Biography

I am an artist working with audiovisual spectra. My primary artistic preoccupations are space and frequency; I am interested in experiences on the edge of hearing and the edge of vision.

My works focus on the meetings of things, chance or deliberate, and the vibrancy that arises from these crossing points. In my earlier single-channel video works (2005-2007) I used editing to explore this; creating streams of connected and colliding images in rhythmic temporal and spatial patterns.

More recently I’ve been using video projections as a tool. I work with projections in a structural way, using them for the light they cast and the way they delineate space as much as for the images they display.

I work with video projections because of their insubstantial, dematerialized nature. My projected images flicker, appearing and disappearing rapidly. They are not tangible nor easy to locate: they are unstable forms. I set up the projections so that light travels throughout the room and meets with walls, floors, surfaces, and the viewer’s body. In these works there is no longer a clear centre; what is foreground and what is background, what is heard and what is seen, are no longer easy to decipher.

Each project I make incorporates non-linearity both in its production and outcome. I utilize custom editing and playback systems which include playing games, making algorithms or designing time-patterns. These structural factors lie hidden under the surface, triggering actions independently of each other and creating ripples of interference.

1969
born Adelaide Australia
1994
lives in Melbourne Australia
2003
Swinburne University, Advanced Diploma of Arts/ Electronic Design & Interactive Media
2007
RMIT University, BA Fine Art With Distinction/ Media Arts
2008
RMIT University, BA Fine Art First Class Honours/ Media Arts
Awards/ Residencies
2011
Wired Ears residency, The Wired Lab, Cootamundra (Aus)
 
Janet Holmes à Court Artists Grant
 
Eckersleys Prize
 
Moreland Achievement Grant
 
Artist film residency, nano lab, Daylesford (Aus)
2010
ArtStart Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
 
Janet Holmes à Court Artists Grant
2008
‘Time Ball’ nominated for Best Experimental Short Film, Melbourne International Film Festival
 
Vice-Chancellor’s List for Academic Excellence, RMIT University
 
Arts Project Grant, RMIT University
Solo and collaborative exhibitions (selected)
2011
Energy Field 9, MPW, Melbourne (Aus)
 
Energy Field 3, Art Beat, Melbourne (Aus)
2010
An Accumulation of Energy (w. Dinesh de Silva), Blindside, Melbourne (Aus)
 
Dematerialization (w. Dinesh de Silva), First Site, Melbourne (Aus)
2008
Cluster (w. Dave Brown, Marc Rogerson, Philip Samartzis), VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne (Aus)
2007
Intercept, First Site, Melbourne (Aus)
Group exhibitions (selected)
2011
BYOB Melbourne, Tristian Koenig Gallery (Aus)
 
What is Music? Festival, Melbourne (Aus)
 
Expanded Architecture/ Sydney Architecture Festival, Carriageworks, Sydney (Aus)
 
New Low Launch Show, New Low, Melbourne (Aus)
 
Poles Apart, Blindside, Melbourne (Aus)
 
Parisonic, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil (Fr)
2010
Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Melbourne (Aus)
 
Australian International Experimental Film Festival, Melbourne (Aus)
2009
Magnetic Traces, Project Space/ West Space, Melbourne (Aus)
 
International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Jp)
2008
VideoFest 2K8 (Mexico)
 
Sonic Body, West Space, Melbourne (Aus)
 
Melbourne International Film Festival, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne (Aus)
2007
Geek Chic 2.0, Loop, Melbourne (Aus)
Live performances (selected)
2011
Duo w. Lionel Palun, Atelier MTK, Grenoble (Fr)
2010
Trio w. Phoebe Faulkner/ Jason Montero, The Toff, Melbourne Australia
 
Group w. Superflux: Richard Bokhobza/ Etienne Caire/ Lionel Palun/ Gaëlle Rouard, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne (Aus)
2009
Duo w. Philip Samartzis, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne (Aus)
2008
Duo w. Philip Samartzis, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (Aus)
 
Duo w. Philip Samartzis, The NOW Now Festival, Blue Mountains (Aus)
Press/ Publications
2011
‘CarriageWorks canvas for Architecture’ Arts Hub (Aus)
 
‘Rapport fra Australia’ Greg Pope, PNEK (No)
 
‘Plastiques Sonores’ Laurent Catala, Mouvement (Fr)
 
‘Parisonic: hear and now’ exhibition booklet, published by PurePresence (Fr)
 
‘An interview with Richard Tuohy and Marcia Jane’ Maggie Scott, Check Your Tension (Aus)
2010
‘Melbourne Fringe Festival: Superstream’ Jessie Scott, Screen Machine (Aus)
 
‘Superstream, or: Many projectors make light work’ Cerise Howard, A Little Lie Down (Aus)
2009
Magnetic Traces catalogue, published by RMIT University (Aus)
2008
Lecture by Danni Zuvela on Australian ‘visual music’ films, Institute of Modern Art (Aus)
‘Live Objects’ Jared Davis, RealTime issue #85 (Aus)
 
‘Drawing Moves’ Tract catalogue essay, Dr. Linda Marie Walker (Aus)
 
Tract catalogue essay, Dominic Redfern (Aus)
 
‘Bizarre pitch delivers sound without barriers’ John Shand, The Sydney Morning Herald (Aus)
2007
TAPE DVD #3, published by TAPE Projects (Aus)