of the Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition. There were several speakers from Third Iteration present at the event, which I had also attended. Thanks to Kate and Bo for being most excellent hosts while in Sydney!

Posted on 8/12/2005 09:43:34.

True Blue Love in the media

A Swedish IT web site IDG.se wrote a small news piece on my True Blue Love project. For those of you who can read swedish, the comments section is quite amusing. I think I'm going to have to translate some of them...

Posted on 18/10/2005 07:59:19.

Generator.x conference

I'm heading off to Oslo for the first time this weekend to check out the generator.x conference...

Posted on 22/09/2005 07:49:38.

True Blue Love project

Check out my new mobile phone mating experience project called True Blue Love

Posted on 1/09/2005 09:57:01.