Nauru Elegies, a prototype by Annie K. Kwon and Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky)

'The Nauru Elegies: A Portrait in Sound and Hypsographic Architecture' is a technical synthesis of a live string ensemble, projected high-definition video footage, digital animation and live internet feed. It is an orchestration of content retrieved and processed in multiple localities including research in New York City, documentation in Nauru and performed by local musicians. It is a statement of technology and media processes in the 21st century that is exponentially progressing to a more dematerialized and delocalized state.

Audio and video recordings will be taken with the most current and mobile digital technologies in addition to the exploration of medical isosurf modeling techniques appropriated in architectural form and rendering. Economic dynamics will be mapped using current open source satellite and geospatial technologies including NASA World Wind to map hypsometric and bathymetric contours. The Nauru Elegies is realized in multiple technical layers, a manifold performance that has identifiable localities held by a complex global structure.

Text contributed by Paul Miller and Annie Kwon via KWON MILLER PRODUCTIONS.

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Installation photographs by: Aram Dulyan

Mini-conference photographs by: Deb Turnbull

PEGASYS @ Beta_space, by Sarah Moss

PEGASYS is an interactive and immersive film experience created by CCS PhD candidate Sarah Moss.  It is the artistic realisation of her academic enquiry into cinematic experience, participatory art, presence, and the exploration of a digital environment by way of a bio-technological input.  In utilising the state of the art interactive Tobii Technology, participants navigate the 3 modes of this experience not at the touch of a button, but with a measured glance.

The evaluation process for PEGASYS studies people’s experiences of surround-sound audio and panoramic video clips displayed at Beta_space for the duration of the exhibition. The high definition video is viewed within a digital display environment in a widescreen cinematic mode. All real-time media clips are activated by means of Tobii eye-gaze control technology. By navigating either left or right the participant is able to pan 360-degrees stopping where they choose, along the riverside of a natural Australian bush paradise, Crystal Pool, embedded in the Royal National Park, Sydney. PEGASYS contains 90 minutes of digitized photorealistic content; it is an investigation into the passing of time, of place with and without people, nature, and the art of engagement.

Photographs by: Aram Dulyan

Spring and Asura.02 - Disturbance | by Chris Bowman

Spring and Asura.02 - Disturbance is an interactive artwork that explores the interconnectivity of the animate and the inanimate. The centerpiece to the exhibition is an interactive artwork that explores the relationship between video images of the natural world and the poem "Spring and Asura" written by Kenji Miyazawa (translated into English by Hiroaki Sato).

Using a combination of image and motion capture technology the artwork explores the movement of light and shade within the video recordings, taking into account the disturbance of the visitor in the space. This self-generating interconnected system creates an ordering and re-ordering of the poetry text resulting in shifts in time, movement and abstraction through the viewing of the work.  

This artwork is the result of a long-time collaboration between Chris Bowman and Dr. Alastair Weakley, and introduces Doreen Ee to the contemporary art scene.

Curated by: Deborah Turnbull

Photography by: Aram Dulyan

Cities Tango: Sydney-Belfast, 2009

In this new interactive and generative work by Ernest Edmonds, two cities interact with one another across continents and time zones. In real time, images of audiences from each city are displayed in another city, so that a form of communication takes place through providing image and movement content. 

Ernest Edmonds is represented by Conny Dietzschold Gallery and New Media Curation.

Photography by: Deborah Turnbull

Artefact H10515, by Craig Walsh

There is a new, living, breathing exhibition taking up residency in the Powerhouse Museum.  Created by interactive artist, Craig Walsh, this is a truly collaborative exhibition, with PHM Education, PHM Web Services, and external contractor IxC (The Interaction Consortium) working together to realise Walsh's design.

Artefact H10515 will inhabit the Switch House, Level 1, until August 2010.