The series of videos on this page show developments during the first year of the synthesis project. Some of this material appears elsewhere on this site. Read the project description if you want to find out more about the thinking that I’m doing around these works. Time poor? The first thirty seconds of each of…
The synthesizer was invented in the 1960s and yet its paradigmatic place in our society and culture remains under-appreciated. This project involves creating drawing, sculpture and installation work that gives the viewer/listener an embodied understanding of the functioning of synthesizer modules.
The idea behind these works is to create drawings by collaborating with energies produced by the subject of the work (in this case the ocean). In this way the subject can also be an agent that helps to create the work. I think of this engagement with the agency of elemental forces like the ocean…
In this series of works I control a drawing machine with a stereo audio signal. In the video below the right channel of audio controls the longer x-axis with the left channel controlling the shorter y-axis. I control the machine by singing a constant note which helps me to gain a little more control over…
Grasping Light is a work in two parts; a laser on paper drawing and a video that documents how the drawing was made. On another level Grasping Light is an attempt to understand all of the materials involved in producing the work as a whole.
Installation shots from the exhibition Standing Wave, October 2015. These works have been produced using a custom built drawing machine and a 445nm laser.
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.…
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.
Documentation of the exhibition Dimensions of line: IOU in material thought (2014). This exhibition included a series of drawings, a light projection work and a camera obscura effect created by laser cut slits in the black-out material used in the windows of the space. The effect was particularly pronounced when the sun was hitting the…
In this series of works I am attempting to write two different letters by pulling and releasing strings attached to each of the four limbs. This work began with the idea of becoming a kind of mark making marionette and then went through a series of permutations that made the human puppet associations less important.
