This is a talk that I gave on Friday 1 April 2016 as part of the seminar series at the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University.
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Threshold (2016)
This show at 55 Sydenham Rd was joint effort between myself Paul Greedy and Sean O’Connell. It was really great working with Sean and Paul on this and I think we ended up creating something together that was a little more than the sum of its parts.
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Samuel Beckett’s What Where
A few years ago I shot and edited this version of What Where by Samuel Beckett. I’m writing this post now because the work has just been made available for free online viewing. What Where is very minimal and for that reason was exacting and quite involved from a technical point of view.
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Standing Wave (2015)
Installation shots from the exhibition Standing Wave, October 2015. These works have been produced using a custom built drawing machine and a 445nm laser.
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In Flames: Windy Chaos (2015)
This video was created by placing laser cut black paper over an LCD screen. This obscures most of the image allowing only 18 intermittent lines of pixels to shine through. This work was shown in darkened space. This allowed for the highest level of contrast between the illuminated pixels and the black paper covering the…
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Wave Form (2015)
I’ve been drawing with a laser since the beginning of the year and all the work in this exhibition was produced, in one way or another, using a 445nm laser. 445nm is the frequency of light and, as you can see in the video below, it is in the blue part of the visible spectrum.…
I reckon writing for a blog can be a little less formal and hopefully a little more provocative than writing in an academic context or for a ‘proper’ publication. So I start this post with a provocation Jackson Pollock wasn’t abstract or expressionist.
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Drawing machine stepper motors
Things are about to get a bit nerdy. I’ve been meaning to write a technical note on the motors that I use for the Dimensions of Line drawing machine for a while now. I’m currently using a pair of these EvoDrive ST-23 Stepper Servo motors along with an integrated Evoduino micro-controller. This allows me to…
Some of the creative things that I do don’t fit neatly into the categories on this site so they end up here in the blog section. One of those things is overtone singing. I’ve been singing harmonic overtones as a meditative practice for many years. Its something that I’ve always done for myself. This is…
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Moments of force (2014)
Moments of force is part of the Dimensions of line series of works and is the overarching title for works created through various interfaces that allow me to directly control a robotic drawing machine. This work was originally shown as part of Primavera 2014 (curated by Mikala Dwyer) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.