Archive for the 'transientness' Category

compressed time

SInce leaving Singapore, time has become extremely compressed. I have visited SymbioticA, Creativity and Cognition Studios, Interactivation Lab, Centre for Social Robotics, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Fish Markets, Australian Maritime Museum, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Creative Industries precinct at QUT,  been on ferries in Brisbane and Sydney, and a few planes too.

During this time I have been talking about my own practice in video and bio media, and how this fits into the wider aspects of  the biological arts and society.

I have got feedback from the audiences. It is interesting that the scientist heavy audience was focussed in finding a solution, or a way forward. The artist heavy audiences were more critical. Perhaps I had developed  the content of the talks between the 1st and 3rd talks.

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12 hours and 8 time zones

Ah, Singapore, where the weather is balmy. Its my first Asian country. My fellow passenger David from www.xm-asia.com described it as Asia on Training wheels. It is certainly that. I was at the Sleepy Sams only an hour after getting off the plane, no queing for passport control, bag already on the luggage carousel,  easy to obtain travel card, and quick. Compared to the hours lost in other countries post the plane, this was great. Now to tell my body that it is not 1.30 in the afternoon. So now off to find some food…probably Malaysian.

Holly Cow

I have been playing with avideo process that produces startling and disconcerting effects on cars, cows, fish and the like.

here is one of them.

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the antipodean traveller

Im not sure if the Australian experience is unique, or mine typical, but the premise is that Australians that travel are obsessed by it, by what it means, by the process of being transplanted, separated from home. Show me any Australian artist apart from Stelarc that has not this idea of travel encoded at a deep level in their thoughts/art works.

I wish we would all stop moving, but we are children of a new and old culture, a hybrid split.